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Gold Page #12
WELLS:
We’ve done all right up to now.
WOOLF:
He smiles.
59.
WOOLF (CONT’D)
May I speak plainly, Mr. Wells?
Wells looks at Acosta, then back to Woolf.
WELLS:
That’s the only way to speak, Bryan.
WOOLF:
Our clients will want to see a serious
plan to turn lab results in a volatile
region into an investment we can all
stake our reputations on.
WELLS:
That’s not gonna be a problem -
WOOLF:
It’s not a problem, per se, but there
remains the fact that neither of you
have taken a find of this magnitude
all the way through production.
WELLS:
Now wait a minute. We found it. We can
dig it up. It’s not that complicated.
WOOLF:
(choosing words carefully)
Actually, historically, what we’ve
found is it can be quite complicated
and we’d like to help formulate how
you present the operations side.
Suddenly Wells is beginning to feel a little pushed.
WELLS:
What does that even mean? What’s he
saying?
WOOLF:
I’d like you both to consider bringing
on a strategic partner.
Wells is suddenly wary. And we see how small town he really
is. He lifts Woolf’s business card -
WELLS:
(reads)
Managing Director of Substrate
Minerals, Metals, Oil, and Gas. I
don’t even know what that is.
(MORE)
59A.
WELLS (CONT'D)
Have any of you ever set one of your
hand-made loafers down in a hole on
the side of a mountain? Washoe has
history.
60.
WOOLF:
We’ve done a fairly thorough analysis
of Washoe, Mr. Wells. And we believe
you need some strategic help.
WELLS:
It’s a new day. And Indo is goddamn
different.
(bangs table)
I know how to bring this baby in!
Acosta observes Wells for a moment. We think Acosta is going
to judge him, pile on... instead:
61.
ACOSTA:
Wells came and found me. I was at a
low point, I’ll admit. It happens in
this business. Ups and downs. He
backed me with his last cent. More
than that he risked his life. Almost
lost it, too. And now we have the bull
by its horns.
WELLS:
A big-ass bull!
ACOSTA:
I’ve worked with the best and I can
tell you Kenny Wells is up there with
them. Which must count for something.
A declaration of friendship, and faith. This means the world
to Wells.
WOOLF:
It does, Mr. Acosta. We’re not by any
stretch of the imagination suggesting
that anyone take a backseat, we’re
simply asking you to be open to
strategic alliances.
WELLS:
No f***ing way.
That’s that. Acosta goes to the window. He looks out.
ACOSTA:
There’s something about finding gold --
it’s difficult to put into words --
the taste of it on your tongue, gritty
and electric, the feel of it between
your fingers. It’s like a drug. It
hooks you. It’s what you’re missing
here in the city; so you must
understand why we feel a bit
possessive over it.
(beat)
So I have proposal: put together your
institutional players, the guys who
rep the big money, whomever needs to
kick the tires on this thing... And
we’ll take them on a little trip up
the river...
Now Wells is looking at Acosta, starting to go with it -
ACOSTA (CONT’D)
You know what river that is?
61A.
WELLS:
The only river that matters -- the
KENSANA --!
ACOSTA:
And they can decide for themselves if
we’re ready to scale this thing up.
CUT TO:
JENNINGS:
So it was Acosta who proposed the
junket to Kensana? Or did you cook
that up together?
Wells looking at Jennings.
WELLS:
You just don’t get it. We weren’t
“cooking up” anything.
(MORE)
62.
WELLS (CONT'D)
I was getting hit from all sides by
people wanting in -- Hart Hubbard, my
neighbor, lawn care professional,
usually worried about Kay’s mulberry
over his back fence, only now he’s
dropping mining terms, “Kenny, I hear
the grade purity at Kensana is quite
high. How is the core frequency?” Hart
Hubbard. He cuts grass for a living.
JENNINGS:
We’ve interviewed Mr. Hubbard.
Wells looks at Jennings and Banks and Levine. All dressed up
in their middle-class rectitude.
WELLS:
I’m just saying I wasn’t feeling like
I had to cook up anything.
JENNINGS:
So it was Acosta who proposed the
banker junket?
WELLS:
(beat)
Yes.
(can’t help himself)
And it was a genius move. I don’t
exactly cut the right figure in a Wall
Street boardroom. They didn’t like my
suit or the smell of my whiskey. And
let’s be clear: we were in a fight, a
fight for control. With that one move
Mike shifted the balance of power.
CUT TO:
INT. JAKARTA INTERNATIONAL AIRPORT - DAY
A group of BANKERS blinking in blinding tropical sunlight as
they follow Wells out of the terminal.
WELLS (V.O.)
They were coming to our house and that
was a whole new ball game.
OWENS (40), BINKERT and JACKSON (30’s). These are men set free
from the concrete jungle, ready for a taste of the real thing.
They all pull wheeled carry-ons, some dressed in the latest
“in” safari-wear from Ralph Lauren.
They’re met by Mike Acosta, in full bush gear. Suddenly the
Bankers’ outfits look foolishly ersatz.
63.
WELLS:
Gentlemen, this is Mike Acosta.
ACOSTA:
Anyone who wants to turn back, this is
your last chance.
They all look at him, “Is he f***ing kidding?...”
WELLS:
He’s messin’ with you, come on.
A few of the Bankers sigh, some aren’t sure.
WELLS (CONT’D)
Welcome to Indo, boys.
The front of a canoe breaks the plane, followed by Owens,
Binkert, Jackson... taking it all in. It’s one of those
perfect tropical days -- a balmy breeze, glorious sunshine and
billowing clouds hanging in an impossibly blue sky.
They pass TRIBESMEN panning along the bank.
WELLS:
They’ve been panning this river for
five thousand years. That’s how it
got its name... Kensana. It means -
He shoots a look to Acosta, making the Bankers wait for it...
ACOSTA:
River of gold.
OWENS:
That’s not real?
A smile between Wells and Acosta -- this is the show and
they’re loving it. And RISING UP the river is indeed gold
colored, snaking through hills of green.
-- A BULLDOZER CLEARS A SECTION OF JUNGLE -- a CREW works a
DRILL RIG. Acosta shouts over the din, machete in his hand.
ACOSTA:
When we got the hit, we stepped out in
a radiating pattern...We’ll keep going
until we have the complete picture of
(MORE)
64.
ACOSTA (CONT'D)
the underlying geology-- how long, how
wide, how deep. It’s this mapping that
gives us the real sense of what we’re
sitting on.
The men look down at the ground. It’s just ground. But their
imaginations are working. Acosta points all around them.
ACOSTA (CONT’D)
It’s everywhere.
INT. WASHOE SITE - CORE SHED - DAY
Acosta leads the group into the CORE SHED. Throughout the
building, lying in wooden cradles, are the CORE SAMPLES -- six
foot long cylinders of rock and earth.
ACOSTA:
Our typical drill depth is between
three and five hundred feet. We pull
out our core samples in six foot
segments, six inches in diameter
packed solid with rock and soil.
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