The Making of 'The River Wild' Page #2

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uh, Roarke's father.

Oh, no. You didn't tell him

about us, did you?

No.

Hey, Roarke!

Don't tell those fish we're comin'!

All right,

let's bring a little line in, okay?

We're gonna aim for that ripple

right over there. See?

Ten, two, ten, two...

ten, release!

Then let go of your line.

Why don't you ask your dad

if he wants to come over?

Hey, Dad, you wanna try this?

Not now!

Thanks, buddy!

Do you think

he even knows he left Boston?

Yeah, he knows.

But he took two planes

and a charter just to get here, so...

let's give him a break.

- Try it again.

- Why are you suddenly on his side?

I'm on everybody's side.

I'm the mother.

- You got it! That's it!

- Look, Mom!

You got a nice one, buddy.

He's a beauty.

Let's get him.

There he is.

Come here.

Come here, sweetheart.

Look, Daddy.

Oh, it's a monster.

You know,

this is the first time...

we've all had dinner together

since Mom's birthday.

Hello, the Gail, Roarke

and Tom family!

This is the Wade raft

passing you by!

Hey, Wade!

I caught two fish today!

First time I ever fished!

Must be that lucky hat!

Hey, Roarke, if that hat's so lucky,

I want it back!

Hi.

- He's down.

- Mm-hmm.

Well, had a big day.

It's kind of warm.

That's the way I like it.

Did you finish

your sketches yet?

No. No, I didn't.

And it's not a sketch, Gail.

- You know, it's very important.

- Very important, I know.

- So, tomorrow...

- What?

Could you just pretend

to like it here a little bit?

For Roarke's sake,

if not for mine.

I don't do too bad at pretending

to like your stuff, so...

Is that what you do?

Pretend to like my stuff?

- No. You know, that's not what I mean.

- You don't have to.

And just don't.

And don't do me any favors, either.

I don't.

I won't.

Gail.

- Listen, don't you ever realize...

- Let's just stop, okay?

You never...

Oh, please!

Whoa, it's cold!

Whoo!

Wow!

Hey, look, Mom!

Graffiti!

Oh, wow!

Those are pictographs.

They were made by people...

who lived here thousands of years

before white men came.

So those are their hands?

Those markings might've been

made by a boy your age...

while he was

on his vision quest.

See?

Are you sure there's

fish around here, Mom?

Over there, honey.

Right in the current.

Hey there!

We've been waitin' for you.

I should've suspected something

when he had us camp at the walk-out.

Frank and Terry'd been

arguing most of the day.

Frank used to be married

to my sister...

until she realized

what a butthole he was.

Anyway, Frank said things

he shouldn't have said.

And this morning,

we woke up and he was gone.

Why didn't you guys just follow him out,

walk out with him?

That would have been

the smart thing to do...

but I didn't want

to give him the satisfaction.

And what he was doin' with the oars

didn't look that hard...

so we just headed downriver...

and we saw this.

That's when we decided

to wait for you guys.

- Wade said you used to be a guide here.

- Yeah. Roarke, come over here.

Is there any way

we could walk out of here...

- like go up the canyon and...

- Uh, well, you might...

but once you got up

to that canyon rim...

and headed back to the ranger station,

there's a huge gorge.

You'd have to walk around it.

Even if you had the equipment

and knew what you were doing...

and where you were going,

it'd take you five or six days.

Looks like we're stuck.

Well, we...

- I could get you as far as Bridal Creek.

- Yeah.

We... wouldn't want

to be a burden.

Well...

it doesn't look

like you have much choice.

All right.

Anyway, it's not as bad as it looks.

- You just got to stay to the right.

- Maggie!

There's a bad hole on the left.

Don't hit that.

No.

Come on, Mags! Time to go!

Honey, would you go up

and get her?

Stay to the right, and if you

do go swimming, which you won't...

point your feet downstream

and hold on to your jacket.

Just let

the current take you.

Don't command the river.

Let the river command you.

Hey, I don't live my life like that,

and I don't think you do, either.

Maggie!

Maggie! Come!

Come on, girl!

Maggie!

Maggie, come.

What do you got there, girl?

You all right, girl?

Maggie, come!

Come, Maggie!

Dogs.

Yeah.

- Buckle your life jacket. Stay right.

- All right.

- Just relax.

- Relax, huh?

Yeah. Relax.

- I want you to be the best you can be.

- Best I can be.

Let me get down there first.

I'll be waitin' for ya.

All right!

Come on, Maggie! Here we go!

Tom, better put the map away.

We're gonna go through

our first whoop-dee-doos.

- You might want to take a secure seat.

- What?

- Here we go!

- Hold on, Roarke!

Here we go!

- Oh, great!

- Oh, boy.

All right.

Here we go.

She said stay on the right,

remember?

- You remember, right?

- Oh, man.

She wasn't playing around.

Whoo!

Go right!

Get us over, Wade!

Oh, sh*t!

Oh, my God.

- The right, Wade! To the right!

- Shut up!

Oh, my God!

They're on the wrong side!

Get over!

You gotta turn!

There's a rock here!

Wade!

Get in the front!

We're gonna pick 'em up!

Wade's lost his jacket!

Wade can't swim!

He's back there! He can't swim!

Pull him in!

Pull him in!

Get in the back.

We're goin' to him!

There he is!

Wade! Hold on, buddy!

Wade!

He went under!

Wade!

Where is he?

He's still under!

- Get the throw bag, Roarke!

- Hold on, Wade!

Right there!

Here's the rope! Over here!

- You okay?

- Wow, Dad!

Come on, man. We got ya.

- Tom!

- Hey, Wade!

You almost drown!

Wow! One of these days

I have got to learn how to swim.

You okay? Nice job.

I'm okay.

Oh, I got that.

I got it.

Okay.

I want to thank you, Tom.

You saved my life.

Oh, don't worry about it.

You didn't have

to hit me, though.

Yes, I did.

Just turn it around.

Get it straight up and down.

- Pull out some.

- All right.

Point that thumb

where you want the fly to go.

Ten and two and release.

At the top of the news:

The car believed to have been used in

the robbery of the livestock auction...

at the Flathead County Fairgrounds

Sunday was found abandoned...

on a back road

near the Canadian border...

in the robbery that netted

nearly a quarter of a million dollars.

- A security guard was killed.

- What? What'd I do?

My dad's been telling

my mother for 30 years...

that they're going to rob

this cattle auction.

- And finally somebody did it.

- Cattle auction?

He's gonna be very happy.

Yeah, on the radio.

- They just...

- Wow.

You guys known each other

a long time?

Me and Wade go way back.

We just met Frank in Tulsa.

L... I thought Frank

was married to your sister.

- Oh, yeah. She lives in Tulsa.

- Oh.

So what do you do when you're not

trying to drown yourself on a river?

- I'm a skier, ski bum.

- Oh, yeah?

What about you?

What do you do?

I teach history

for a school for the deaf.

Tom is an architect.

I could tell you were a teacher.

- Little bossy?

- No, no.

- Ladies sure do like Wade.

- Yeah?

Let's try again.

- Ten, two, ten, two.

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