FADE IN: We are in the far remote north of
tropical Queensland in Australia. It is a warm Fall day (OK, Spring, since it’s the Southern hemisphere) in October.
Camera pans across a placid beach as an elderly man sits in the sand, applying lotion to his back. An infant sits
nearby, building a rudimentary sandcastle.
Pleasant music plays in the background. Then a menacing strain is
introduced, minor chords.
Suddenly a monster lunges from the green depths. The man screams, the animal, which
we now see is a 14 foot crocodile, seizes him its massive jaws. He flails, blood-curding cries rise from his throat as
the animal begins to drag him into the water. The baby wails in primal fear.
Suddenly an elderly woman leaps
into frame. She is wearing one of those old full body swimsuits. Grey strands of hair curl beneath her bathing cap. She
is 60, but fit, and the sun reveals shadows of muscle tone in her arms and shoulders. She leaps onto the crocs back as
passers-by scream in horror. The woman sits astride the beast as the man kicks and screams helplessly. She grasps the
beast by the snout and pounds on the crocs head with her fists. The baby’s wails rise and we see a look of hunger
and frustration in the crocs eyes. But the woman does not relent. She presses her finger into the eyes of the croc
which, as heroic music swells, releases the man and slinks back into the water. A crescendo of joyful music as the man
and woman watch bubbles rise from the surface of the water where the croc disappeared. They hug.
Man: You
saved my life.
Elderly Woman: Do you have any Advil?
FADE OUT
True story (albeit with
some artistic embellishment)?