Joe Versus the Volcano Page #19
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- Year:
- 1990
- 102 min
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The BIG WOO THUNDERS AGAIN - they all look.
The feast grows quiet and somber.
CHIEF:
Once more I'll call among the
Waponis for a hero.
The Chief stands. The Waponis abase themselves. The
Chief speaks to them solemnly.
CHIEF:
Who knew woe sue-weigh?
Who knew woe?
(he waits; as no one
moves; he calls out
once more)
Drama said, said sue-weigh?
(he waits; as no one
moves; he is disgusted
with them; he speaks
with finality and
dismissal)
I na box, bum, pelica. Box.
(CONTINUED)
JOE VERSUS THE VOLCANO - Rev. 8/25/89 97.
186 CONTINUED: 186
The Waponis slowly get up, shamefaced. The Chief sits.
He speaks to Joe and Patricia.
CHIEF:
They are all afraid to die.
There is no hero among them.
They deserve to die.
Joe stands.
JOE:
Take me to the volcano.
Natives cheer. They form an aisle again, leading off in
the direction of the Big Woo. Flaming torches dot the
aisle. The natives start the same call and response they
had going when Joe's raft was first sighted. Emo calls
and the natives respond. This call and response
continues through all the following. Joe walks off, down
the aisle. The Chief follows him. Before Patricia can
follow the Chief, the crowd closes in, following Joe up
the mountain. Patricia tries to reach Joe.
186B EXT. VILLAGE - NIGHT 186B
PATRICIA:
Joe! Joe!
But she can't be heard above the din of the call and
response. She's restrained by the women in the village.
186C EXT. FOOT OF TRAIL - NIGHT186C
A head torch man leads the way up the mountain path. He
carries a heavy, lit torch that he swings from side to
side with a ritual motion. With each swing he lights
another permanent tiki sconce along the path's upward
progress. He is followed by Joe, dapper and alone. Joe
in turn is followed by the Chief, who walks with a ritual
movement, not unlike the bent-kneed gait of a Sumo
wrestler, leaning first on one leg then on the other. He
is assisted in this gyration by two lackeys, one to his
left, one to his right, who catch him as he leans to his
most extreme angle and gently shoves him back the other
way. Behind the Chief, comes the general native
population all of whom carry torches.
186D WHOLE VILLAGE - PATRICIA' S POV186D
is going up the trail, with Joe and the Chief at the head
of the column. Some of the natives carry ducks.
JOE VERSUS THE VOLCANO - Rev. 8/25/89 98-98A.
187 EXT. SIDE OF BIG WOO - TRAIL - NIGHT 187
Flaming torches now delineate the trail up the mountain.
The line they describe looks very like a German
expressionist version of a lightning bolt. The Big Woo
is RUMBLING more and more. The whole sky over the
mountain is suffused with red.
187A OMITTED 187A
188 EXT. WITHIN COLUMN - NIGHT 188
Patricia struggles. She's slowly struggling up the
length of the column.
JOE VERSUS THE VOLCANO - Rev. 6/2/89 99.
188 CONTINUED: 188
She's starting to get hysterical.
PATRICIA:
Joe! Joe! Don't do it!
Don't do it!
189 EXT. HEAD OF COLUMN - JOE AND CHIEF - NIGHT 189
They are silent and solemn and focussed. They arrive at
a spot just below the rim of the volcano. There is a
little well worn trail leading from they stand to where
the rim.
JOE:
anything?
CHIEF:
No. You just jump in.
Joe nods. Patricia breaks through the crowd and throws
herself at Joe's feet. She's sobbing.
PATRICIA:
Don't do it! Please don't do
it, Joe! I love you! I've
fallen in love with you! I've
never loved anybody! I don't
know how it happened! And
I've never even slept with you
or anything and now you're
going to kill yourself!
Joe pulls her to her feet. The Chief takes a step away,
to give them privacy.
JOE:
You love me?
PATRICIA:
Yes, I love you! I can feel
my heart! I feel like I'm
going crazy! You can't die
and leave me here on this
JOE:
I've got to do it.
PATRICIA:
Why? The Chief doesn't even
want you to do it.
(CONTINUED)
JOE VERSUS THE VOLCANO - Rev . 6 / 2 / 8 9100.
189 CONTINUED: 189
JOE:
'Cause I've wasted my whole
life. And now I'm going to
die. I've got a chance to die
like a man and I'm going to
take it! I've got to take it!
PATRICIA:
I love you!
JOE:
I love you, too. I've never
loved anybody, either. It's
great. I'm glad. But the
timing stinks.
Joe kisses her, waves to the Chief, and starts to walk up
the little path. The natives are silent, staring. The
Chief is sad. Patricia is rooted, staring after him,
stricken. When Joe has just about reached the summit,
Patricia wakes from her trance, and bolts up the little
path after him.
189A EXT. UNDERSIDE OF PLATFORM - NIGHT 189A
Throughout the following, occasionally we CUT TO a carved
wooden figure of an alarmed but committed little man, who
is under the platform holding it up. Of course, he's
actually an inanimate strut, but as his little knees
quake ever more violently under the platform's oppressive
weight, we fear for the moment when he and therefore the
platform on which Joe and Patricia stand will give way
and fall into the volcano.
190 LITTLE SHELF ON MOUTH OF WOO - PATRICIA AND JOE - NIGHT 190
Behind them are flames and sparks and smoke.
PATRICIA:
Joe!
JOE:
Get out of here! Go back
down!
PATRICIA:
No.
JOE:
Please let me do what I've got
to do!
(CONTINUED)
JOE VERSUS THE VOLCANO - Rev. 5/16/89 100A.
190 CONTINUED: (A1) 190
PATRICIA:
Marry me!
JOE:
What!
PATRICIA:
Marry me!
She shouts down the hill.
PATRICIA:
Chief! Chief! Could you come
up here, please?
JOE:
What the hell are you doing?
(CONTINUED)
101.
190 CONTINUED: 190
PATRICIA:
I want him to marry us.
JOE:
I'm jumping into a volcano!
PATRICIA:
So marry me and then jump into
the volcano.
The Chief arrives.
CHIEF:
What?
PATRICIA:
Could you marry us?
CHIEF:
Okay.
JOE:
I don't want to get married!
PATRICIA:
What's the problem? You afraid
of the commitment? You'll
have to love me and honor me
can't handle that?
JOE:
(to the Chief)
Alright. Marry us.
PATRICIA:
Thank you!
JOE:
You're welcome!
CHIEF:
Do you want to marry her?
JOE:
Yes!
CHIEF:
Do you want to marry him?
PATRICIA:
Yes!
(CONTINUED)
JOE VERSUS THE VOLCANO - Rev. 6/2/89 102.
190 CONTINUED: (2) 190
CHIEF:
You're married.
PATRICIA:
Thank you, Chief.
CHIEF:
I'm going now.
The Chief leaves. The volcano has been ROARING LOUDER
and LOUDER. Joe stares into it.
PATRICIA:
Don't jump in.
JOE:
I want you to listen Patricia,
because these are my last
words. I gotta be brave. I
gotta jump in.
He braces to jump. She lifts her hands. She hesitates.
Courage floods her soul. She completes the gesture for
the first time.
PATRICIA:
I'm jumping in with you.
JOE:
Oh no you're not'
PATRICIA:
Whither thou goest!
JOE:
I'll knock you out! I'll
throw you down!
PATRICIA:
And take away my freedom of
choice?
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