Final Destination Page #3

ALEX:

Camera inches in on him

TOD (O.S.)

Dude, let's take a dump.

Tod MOVES INTO FRAME beside Alex...

ALEX:

Man, that is one George Michael

notch from being gay.

TOD:

Dude, get wisdom. We're about to

board a seven hour flight. The toilets

in coach are barely ventilated closets.

What if your body wants that airplane food

out of your system and you have to go torgue

a wicked cable and then right after you walks

in Christa or Blake? You want them

to associate with you with that reflexive gag

and the watery sting in your eyes?

Alex takes a beat to consider...

CUT TO:

INT. MEN'S ROOM - AIRPORT - OVERHEAD

CAMERA LOOKS DOWN on two stalls. Alex sits in one, Tod sits in the other.

O.S., OVER the airports P.A. SYSTEM John Denver's "Rocky Mountain High"

begins...

ALEX:

John Denver...

Upon the mention, CAMERA CRANES DOWN, TURNING, TWISTING UNTIL FINDING ALEX

in a straight on CLOSE-UP. He listens, tense...

JOHN DENVER (O.S.)

He was born in the summer of his twenty

seventh year...

ALEX:

He died in a plane crash.

A P.A. ANNOUNCMENT breaks into the song...

P.A. SYSTEM

Ladies and Gentlemen, thank-you for

your patience, at this time we would

like to begin pre-boarding of Euro-Air

Flight 180 to Paris through gate 39.

Really for the first time, Alex appears a bit tentative and pale. It is

intensified by the return of the song...

JOHN DENVER (O.S.)

It's the Colorado Rocky Mountian High/

I've seen it rainin' fire in the sky...

CUT TO:

INT. BOARDING AREA - GATE 39 - CLOSE - ALEX'S BOARDING PASS

is torn along the perforated edge and handed back.

ALEX:

looks down the paasenger ramp.

ALEX'S POV - RAMP TUNNEL

CAMERA CREEPS toward it... lit to cheat of feeling of no return.

O.S., distant THUNDER RUMBLES...

WIDER:

There is something more emotionally tense about the moment of boarding than

take-off. CAMARA PICKS UP Ms. Lewton searching...

MS LEWTON:

Anyone seen Billy Hitchcock?

How'd we lose him?

Tod nudges Alex toward the tunnel, the three boys start down the ramp,

passing Mr. Murnau who checks his list, counting heads...

MR MURNAU:

Vingt huit, vingt neuf...

passenger ramp

Alex, Tod, and George catch up to Christa and Blake, excited. As always,

everyone becomes bottlenecked just at the point of entering the plane. Alex

looks out the ramp's side porthole window toward the back of the plane.

ALEX'S POV - THROUGH PORTHOLE

The enormous engine. The expansive wings. Behind the tail, distant, a bolt

of lightning FLASHES!

ALEX:

looks away. Just ahead, in the plane, FLIGHT ATTENDANTS greet the

passengers. He is next to enter the plane.

CLOSE - FLOOR

a slice of opening from where the ramp meets the plane provides a sense of

how high up one actually stands.

ALEX:

CAMERA PUSHES INTO HIM as he takes his first step into the plane.

CLOSE - AIRLINE CABIN FLOOR

Alex's Nikes land on the carpet.

INT. 747 - FIRST CLASS CABIN - AFTERNOON - CLOSE - BABY

SCREAMS! It's parents desperetly comfort the child.

CAMERA ADJUSTS, LEADING George, Alex and Tod through the aisles. Alex and

Tod wince at the screaming child. George, however feels comforted.

GEORGE:

Good sign. Younger the better.

It would be a f***ed up God to

take down this plane.

INT. ECONOMY CLASS CABIN - 747 - AFTERNOON

In the first row slumps a young man with Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis. A

cannula is set in his nostrils leading to an oxygon tank beside him.

The kid sneak sympathetic yet anxious glances at the man while continuing in

their seats. George whispers over his shoulder...

GEORGE:

A REALLY f***ed up God.

Alex's tension increases as he continues up the aisle.

ALEX'S POV - OVERHEAD COMPARTMENTS

CAMERA INCHES IN ON "Row 25. Seats H, I, and J."

ALEX:

climbs into the row, carrying his backpack. He takes his window seat and

reaches up to the air flow valve.

CLOSE - AIR FLOW VALVE

turns, HISSING, air streaming full blast.

CAMERA INCHES IN ON HIM as he takes in deep breaths of the stale air. He

presses his face to the window.

ALEX'S POV - THE LEFT WING

Rain falls. GEARS WHIR as the ailerons are tested.

CLOSE - ALEX

CAMERA CREEPS TOWARD HIM, face to the glass; eyes scanning the plane and

outside area.

CHRISTA (O.S.)

Alex?

He turns toward the aisle.

ALEX'S POV -CHRISTA AND BLAKE

Man, they look great and they're workin' the sex appeal.

CHRISTA:

Could you trade seats with Blake

so she and I can sit together? I

asked Tod, but he says he's got some

medical thing?

ALEX:

sneaks a quick check with Tod.

ALEX'S POV - TOD

shakes his head. "NO! NO! DON'T DO IT."

ALEX AND THE GIRLS

He looks to them and knows he is just plain overmatched. Alex shrugs,

"Sure." In front of him Tod throws up his arms, disgusted. Alex climbs out

of his seats. The girls are touchy - feely thankful, but only know guys dig

that.

CHRISTA AND BLAKE

You're so sweet. Thanks, Alex.

Alex crames up into the aisles, making his way to Tod, sitting two rows up

in 22 H.

Alex climbs over Tod to take the window seat. Clear Rivers sits in the seat

directly behind Alex.

TOD:

(mouths)

Fag.

ALEX:

C'mon, man, like you really

thought you were tittie f*** 'em

over Greenland, or something?

TOD:

Because of you, I gotta sit

here and watch fuckn' "Stepmom."

As Alex sits, the tray table falls from it's upright position.

He lifts the tray back up, but as he turns the latch, it BREAKS OFF in his

hand. He briefly tries to jimmie the tray into postition, then gives up.

CAMERA FOLLOWS ALEX'S HAND as it rises. CAMERA SWEEPS IN EXTREAMLY CLOSE to

the ATTENDANT CALL BUTTON. As Alex's finger engages the button, it lights up

orange.

ALEX:

The jet lurches. He looks...

OUT OF THE WINDOW - ALEX'S POV

The 747 begins rolling out of the gate.

ALEX:

As he looks back, searching for the nearst flight attendant...

ALEX'S POV - THROUGH THE SEATS - CLEAR RIVERS

reads her book. Another leans to look out the window.

ALEX:

lifts a bit out of his seat, searching for any flight attendant O.S., A

PING.

CAPTAIN (V.O)

Flight Attendants prepare for

departure.

Looking fore in the cabin...

ALEX'S POV - NEAR THE FLIGHT DECK

The flight attendants strap themselves in for take-off.

ALEX:

O.S., the ENGINE VLOUME INCREASES in PITCH and INTENSITY as the jet begins

to taxi. Alex sits back as the tray over his lap. He looks out the window.

ALEX'S POV - THE RIGHT WING

appears motionless in the f.g. as the tarmac and runway signs roll past the

window. THE ENGINE PITCH RISES...

ALEX:

The ENGINES WHIR as the jet gathers SPEED. He checks the window.

ALEX'S POV- THE RUNWAY

is a blur. The airport terminals in the b.g. streak past. The wings lift,

angeled as the jets leaves the ground.

ALEX:

O.S., hois classmates CHEER and "raise the roof." The trip has begun.

CAMERA PULLS AWAY FROM ALEX, as if reflecting his easing of annoyance with

the tray situation. He finally appears to notice the raucous reaction and

settles back in his seat, slightly pushed by mild-g force. The upwarding

angle increasing...

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