Titanic Page #23

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125 EXT. ATLANTIC / TITANIC - NIGHT

The bow sweeps under us, and the CAMERA CLIMBS toward the foremast and the

tiny half-cylinder of the crow's nest, which grows as we push in on

lookouts Fleet and Lee. They are stamping their feet and swinging their

arms, trying to keep warm in the 22 knot freezing wind, which whips capor

of their breath away behind.

FLEET:

You can smell ice, you know, when it's near.

LEE:

Bollocks.

FLEET:

Well I can.

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126 INT. BOILER ROOM SIX

Without hearing hte words over the roar of the furnaces, we see stokers

telling TWO STEWARDS which way Rose and Jack went. The stewards move off

toward the forward holds.

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127 INT. CAL AND ROSE'S SUITE

Cal stands at the open safe. He stares at the drawing of Rose and his face

clenches with fury. He reads the not again: "DARLING, NOW YOU CAN KEEP US

BOTH LOCKED IN YOUR SAFE, ROSE".

Lovejoy, standing behind him, looks over his shoulder at the drawing. Cal

crumples Rose's not, then takes the drawing in both hands as if to rip it

in half. He tenses to do it, then stops himself.

CAL:

I have a better idea.

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128 INT. HOLD #2 - NIGHT

The two stewards enter. They have electric torches and play the beams

around the hold. They spot the Renault with its fogged up rear window and

approach it slowly.

FROM INSIDE we see the torch light up Rose's passionate handprint, still

there on the fogged up glass. One steward whips open the door.

STEWARD:

Got yer!

REVERSE:
the back seat is empty.

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129 EXT. FORWARD WELL DECK AND CROW'S NEST - NIGHT

Rose and Jack, fully dressed, come through a crew door onto the deck. They

can barely stand, they are laughing so hard.

UP ABOVE THEM, IN THE CROW'S NEST, lookout Fleet hears the disturbance

below and looks around and back down to the well deck, where he can see two

figures embracing.

Jack and Rose stand in each others arms. Their breath clouds around them in

the now freezing air, but they don't even feel the cold.

ROSE:

When this ship docks, I'm getting off with you.

JACK:

This is crazy.

ROSE:

I know. It doesn't make any sense. That's why I trust it.

Jack pulls her to him and kisses her fiercely.

130 IN THE CROW'S NEST Fleet nudges Lee.

FLEET:

Cor... look at that, would ya.

LEE:

They're a bloody sight warmer than we are.

FLEET:

Well if that's what it takes for us two to get warm, I'd rather not, if

it's all the same.

They both have a good laugh at that one. It is Fleet whose expression falls

first. Glancing forward again, he does a double take. The color drains out

of his face.

FLEET'S POV:
a massive iceberg right in their path, 500 yards out.

FLEET:

Bugger me!!

Fleet reaches past Lee and rings the lookout bell three times, then grabs

the telephone, calling the bridge. He waits precious seconds for it to be

picket up, never taking his eyes off the black mass ahead.

FLEET:

Pick up, ya bastard.

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131 INT. / EXT. BRIDGE

Inside the enclosed wheelhous, SIXTH OFFICER MOODY walks unhurriedly to the

telephone, picking it up.

FLEET (V.O.)

Is someone there?

MOODY:

Yes. What do you see?

FLEET:

Iceberg right ahead!

MOODY:

Thankyou.

(hangs up, calls to Murdoch)

Iceberg right ahead!

Murdoch sees it and rushes to the engine room telegraph. While signaling

"FULL SPEED ASTERN" he yells to Quartermaster Hitchins, who is at the

wheel.

MURDOCH:

Hard a' starboard.

MOODY:

(standing behind Hitchins)

Hard'a starboard. The helm is hard over, sir.

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132 CHIEF ENGINEER BELL is just checking the soup he has warming on a steam

manifold when the engine telegraph clangs, then goes... incredibly... to

FULL SPEED ASTERN. He and the other ENGINEERS just stare at it a second,

unbelieving. Then Bell reacts.

BELL:

Full astern! FULL ASTERN!!

The engineers and greasers like madmen to close steam valves and start

braking the mighty propeller shafts, big as Sequias, to a stop.

133 IN BOILER ROOM SIX, Leading Stoker FREDERICK BARRETT is standing with

2nd Engineer JAMES HESKETH when the red warning light and "STOP" indicator

come on.

BARRETT:

Shut all dampers! Shut 'em!!

134 FROM THE BRIDGE Murdoch watches the burg growing... straight ahead. The

bow finally starts to come left (since the ship turns the reverse of the

helm setting).

MURDOCH'S jaw clenches as the bow turns with agonizing slowness. He holds

his breath as the horrible physics play out.

135 IN THE CROW'S NEST Frederick Fleet braces himself.

136 THE BOW OF THE SHIP thunders right at CAMERA and--

KRUUUNCH!! The ship hits the berg on its starboard bow.

137 UNDERWATER we see the ice smashing in the steel hull plates. The

iceberg bumps and scrapes along the side of the ship. Rivets pop as the

steel plate of the hull flexes under the load.

138 IN #2 HOLD the two stewards stagger as the hull buckles in four feet

with a sound like THUNDER. Like a sledgehammer beating along outside the

ship, the berg splits the hull plates and the sea pour in, sweeping them

off their feert. The icy water swirls around the Renault as the men

scramble for the stairs.

139 ON G-DECK forward Fabrizio is tossed in his bunk by the impact. He

hears a sound like the greatly amplified squeal of a skate on ice.

140 IN BOILER ROOM SIX Barret and Hesketh stagger as they hear the ROLLING

THUNDER of the collision. They see the starboard side of the ship buckle in

toward them and are almost swept off their feet by a rush of water coming

in about two feet above the floor.

141 ON THE FORWARD WELL DECK Jack and Rose break their kiss and look up in

astonishment as the berg sails past, blocking out the sky like a mountain.

Fragments break off it and crash down onto the deck, and they have to jump

back to avoid flying chunks of ice.

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