The Making of 'The River Wild' Page #6

---

- Where is he?

- I got it!

I got it!

He's right over there!

- Pick him up!

- We're stuck in the hole!

I'm tryin' to get us out!

What was that, Gail?

What happened with that oar?

I lost control.

- I just completely lost control.

- What the hell was Frank talkin' about?

He said this river sh*t

was gonna be easy!

I think Frank

had somethin' else in mind.

Did ya ever think of that?

I bet Frank thought he'd just dump

you two somewhere along the line...

and run the Gauntlet

with a nice, light boat.

Did he tell you you'd have to work?

You guys are gonna have to...

throw your weight and high-side it

if we wrap around one of these rocks.

You're gonna have to

paddle hard when I tell ya.

And you're gonna have to do

what I say when I say it!

Otherwise, we got no chance

in hell of makin' it through.

And what makes you suddenly

so anxious to get us through?

I don't think you know me

well enough to determine...

if I'm being anxious

or if I'm being efficient.

Let's grab the paddles and do some

practice runs. Get up front, Terry.

Do it!

All forward. One! Two!

Dig it in, Terry.

You gotta pull your weight.

- My neck hurts!

- You're breakin' my heart. Let's go!

One. Two. Left turn.

Come on. Dig in.

Oh, my God.

Oh, my God, Gail!

Mags, we gotta get across.

Come on, girl!

Try it again. Harder.

Dig it. One! Go together.

Two! Go together.

Three!

Stay with it!

Mags, we don't have time

to look for a way down.

You think you can do this, huh?

You think you can do this?

Okay, girl.

I love you too.

Here we go.

You ready, girl?

We'll both go on three.

One. Two. Three.

Come on!

Come on, girl! Maggie, come!

You can do it!

Oh, come on, girl!

No, don't go back! Maggie!

Come on, Maggie!

Oh, please!

Maggie! Come!

Maggie. Go!

That a girl!

Good girl! You know, that's

the first time you've ever minded me.

Oh, good girl!

What are you doin'?

I have to scout

the entrance to the Gauntlet.

This is the only place

I can do it from.

Terry, get in the back.

Get ready to secure the line.

Come on, Mags!

- Let's go.

- I have to go to the bathroom.

I'll take you in a second.

- That's it?

- That's it.

Once you enter that canyon,

there's no stopping and no turning back.

The three rivers converge

and drop 295 feet...

in a little over

a mile and a half.

Oh, sh*t!

Wade!

Now what?

Well, that depends on you.

Now, if you love your mama, you're

gonna keep your little mouth shut.

You hear me?

- Johnny!

- Hey, Johnny!

- Hello again.

- What are you doin' down here?

Well, I heard someone went past

the take-out at Bridal Creek...

so I came down here

to see what's up.

Gail's givin' me a look at

the site of her former glory.

Yeah. It's just as amazing

as I remember.

You aren't thinkin' about

doin' anything crazy, are ya?

Well! To tell you the truth...

Yeah, we... I've... I've always wanted

to run the Gauntlet again, you know?

And Wade here will try anything,

so... here we are.

Where's everybody else?

Your son and all them?

Uh, Tom and Roarke got out

at Bridal Creek with Terry.

Yeah, they're down below.

We're gonna meet 'em down there.

Geez! Well, Gail,

I can't let you do it.

- Let us?

- No way. It's too dangerous.

I'm gonna have to radio for a helicopter

to come and transport you outta here.

Look, Gail, I hate to

be the bad guy here.

I'd like to try the Gauntlet myself, but

people aren't allowed to do it anymore.

- You know I've run this once before.

- Yeah.

Why can't you just... go away,

pretend you didn't even see us?

- Oh, boy, uh...

- Johnny's right, Gail.

Somethin' tells me Ranger Johnny

might not be too good at pretending.

He said he always wanted

to try the Gauntlet.

I just gave him his wish.

- Put the kid in the boat!

- First we have to unload some things.

Why?

We have to ride higher

in the water.

So I have to rebalance the boat

so that you can paddle in the front.

Now don't let go

of that rope... ever!

And stay low in the gunnel.

Okay? Okay.

Listen, before we do this,

I need to ask you a favor.

Please... Please don't tie

Roarke in the boat.

I'm sorry.

I can't do that, Gail.

I need you to be

the best that you can be.

Go ahead and let it go. Indian Johnny

won't be needin' it anymore.

We can do this, Wade.

We can do it.

You just... hold together.

- Paddle together. All right?

- Yeah. Yeah.

Keep breathing.

Don't fall out.

I need you both in the boat

to make it down this thing.

Roarke? You okay?

Hold on tight.

- You love your mommy? Good boy.

- Yeah.

Feel like goin' to Boston?

Me too. Vacation's over.

- What's that?

- What's that noise?

This is where the

first two rivers come together.

Straighten me out... now.

Straighten it out. We got the froth

straight ahead. We're gonna go left.

- We're gonna hit that rock!

- Get up, Terry!

- Turn it!

- Mom!

- What do we do?

- All right. Back! Back paddle!

Left! Left!

Bring it around or we're gonna hit!

Left! Hard! Terry!

- Look out, Mom!

- Hold your paddle!

Put your weight on it!

Keep paddling!

All forward! Let's go!

Stay right in the middle!

- Don't put me in that hole!

- Which way?

No, no, no!

Don't back that way!

Oh! We missed it!

We're goin' in.

Hold on, Roarke!

Wade! Wade!

Pull him in!

Grab him by his jacket, Terry.

Pull him in!

We need him. Damn it!

- Get in, Wade!

- Grab your paddle. Get into position.

Pull! Okay.

Left turn. Let's go.

- Why?

- We have to go this way.

There's a 40-foot drop

on the other side.

- No!

- You gotta line me up good, boys.

Get ready!

Pull in your paddles!

Look out!

I got it. Hang on!

We're gonna rejoin the main river.

Straight into it!

- Are we goin' down that?

- You bet!

No way, man!

I can't do this!

- Hold on, Roarke!

- Hurry, Mom!

- Take us out!

- Paddle, Terry!

Oh, my God.

Get me away from that wall!

Straight down the middle!

What do we do?

Are you nuts?

- Get up!

- Get up, Terry!

We're turning!

We're getting sucked back in!

- Are you okay, darling?

- I'm okay Mommy. Ohh!

We made it!

We did it!

That was the Gauntlet, man!

We did it! Right?

Wade, we're not done yet.

- What?

- That was the easy part.

Watch what you're

f***in' doin'!

- Yaaah!

- We're losing it!

- Back! Push it!

- Back! Hard!

Harder!

- Further on now! Left!

- I got it!

We get through this...

and we're through.

We make it through this

and we're home.

Straighten it out!

- We're getting sucked under!

- Which way?

- Back paddle! No, Wade, back!

- Mom!

- We're goin' under!

- Backwards! Pull it! Back!

That's it! That's it.

- We're out!

- All right, Mom!

Yahoo!

Yaaaah!

We did it!

- Yeah! Yeah!

- We made it!

- Back paddle! Back paddle!

- What?

- What are you doin'?

- I'm a little tired.

Can you untie Roarke now?

Sure. Why not?

Maggie!

Whoa!

Stay down!

Dad! Get him!

Mom!

- Gun.

- Let go of him! Let him go!

Hey! Terry!

No! No!

Pull that oar.

Keep pullin' on it for me.

- Pull it in hard. Hard!

- Okay.

Rate this script:0.0 / 0 votes