boat.
-Sign up, Ill buiId you one.
-I wanna buy that one.
-Well, thats my boat.
Come up with a down payment,
and Ill have it in months.
-Were good at this conversation.
-Then cIose the deaI.
-There you go.
-What is it?
Open it up. Its yours.
Its shaped Iike an arrow.
Freccia means arrow.
-So you toId me.
-It Iooks Iike goId.
-Thats because I giIded it.
-Why?
I wanted to sell you a boat.
Good try,
BOATS sway in the WIND.
Slowly, THE SOUND OF A MOTOR FADES IN.
9 EXT. THE MARINA (CLOSER ANGLE) - DAY
A FISHING BOATS, old and sea-worn, chugs into the harbour.
10 EXT. THE MARINA (CLOSE ON THE FISHING BOAT) - DAY
There are people on board, THREE MEN AND TWO WOMEN. They look
like guerilleros from somewhere in Latin America. Theyre
heavily armed, unshaven, covered with months worth of jungle
crud.
boat...
EXT. THE SUSAN MARIE, SHIP CHANNEL BANK - NIGHT
...Carl stands on deck with his kerosene lantern and his air
horn, watching as another BOAT comes slowly out of the mist.
The silhouette of a FISHERMAN. As fragments of fog part, we
CLOSE ON the figures face, to see...
...his eyes. They are Asian.
VISUAL FX TRANSITION TO:
EXT. SHIP CHANNEL BANK - MORNING
An island landscape. Tilt to find our
boat...
... which caught three good fish
the first week.
The old man had taught the boy to fish,
and the boy loved him.
The old man was gray and wrinkled,
with deep furrows in the back of his neck...
... and his hands had the deep, creased scars
from handling heavy fish on the cords.
But none of these scars were fresh.
They were as old as erosions
in a fishless desert.
Everything about him was ol
boat...
... which caught three good fish
the first week.
The old man had taught the boy to fish,
and the boy loved him.
The old man was gray and wrinkled,
with deep furrows in the back of his neck...
... and his hands had the deep, creased scars
from handling heavy fish on the cords.
But none of these scars were fresh.
They were as old as erosions
in a fishless desert.
Everything about him was ol