Moby Dick Page #7

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(Rumbling groan)

(Men shouting and screaming)

(Stubb) ls everyone all right?

(Dagoo) Everyone OK'?

(Stubb) You all right?

(Man) God, that was close.

- Did anybody see him'? Did you see him'?

- (Man) Everybody OK?

(Ahab) Follow him. Pull with all your might!

(Men grunting)

(Screaming)

Jesus.

(Rumbling groan)

Jesus!

(Man) Did you see that?

(Laughing)

(Men yelling in distance)

(Ahab) That's our Moby.

Isn't he the very devil, eh?

(Laughing) Oh!

(Ishmael) Here, then,

was this gray-headed, ungodly old man,

chasing with curses

a whale around the world...

(Ahab) You'll never bail this ocean out

with that thimble!

..At the head of a crew of mongrel

renegades and castaways and cannibals.

How was it we responded

to the old man's anger?

What evil magic possessed our souls

so that his hate seemed ours?

(Stubb) ls everyone accounted for?

(Laughs) That was him.

Will he come back?

That was Moby Dick.

Will he come back?

(Chuckles) He'll be back.

The white whale seemed the gliding

great demon of the seas of life.

You're not finished with me yet.

I could see nothing in him

but the deadliest evil.

(Ishmael) We had chased the whale

over the watery moors,

slaughtered her in the valleys of the deep

and then towed her alongside

and beheaded her.

Her great padded skin

was the property of her executioners.

And no sooner had we decanted her oil

into the casks

then we would be off again

to fight another whale.

How long could leviathan

endure so wide a chase?

(Starbuck)

Klaus, don't make Mr. Stubb tell you.

- Mr. Stubb, if you please!

- Heave!

J' When I was a little lad

J' So my mother told me...

(All) Heave!

J' Way, haul away

Heave!

J' Haul away, Joe

Heave!

Wasn't so bad, was it, men?

- J' ..kissed the girls...

- Yes, Captain.

Applause for Mr. Stubb.

He's killed his whale.

(All cheer)

(Ahab) Must be 50 barrels of oil in her.

And that's the way to do it when an old

bull whale comes at you...stand firm.

We'll have him on the other

side of the ship 'fore morning.

- Won't it be gone by then, Captain?

- What makes you say that?

The old bulls don't stay round

the herd long, do they?

- You read that in a book, did you?

- I did indeed, sir.

If I knew what a whale was gonna do,

I'd be a very rich man, boy.

Mr. Starbuck,

make sure these men have a drink.

- They've earned it.

- (Crew cheers)

Will he be back, sir?

He'll be back.

If someone hung up my wife on a hook,

I'd be back.

(Laughter)

And when he comes, we'll be ready for him,

will we not?

- Aye.

' (All) Aye

- Aye, sir.

- Yes, Captain.

J' I sailed the seas for many a year

J' Not knowing what I was...

- More slack.

- Heave!

(Ishmael) Where... Where's Pip? Has

anyone seen Pip since we hit the water?

- Heave!

- Queequeg, have you seen Pip?

No, not seen him.

J' ..my lips would all grow moldy...

- Heave!

- J' Way-ho...

(Dagoo) Have you checked below?

Pip! Pip!

- Mr. Stubb, have you seen Pip?

- Don't talk to me about that boy!

- Pip!

- Heave!

Here, you get you down below decks

and move some barrels.

(Ishmael) Pip!

(Ship creaks)

Right, now we peel her like an orange!

Pip!

(Chatter)

Pip! Pip!

Pip!

(Grunting)

Pip!

Pip!

(Stubb) That's more than 50 barrels,

more than 50.

(Grunting)

(Dull creaking)

(Creaking intensifies)

Ohh...

(Whale groans)

(Pip) Ishmael!

Ishmael! Ishmael!

- Help! Please help me up!

- Pip! Pip!

- Help me!

- I'm coming, Pip, I'm coming!

OK, boy. Come up here.

- Come on, Pip. Hurry up.

- OK. OK.

OK. OK.

Drop...Drop the oar.

Drop the oar.

(Grunting)

I've got you. You're safe.

You're safe. I've got you.

(Stubb) Feed the flames, boys.

She'll burn herself up.

Can you squash me up a steak?

Cooked rare, mind.

Smells like the left wing

of the day of judgment, does it not?

Can I have some help here? Some help!

- Man down larboard side needs some help!

- Hoy!

(Chatter)

(Starbuok) Got it, got it, got it, got it.

All right, ready?

One, two, three...

(Grunting)

(Starbuck) All right, get up here.

What in God's name

do you think you're doing?

Rescuing a member of

the ship's company, Mr. Stubb.

I thought I told you to move some barrels.

Time is money!

Get back to work.

He must have got swept overboard, sir.

- He's half frozen to death.

- Bring him on down to captain's quarters.

What you need, young man...

is a glass of whiskey.

(Hushed) Sir. I saw him, sir.

I saw the white whale, sir.

Where? Where'd you see him?

- Exactly.

- Where Mr. Stubb killed the whale.

(Ahab) Let's get rid of this creature.

Work to be done.

I want it off my ship and I want men

on both masts, double-watch all night.

He won't stay long, I'll bet.

- Come and take care of your lad.

- Yes, sir.

(Stubb) Right, Tash, Dagoo,

Queequeg, Michigan.

Down below.

(Bottle clinks)

(Uncorks bottle, pours)

Here you are.

(Coughing)

Sir.

He breached?

At a distance?

This close to me.

I could have touched him.

Then he dived.

He is...

He is beautiful, sir.

As if he was showing you,

- "I'm here. This is my territory."

- No...

Your very presence

was a challenge to him.

And if you challenge him,

- this creature changes lives.

- But I didn't challenge him.

Anyone who shares his spirit

is a challenge to him.

He thinks he owns the ocean.

I felt his strength, sir.

I felt the presence.

I was in his mouth, Ishmael, his mouth.

Imagine it. Afterwards, for a while,

I was like a madman.

Sometimes I wonder if Mr. Starbuck

thinks I've not deviated from that position.

Do you think that?

No, sir.

I don't...

I don't think that.

You were close to him...

- you understand.

- Yes.

Moby Dick.

Just saying it is enough

to scare the hell out of a man, yes?

He's white!

He's the pallor on the cheeks of the dead.

- You ever seen a dead man?

- No, sir.

We paint such pretty things on the universe.

But in fact it is...all space.

It's all...emptiness.

It's all whiteness.

Like the whale.

Oh ho, he's in your blood now.

He's clutched your heart.

Where do you think you're going?

Get back down there.

This is my whale, Steelkilt.

Check every barrel. Leaks cost money,

and I want every drop of this b*tch.

What did I do wrong?

(Stubb) Get that skin on the fire!

There's nothing wrong.

This is whaling.

You'll get used to it, friend.

By the time you get out of here

you'll be as black as the rest of us.

Let that go.

- Do you know what these are'?

- No.

They call them veins.

Like the veins in your body?

That's it. The veins that carry the blood

around your body.

The blood goes down and around and back.

And these are...

the tracks that the whale makes.

Just like the tracks a swallow makes

going south to find warmer weather,

we make tracks too,

going this way and that

across the globe,

looking for food and shelter.

- You could lose him so easily...

- Mm-hmm.

- Once he's on the move.

- Of course, of course.

Of course, he could go anywhere.

He has the whole world at his disposal.

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