121
[INT. WIRELESS ROOM]
A BRILLIANT ARC OF ELECTRICITY fills frame-- the spark gap of the
Marconi instrument as SENIOR WIRELESS OPERATOR JACK PHILLIPS (24)
rapidly keys out a message. Junior Operator Bride looks through the
huge stack of outgoing messages swamping them.
BRIDE :Look at this one, he wants his private train to meet him.
La dee da. (slaps them down) We'll be up all bloody night
on this lot.
Phillips starts to receive an incoming message from a nearby ship,
the Leyland freighter CALIFORNIAN, which jams his outgoing signal. At
such close range, the beeps are deafening.
PHILLIPS :Christ! It's that idiot on the Californian.
Cursing, Phillips furiously keys a rebuke.
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122
[INT./EXT. WIRELESS SHACK/ FREIGHTER CALIFORNIAN]
Wireless Operator CYRIL EVANS pulls his earphone off his ear as
the Titanic's spark deafens him. He translates the message for THIRD
OFFICER GROVES.
EVANS :Stupid bastard. I try and warn him about the ice, and he says
"Keep out. Shut up. I'm working Cape Race."
GROVES :Now what's he sending?
EVANS :"No seasickness. Poker business good. Al". Well that it for me.
I'm shutting down.
As Evans wearily switches off his generator, Groves goes out on
deck. PAN OFF HIM to reveal the ship is stopped fifty yards from the
edge of a field of pack ice and icebergs stretching as far as the
eye can see.
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123
[EXT. OCEAN/TITANIC]
ON TITANIC, steaming hell-bent through the darkness, hurling up
white water at the bows. The bow comes straight at us, until the bow
wave WIPES THE FRAME--
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124
[INT. HOLD #2]
PUSHING IN on the rear window of the Renault, which is completely
fogged up. Rose's hand comes up and slams against the glass for a
moment, making a handprint in the veil of condensation.
INSIDE THE CAR, Jack's overcoat is a blanket over them. It stirs
and Rose pulls it down. They are huddled under it, intertwined, still
mostly clothed. Their faces are flushed and they look at each other
wonderingly. She puts her hand on his face, as if making sure he is real.
ROSE :You're trembling.
JACK :It's okay. I'm alright.
He lays his cheek against her chest.
JACK :I can hear your heart beating.
She hugs his head to her chest, and just holds on for dear life.
OLD ROSE (V.O.) :Well, I wasn't the first teenage girl to get seduced
in the backseat of a car, and certainly not the last,
by several million. He had such fine hands, artists'
hands, but strong too... roughened by work. I remember
their touch even now.
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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 the vapor 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 the 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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[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 note 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 note, 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 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 picked 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 wheelhouse, SIXTH OFFICER MOODY walks
unhurriedly to the telephone, picking it up.
FLEET(V.O.) :Is someone there?
MOODY :Yes. What did 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 Hichens, who is
at the wheel.
MURDOCH :Hard a' starboard.
MOODY :(standing behind Hichens) Hard 'a starboard. The helm is hard
over, sir.
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CHIEF ENGINEER BELL is just checking the soup he has warming on a
steam manifold when the engine room 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 scramble like madmen to close steam
valves and start braking the mighty propeller shafts, big as Sequoias,
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 berg growing... straight ahead.
The bow finally starts to come left (since the ship is in 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 NEXT Frederick Fleet braces himself.
136
THE BOW OF THE SHIP thunders right at the CAMERA and--
KRUUUNCH!! The ship hits the berg on it's 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 them off
their feet. The icy water swirls around the Renault as the men
scramble for the stairs.
139
ON G-DECK forward Fabrizio is tosses from his bunk by the impact.
He hears a sound like the greatly amplified squeal of a skate on ice.
140
IN BOILER ROOM SIX Barrett 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.
142
ON THE BRIDGE Murdoch rings the watertight door alarm. He quickly
throws the switch that closes them.
MURDOCH :Hard 'a port!
Judging the berg to be amidships, he is trying to clear the stern.
143
BARRETT AND HESKETH hear the DOOR ALARM and scramble through the
swirling water to the watertight door between Boiler Rooms 6 and 5.
The room is full of water vapor as the cold sea strikes the red hot
furnaces. Barrett yells to the stokers scrambling through the door
as it comes down like a slow guillotine.
BARRETT :Go Lads! Go! Go!
He dives through into Boiler Room 5 just before the door rumbles
down with a CLANG.
144
JACK AND ROSE rush to the starboard rail in time to see the berg
moving aft down the side of the ship.
145
In his stateroom, surrounded by piles of plans while making notes
in his ever-present book, Andrews looks up at the sound of a cut-crystal
light fixture tinkling like a windchime.
He feels the shudder run through the ship. And we see it in his face.
Too much of his soul is in this great ship for him not to feel its mortal
wound.
146
IN THE FIRST CLASS SMOKING ROOM Gracie watches his highball vibrating
on the table.
147
IN THE PALM COURT, with it's high arched windows, Molly Brown holds
up her drink to a passing waiter.
MOLLY :Hey, can I get some ice here, please?
Silently, a moving wall of ice fills the windows behind her. She
doesn't see it. It disappears astern.
148
[OMITTED]
149
IN THE CROW'S NEST Fleet turns to Lee...
FLEET :Oy, mate... that was a close shave.
LEE :Smell ice can you? Bleedin' Christ!
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150
[INT./EXT. BRIDGE]
CLOSE ON MURDOCH. The alarm bells still clatter mindlessly, seeming
to reflect his inner state. He is in shock, unable to get a grip on what
just happened. He just ran the biggest ship in history into an iceberg
on it's maiden voyage.
MURDOCH :(stiffly, to Moody) Note the time. Enter it in the log.
Captain Smith rushes out of his cabin onto the bridge, tucking in
his shirt.
SMITH :What was that, Mr. Murdoch?
MURDOCH :An iceberg, sir. I put her hard 'a starboard and run the engines
full astern, but it was too close. I tried to port around it,
but she hit.. and I--
SMITH :Close the emergency doors.
MURDOCH :The doors are closed.
Together they rush out onto the starboard wing, and Murdoch points.
Smith looks into the darkness aft, then wheels around to FOURTH OFFICER
BOXHALL.
SMITH :Find the carpenter and get him to sound the ship.
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--
『他鄉是一面負向的鏡子。
旅人認出那微小的部份是屬於他的，
卻發現那龐大的部份是他未曾擁有的，
也永遠不會擁有的。』
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