[Movie Script]Master and Commander

       MASTER AND COMMANDER: THE FAR SIDE OF THE WORLD


Written by
John Collee & Peter Weir
   1. THE OCEAN - DUSK



From blackness, a pattern slowly emerges - shimmering,

abstract lines form into waves cresting above steep-sided

valleys of water.
Finally the picture settles into a high, wide shot of the

ocean and an adjacent coastline.
In a corner of the screen, the last rays of sunlight touch a

small, dark shape causing it to glow in the gathering

darkness: A three-masted sailing vessel.
   2. THE SHIP - DUSK



[   ] She passes close enough to touch: hawsers as thick as a

man's trunk, massive black-painted timbers, muzzles of her

great guns projecting from every gun-port.
As the ship glides past and away from us, her name is

visible, picked out in dull gold on the transom - Surprise.
   3. ANOTHER ANGLE - DUSK


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