Clash of the Titans Page #35

PERSEUS' DIVING POV

Exactly the image he saw when Vidalia first planted the

spell in his mind -- down, down toward the dark sea.

BACK TO SCENE:

Perseus and Pegasus arrive a moment before the crashing

winch. Perseus dives off with the bloody Medusa bag in

hand. With his free hand, he catches the chain just

ahead of the winch and goes under.

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EXT. UNDERSEA - DAY

Leviathan hurtles downward. Andromeda flails, bound to

the chain.

FAR ABOVE:

Perseus grips both the chain and the bag in his hand.

Leviathan spirals on, but THE WINCH CATCHES ON A REEF and

the chain SNAPS! Andromeda, suddenly separated from the

monster, sinks, weighted by her shackles.

Perseus, swimming with the raw power of a porpoise, dives

after her, but loses his grip on the bag. Desperate, he

looks back and forth: Andromeda, the sack -- both

sinking. Perseus goes after the sack.

Leviathan realizes it has lost the Princess. Huge eyes

darting, it spots Andromeda and surges down after her.

Andromeda, drowning, passes out. Tiny bubbles leak from

her nose. Leviathan swims down to her, eye as big as her

entire body.

The wreck of a SUNKEN WHALER rests on the ocean floor.

The Medusa sack FALLS INTO VIEW and catches on a harpoon

wedged in the deck. Perseus appears, snags the sack and

is about to kick upward. On impulse, he grabs the

harpoon.

Leviathan opens its huge jaws. Andromeda is sucked

toward the maw.

Perseus swims upward toward Leviathan's tail. Perseus

concentrates -- a sparking BURST OF WHITE ENERGY shoots

through his forearm to the harpoon in his grip.

LIGHTNING CRACKLES and BOILS the water. He plunges the

harpoon in the Kraken's tail --

-- at the same moment Leviathan inhales the unconscious

Andromeda.

Contact -- an ELECTRIC FLASH-POINT FLARES and a charge

races up Leviathan's spine. Jolted, the monster spits

Andromeda out.

The Kraken twists to lock its enraged gaze on Perseus.

Perseus shuts his eyes and yanks Medusa's head from the

sack. Medusa's hellish eyes ignite channels of boiling

energy into Leviathan's enormous eyeballs -- hardening

them to boiled eggs, then rocky spheres.

(CONTINUED)

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CONTINUED:

The monster thrashes, tries to turn -- but unbending

stone races its length, freezing the gargantuan curves --

the scuted tail locks mid-flail into a final, permanent

hook.

Dead in the water, the grotesque mass sinks like a

mountain range, picking up speed as it plunges into the

ABYSS --

Perseus must swim like a God to snatch Andromeda from the

downward tug. The stone Kraken barely misses them as it

DROPS --

-- and CRASHES in a cloud of silt, SHAKING THE OCEAN

FLOOR like an earthquake. A CRACK opens in the seabed

and sucks back the silt. The trench deepens and streaks

away across the seabed, swallowing all the water above

it, creating a giant opening to the sky.

EXT. TIAMAT'S PALACE-GALLEON (OCEAN) - PROW - DAY

Tiamat's face contorts, sensing her beloved Leviathan is

dead. She turns at the sound of GHASTLY CREAKING -- the

immense length of the galleon buckles into a hole in the

ocean. As the towering masts drop below wave-level,

Tiamat raises her arms to the sky --

TIAMAT:

I damn you, Zeus! You will hear

my curses forever in the crash of

SURF --

Walls of water collapse, burying the Goddess, her ship,

and her malediction deep in her realm. We HEAR a world-

rocking ROAR, which booms off toward --

EXT. BATTLEFIELD - DAY

Tiamat's Monster Army is DEAFENED by the BOOM, losing all

spirit with the unmistakable certainty that their Goddess

is gone.

THE TIDE TURNS IN THE BATTLE as the Joppans and their

steel allies, the Automata, wade into the ranks of

creatures.

Mongke and Tamburlane, in the center of the battle, find

the opposition turning tail. They roar and lift their

weapons high, surviving yet another fight. Spyros,

bloodied but unbowed, smiles wide and sits down in the

mud, exhausted.

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EXT. OCEAN SURFACE - DAY

The water stills. The sea calms. No sign of Perseus or

Andromeda. WIND and QUIET...

CHOOM! Perseus surfaces with Andromeda in his arms,

GASPING FOR AIR.

EXT. CLIFFS OF JOPPA - DAY

The onlookers rejoice.

EXT. OCEAN SURFACE - DAY

BACK WITH Perseus and Andromeda. He looks at her

lifeless countenance in agony -- has he failed again as

he did with Anteros the fisherman??

Distraught, his muscles go taut around Andromeda, and a

short powerful burst of electric energy shoots from his

arms into her still body -- SHE JOLTS TO LIFE!

Movement! Breath! Color returns to her face. Perseus,

too, breathes again, relieved.

For the first time since the start of the adventure, they

find themselves alone, holding each other.

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