The Ghost and the Darkness Page #4
- R
- Year:
- 1996
- 110 min
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PATTERSON:
(They really like each other)
Have you got that in writing?
(Starling, amazingly good
natured, laughs. And now-)
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A WHITE CLAW.
Hundreds of white claws.
They aren't claws at all, they're thorns as sharp as claws and
they're on a twenty-foot high thorn tree.
And there are dozens of those trees, packed together. All mixed in
with other trees, low and stunted, and thick underbrush and baked
red rocks-
-now the train begins to slow.
Smoke drifts across.
A bunch of wildebeest scatter off the tracks.
STARLING (over)
Welcome to Tsavo.
(on the word)
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TSAVO.
We have arrived at the train station area and what we see is a
place that is still being built. There are tin shacks; a water
tower is under construction-
-men are working everywhere, for that's what Tsavo is: a place for
work.
No one stands idly around here.
But no one looks happy either.
ONE MAN is apart from the rest: this is SAMUEL.
An ageless Masai, tall and slender, he has a smile that can light
the world.
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PATTERSON AND STARLING as they step off the train.
STARLING:
(indicating Samuel,
who is approaching)
Samuel is camp liaison- absolutely
indispensable- the only man here
everyone trusts.
PATTERSON:
(softly)
Does he speak English?
SAMUEL:
(not softly enough)
And very poor French.
STARLING:
(introducing)
Samuel- John Patterson.
SAMUEL:
(as they shake)
The bridgebuilder-
(gesturing to the
working men)
-we have been getting ready for
you.
PATTERSON:
Excellent. Could I see the bridge
site?
(Samuel nods)
STARLING:
deliver. Come along to the hospital
when you're done.
(starting off)
SAMUEL:
I will bring him, Nigel.
We should realize by now that Samuel's was the voice we heard at
the very beginning of the picture.
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PATTERSON AND SAMUEL, starting to walk. They pass the water tower.
Standing on top of it in a precarious position is an extremely
powerful INDIAN. He waves to Samuel who waves back. This is SINGH.
WORKERS study Patterson as he moves by. Not smiling. Up ahead,
some SIKHS are erecting tents. Not smiling.
PATTERSON:
Why do the workers look unhappy?
SAMUEL:
Because they are here.
(beat)
Because Tsavo is the worst place in
the world.
(He points ahead)
Come, John- to the bridge.
(And on that-)
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THE RAILROAD TRACKS as the camera pans along.
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THE RIVER in the distance as they walk toward it.
And here is as good a place as any to explain just what the spot
where the movie takes place was like.
There were five hundred men working for Patterson. And they lived
in a spread out area. A bunch of Indian coolies who might have
come from the same town back in their country might choose to live
in one cluster of tents. A group of natives might be in another
cluster.
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