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Titanic
Screenplay by James Cameron
Produced by James Cameron
John
Landau
Directed by James Cameron
Cast List:
Leonardo DiCaprio Jack Dawson
Kate Winslet Rose DeWitt
Bukater
Billy Zane Cal Hockley
Kathy Bates Molly Brown
Frances Fisher Ruth DeWitt
Bukater
Gloria Stuart Old Rose
Bill Paxton Brock Lovett
Bernard Hill Captain E.J.
Smith
Then two
faint lights appear, close together... growing brighter. They resolve into two DEEP
SUBMERSIBLES, free-falling toward us like
express elevators.
One is ahead
of the other, and passes close enough to FILL FRAME, looking like a spacecraft blazing with
lights, bristling with insectile manipulators.
TILTING DOWN to follow it as it descends away into the
limitless blackness below. Soon they are fireflies, then stars. Then gone.
CUT
TO:
EXT. / INT.
MIR ONE / NORTH ATLANTIC DEEP
PUSHING IN on
one of the falling submersibles, called MIR ONE, right
up to its circular viewport to see the occupants.
INSIDE,
it is a cramped seven foot sphere, crammed with equipment. ANATOLY
MIKAILAVICH, the sub's pilot, sits
hunched over his controls... singing softly in Russian.
Next to him on one side is BROCK LOVETT. He's in his late forties, deeply tanned, and likes to wear his Nomex
suit unzipped to show the gold from famous shipwrecks covering his gray chest
hair. He is a wiley, fast-talking treasure hunter, a salvage superstar who is
part historian, part adventurer and part vacuum cleaner salesman. Right now, he
is propped against the CO2 scrubber, fast asleep and snoring.
On the other
side, crammed into the remaining space is a bearded wide-body named LEWIS BODINE, sho is also asleep. Lewis is an R.O.V. (REMOTELY OPERATED VEHICLE) pilot
and is the resident Titanic expert.
Anatoly
glances at the bottom sonar and makes a ballast adjustment.
CUT
TO:
EXT. THE
BOTTOM OF THE SEA
A pale,
dead-flat lunar landscape. It gets brighter, lit from above, as MIR ONE enters FRAME and drops to the seafloor in a downblast from its thrusters. It hits
bottom after its two hour free-fall with a loud BONK.
CUT
TO:
INT. MIR ONE
Lovett and
Bodine jerk awake at the landing.
ANATOLY
(heavy
Russian accent)
We
are here.
EXT. / INT. MIR
ONE AND TWO
MINUTES
LATER: THE TWO SUBS
Skim over the
seafloor to the sound of sidescan sonar and the THRUM of big thrusters.
The featureless gray clay of the bottom unrols in the lights of the subs. Bodine is watching the sidescan sonar display, where the outline of a huge pointed object is visible. Anatoly lies prone, driving the sub, his face pressed to the center port.
BODINE
Come
left a little. She's right in front of us, eighteen meters. Fifteen.
Thirteen... you should see it.
ANATOLY
Do
you see it? I don't see it... there!
Out of the darkness, like a ghostly apparition, the bow of the ship appears. Its knife-edge prow is coming straight at us, seeming to plow the bottom sediment like ocean waves. It towers above the seafloor, standing just as it landed 84 years ago.
THE TITANIC
Or what is left of her. Mir One goes up and over the bow railing, intact except for an overgrowth of "rusticles" draping it like mutated Spanish moss.
TIGHT ON THE
EYEPIECE MONITOR of a video
camcorder. Brock Lovett's face fills the BLACK AND WHITE FRAME.
It
still gets me every time.
The image pans to the front viewport, looking over Anatoly's shoulder, to the bow railing visible in the lights beyond. Anatoly turns.
ANATOLY
Is
just your guilt because of estealing from the dead.
CUT WIDER
To show that Brock is operating the camera himself, turning it in his hand so it points at his own face.
LOVETT
Thanks,
Tolya. Work with me, here.
Brock resumes his serious, pensive gaze out the front port, with the camera aimed at himself at arm's length.
LOVETT
It
still gets me every time... to see the sad ruin of the great ship sitting here,
where she landed at 2:30 in the morning, April 15, 1912, after her long fall
from the world above.
Anatoly rolls his eyes and mutters in Russian. Bodine chuckles and watches the sonar.
BODINE
You
are so full of shit, boss.