Piranha (1972) Movie Script
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PIRANHA
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(birds chirping)
(birds chirping)
(tense music)
Excuse me Sir, would you be Arthur Green?
Yes.
Hi, you're Jim Pendrick, right?
Nice to see you.
Have a good flight?
Yeah, beautiful.
Good, fantastic.
Terry, come here.
Jim Pendrick, my sister Terry.
She's a talent in the family.
Hello, Mr. Pendrick, nice to meet you.
Nice to meet you, and please call me Jim.
May I say welcome to
our beautiful city of Caracas,
and it's even more
lovely now that you're here.
Oh, gracias, seor.
Hey.
Please, men.
So you're gonna take us into the jungle?
Yes, I've been
assigned to be your official Tarzan.
(chuckles)
I hear that
Caracas swings pretty good too.
I think you'll find his swings
as well as anyplace else in the world.
Arthur, do you
want me to take your tools?
You can bring your cameras on.
(chattering)
(whistle blows)
Look out.
(whistle blows)
(chattering) (yelling)
Come on, Terry.
(yelling)
(chattering)
That is some sister you've got.
Yeah, she's pretty
damn cool with that camera.
She is.
Hey, are they real diamonds back there?
Like the one you tried to pick up?
Yeah, they're real,
Ben, as well as full of them.
Well, look, you gotta
tell me more about those diamonds.
Oh, okay, I'll do that.
The screen?
My kind of action.
Yeah.
You all in?
(whistle blows)
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Oh, Jim, how are you?
Hi, how are you?
Good to see you.
Hi, I'm Mr. Doris.
Hey.
Oh, Ms. Green.
I'd like you to make a
friend of mine, Juan Vegas.
This is Senator Terry Green.
Nice to see you.
And her brother, Arthur.
Hi, how are you?
How are you?
Good to check here, you're on the list.
Let's go over the list now.
First aid kit we have?
Yes.
Snake bike kit?
Got it.
Oh, Mikulchiyo Kon-Sintron.
They're inside the sacks.
Oh, in the napsacks?
Yep.
Hey, Terry, what do you think?
Rucho horrible.
I think it looks great.
All right, fine, that's good.
I'll check the rest of this.
Where are you headed?
First, south of Los Janos,
and Donces, and Waiyana.
Waiyana?
You going for diamonds?
Oh, no, no, pictures, pictures.
When I shoot one of
the last unspoiled areas
left on this earth.
All right, fine,
I'll check the rest of this.
Oh, yeah, I think I see one right now.
Carry on, folks.
(laughing)
He's not as delicate as I am,
but I sure can't get along without him.
Is that all you will do?
Just make it with pictures?
Is that all?
Isn't that enough?
No one has really
photographed the Janos properly.
What does Conan Doyle call it in his book, you know,
The Last World?
You don't remember, right,
Conan Doyle, or is that--
No, it's, um,
There's no
prehistoric monsters left there.
If that's what you hope to photograph.
Well, I don't know, I might find one.
Diamonds are the monsters now.
Well, I think that if
a man's gonna risk his life,
he means we'll try to
get rich doing it, don't you?
And that's why no proper picture of him
is a very, very, very, very, very, very,
very, very, Well, the pictures have been taken.
The lady is very stubborn.
Here's the gun you ordered,
you have to-- Oh, gotten it like this.
Wait a minute, that's not for us, is it?
Yes, it is.
no we don't need
that Miss green nobody goes into Los Janos
without a gun.
- We are not taking.
- We're taking this one.
Put that down right now.
You're taking this green.
I'll take care of the equipment.
I mean it, damn you.
We're not taking any guns.
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We have about an hour. Why don't
you with your bike, motorcycle, seat? You.
Drive me around Caracas. When
the sun comes up, we'll see the city.
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Morning, Mr.
Pendrigg. Well, good morning.
- Have you seen Art anywhere?
- He's not with you?
I don't know where
he is. He's not in his room.
- Check the coffee shop?
- Yeah, he's not in there either.
Well, I hope he
shows up. We have a long way
to go today and we
should be getting started.
You'll be riding with me on my bike
at least until we get out of the city.
No, I don't think so.
We had our little dispute
last night, but we're going to
be spending a lot of time
together the next couple of weeks.
I think we should learn to
get along. How about we call it truce?
Okay.
Good. Now, I'd like
to try this knapsack on you.
- Now, what about this?
- Where shall I put it? Well, we
can strap that on the
front here along with my knapsack.
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When is this?
You found the address, I take it.
Yeah.
Where you ready to go? If
you are ready. Yeah, I'm ready.
You ready?
She's ready. Here's your wine.
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Oh, this is really
heaven. This is perfect.
It's kind of pretty, isn't it?
I'm going to get my camera.
Hey, listen you two, I want to go
off and shoot. So, uh, will you wait for me?
No, we'll just
drive away and leave you here.
In that, see you later,
okay? Hey, you be careful. Oh, I will.
She be all right? Yeah, I think so.
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Terry!
Shut up, Terry.
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Okay. Hey, come on.
It's all over. Let's go.
- You did bring that gun.
- Of course I brought it. I told you not to.
Terry probably saved
your life with it. And my life.
- That was a good shot.Thanks, Jim.
- Yeah, I'd rather
have heard the thanks
coming from her for some reason.
Well, she, I told you
she doesn't understand a gun.
Uh, it's a long
story. You want to hear it?
No.
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- I bet you thought we'd never make it.
- I never did. Never.
Turn around. I'll
help you with that pack.
Don't you believe in roads, Jim?
There are no roads to this
place, my friend. You came over the highway.
Ah, well, welcome to...
...ato el milagro.
What does that mean?
Well, if you'll
believe it, it means the miracle.
I think it's a miracle we got here.
- Jim?
- Yeah?
What did you say
they cured this thing with?
Wine, Arthur. Wine.
I thought you said they cured it
with yarn. I think they're still some...
[Laughter]
Listen to me. I would
have like freshen up or something.
Yeah, there are
showers inside and I arranged
for a hammock to be
strung out for the evening.
Oh, great. Fantastic.
That's what I'm going to do right now.
- You're a wonderful person.
- I am a wonderful person.
Listen, what are you going
to do? You going to freshen up?
No. I want a nice cold beer.
We will drop you off at the bar on
the way if you will follow your leader, okay?
Come on, let's go.
Hi.
[ Speaking Spanish ]
One beer.
Gracias. That's good.
Hi.
Got a light?
Thank you.
Hello.
Oh, there you are.
Yes.
What took you so long?
Oh, I don't know. I
just need a big fat drink.
Well, I see you found
the table in the chair anyway.
Okay, I'm buying.
Uh, what do you have?
Uh, whatever. Surprise me.
One whatever. What do you have, Jim?
I have a double whatever.
Two whatevers.
Okay.
One beer, two scotches.
Uno cerveza dos scotch.
No, no, no, comprendo, seor.
Scotch.
Hey, hey, can you help me out?
Hey, look, why don't you let
me buy you and your friends a drink?
Hey, you're on. Okay,
we'll drink what you're drinking.
Forget the scotch.
Tres mas.
Hey, thanks. Name's our green.
Pleasure.
Why don't you come over and join us?
I like that very much.
Okay, let's go.
One.
Surprise.
This is my sister, Terry.
This is Jim Pandrick.
And I didn't get your name.
Carribe.
Do we know each other?
No.
Well, Mr. Carribe just
bought us a round of drinks.
How nice.
- Pleasure.
- Sit down, Carribe.
Thank you.
Do you live here, Mr. Carribe?
Yes.
How long have you been here?
Carribe is one of South America's most
renowned hunters.
Oh, really? What do you hunt?
Everything.
What are you doing here, Miss Green?
I'm here in a grant.
What kind of grant?
Photography grant.
Hey, Caribbean, you
know how to do the funky chicken?
Huh, you don't.
Okay.
Then as a hunter,
don't you feel the blood,
don't you feel the
terror and the pain of the animal?
Don't you care
about the motherless offspring
that won't be able to survive?
(coyote howling)
If man sees the blood,
feels the pain and the
suffering, he's not a hunter.
A hunter feels only the excitement,
the chase and the victory.
Why do you hunt?
Instinct.
Better the predator than the prey.
Oh, come on.
No, I mean it.
You see, a long
time ago, at the dawn of man,
there were two great
apes who were forefathers.
Was it Australopitheanes africanus?
Australopitheanes robustus.
Africanus was a wiry, intelligent ape.
And he found if he took
the femurs bone of an antelope
and he went around
thumping his fellow animals that he,
he not only had something to eat,
but he didn't have
anybody messing with him.
So man's
aggressive tendencies and desires
were established so long ago that,
they're instinct today.
You know, it's funny, but I heard that
you didn't talk very
much, let alone in Latin.
I'm sorry, I must apologize for my pain.
I'm not apologizing the conversation.
No, no.
I want to say that society is changing.
There are more and
more people against violence
and killing today.
That's right.
But the more and more
people in the world today,
we're still the
only species that murders.
Sounds like a cop out to me.
Diamonds?
So we want to find a place
where we can take some pictures
of diamonds, see?
Pictures?
Hey, got any?
Excuse me for a second, please.
Karibbi, how you doing?
Fine.
Let me buy you a drink.
Oh, I still have
one at the table, thank you.
What did you want to
know about the diamond mine?
Did you understand
what the man at the bar
asked Karibbi to do?
(soft music)
No, what?
Apparently your
brother wants some information
about the diamond mines.
Well, you know him.
He'll get his diamond one way or another.
Well, he's getting his information
from the man who knows, believe me.
I'm sorry, I must
apologize for the interruption.
Did you ever ride a bike?
What?
A motorcycle, you know,
from, from, from a motorcycle.
Yeah, I did.
Used to do it a lot when I was a kid.
Oh, you did?
What, a race?
No, thanks a lot.
No, come on now.
Now, I'm serious.
It's you and me have
ourselves a motorcycle race, huh?
I think you have me at a disadvantage.
I'm awfully tired and I think I'll just
try to get some rest.
So if you'll excuse me.
Yes, I'm sure you're very tired.
Goodnight.
But at daybreak, Hefei,
you and me are gonna have ourselves
a motorcycle race
like you ain't gonna believe.
Whatever's fair.
First one, back to
the cantina by the south road.
You got that?
Go!
(engine rumbling)
Oh, here, I'll hold this.
All right, I bet on the grill.
(engine rumbling)
I knew that bad thing could fly.
Look at that.
(engine rumbling)
(engine rumbling)
(engine rumbling)
(engine rumbling)
(engine rumbling)
(engine rumbling)
(speaking in foreign language)
Yeah, he's a good guy.
(speaking in foreign language)
Tough guy.
(engine rumbling)
Damn!
(engine rumbling)
(engine rumbling)
Bravo, bravo!
I ain't know where let me go!
Oh, we're finished!
What have you guys been doing?
Running under water?
Would you believe it?
(laughing)
Good race.
The best.
Hi.
(laughing)
Hi.
(laughing)
Who wants to go to the diamond mines?
Hey, just talk me into it.
Now?
Terry?
Well, you wanna see diamonds, don't you?
No, you wanna see
diamonds, so I'll take pictures.
(laughing)
What do you say I meet you
all out here in a half an hour?
Get our gear together.
Come on.
Miguel.
(laughing)
Miguel!
Seiko!
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Hey Miguel.
Adios, Miguel.
Adios, pal.
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This area here,
mostly different diamond
companies throughout the world
send
representative, they settled in stands
to buy the diamonds,
and the miners in the field.
I see.
Now that man is
checking the character weight
of the diamonds.
You'll see he's using a handheld scale,
but it's very accurate.
Hey, Miguel.
Huh?
Do you know where we can
get some pictures of diamonds?
Oh, sure you can.
I have a lot of pictures of the diamonds.
All this, we'll have a lot of
pictures of diamonds. All this, we have diamonds.
But you have to find a shop.
Oh, you wanna see some uncut?
Yeah, all I can ask.
(speaking in foreign language)
What did you ask him?
I asked him to show you some diamonds.
Take a look, please uncut.
How did they dig?
With cut and peel, or with the sole.
This is a better new, huh?
You briefly cut the peel down here.
You know Karibi?
Oh, sure Karibi is a bad guy.
Hey, how about look
for diamonds, like I do?
My diamond digger.
Yeah?
I dig?
I dig diamonds?
They're crazy.
They always sketch the diamonds.
Always sketch the
diamonds as fit in the boots.
Does Karibi know where to get diamonds?
No, Karibi don't know
where to get the diamonds.
I know where to get the diamonds.
Get the shovel, and
a bucket, and a serucca,
and you go with me,
and you get the diamonds.
You dig a goddamn hole
about 12 or 13 meters deep,
and you get the diamonds.
After that.
I'd like you to have this.
(people chattering)
Oh no, no, no, I couldn't tell you.
Gracias.
How many people here?
How many people?
Thousands of the
people all over the jungle.
You can see it.
They can't know.
By people, by hand,
without no cutter filler,
without no nothing.
Just machete and a hand.
We built a higher
port, we built everything.
You can see in the pictures.
We did that.
Where's the warehouse?
North, west,
south, west, anywhere you go.
How do I get there?
Well, there's no make no difference.
You just go on close eye, close your eye,
and you go there and you fight it.
Hey Arturo, come on, let's go.
Here, Miguel.
I can do it, all right.
Gracias.
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(birds chirping)
(birds chirping)
I see no use there.
(birds chirping)
(birds chirping)
(birds chirping)
(gun firing)
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Ah, put me down!
What are you doing?
(screaming)
Terry!
Oh, you stop it!
Stop it, let me go!
Terry!
All right, what's going on?
Leave me alone, you!
You all right?
What do you mean, just going around
grabbing paper like that?
What's wrong with you?
She was waiting.
Waiting?
What the hell's wrong with that?
Barefoot?
Yes, barefoot!
I was just walking along
during the thawing went through my shoe,
and I was trying to
wash it out, that's all.
Young lady, you're
lucky you didn't lose a foot.
What do you mean?
Do you know that there are electric eels
and rays and piranha in there?
Yes, in there.
In there?
Isn't that right, Caribbean?
Exactly.
Let me see.
(dramatic music)
Each a humble little beggars.
(water splashing)
You're awful.
I could easily have been you, Miss Green.
Both legs.
Wouldn't that be a waste?
Look, I think we still have enough light
to get you over the Indian village.
I could get some pretty
good pictures there, what do you say?
Might have enough light to get there,
but we wouldn't have
enough to get back to San Fernando.
That's right.
Look, why don't you have
dinner at my place this evening,
and then spend the night at my quarter?
- I don't think so,
- But I think it's a damn good idea.
Thanks a lot,
Curvy, we'll take you up on it.
It'd certainly be my pleasure.
(dramatic music)
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Well, there it is.
(dramatic music)
Okay.
I'll tell you what, if you don't mind,
I've seen this place so many times,
and I think I'll just stay in the Jeep.
I've been here before
too, so I'll wait with you, okay?
Good night, and friendly.
(laughing)
Come on, sport, you coming?
All right, give me this thing here.
It's my little gopher.
Okay, see you later.
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(dog barking)
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Get the chain, will you, Pender?
(dramatic music)
I'll get your cameras ready, sis.
Little bit of paradise.
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I'd like to thank you
for this afternoon, Mr. Caroubi.
None Mr. Just Caroubi.
It's a very
unusual name, how'd you get it?
The Indians gave it to me.
Really, what does it mean?
Piranha.
It's like those
fish we saw this afternoon.
Why would they call you that?
I think it's because of my table man.
Maybe it's your appetite as a hunter.
That's possible.
Well, hunters in a way though, aren't we?
You with your camera, me with my gun?
I don't think so.
I try to preserve life with my camera.
Destroy it as you do with your gun.
Cameras take pictures.
Pictures and imitation.
Don't have any feeling of life or death.
It doesn't harm anything.
That's right.
Because of status,
don't have any meaning or purpose.
But there is a feeling
and there is a love in the hunt.
You mean love and killing and wounding?
I can taste the very
soul of every animal I hunt.
He might.
And once soul goes on,
what I hunt becomes a part of.
It goes on in me.
Someday I'll be out hunting.
Everything that I am,
it becomes part of that hunter.
But the hunt always goes on.
What kind of bird is that?
King Volki.
Let me know when
you're about to shoot him.
Okay, just one more shot.
(gun fires)
Hey!
I'm sorry.
You shot that bird for no reason.
Look, I'm sorry, Miss Green,
but I have to go out
after LT Grey early tomorrow.
And I have to use this
weapon and I haven't used it before.
And it vultured me to good test.
One scavenger dies and then he'll fit.
So is your ego.
She's got a problem.
Yeah, she's got a problem.
Well, listen now if
you want to talk about it.
Sure you had the time, Jim?
I got the time, all right?
Little family history, all right?
(soft music)
I was away at the time.
See, we had
problems like all good families.
My mother drank a little too much.
Our father, he
played around a little too much.
One night, during one of
these nice little family quarrels,
my mother put a gun to my father's head
and blew his brains out.
Carrie was there,
she saw the whole thing.
She wakes up dreaming about it.
Wakes up screaming.
(soft music)
That's the problem, Jim.
That explains a lot.
Does it?
Come on, I'll buy you a refill, huh?
No, thanks.
You go ahead, I'll
check you later, all right?
You're okay.
(soft music)
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You'd like some coffee?
No, thanks.
Some talk?
No.
Is there anything I can do for you?
Okay, don't tell me you're concerned.
Well, if there is anything I can do,
let me know, will you?
I'll take the coffee.
Thank you, Jim.
Look, what do you say we get out of here?
No, I don't wanna go.
I'm not going to go.
Okay.
You have your way of life, he has his.
We're guests in his house.
Let me say we just get
the story and get out of here.
Okay.
I'm gonna do a hell of a story.
So the last time I saw this little cow,
it was a long time ago.
She was in pretty bad shape.
This big anaconda
wrapped himself around her
and was squeezing her life out.
I like cats, and I don't like snakes.
I don't even understand that.
Well, anyway, I shot the anaconda.
Jerked it off this little jaguar.
She was in shock.
I thought she was gonna die.
Sort of like pulling the thorn out
of the lion's paw.
Yeah, sorta.
Anyway, we're
sitting on the ground again.
All of a sudden she starts to come to.
She reaches up and takes a swipe at me.
Gets me pretty good
on the left side of the face.
Just about like Terry did this afternoon.
Anyway, that's
when I knew this little cat
was gonna be all right.
What happened to the cat?
I'm hunting it tomorrow.
Well, Art, that'll give
you and me a chance to go out
and see if we can
find some diamonds, hmm?
(upbeat music)
Look behind you.
(engine revving)
Those are the Yad Wai Indians.
(siren wailing)
(upbeat music)
I like the way they dress.
That's the modern topless.
I guess it's where it all began.
(engine revving)
(upbeat music)
(engine revving)
(upbeat music)
What's on your mind?
Something's bugging you.
Yeah, a lot of things bugging me.
- What's that?
- You wanna?
Allegro mean.
Allegro?
Allegro, I don't know, what does it mean?
Where'd you pick that up?
Doesn't matter.
Well, the word means danger.
What is it?
What do you say, Jim?
Would it burn you if
we had to get out of here,
turn the boat around?
(upbeat music)
(screaming)
Pack your bags and get out of here.
Terry, pack and go.
Terry.
Terry.
Terry, where are you?
Terry.
Terry.
Terry.
Hey, come on.
Let's get out of here.
Terry.
Hey, you all right?
Terry.
Hey.
You all right?
(birds chirping)
You stay with her, Jim.
(birds chirping)
You'll let go.
Please.
Rami!
Rami!
(birds chirping)
Rami!
Rami!
Rami!
(birds chirping)
Rami!
Rami!
Rami!
Rami!
Rami!
Rami!
Come on, you gentle bastard!
You looking for me?
(dramatic music)
Is that satisfying your hunger, Kirby?
(birds chirping)
Now, because you don't have any soul.
(grunting)
I think you'll be all right.
All right, I'll try to catch up with you.
(dramatic music)
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He's hurt.
He's dead, and gone.
And we've gotta get out of here now.
Kirby, kill them and
we've got to leave too now!
Let's go!
Terry!
Now!
(dramatic music)
Pandrake!
Come on out!
Come on!
(dramatic music)
Get in!
No key.
Look, I'm gonna have to
hotwire this, keep an eye out.
(dramatic music)
(dog barking)
Pandrake!
Leave the girl!
(gun firing)
(dramatic music)
(dog barking)
Come on out, Pandrake!
Pandrake!
I know you're in there!
Now leave the girl and come on out!
(dramatic music)
Shut up!
(dramatic music)
Pandrake, you're not worth killing.
(dramatic music)
Oh my God!
(crying)
(dog barking)
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PIRANHA
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(birds chirping)
(birds chirping)
(tense music)
Excuse me Sir, would you be Arthur Green?
Yes.
Hi, you're Jim Pendrick, right?
Nice to see you.
Have a good flight?
Yeah, beautiful.
Good, fantastic.
Terry, come here.
Jim Pendrick, my sister Terry.
She's a talent in the family.
Hello, Mr. Pendrick, nice to meet you.
Nice to meet you, and please call me Jim.
May I say welcome to
our beautiful city of Caracas,
and it's even more
lovely now that you're here.
Oh, gracias, seor.
Hey.
Please, men.
So you're gonna take us into the jungle?
Yes, I've been
assigned to be your official Tarzan.
(chuckles)
I hear that
Caracas swings pretty good too.
I think you'll find his swings
as well as anyplace else in the world.
Arthur, do you
want me to take your tools?
You can bring your cameras on.
(chattering)
(whistle blows)
Look out.
(whistle blows)
(chattering) (yelling)
Come on, Terry.
(yelling)
(chattering)
That is some sister you've got.
Yeah, she's pretty
damn cool with that camera.
She is.
Hey, are they real diamonds back there?
Like the one you tried to pick up?
Yeah, they're real,
Ben, as well as full of them.
Well, look, you gotta
tell me more about those diamonds.
Oh, okay, I'll do that.
The screen?
My kind of action.
Yeah.
You all in?
(whistle blows)
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Oh, Jim, how are you?
Hi, how are you?
Good to see you.
Hi, I'm Mr. Doris.
Hey.
Oh, Ms. Green.
I'd like you to make a
friend of mine, Juan Vegas.
This is Senator Terry Green.
Nice to see you.
And her brother, Arthur.
Hi, how are you?
How are you?
Good to check here, you're on the list.
Let's go over the list now.
First aid kit we have?
Yes.
Snake bike kit?
Got it.
Oh, Mikulchiyo Kon-Sintron.
They're inside the sacks.
Oh, in the napsacks?
Yep.
Hey, Terry, what do you think?
Rucho horrible.
I think it looks great.
All right, fine, that's good.
I'll check the rest of this.
Where are you headed?
First, south of Los Janos,
and Donces, and Waiyana.
Waiyana?
You going for diamonds?
Oh, no, no, pictures, pictures.
When I shoot one of
the last unspoiled areas
left on this earth.
All right, fine,
I'll check the rest of this.
Oh, yeah, I think I see one right now.
Carry on, folks.
(laughing)
He's not as delicate as I am,
but I sure can't get along without him.
Is that all you will do?
Just make it with pictures?
Is that all?
Isn't that enough?
No one has really
photographed the Janos properly.
What does Conan Doyle call it in his book, you know,
The Last World?
You don't remember, right,
Conan Doyle, or is that--
No, it's, um,
There's no
prehistoric monsters left there.
If that's what you hope to photograph.
Well, I don't know, I might find one.
Diamonds are the monsters now.
Well, I think that if
a man's gonna risk his life,
he means we'll try to
get rich doing it, don't you?
And that's why no proper picture of him
is a very, very, very, very, very, very,
very, very, Well, the pictures have been taken.
The lady is very stubborn.
Here's the gun you ordered,
you have to-- Oh, gotten it like this.
Wait a minute, that's not for us, is it?
Yes, it is.
no we don't need
that Miss green nobody goes into Los Janos
without a gun.
- We are not taking.
- We're taking this one.
Put that down right now.
You're taking this green.
I'll take care of the equipment.
I mean it, damn you.
We're not taking any guns.
[Music]
We have about an hour. Why don't
you with your bike, motorcycle, seat? You.
Drive me around Caracas. When
the sun comes up, we'll see the city.
[Music]
[Music]
Morning, Mr.
Pendrigg. Well, good morning.
- Have you seen Art anywhere?
- He's not with you?
I don't know where
he is. He's not in his room.
- Check the coffee shop?
- Yeah, he's not in there either.
Well, I hope he
shows up. We have a long way
to go today and we
should be getting started.
You'll be riding with me on my bike
at least until we get out of the city.
No, I don't think so.
We had our little dispute
last night, but we're going to
be spending a lot of time
together the next couple of weeks.
I think we should learn to
get along. How about we call it truce?
Okay.
Good. Now, I'd like
to try this knapsack on you.
- Now, what about this?
- Where shall I put it? Well, we
can strap that on the
front here along with my knapsack.
[Music]
When is this?
You found the address, I take it.
Yeah.
Where you ready to go? If
you are ready. Yeah, I'm ready.
You ready?
She's ready. Here's your wine.
[Music]
Oh, this is really
heaven. This is perfect.
It's kind of pretty, isn't it?
I'm going to get my camera.
Hey, listen you two, I want to go
off and shoot. So, uh, will you wait for me?
No, we'll just
drive away and leave you here.
In that, see you later,
okay? Hey, you be careful. Oh, I will.
She be all right? Yeah, I think so.
[Music]
[Music]
Terry!
Shut up, Terry.
[Music]
Okay. Hey, come on.
It's all over. Let's go.
- You did bring that gun.
- Of course I brought it. I told you not to.
Terry probably saved
your life with it. And my life.
- That was a good shot.Thanks, Jim.
- Yeah, I'd rather
have heard the thanks
coming from her for some reason.
Well, she, I told you
she doesn't understand a gun.
Uh, it's a long
story. You want to hear it?
No.
[Music]
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- I bet you thought we'd never make it.
- I never did. Never.
Turn around. I'll
help you with that pack.
Don't you believe in roads, Jim?
There are no roads to this
place, my friend. You came over the highway.
Ah, well, welcome to...
...ato el milagro.
What does that mean?
Well, if you'll
believe it, it means the miracle.
I think it's a miracle we got here.
- Jim?
- Yeah?
What did you say
they cured this thing with?
Wine, Arthur. Wine.
I thought you said they cured it
with yarn. I think they're still some...
[Laughter]
Listen to me. I would
have like freshen up or something.
Yeah, there are
showers inside and I arranged
for a hammock to be
strung out for the evening.
Oh, great. Fantastic.
That's what I'm going to do right now.
- You're a wonderful person.
- I am a wonderful person.
Listen, what are you going
to do? You going to freshen up?
No. I want a nice cold beer.
We will drop you off at the bar on
the way if you will follow your leader, okay?
Come on, let's go.
Hi.
[ Speaking Spanish ]
One beer.
Gracias. That's good.
Hi.
Got a light?
Thank you.
Hello.
Oh, there you are.
Yes.
What took you so long?
Oh, I don't know. I
just need a big fat drink.
Well, I see you found
the table in the chair anyway.
Okay, I'm buying.
Uh, what do you have?
Uh, whatever. Surprise me.
One whatever. What do you have, Jim?
I have a double whatever.
Two whatevers.
Okay.
One beer, two scotches.
Uno cerveza dos scotch.
No, no, no, comprendo, seor.
Scotch.
Hey, hey, can you help me out?
Hey, look, why don't you let
me buy you and your friends a drink?
Hey, you're on. Okay,
we'll drink what you're drinking.
Forget the scotch.
Tres mas.
Hey, thanks. Name's our green.
Pleasure.
Why don't you come over and join us?
I like that very much.
Okay, let's go.
One.
Surprise.
This is my sister, Terry.
This is Jim Pandrick.
And I didn't get your name.
Carribe.
Do we know each other?
No.
Well, Mr. Carribe just
bought us a round of drinks.
How nice.
- Pleasure.
- Sit down, Carribe.
Thank you.
Do you live here, Mr. Carribe?
Yes.
How long have you been here?
Carribe is one of South America's most
renowned hunters.
Oh, really? What do you hunt?
Everything.
What are you doing here, Miss Green?
I'm here in a grant.
What kind of grant?
Photography grant.
Hey, Caribbean, you
know how to do the funky chicken?
Huh, you don't.
Okay.
Then as a hunter,
don't you feel the blood,
don't you feel the
terror and the pain of the animal?
Don't you care
about the motherless offspring
that won't be able to survive?
(coyote howling)
If man sees the blood,
feels the pain and the
suffering, he's not a hunter.
A hunter feels only the excitement,
the chase and the victory.
Why do you hunt?
Instinct.
Better the predator than the prey.
Oh, come on.
No, I mean it.
You see, a long
time ago, at the dawn of man,
there were two great
apes who were forefathers.
Was it Australopitheanes africanus?
Australopitheanes robustus.
Africanus was a wiry, intelligent ape.
And he found if he took
the femurs bone of an antelope
and he went around
thumping his fellow animals that he,
he not only had something to eat,
but he didn't have
anybody messing with him.
So man's
aggressive tendencies and desires
were established so long ago that,
they're instinct today.
You know, it's funny, but I heard that
you didn't talk very
much, let alone in Latin.
I'm sorry, I must apologize for my pain.
I'm not apologizing the conversation.
No, no.
I want to say that society is changing.
There are more and
more people against violence
and killing today.
That's right.
But the more and more
people in the world today,
we're still the
only species that murders.
Sounds like a cop out to me.
Diamonds?
So we want to find a place
where we can take some pictures
of diamonds, see?
Pictures?
Hey, got any?
Excuse me for a second, please.
Karibbi, how you doing?
Fine.
Let me buy you a drink.
Oh, I still have
one at the table, thank you.
What did you want to
know about the diamond mine?
Did you understand
what the man at the bar
asked Karibbi to do?
(soft music)
No, what?
Apparently your
brother wants some information
about the diamond mines.
Well, you know him.
He'll get his diamond one way or another.
Well, he's getting his information
from the man who knows, believe me.
I'm sorry, I must
apologize for the interruption.
Did you ever ride a bike?
What?
A motorcycle, you know,
from, from, from a motorcycle.
Yeah, I did.
Used to do it a lot when I was a kid.
Oh, you did?
What, a race?
No, thanks a lot.
No, come on now.
Now, I'm serious.
It's you and me have
ourselves a motorcycle race, huh?
I think you have me at a disadvantage.
I'm awfully tired and I think I'll just
try to get some rest.
So if you'll excuse me.
Yes, I'm sure you're very tired.
Goodnight.
But at daybreak, Hefei,
you and me are gonna have ourselves
a motorcycle race
like you ain't gonna believe.
Whatever's fair.
First one, back to
the cantina by the south road.
You got that?
Go!
(engine rumbling)
Oh, here, I'll hold this.
All right, I bet on the grill.
(engine rumbling)
I knew that bad thing could fly.
Look at that.
(engine rumbling)
(engine rumbling)
(engine rumbling)
(engine rumbling)
(engine rumbling)
(engine rumbling)
(speaking in foreign language)
Yeah, he's a good guy.
(speaking in foreign language)
Tough guy.
(engine rumbling)
Damn!
(engine rumbling)
(engine rumbling)
Bravo, bravo!
I ain't know where let me go!
Oh, we're finished!
What have you guys been doing?
Running under water?
Would you believe it?
(laughing)
Good race.
The best.
Hi.
(laughing)
Hi.
(laughing)
Who wants to go to the diamond mines?
Hey, just talk me into it.
Now?
Terry?
Well, you wanna see diamonds, don't you?
No, you wanna see
diamonds, so I'll take pictures.
(laughing)
What do you say I meet you
all out here in a half an hour?
Get our gear together.
Come on.
Miguel.
(laughing)
Miguel!
Seiko!
(dramatic music)
Hey Miguel.
Adios, Miguel.
Adios, pal.
(dramatic music)
(dramatic music)
This area here,
mostly different diamond
companies throughout the world
send
representative, they settled in stands
to buy the diamonds,
and the miners in the field.
I see.
Now that man is
checking the character weight
of the diamonds.
You'll see he's using a handheld scale,
but it's very accurate.
Hey, Miguel.
Huh?
Do you know where we can
get some pictures of diamonds?
Oh, sure you can.
I have a lot of pictures of the diamonds.
All this, we'll have a lot of
pictures of diamonds. All this, we have diamonds.
But you have to find a shop.
Oh, you wanna see some uncut?
Yeah, all I can ask.
(speaking in foreign language)
What did you ask him?
I asked him to show you some diamonds.
Take a look, please uncut.
How did they dig?
With cut and peel, or with the sole.
This is a better new, huh?
You briefly cut the peel down here.
You know Karibi?
Oh, sure Karibi is a bad guy.
Hey, how about look
for diamonds, like I do?
My diamond digger.
Yeah?
I dig?
I dig diamonds?
They're crazy.
They always sketch the diamonds.
Always sketch the
diamonds as fit in the boots.
Does Karibi know where to get diamonds?
No, Karibi don't know
where to get the diamonds.
I know where to get the diamonds.
Get the shovel, and
a bucket, and a serucca,
and you go with me,
and you get the diamonds.
You dig a goddamn hole
about 12 or 13 meters deep,
and you get the diamonds.
After that.
I'd like you to have this.
(people chattering)
Oh no, no, no, I couldn't tell you.
Gracias.
How many people here?
How many people?
Thousands of the
people all over the jungle.
You can see it.
They can't know.
By people, by hand,
without no cutter filler,
without no nothing.
Just machete and a hand.
We built a higher
port, we built everything.
You can see in the pictures.
We did that.
Where's the warehouse?
North, west,
south, west, anywhere you go.
How do I get there?
Well, there's no make no difference.
You just go on close eye, close your eye,
and you go there and you fight it.
Hey Arturo, come on, let's go.
Here, Miguel.
I can do it, all right.
Gracias.
(dramatic music)
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(birds chirping)
(birds chirping)
I see no use there.
(birds chirping)
(birds chirping)
(birds chirping)
(gun firing)
(drammatic music)
Ah, put me down!
What are you doing?
(screaming)
Terry!
Oh, you stop it!
Stop it, let me go!
Terry!
All right, what's going on?
Leave me alone, you!
You all right?
What do you mean, just going around
grabbing paper like that?
What's wrong with you?
She was waiting.
Waiting?
What the hell's wrong with that?
Barefoot?
Yes, barefoot!
I was just walking along
during the thawing went through my shoe,
and I was trying to
wash it out, that's all.
Young lady, you're
lucky you didn't lose a foot.
What do you mean?
Do you know that there are electric eels
and rays and piranha in there?
Yes, in there.
In there?
Isn't that right, Caribbean?
Exactly.
Let me see.
(dramatic music)
Each a humble little beggars.
(water splashing)
You're awful.
I could easily have been you, Miss Green.
Both legs.
Wouldn't that be a waste?
Look, I think we still have enough light
to get you over the Indian village.
I could get some pretty
good pictures there, what do you say?
Might have enough light to get there,
but we wouldn't have
enough to get back to San Fernando.
That's right.
Look, why don't you have
dinner at my place this evening,
and then spend the night at my quarter?
- I don't think so,
- But I think it's a damn good idea.
Thanks a lot,
Curvy, we'll take you up on it.
It'd certainly be my pleasure.
(dramatic music)
(dramatic music)
Well, there it is.
(dramatic music)
Okay.
I'll tell you what, if you don't mind,
I've seen this place so many times,
and I think I'll just stay in the Jeep.
I've been here before
too, so I'll wait with you, okay?
Good night, and friendly.
(laughing)
Come on, sport, you coming?
All right, give me this thing here.
It's my little gopher.
Okay, see you later.
(dramatic music)
(dog barking)
(dramatic music)
Get the chain, will you, Pender?
(dramatic music)
I'll get your cameras ready, sis.
Little bit of paradise.
(dramatic music)
I'd like to thank you
for this afternoon, Mr. Caroubi.
None Mr. Just Caroubi.
It's a very
unusual name, how'd you get it?
The Indians gave it to me.
Really, what does it mean?
Piranha.
It's like those
fish we saw this afternoon.
Why would they call you that?
I think it's because of my table man.
Maybe it's your appetite as a hunter.
That's possible.
Well, hunters in a way though, aren't we?
You with your camera, me with my gun?
I don't think so.
I try to preserve life with my camera.
Destroy it as you do with your gun.
Cameras take pictures.
Pictures and imitation.
Don't have any feeling of life or death.
It doesn't harm anything.
That's right.
Because of status,
don't have any meaning or purpose.
But there is a feeling
and there is a love in the hunt.
You mean love and killing and wounding?
I can taste the very
soul of every animal I hunt.
He might.
And once soul goes on,
what I hunt becomes a part of.
It goes on in me.
Someday I'll be out hunting.
Everything that I am,
it becomes part of that hunter.
But the hunt always goes on.
What kind of bird is that?
King Volki.
Let me know when
you're about to shoot him.
Okay, just one more shot.
(gun fires)
Hey!
I'm sorry.
You shot that bird for no reason.
Look, I'm sorry, Miss Green,
but I have to go out
after LT Grey early tomorrow.
And I have to use this
weapon and I haven't used it before.
And it vultured me to good test.
One scavenger dies and then he'll fit.
So is your ego.
She's got a problem.
Yeah, she's got a problem.
Well, listen now if
you want to talk about it.
Sure you had the time, Jim?
I got the time, all right?
Little family history, all right?
(soft music)
I was away at the time.
See, we had
problems like all good families.
My mother drank a little too much.
Our father, he
played around a little too much.
One night, during one of
these nice little family quarrels,
my mother put a gun to my father's head
and blew his brains out.
Carrie was there,
she saw the whole thing.
She wakes up dreaming about it.
Wakes up screaming.
(soft music)
That's the problem, Jim.
That explains a lot.
Does it?
Come on, I'll buy you a refill, huh?
No, thanks.
You go ahead, I'll
check you later, all right?
You're okay.
(soft music)
(soft music)
You'd like some coffee?
No, thanks.
Some talk?
No.
Is there anything I can do for you?
Okay, don't tell me you're concerned.
Well, if there is anything I can do,
let me know, will you?
I'll take the coffee.
Thank you, Jim.
Look, what do you say we get out of here?
No, I don't wanna go.
I'm not going to go.
Okay.
You have your way of life, he has his.
We're guests in his house.
Let me say we just get
the story and get out of here.
Okay.
I'm gonna do a hell of a story.
So the last time I saw this little cow,
it was a long time ago.
She was in pretty bad shape.
This big anaconda
wrapped himself around her
and was squeezing her life out.
I like cats, and I don't like snakes.
I don't even understand that.
Well, anyway, I shot the anaconda.
Jerked it off this little jaguar.
She was in shock.
I thought she was gonna die.
Sort of like pulling the thorn out
of the lion's paw.
Yeah, sorta.
Anyway, we're
sitting on the ground again.
All of a sudden she starts to come to.
She reaches up and takes a swipe at me.
Gets me pretty good
on the left side of the face.
Just about like Terry did this afternoon.
Anyway, that's
when I knew this little cat
was gonna be all right.
What happened to the cat?
I'm hunting it tomorrow.
Well, Art, that'll give
you and me a chance to go out
and see if we can
find some diamonds, hmm?
(upbeat music)
Look behind you.
(engine revving)
Those are the Yad Wai Indians.
(siren wailing)
(upbeat music)
I like the way they dress.
That's the modern topless.
I guess it's where it all began.
(engine revving)
(upbeat music)
(engine revving)
(upbeat music)
What's on your mind?
Something's bugging you.
Yeah, a lot of things bugging me.
- What's that?
- You wanna?
Allegro mean.
Allegro?
Allegro, I don't know, what does it mean?
Where'd you pick that up?
Doesn't matter.
Well, the word means danger.
What is it?
What do you say, Jim?
Would it burn you if
we had to get out of here,
turn the boat around?
(upbeat music)
(screaming)
Pack your bags and get out of here.
Terry, pack and go.
Terry.
Terry.
Terry, where are you?
Terry.
Terry.
Terry.
Hey, come on.
Let's get out of here.
Terry.
Hey, you all right?
Terry.
Hey.
You all right?
(birds chirping)
You stay with her, Jim.
(birds chirping)
You'll let go.
Please.
Rami!
Rami!
(birds chirping)
Rami!
Rami!
Rami!
(birds chirping)
Rami!
Rami!
Rami!
Rami!
Rami!
Rami!
Come on, you gentle bastard!
You looking for me?
(dramatic music)
Is that satisfying your hunger, Kirby?
(birds chirping)
Now, because you don't have any soul.
(grunting)
I think you'll be all right.
All right, I'll try to catch up with you.
(dramatic music)
(dramatic music)
He's hurt.
He's dead, and gone.
And we've gotta get out of here now.
Kirby, kill them and
we've got to leave too now!
Let's go!
Terry!
Now!
(dramatic music)
Pandrake!
Come on out!
Come on!
(dramatic music)
Get in!
No key.
Look, I'm gonna have to
hotwire this, keep an eye out.
(dramatic music)
(dog barking)
Pandrake!
Leave the girl!
(gun firing)
(dramatic music)
(dog barking)
Come on out, Pandrake!
Pandrake!
I know you're in there!
Now leave the girl and come on out!
(dramatic music)
Shut up!
(dramatic music)
Pandrake, you're not worth killing.
(dramatic music)
Oh my God!
(crying)
(dog barking)
(dramatic music)
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