Titanic (Scriptment) Page #3

SNOOP DOG drives itself away from the sub, paying out its umbilical behind it like a robot yo-yo. Its twin video cameras swivel like insect eyes. Inside the sub, Bodine drives with joysticks, watching what Snoop Dog is seeing on a pair of 3-D electronic goggles.

Snoop Dog has a ladybug-orange shell, and a black metal frame full of motors and electronics. Up front, folded like praying mantis arms, are two very high-tech robot manipulator arms, completing the bug-like image.

Bodine drives Snoop Dog along the hull to the twin gangway doors halfway up the hull. Here passengers strolled into the First Class Reception. Now Snoop Dog carefully enters through the gaping doors.

ANGLE FROM INSIDE, pulling back with "The Dog" as it moves inside the hull.

SNOOP'S POV, moving through the cavernous interior. The ornate hand-carved woodwork which gave the ship its elegance has been mostly eaten away by wood-boring organisms, leaving skeletal beams and pillars. The ROV ascends through an open shaft that once was the beautiful forward Grand Staircase. A few pillars and carved balusters, as well as the wrought iron center rail, still define the lower landing of this once elegant piece of architecture.

MONTAGE STYLE, as Snoop passes ghostly images of Titanic's opulence:

A grand piano in amazingly good shape, crashed on its side against a wall. The keys gleam black and white in the lights.

A chandelier, still hanging from the ceiling by electric wire... glinting as Snoop moves around it.

Lights playing across the floor, a field of debris including a champagne bottle, some WHITE STAR LINE china, the remains of a Victrola, a woman's high-top "granny shoe".

Snoop enters the starboard corridor, which is much better preserved. The wood has not been as badly ravaged... here and there a door still hangs on its rusted hinges... an ornate piece of molding, a wall sconce... hint at the grandeur of the past.

BODINE:

I'm just passing that skinny spot at B-61.

The Dog squeezes past a collapsed wall, scraping rust and wood chunks loose on both sides. It moves out of a cloud of rust and keeps on going.

LOVETT:

Okay, when you get into B-53, I want you to try and move that wardrobe door we saw yesterday, see what's under it.

THE ROV enters B-53, one of three rooms comprising a "promenade suite", the most luxurious staterooms on Titanic. There were four of these, two on A deck above, and two on B.

But Brock Lovett is only interested in this one room. Skeletal brass bed frames are still visible, hurled atop each other against the forward wall as the ship plunged. There are chairs, a dresser, and other recognizable furniture lying about. The porcelain commode and bathtub look almost new, gleaming in the dark.

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