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[EXT. BOAT DECK AND VARIOUS LOCATIONS]
The band finishes the waltz/ Wallace Hartley looks at the
orchestra members.
HARTLEY :Right, that's it then.
They leave him, walking forward along the deck. Hartley puts his
violin to his chin and bows the first notes of "Nearer My God to Thee".
One by one the band members turn, hearing the lonely melody.
Without a word they walk back to their places. They join in with
Hartley, filling out the sound so that it reaches all over the ship
on this still night. The vocalist begins: "If in my dreams I be, nearer
my God to thee..."
THE HYMN PLAYS OVER THE FOLLOWING SEQUENCE:
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A seaman pulls off his lifebelt and catches up to Captain Smith as
he walks to the bridge. He proffers it, but Smith seems to stare right
through him. Without a word he turns and goes onto the bridge. He enters
the enclosed WHEELHOUSE and closes the door. He is alone, surrounded by
the gleaming brass instruments. He seems to inwardly collapse.
238
IN THE FIRST CLASS SMOKING ROOM Andrews stands like a statue. He
pulls out his pocketwatch and checks the time. Then he opens the face
of the mantle clock and adjusts it to the correct time: 2:12 a.m.
Everything must be correct.
239
IN CAL's PARLOR SUITE water swirls in from the private promenade
deck. Rose's paintings are submerged. The Picasso transforms under the
water's surface. Degas' colors run. Monet's water lilies come to life.
240
DOWNANGLE on two figures lying side by side, fully clothed, on a
bed in a FIRST CLASS CABIN. Elderly Ida and Isador Straus stare at the
ceiling, holding hands like young lovers. Water pours into the room
through a doorway. It swirls around the bed, two feet deep and rising fast.
241
IN A STEERAGE CABIN somewhere in the bowels of the ship, the young
IRISH MOTHER, seen earlier stoically waiting at the stairs is tucking
her two young children into bed. She pulls up the covers, making sure
they are all warm and cozy. She lies down with them on the bed, speaking
soothingly and holding them.
[CUT TO]
[EXT. BOAT DECK/ BRIDGE]
242
IN A WIDE SHOT we see a wave travel up the boat deck as the bridge
house sinks into the water.
243
ON THE PORT SIDE Collapsible B is picked up by the water. Working
frantically, the men try to detach it from the falls so the ship won't
drag it under. Colonel Gracie hands Lightoller a pocket knife and he
saws furiously at the ropes as the water swirls around his legs. The
boat, still upside down, is swept off the ship. Men start diving in,
swimming to stay with it.
244
IN COLLAPSIBLE A Cal sits next to the wailing child, whom he has
completely forgotten. He watches the water rising around the men as
they work, scrambling to get the ropes cut so the ship won't drag the
collapsible under.
Fabrizio removes the lifebelt from Tommy's body and struggles to
put it on as the water rises around him.
245
CAPTAIN SMITH, standing near the wheel, watches the black water
climbing the windows of the enclosed wheelhouse. He has the stricken
expression of a damned soul on Judgment Day. The windows burst
suddenly and a wall of water edged with shards of glass slams into
Smith. He disappears in a vortex of foam.
246
Collapsible A is hit by a wave as the bow plunges suddenly. It
partially swamps the boat, washing it along the boat deck. Over a
hundred passengers are plunged into the freezing water and the area
around the boat becomes a frenzy of splashing, screaming people.
As men are trying to climb into the collapsible, Cal grabs an
oar and pushes them back into the water.
CAL :Get back! You'll swamp us!
Fabrizio, swimming for his life, gets swirled under a davit. The
ropes and pulleys tangle around him as the davit goes under the water,
and he is dragged down. Underwater he struggles to free himself, and
then kicks back to the surface. He surfaces, gasping for air in the
freezing water.
247
WALLACE HARTLEY sees the water rolling rapidly up the deck toward
them. He holds the last note of the hymn in sustain, and then lowers
his violin.
HARTLEY :Gentlemen, it has been a privilege playing with you tonight.
[CUT TO]
248
[EXT. A-DECK AFT, PORT SIDE]
Jack and Rose run out of the PALM COURT into a dense crowd. Jack
pushes his way to the rail and looks at the state of the ship. The
bridge is under water and there is chaos on deck. Jack helps her put
her lifebelt on. People stream around them, shouting and pushing.
JACK :Okay... we keep moving aft. We have to stay on the ship as long
as possible.
They push their way aft through the panicking crowd.
[CUT TO]
249
[EXT. FORWARD FUNNEL]
Collapsible A is whirled like a leaf in the currents around the
sinking ship. It slams against the side of the forward funnel.
CAL :(to the crew in the boat) Row! Row you bastards!
250
NEARBY: Fabrizio is drawn up against the grating of a STOKEHOLD
VENT as water pours through it. The force of tons of water roaring
down into the ship traps him against it, and he is dragged down under
the surface as the ship sinks. He struggles to free himself but cannot.
Suddenly there is a concussion deep in the bowels of the ship as
a furnace explodes and a blast of hot air belches out of the ventilator,
ejecting Fabrizio. He surfaces in a roar of foam and keeps swimming.
[CUT TO]
251
[EXT. A-DECK/ B-DECK/ WELL DECK, AFT]
Jack and Rose clamber over the A-Deck rail. Then, using all his
strength, he lowers her toward the deck below, holding on with one
hand, She dangles, then falls. Jack jumps down behind her.
They join a crush of people literally clawing and scrambling
over each other to get down the narrow stairs to the well deck...
the only way aft.
Seeing that the stairs are impossible, jack climbs over the
B-Deck railing and helps Rose over. He lowers her again, and she
falls in a heap. BAKER JOUGHIN, now three sheets to the wind, happens
to be next to her. He hauls Rose to her feet. Jack drops down and
the three of them push through the crowd across the well deck. Near
them, at the rail people are jumping into the water.
The ship GROANS and SHUDDERS. The man ahead of Jack is walking
like a zombie.
MAN :Yeah, though I walk through the valley of the shadow of death--
JACK :You wanna walk a little faster through that valley, fella?
[CUT TO]
252
[EXT. FORWARD FUNNEL]
The stay cables along the top of the funnel snap, and they lash
like steel whips down into the water. Cal watches as the funnel
topples from it's mounts. Falling like a temple pillar twenty eight
feet across it whomps into the water with a tremendous splash.
People swimming underneath it disappear in an instant.
Fabrizio, a few feet away, is hurled back by a huge wave. He
comes up, gasping... still swimming. The water pouring into the
open end of the funnel draws in several swimmers. The funnel
sinks, disappearing, but--
Hundreds of tons of water pour down through the 30 foot hole
where the funnel once stood, thundering down into the belly of
the ship. A whirlpool forms, a hole in the ocean, like an
enormous toilet-flush. T.W. McCawley, the gym instructor,
swims in a frenzy as the vortex draws him in. He is sucked
down like a spider going down a drain.
Fabrizio, nearby, swims like Hell as more people are sucked
down behind him. He manages to get clear. He's going to live no
matter what it takes.
[CUT TO]
253
[INT. BOAT DECK FOYER/ GRAND STAIRCASE]
Water roars in through the doors and windows, cascading down
the stairs like rapids. John Jacob Astor is swept down the marble
steps to A-Deck, which is already flooded... a roiling vortex. He
grabs the headless cherub at the bottom of the staircase and
wraps his arms around it.
Astor looks up in time to see the 30 foot glass dome overhead
EXPLODE INWARD with the wave of water washing over it. A Niagara
of sea water thunders down into the room, blasting through the
first class opulence. It is the Armageddon of elegance.
[CUT TO]
254
[OMITTED]
255
[INT. BELOWDECKS]
The flooding is horrific. Walls and doors are splintered like
kindling. Water roars down corridors with pile-driver force.
The CARTMELL FAMILY are at the top of a stairwell, jammed
against a locked gate like Jack and Rose were. Water boils up
the stairwell behind them. Bert Cartmell shakes the gate futiley,
shouting for help. Little Cora wails as the water boils up around
them all.
[CUT TO]
256
[EXT. STERN]
Rose and Jack struggle to climb the well deck stairs as the
ship tilts. Drunken Baker Joughin puts a hand squarely on Rose's
butt and shoves her up onto the deck.
JOUGHIN :Sorry, miss!
Hundreds of people are already on the poop deck, and more are
pouring up every second. Jack and Rose cling together as they struggle
across the tilting deck.
257
As the bow goes down the STERN RISES. IN BOAT TWO, which is just
off the stern, passengers gape as the giant bronze propellers rise
out of the water like gods of the deep, FILLING FRAME behind them.
People are JUMPING from the well deck, the poop deck, the
gangway doors. Some hit debris in the water and are hurt or killed.
258
[OMITTED]
259
[OMITTED]
260
[EXT. STERN]
ON THE POOP DECK Jack and Rose struggle aft as the angle
increases. Hundreds of passengers, clinging to every fixed object
on deck, huddle on their knees around FATHER BYLES, who has his
voice raised in prayer. They are praying, sobbing or just staring at
nothing, their minds blank with dread.
Pulling himself from handhold to handhold, Jack tugs Rose after
along the deck.
JACK :Come on, Rose. We can't expect God to do all the work for us.
They struggle on, pushing through the praying people. A MAN loses
his footing ahead and slides toward them. Jack helps him up.
261
THE PROPELLERS are twenty feet above the water and rising faster.
262
JACK AND ROSE make it to the stern rail, right at the base of
the flagpole. They grip the rail, jammed in between other people.
It is the spot where Jack pulled her back onto the ship, just two
nights... and a lifetime... ago.
Above the wailing and sobbing, Father Byles' voice carries,
cracking with emotion.
FATHER BYLES :... and I saw new heavens and a new earth. The
former heavens and the former earth had passed away
and the sea was no longer.
The lights flicker, threatening to go out. Rose grips Jack as
the stern rises into the night sky ablaze with stars.
FATHER BYLES :I also saw a new Jerusalem, the holy city coming
down out of heaven from God, beautiful as a bride
prepared to meet her husband. I heard a loud voice
from the throne ring out this is God's dwelling among
men. He shall dwell with them and they shall be his
people and He shall be their God who is always with them.
Rose stares about her at the faces of the doomed. Near them are the
DAHL FAMILY, clinging together stoically. Helga looks at her briefly,
and her eyes are infinitely sad.
Rose sees a young mother next to her, clutching her five year old
son, who is crying in terror.
MOTHER :Shhh. Don't cry. It'll be over soon, darling. It'll all be
over soon.
FATHER BYLES :He shall wipe every tear from their eyes. And there shall
be no more death or mourning, crying out or pain, for the
former world has passed away.
[CUT TO]
[INT. SHIP - VARIOUS]
As the ship tilts everything not bolted down inside shifts.
263
CUPBOARDS burst open in the pantry, showering the floor with
tons of china. A PIANO slides across the floor, crashing into a
wall. FURNITURE tumbles across the smoking room floor.
264
ON THE A-DECK PROMENADE passengers lose their grip and slide
down the wooden deck like a bobsled run, hundreds of feet before
they hit the water. TRUDY BOLT, Rose's maid, slips as she struggles
along the railing and slides away screaming.
265
AT THE STERN the propellers are 100 feet out of the water and
rising. Panicking people leap from the poop deck rail, fall screaming
and hit the water like mortar rounds. A man falls from the poop deck,
hitting the bronze hub of the starboard propeller with a sickening smack.
266
SWIMMERS LOOK UP and see the stern towering over them like a
monolith, the propellers rising against the stars. 110 feet. 120.
267
AT THE STERN RAIL a man jumps. IN HIS POV we fall seemingly
forever, right past one of the giant screws. The water rushes up--
[CUT TO]
[EXT. TITANIC/ BOAT 6]
268
TRACKING SLOWLY IN on Ruth as the sounds of the dying ship and the
screaming people come across the water.
269
REVERSE/ HER POV: IN A WIDE SHOT we see the spectacle of the
Titanic, her lights blazing, reflecting in the still water. It's stern
is high in the air, angled up over forty five degrees. The propellers
are 150 feet out of the water. Over a thousand passengers cling to the
decks, looking from a distance like a swarm of bees.
The image is shocking, unbelievable, unthinkable. Ruth stares at the
spectacle, unable to frame it or put it into any proportion.
MOLLY BROWN :God Almighty.
The great liner's lights flicker.
[CUT TO]
270
[INT. ENGINE ROOM]
In darkness Chief Engineer Bell hangs onto a pipe at the master
breaker panel. Around him men climb through tilted cyclopean machines
with electric hand-torches. It is a black hell of breaking pipes, spraying
water, and groaning machinery threatening to tear right out of its bedplates.
Water sprays down, hitting the breaker panel, but Bell will not leave
his post. CLUNK. The breakers kick. He slams them in again and-- WHOOM!
a blast of light! Something melts and arcing fills the engine room with
nightmarish light--
[CUT TO]
--
『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。』
～『看不見的城市』；伊塔羅‧卡爾維諾
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