All Is Lost Page #7

EXT. RAFT

OUR MAN is awoken by another massive ship, this one an oil

tanker larger than can be imagined, steaming by, right on top

of him. It is too late to shoot off the flare in front of the

ship, so he waits.

Once the ship has passed he shoots the flare into the night

sky.

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It creates a bright light but as the ship continues to steam

into the distance it becomes painfully clear that they have

not seen the flare.

INT. RAFT - MORNING

OUR MAN wakes up and looks out across the horizon.

Nothing.

He looks over the edge to see if the fish are still there. He

drops his line over the edge.

He stares out into the emptiness as he waits for the line to

move.

Finally it starts to jiggle a little bit, then more.

OUR MAN gets up on his knees and starts to pull the fish up.

As he is looking over the edge of the raft a massive shark

jumps up through the surface of the water and eats the fish

that was at the end of his line.

As the shark breaks the surface of the water it’s tail knocks

into our man throwing him to the other side of the raft.

It scares the sh*t out of him.

Worse yet, the massive shark seems to like the easy pickings

around this little floating island and it is now circling his

raft as it floats along.

He tries to convince himself that it is only interested in

the fish but as he sits there a battered and almost defeated

man it is not a promising sign.

INT. OCEAN - MORNING

The wide shot view back up to the raft on the surface now has

the minnows at the top of the ecosystem and towards the edges

and at the bottom closest to the camera several massive

sharks.

INT. LIFERAFT - HIGH NOON

OUR MAN looks at his watch, then up at the sun.

He looks terrible.

Twenty-five pounds lighter than when we first saw him.

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Large boils from the sun and sitting around in salt water.

The nasty cut on his forehead that now is starting to look

infected.

And he has started to get very dehydrated. All he really

wants to do is lay down and watch the water evaporate against

the plastic.

But he tries to fight on.

OUR MAN gets out the sextant and takes a reading. He does his

math and plots the course on the chart...

We don’t see where the mark is but his face tells us it’s not

where he wants it to be.

He holds up the sextant again and does the reading a second

time.

Then he does his math again.

Plots the course, and now the camera comes up on the chart...

We see his current location is now through the other side of

the shipping lane.

There must be a significant current that has sent him through

the shipping lane in just a day and a half.

The next land on the chart appears to be weeks away, it’s all

the way at the edge of the map.

OUR MAN is f***ed.

EXT. LIFERAFT - DAY

He pulls in the sea anchor to use as a blanket.

He looks around the raft. The side panels are getting

partially deflated, the whole thing looks like it certainly

wouldn’t make it through another storm.

But at this point he wouldn’t mind a little storm as he would

do anything for some rain for a bath and to drink.

But it couldn’t be sunnier.

He takes the small cup from the middle of the rig and drinks

the inch of water that is in it. There is a ton of crusty

salt that has built up in the larger outer pan that gets left

there as the water evaporates.

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He trips out for a minute staring into the salt crust

landscape.

Then a shark jumps up right next to the raft eating another

fish.

OUR MAN barely notices, he is so out of it.

INT. LIFERAFT - SUNSET

OUR MAN looks around the raft and gets out a pen from the

small emergency bag. He takes out a small piece of paper and

begins writing the letter that we heard at the beginning of

the film.

He finishes the letter and puts it into a small plastic jar.

He closes it up and then releases it into the ocean.

He goes back to the container in the middle of the rig and

tries to drink the water, but only a tiny amount has

collected in such a short amount of time.

OUR MAN lays his head down in the water at the floor of the

raft. He closes his eyes as the sun sets.

FADE OUT.

INT. RAFT - FULL MOON - NIGHT

OUR MAN wakes up with a start. His legs are cramping. He

tries to comfort them then sits up.

As he does he looks up at the moon and then over across the

flat sea.

About a half mile away there is the clear outline of a small

ship.

OUR MAN shakes his head to wake up.

The ship is still there.

He stands up.

Looks around.

Tries to yell but has no voice left at all.

Tries to yell again.

He is out of flares.

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Is this a mirage?

He can hear the ships engines. But it is not coming closer to

him, it is sailing alongside of him but will soon be getting

further away.

He looks around the boat.

He rifles through the emergency kit and takes out a small

box. We can’t quite see what it is. He piles up some of his

dry garbage into the water tray. Then we see the box is storm

matches as he lights one. He starts the small fire and looks

out across the water to see if the ship is turning around.

It isn’t.

He looks around the raft for anything left to add. He is

desperate as the ship is passing.

He puts the sea anchor in a ball and tries to light it on

fire.

It catches, soon the massive frayed parachute is burning.

Then it is really burning and starts to take over the whole

raft.

OUR MAN is now having to get next to edge because of the

flames.

Then the flames catch one of the sides of the raft on fire

and OUR MAN starts to panic.

For a second he tries to splash water on the flames but that

is pointless.

The good news is there is a massive ball of flames reflecting

off the water and must be visible from miles.

The bad news is it is a full moon.

OUR MAN tries to turn and look to see if the ship is turning

around.

Now most of the raft is on fire.

Finally OUR MAN has to jump into the water to get away from

the flames.

He is treading water knowing that there are probably sharks

around.

After a long beat he says his peace.

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INT. OCEAN - FULL MOON

The view from under the raft is beautiful.

The flames and the full moon and OUR MAN’S silhouette are

something to look at.

From this view we see out of the corner of the frame a object

floating into the frame. We are not sure what it is.

INT. SURFACE OF THE OCEAN

OUR MAN is treading water barely keeping his head above water

looking at his raft burning.

What has he done?

His head drops below the water level.

Then pops back up.

Then, from behind him we see a dinghy with some fishermen in

it motoring up to him.

He turns around and can’t believe what he is seeing.

He tries to wave his arm.

They circle him.

In the distance we see the larger fishing vessel coming

towards them.

The young man at the front of the dingy reaches out his hand

towards OUR MAN.

Their hands meet.

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