Screenplay ~~- The Baby-Making War

Harry & Cheater Grow Up At Odds

1120 Characters =~1.1Min. Reading Time
OUTSIDE AT THE TENT IN THE DAYTIME: (3 YEARS LATER

3 year-old Esau catches a ball, runs.

3 year-old runt Jacob dives, tackles Esau by the feet.

Esau punches Jacob to the ground.


OUTSIDE AT THE WILDERNESS IN THE DAYTIME: (5 YEARS LATER)

Scared 8 year-old Jacob hides behind a tree, watches Esau, now also 8 years old, shoot a wild boar.

Totes it home on his back.


OUTSIDE AT THE TENT IN THE DAYTIME: (SHORTLY LATER)

Esau throws the meat on the grille.

Slutty girls skip to Esau. They embrace him with kisses.

Behind Esau's back, Jacob steals the meat off the grille.

Esau (fist in the air in rage) chases Jacob.


INSIDE THE TENT IN THE DAYTIME: (8 YEARS LATER)

Bruised faced Jacob, now 16, repairs a watch.

Later, he draws architectural plans.

He writes on scrolls with both hands at the same time...
he speed-reads a scroll...
...he sews a tent.


OUTSIDE AT THE TENT IN THE DAYTIME:

Esau hands his Dad Isaac a leg of wild deer.
Isaac devours it.

Isaac licks his fingers.

ISAAC
(shouts)
What meat! I love you, Red-Man!

Rebekah frowns, hugs Jacob.

ISAAC
(shouts)
You're my favorite son!

Jacob runs away, crying like a schoolgirl.