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CU HAND OPENS AN OLD BOOK OF ROBINSON CRUSOE. BOOK CLOSES AND IS REMOVED TO REVEAL AN OLD MAP. HAND USES A COMPASS (DRAWING TOOL) ON MAP.

MAN IN TATTERED CLOTHES INVESTIGATES STORM RAVAGED ISLAND, STOPS. SCARED. SOMETHING MOVES IN THE BUSHES. HE CHANGES DIRECTION AND CONTINUES WALKING. PULLS OUT A POCKET KNIFE AND OPENS IT FOR PROTECTION. CLIMBS TREE AND LOOKS OUT. WE SEE PALM TREES IN SILHOUETTE WITH AN RED/GOLD SKY.

LOW ANGLE HANDHELD PAN OF JUNGLE. CAMERA STOPS ON MAN WAKING UP IN A TREE. HE IS RELIEVED. HE FINDS AN EGG IN A NEST RIGHT IN FRONT OF HIM. HE USES HIS KNIFE TO CRACK IT OPEN. BUT A BIRD EMERGES. HE COVERS IT BACK UP AND RETURNS IT TO THE NEST.

RATS IN THE HOLD OF THE SHIP. MAN CLIMBS IN WINDOW OF THE RUINED VESSEL. HE RETRIEVES A RIFLE. HE INVESTIGATES THE SHIP. CALLS FOR HIS SHIPMATES BUT FINDS NO ONE. HE FINDS A BARREL OF WATER OR BOTTLE OF RUM AND DRINKS FROM THE SPIGOT. HE FINDS A LOOSE PIECE OF BREAD AND EATS IT VORACIOUSLY. AS HE EATS HE SPOTS A WET CAT. HE PICKS IT UP. AS HE PETS IT THE SHIP BEGINS TO SHAKE. THE PRECARIOUSNESS OF THE SITUATION IS CLEAR. HE BETTER GET OFF BEFORE IT SINKS. HE TAKES THE CAT AND LEAVES.

BACK ABOARD SHIP HE CONTINUES TO COLLECT SUPPLIES. INCLUDES CU OF MONEY COINS IN HIS HANDS. HE CHUCKLES AND LEAVES THE MONEY. HAS NO USE FOR IT. HE THINKS BETTER OF IT AND GOES BACK TO RETRIEVE MONEY AND FINDS STEEL, FLINT AND TINDER FOR MAKING FIRE.

MAN AND CAT SLEEP. DOG PANTS CONTENTEDLY. SOUND OF THUNDER WAKENS MAN.

MAN RUNS TO HILLTOP AND LOOKS OUT AT THE WATER. HIS SHIP IS GONE. SUNK BENEATH THE SEA. HE LOOKS DEJECTED. SWATS A BUG ON HIS ARM. HE LOOKS OUT AND SPOTS TWO RATS ON THE BROKEN MAST THAT HAS WASHED UP ON SHORE. HE TRIES TO STOMP THEM TO DEATH.

MAN PUTS IN POSTS, BUILDS A STURDY SHELTER. MAKES HIMSELF A COMPOUND. WITH STOCKADE STYLE FENCING WITH POINTED TOPS.

MORNING. A BIRD SITS IN A TREE. A GUNSHOT IS HEARD AND BIRD FALLS TO GROUND. MAN WITH RIFLE RUNS TO RETRIEVE IT.

CU HAND WRITING IN A JOURNAL DIARY.

MAN COLLAPSES INTO HIS HAMMOCK.

CU TRYING TO START A FIRE WITH FLINT. FLAME CATCHES. MAN LIGHTS OIL LAMP. MAN OPENS TRUNK AND MOVES CLOTHING AND FINDS TOBACCO LEAVES AND A BOOK. HE POURS HIMSELF SOME WATER AND THEN LOOKS DOWN AT THE BOOK THE HOLY BIBLE. HE BEGINS READING.

BELOW THE SIGN IS A KIND OF CALENDAR. HE MARKS A POST WITH KNIFE CUTS. NOTES SUNDAY, THE SABBATH, AS A SPECIAL DAY.

PAN OF PALM TREES, BANANA TREES AND OTHER FOOD BEARING PLANTS.

SMALL OCTOPUS ON A WET ROCK

UNIDENTIFIED TROPICAL BIRD

GOATS ON A HILLSIDE

MAN PUTS HIS RIFLE DOWN, PULLS OUT HIS SPYGLASS TELESCOPE, UNFOLDS IT AND LOOKS OUT. CU IRIS SHOT OF AN ISLAND IN THE OCEAN. LOOKS LIKE WE ARE SEEING WHAT HE IS SEEING THROUGH HIS TELESCOPE.

SMALL SAILBOAT ON THE OCEAN IS TOSSED ABOUT AND FLIPPED OVER.

MAN HOLDS PARROT, THEN PUTS IT DOWN TO INVESTIGATE SOMETHING ON THE OTHER SIDE OF THE COMPOUND. KITTENS NURSING FROM MOTHER CAT.

CU HAND WRITING IN DIARY WITH COLORFUL OLD FASHIONED QUILL PEN.

MAN PACES IN HIS COMPOUND. HIS DOG BARKS FOR FOOD. MAN FEEDS THE DOG AND PETS IT. MAN WALKS UP TO HIS CALENDAR AND REALIZES HOW LONG HE'S BEEN ALONE. HE SNAPS HIS FINGERS. HE HAS AN IDEA.

MAN HARVESTS WHEAT. HE MAKES BREAD USING WHEAT FLOUR AND WATER IN A BOWL. ROLLS DOUGH AND SHAPES IT IN TO SMALL LOAVES.

MAN PRACTICES POTTERY. MAKES A VASE.

MAN, ROBINSON CRUSOE, STANDS ON THE BEACH, WATCHING THE WAVES CRASH.

MAN WALKS THROUGH THE JUNGLE WITH HIS AXE AND RIFLE. HE HEARS HIS DOG. HE FINDS HIS DYING DOG ON THE SIDE OF A BROOK. HE PETS THE DOG. NEXT WE SEE HIM BACK AT THE COMPOUND. HE TRIES TO GET THE DOG TO EAT BUT THE DOG WILL NOT EAT.

MAN KNOCKS A GRAVE MARKER INTO THE SOIL WITH A ROCK. MARKER SAYS REX 1673. HE COLLECTS HIS SHOVEL AND LEAVES. HE RETURNS TO HIS COMPOUND BY CLIMBING DOWN HIS LADDER. PARROT TALKS. IT UPSETS THE MAN. HE SHAKES THE CAGE UNTIL IT FLIES AWAY. HE FINALLY BREAKS DOWN CRYING.

MAN PACES IN THIS COMPOUND. STOPS, SITS AND READS THE BIBLE ALOUD. AGAIN, PSALM 23.

MAN, NOW 18 YEARS OLDER WALKS THE JUNGLE WITH A PARASOL MADE FROM ANIMAL HIDES. HE STOPS AND PICKS UP TWO BUGS. HOLDS THEM IN HIS HAND AND THEN PUTS THEM DOWN. CU BUGS DIG INTO SANDY SOIL AND DISAPPEAR.

MAN WALKS TO THE OCEAN'S EDGE. WALKS ALONG THE BEACH HAPPILY. CU FEET WALKING ON SAND. SUDDENLY HE SEES A HUMAN FOOTPRINT NOT HIS OWN. HE LOOKS AMAZED, SURPRISED. CU FOOTPRINT IN SAND. MAN LOOKS WORRIEDLY AROUND AND GETS HIS RIFLE READY TO FIRE. HE STEPS INTO THE FOOTPRINT. THE FOOTPRINT IS LARGER THAN HIS FOOT. FRIGHTENED, HE RUNS DOWN THE BEACH.

MAN LOOKS THROUGH TELESCOPE SPYGLASS.

MAN PULLS EYE AWAY FROM SPYGLASS TELESCOPE AS CAMERA MOVES IN ONTO HIS FACE. WORRY. FEAR. CONCERN. THINKING.

MAN LOOKS THROUGH SPYGLASS TELESCOPE

MAN LOOKS AND THEN CLOSES SPYGLASS TELESCOPE. MAN WALKS ALONG SHORELINE ON SUNNY BEACH. COMES UPON A SMOLDERING FIRE. MAN LOOKS VERY SURPRISED. HE LOOKS DOWN IN HORROR TO SEE HUMAN BONES LITTERING THE SAND. MAN NEARLY VOMITS THEN RUNS AWAY.

SWEATING SHIRTLESS MAN SLEEPS FITFULLY IN HAMMOCK. AWAKES SUDDENLY AND LOOKS AROUND IN WIDE EYED AND IN FEAR.

MAN BURIES BOMB WRAPPED IN CHAINS UNDER CHARRED WOOD WHERE NATIVES HAD BUILT A FIRE. FUZZY IMAGE OF NATIVES WITH SPEARS AROUND THE WOOD FOLLOWED BY AN EXPLOSION. DREAM FANTASY. MAN STROKES HIS BEAR LIKE HE'S AN EVIL GENIUS. A MAN HAS A GREAT IDEA.

MAN WALKS THROUGH JUNGLE. STOPS. TIES GOAT TO A SAPLING. THEN HE NOTICES SMOKE IN THE DISTANCE. MAN HUSTLES THROUGH JUNGLE, OPENS TELESCOPE SPYGLASS. SEE THAT THE NATIVES HAVE RETURNED. SEES SOMEONE FLEEING.

NATIVE CLIMBS DOWN LADDER. LOOKS AROUND ASTONISHED AT THE MAN'S HOME. MAN OFFERS WATER TO NATIVE WHO DRINKS. NATIVE IS SCARED OF CAGED ANIMALS. GETS DOWN ON HIS KNEES AT THE FOOT OF THE MAN. MAN GETS HIM TO STAND UP. MAN TRIES TO COMMUNICATE WITH NATIVE. WITH SPEECH AND HAND GESTURES. MAN CALLS HIM FRIDAY. MAN GIVES NATIVE FOOD TO EAT. NATIVE TRIES TO EXPLAIN SOMETHING TO MAN. MAN TRIES TO GET HIM TO EAT AGAIN. MAN SPITS OUT BREAD. MAN IS FRUSTRATED, SITS AND EATS

NATIVE LOOKS THROUGH TELESCOPE. MAN JOINS HIM. THEY TALK. MAN POINTS OFF IN THE DISTANCE. NATIVE WALKS AWAY. MAN LOOKS OFF CONCERNED.

MAN AND NATIVE TALK. NATIVE LAYS DOWN ON HIS BED. MAN GETS SHACKLES HANDCUFFS AND RETURNS TO NATIVE AND LOCKS HIS FEET TOGETHER. NATIVE IS ANGRY AND SCARED. MAN WASHES UP, THEN GETS WEAPONS AND LEAVES HIS ROOM. HE FINDS THE NATIVE STILL SHACKLED BUT DOING CHORES. THE TWO MEN TALK. MAN GESTURES FOR NATIVE TO SIT. MAN UNLOCKS SHACKLES. NATIVE GRABS GUN. MAN IS SURPRISED. THEN NATIVE FALLS TO HIS KNEES AND OFFERS RIFLE TO MAN. MAN TAKES RIFLE FROM HIS HAND AND LIFTS NATIVE TO HIS FEET. THEY MAKE UP AND ARE FRIENDS.

NATIVE OPENS A CHEST AND FINDS NICE FABRIC AND VARIOUS COINS MONEY FORTUNE. MAN SEE THIS AND IS AMUSED. NATIVE HOLDS COINS. ADMIRES THEM. NATIVE WEARS COINS LIKE JEWELRY. MAN SAWS WOOD WITH SMALL SAW. NATIVE APPEARS WEARING EUROPEAN CLOTHES AND COINS AS JEWELRY AND WIELDS A SWORD MACHETE. BROADSWORD. MAN DOESN'T LIKE WHAT HE SEES AND RETURNS TO WORK. NATIVE, SCARED AND EMBARRASSED, REMOVES CLOTHES AND LEAVES.

CU HAND NOTCHING WOOD RUDIMENTARY CALENDAR. MAN PICKS UP HIS AXE AND HEAD OUT TO WORK. MAN AND NATIVE IN THE JUNGLE. WORK TO PICK OUT A LARGE TREE TO CUT DOWN. NATIVE TAKES SOME WHACKS AT A TREE. MAN WALKS AWAY. A PURSUER CREEPS OUT OF THE BRUSH AND AIMS TO SHOOT THE MAN WITH AN ARROW BUT IS KILLED BY THE NATIVE. MORE NATIVES HUNTING FOR THE TWO. THE FIND A FALLEN COMPATRIOT AND DRAG HIM AWAY. MAN AND NATIVE SHOOTS AND KILLS ANOTHER NATIVE. THE ONE REMAINING NATIVE FLEES THROUGH THE JUNGLE. CHASE. HAND TO HAND COMBAT BETWEEN NATIVE AND HIS PURSUER. NATIVE KILLS HIS PURSUER AND FLEES. MAN CONTINUES TO HUNT. HE SEES NATIVES DISEMBARKING FROM BOATS. MAN AND NATIVE FLEE.

PIRATE CALLS FROM SHORE TO PIRATE GUARD. THEY HEAD BACK TO THEIR SMALL BOAT. NATIVE BRINGS FOOD DOWN TO THE PIRATES. THE PIRATES MOCK HIM. KNOCK THE FOOD FROM HIS HANDS PUSH HIM AROUND AND TALK THIS JEWELRY OF COINS. NATIVE LEADS MEN AWAY FROM THEIR SHIP AND INTO THE JUNGLE AND INTO THE RIVER, UNTIL HE BRINGS THEM TO THE MAN'S FORT. THE PIRATES ENTER THE FORT. PIRATES RANSACK THE PLACE. SUDDENLY THEY STOP AS THEY SEE RIFLE BARRELS APPEAR THROUGH THE WALLS OF THE FORT.

MAN PUTS ON HIS EUROPEAN CLOTHES ONCE AGAIN. HE IS NEARLY TRIMMED NOW. HE LOOKS INTO HIS MIRROR AND SEES THE YOUNGER VERSION OF HIMSELF LOOK BACK AT HIM. NATIVE IS NOW NICELY DRESSED IN EUROPEAN CLOTHING, TOO. NATIVE COLLECT TRUNK. MAN COLLECTS HIS FEW BELONGS AND LOOKS BACK AT THE HOME HE'S MADE FOR YEARS. HE WILL MISS IT BUT HE HAPPY TO LEAVE. MAN TALKS TO TIED UP PIRATE AND THEN SPEAKS TO ALL THE PIRATES. HE LEAVES THE PLACE TO THEM. HE LEAVES THE BIBLE FOR THEM AND CLIMBS OUT OF THE FORT. MAN AND NATIVE AND COHORTS GO TO THE SHORE AND PREPARE TO LEAVE ON A ROW BOAT. THEY HEAD OUT TO THE TALL SHIP WAITING FOR THEM. MAN REMOVES HIS HAT AND LOOKS OUT RESPECTFULLY TO THE ISLAND THAT KEPT HIM ALIVE AND THAT HE WILL NEVER SEE AGAIN. MAN PUTS HAT BACK ON HIS HEAD AND IS READY TO LEAVE.

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