The Ghost and the Darkness Page #3
- R
- Year:
- 1996
- 110 min
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-we can tell there are drawings of African animals- not all that
accurate.
Now Patterson's eyes close and he sleeps.
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THE TRAIN POUNDING THROUGH THE NIGHT.
Stokers shovel coal. They are exhausted but they keep at it.
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PATTERSON. WAKING IN THE CAR, RUBBING HIS EYES. IT'S DAWN.
He stares out-
-and from his face it's clear something special has happened. And
now, at last-
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SOMETHING SPECIAL- and what it is, of course, is Patterson's first
view of the Africa of his imagination.
Because the desert has ended, and now there are grasses and trees
and one more thing-
-bursts of animals. On both sides of the train.
A flock of birds materializes here, a cluster of gazelles doing
there amazing leap there.
Patterson is like a kid in a candy store.
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PATTERSON AND STARLING, back outside in the engine seat again.
Starling points-
STARLING:
Aren't they amazing?
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WHAT HE'S POINTING AT: Some giraffes running along, their absurd
shape suddenly graceful as they eat up the ground in incredibly
long strides.
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PATTERSON AND STARLING, staring out.
PATTERSON:
You know the most amazing thing
about them?- they only sleep five
minutes a day.
(Starling glances at him-
clearly, he didn't know that)
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A FAMILY OF HYENAS. Close by, loping in their scary way.
STARLING:
Don't much like them.
PATTERSON:
(nods)
The females are bigger- only animal
here like that- have to be or they
wouldn't survive because the males
eat the young.
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STARLING studying Patterson. Clearly, he didn't know that, either.
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SOME HIPPOS moving along. Starling turns to Patterson.
STARLING:
PATTERSON:
Just that they fart through their
mouths.
(beat)
Must make kissing something of a
gamble.
STARLING:
(laughs)
I've lived in Africa a year and I
don't know what you know. How long
have you been here?
PATTERSON:
(looks at his watch)
Almost three hours.
(beat)
But I've been getting ready all my
life.
(Now, from them-)
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A BUNCH OF IMPOVERISHED-LOOKING NATIVE WOMEN. They hold children
who wave at the passing train. The children are more impoverished
looking than their mothers.
STARLING:
(suddenly touched)
Every time I see something like that,
I know we're right to be here- to
bring Christianity into their lives,
enrich their souls.
PATTERSON:
Beaumont says it's to end slavery.
STARLING:
(shrugs)
We all have our reasons. Mine is
simply to make them understand
happiness, accept salvation, know the
serenity that comes-
(interrupts himself)
-best I stop. One of the by-products
of my belief is that I can become
amazingly boring. But I know God smiles
on me.
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