Final Destination Page #5

CLEAR'S POV - GUIDEBOOK

Princess Di's Mercedes is totaled in a Paris tunnel. Besides the photo are

two portraits of Diana and Dodi Al Fayed.

CLEAR:

CAMERA INCHES IN as she shakes off a shiver down her spine. She looks up

from the book toward the student who handed it to her, the identity of which

is fully REVEALED to be Alex Browning.

He stands at the gate window, looking out at the plane.

ALEX'S POV - 747

It is raining. In the distance, MUFFLED THUNDER RUMBLES.

CAMERA CREEPS AWAY from the plane... huge, seemingly incapable of flight and

yet we unquestioningly trust our lives in this machine. Emotionless. Cold.

Lifeless, and yet soon full of life.

ALEX:

Camera inches in on him

TOD (O.S.)

Dude, let's take a dump.

Tod MOVES INTO FRAME beside Alex...

ALEX:

Man, that is one George Michael

notch from being gay.

TOD:

Dude, get wisdom. We're about to

board a seven hour flight. The toilets

in coach are barely ventilated closets.

What if your body wants that airplane food

out of your system and you have to go torgue

a wicked cable and then right after you walks

in Christa or Blake? You want them

to associate with you with that reflexive gag

and the watery sting in your eyes?

Alex takes a beat to consider...

CUT TO:

INT. MEN'S ROOM - AIRPORT - OVERHEAD

CAMERA LOOKS DOWN on two stalls. Alex sits in one, Tod sits in the other.

O.S., OVER the airports P.A. SYSTEM John Denver's "Rocky Mountain High"

begins...

ALEX:

John Denver...

Upon the mention, CAMERA CRANES DOWN, TURNING, TWISTING UNTIL FINDING ALEX

in a straight on CLOSE-UP. He listens, tense...

JOHN DENVER (O.S.)

He was born in the summer of his twenty

seventh year...

ALEX:

He died in a plane crash.

A P.A. ANNOUNCMENT breaks into the song...

P.A. SYSTEM

Ladies and Gentlemen, thank-you for

your patience, at this time we would

like to begin pre-boarding of Euro-Air

Flight 180 to Paris through gate 39.

Really for the first time, Alex appears a bit tentative and pale. It is

intensified by the return of the song...

JOHN DENVER (O.S.)

It's the Colorado Rocky Mountian High/

I've seen it rainin' fire in the sky...

CUT TO:

INT. BOARDING AREA - GATE 39 - CLOSE - ALEX'S BOARDING PASS

is torn along the perforated edge and handed back.

ALEX:

looks down the paasenger ramp.

ALEX'S POV - RAMP TUNNEL

CAMERA CREEPS toward it... lit to cheat of feeling of no return.

O.S., distant THUNDER RUMBLES...

WIDER:

There is something more emotionally tense about the moment of boarding than

take-off. CAMARA PICKS UP Ms. Lewton searching...

MS LEWTON:

Anyone seen Billy Hitchcock?

How'd we lose him?

Tod nudges Alex toward the tunnel, the three boys start down the ramp,

passing Mr. Murnau who checks his list, counting heads...

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