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Post by Eric T. Jones on Mar 31, 2005 21:38:59 GMT -5
As you are asking for perfection on this project, I think it's only right you do that. Specific costumes, but remember-
Anything too fancy needs a budget. Be resourceful, do the Robert Rodriguez approach-
"Do whatever you can with the cool toys in your backyard. People try to make a big production out of their movies- don't."
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Post by MrMan on Apr 2, 2005 14:33:05 GMT -5
Eric, Eric, Eric... You should know that I am one of the most randomly creative people around. I just need an insperation to start the thinking. And as we all know that I have an insperation for this movie. Rather simple props and ingenious ideas. Ex. Ya know that pepsi can (product placement unintentionaly) that slides accross the table from the telekinesis? I will use an empty pepsie can that has allready been dranken and put weight in it. I will put a small hole on the side in it for a piece of fishing wire to go throught. so with the string fastened to the can the other end of the string will run down the inside of Eric's (palm side) sleve and down his jacket and out the bottem where someone will pull on it until the can comes into his had and Eric picks it up. Using the tiny fishing line you should (In therory) not see the string on the film. A rather ingenious idea.
-MrMan
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Post by Eric T. Jones on Apr 2, 2005 15:12:19 GMT -5
Are you saying, you want a Pepsi can (...i hate pepsi...) to float up to my hand?
I have another way of doing that trick- in editing, I can reverse (by a painstaking frame-by-frame process) a clip of me throwing it down. (I've already done this once with "Fight Movie: a pilot")
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Post by MrMan on Apr 2, 2005 22:53:44 GMT -5
You really want to use a painstaking frame-by-frame process? Thats new, and no the can will not float up into your hand. It will move across a table top. Lastly, I just used the pepsi can as an example. We can use any kind of can (except Real coke, I hate real coke. I can not express that enough with words).
-MrMan
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Post by MrMan on Apr 13, 2005 22:20:19 GMT -5
A filming schedual will hopfully be put in place after I come back from vacation.
-MrMan
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Post by bluesabre1 on Apr 14, 2005 9:21:42 GMT -5
Excellent. Someone who puts up a film schedule without me bugging them frequently!
I think we should use a fishing line. Tim's Force Pull looks a bit choppy, and it would seem out of place in a normally non-special effects film.
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Post by bluesabre1 on Apr 14, 2005 9:33:12 GMT -5
By the way, Mr. Man, perhaps you should reread your script for fresh insight. Go see if there's anything you want to revise now that you've stepped away from it for a considerable period.
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Post by MrMan on Apr 14, 2005 19:04:46 GMT -5
I probably will when I get back.
-MrMan
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Post by kenny on May 4, 2005 16:21:44 GMT -5
I still have no clue what this movie is, when it will be filmed, and so on... Mr. Man, can I see the rough copy when you have one?
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Post by MrMan on May 4, 2005 19:06:48 GMT -5
I already finished the whole thing (typing) and I have it in poor man's copy right. Here you go. By the way I can only put so many letters on this post so I will post twice.
Also if anyone wants to use my idea contact me. I most likely will let you use it.
-MrMan
The Mind By Mr.Man
Narrator: This is the story of a strange young boy with strange abilities. His name is Danny Mercury. He has few friends and hardly anyone cares for him. This is where our story begins…
Scene 1: The character (at MVHS)
Danny walks around MVHS looking for some thing to do and gets the life beat out of him by some kids, an adult watches on with no expression. No transition.
Scene 2: The friend (at MVHS)
Starts with Danny on the ground
The Bullies walk away satisfied with their work.
Roger: Hey Danny, are you okay?
Danny: Who are you?
Roger: I am Roger Perry, but you can just call me Roger.
Danny: Okay… Do I know you?
Roger: Yes, you do, but no you don’t.
Danny: What do you mean?
Roger: You heard what I said, but you also should have known what I said before I said it.
Danny: Huh?
Roger: Enough of this babbling. I have to go. Ponder hard on our conversation.
Fades to black. From black, fades to next scene.
Scene 3: The thought (at home) Danny’s thoughts: What was that Roger talking about? Was he trying to tell me something? Yes, he must have been trying to tell me something, but what? Something about being able to know what he was going to ask me. But how is that possible? Could I be crazy and only I have imagining Roger? Do I have a problem like schizophrenia?
Roger: I know the answer to that, but yet… I don’t…<br> Danny: Aaaah! What are you doing here?! How did you get in my house?!
Roger: I am where ever you are.
Danny: That’s not possible! You can’t be everywhere that I am!
Roger: But I am.
Danny: Why are you following me?
Roger: You requested it.
Danny: NO! That is not possible!
Roger: Anything is possible.
Danny: Then is it possible that… I AM crazy and you are only a figment of my imagination?
Roger: I can’t answer that.
Danny: But you have caused me to think long and hard on our last conversation. And my only conclusion was-
Roger: That you might have schizophrenia?
Danny: H-how did you know… what I was going to say…<br> Roger: That is a rather stupid question. Of course a person knows what they are going to say.
Danny: …
Roger: I will talk to you later. I need to go.
Danny: Okay… (Roger leaves the room) Man… I need to take walk to clear my head…<br> Walks out of the house and down the street.
Scene 4: The confusion (walking down a street)
Danny’s thoughts: What was Roger talking about? Was he saying that I have schizophrenia? And what did he mean by “Of course a person knows what they are going to say.” I don’t understand… (Stops walking, speaks out loud) Oh! He’s me!
Roger: Well done.
Danny: turns around: Huh?! You!
Roger: No. YOU. Yes, I am you in a strange way. You assigned me with a special task.
Danny: What task? I don’t remember asking you to do any thing. I’ve never even seen you before today.
Roger: Yes, you are right about never seeing me before. But you did ask me to help you, or at least your self couscous did. You see, you are much more talented than you think you are. You have special abilities, but yet, you can’t use them. Your talents need awakening. So you sent me to do so. What kind of talents, you do ask? Hehe. You have telekinesis. You can do things with the slightest thought.
Danny: I don’t have that ability. I would have known about it long ago, and plus it doesn’t even exist, that is a proven fact.
Roger: But it does exist, and it needs to be unlocked. Go home and unlock it. You should know how by now. Once it is unlocked, you will have your full power. Good-by. (Roger walks away)
Danny: …
Fades to next scene.
Scene 5: The discovery (street to house)
Danny is walking down the street and arrives at his house. He goes inside and sits down at his desk with a can of soda to the side.
Danny: Hmm… so I have telekinesis. How do I use it?
Danny looks at a can of soda.
Danny: Hmm…<br> The soda can slides across the desk to Danny and Danny catches it in his hand.
Danny: Wow! That’s cool! I understand now…<br> Fades to next scene.
Scene 6: Revenge (at MVHS)
Danny is walking around the school and bumps into the bullies.
Bully 1: Hey Danny, give us all your money. You’re behind on your “payments.” Hehe.
Bully 2, 3: Yea man, cough it up. We want our allowance, its pay day!
Danny: (With blank face) No.
Bully 2: Oh, tough guy wannabe. I’ll show ya. (Comes up to punch Danny)
Danny: I wouldn’t do that if I were you.
Bullies together: Hahaha!
Bully 3: This is great! The Victim is threatening us! Hahaha…<br> Danny looks at bully 3: I warned you…<br> Bully 3: Hahaha-UH… what? I-I can’t breathe… (Sputters and dies, Danny watches on with a blank face)
Bully 1, 2: Wha…!?
Bully 1: Err… you’ll pay for that! (Bully 1 attacks Danny)
Danny: (With blank face) you shouldn’t do that…<br> Bully 1: Yeaaa! Oomph! Wha… what di-did you do to-to me?
Danny: I rearranged your internal organs. And I also replaced your heart with what it truly should be… Stone.
Bully 1: You son of a… (Bully 1 dies)
Bully 2: Umm… hey there buddy ol’ friend ol’ pal!
Danny: Hum (cracks a smile) nice try.
Bully 2: Uh-oh…
Danny: (lightens up a little) Naw, you don’t deserve to die.
Bully 2: *sigh of relief*
Danny: You never hurt or teased me… they were the ones that did that (looks at Bully 1, 3; then back to Bully 2) so I will spare you.
Bully 2: Yay!... May I ask you a question?
Danny: Shoot away.
Bully 2: How did you kill them? Like, I know how they died, but how did you kill them?
Danny: I used telekinesis.
Bully 2: Wow. I didn’t know that that power truly existed.
Danny: Nor did I till I first used it. Well, have a good day.
Bully 2: Okay.
Goes black
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Post by MrMan on May 4, 2005 19:07:39 GMT -5
Scene 7: The explanation (at home)
Re-appear in house
Danny: Well, that went nicely…
Roger: Indeed it did.
Danny: Uh! Quit showing up like that!
Roger: Sorry, it can’t be helped.
Danny: Why are you still here!
Roger: Do you hate me?
Danny: No… It’s just that I expected you to sort of disappear after I figured out my powers…<br> Roger: *chuckling* Nope. Your not out of the woods yet.
Danny: What do you mean?
Roger: What is reality?
Danny: Err… it is the state or quality of what it is real…
Roger: Good. But is this a reality?
Danny: Err… yea.
Roger: Wrong! Close your eyes and look for what is real.
Danny: Uh… okay…All I see is black. And that is because my eyes are closed.
Roger: Precisely! Now open your eyes! See reality!
Danny: Okay…<br> Scene 8: The realization (in a bed with white sheets)
Awakens in bed sheets
Danny: Uh…
Some voice: HE IS AWAKE!!!
Scene 9. Reality (on a bench in a park with best friend)
Long pause before talking
Freddie: Danny you were in a coma for over 2 years.
Danny: …<br> Long pause
Freddie: What is the matter?
Danny: I was thinking about what had happened to me in the coma…
Freddie: What happened?
Danny: A person by the name of Roger came to me…(camera leaves them to talk)
Scene 10: The truth (still at the bench)
Camera returns to Danny and Freddie
Freddie: …Wow… You really don’t think about these things very often…<br> Danny: Yea…<br> Roger: Well I can see that you got back to reality safely. It took forever for me to get us home get us home.
Danny: Holy…<br> Freddie: Hey… your Roger… how can I see you if you are a figment of Danny’s imagination?
Danny: Simple, I must have developed my powers while in the coma and not have known it. My brain must have created Roger to help get me out of my coma, and really use my powers. And the way that you can see Roger is that I am projecting his image into your brain.
Freddie: Wow… But I have a question for you. How is Roger being created if he does not have power in you in reality? I mean you would no longer need him, because you would be at your final destination. Also he is part of a mental problem that you do not have any longer. Which, of course, is proven on these brain wave sheets. (Freddie holds up brain wave sheets)
Danny: Well, that can be explained by… uh-oh… I’m still… in a coma aren’t I?
Roger: I don’t know. That is for you to figure out, remember? I am only the guide of the tour. You are the tourist. The guide shows you the tour. The tourist figures it out.
Danny: Then I must be in a imaginary place if Freddie can see you. ‘Cause I can’t project images into peoples minds. I can only read them… Oh!
Danny looks at Freddie and closes his eyes and Freddie is a little nervous.
Freddie: Danny?...
Danny: I can’t read your mind… one can never read his own mind with telekinesis… (looks at Roger) that must mean that I am only imagining this world...
Freddie: Very good Danny…<br>Roger: Indeed. Now just concentrate on reality like I showed you how to “wake up” from your coma and you will wake up to reality.
Freddie: Don’t worry about us. Were much closer than you think. *smirk* Scene 11: The insanity
Bully 2: Danny are you okay?
Danny: Huh? Wha… My head hurts… what happened?
Bully 2: You got pegged in the back of the head by a baseball…<br> Danny: Oh… Okay…<br> Roger: Danny? Are you okay?
Danny: What?! What are you doing here?! Leave me alone! You are making my life miserable! Disappear you pest!
Roger: Calm down, you succeeded. You have all your powers in control now. I am no longer need in your life. (turns to leave)
Danny: Hold on, I have a question.
Roger: Shoot.
Danny: Okay. When I went from school to home after I killed the bullies, I awoke from the “coma”, and when I awoke from being hit by a base ball. I’m all of a sudden, back at school. How does that work?
Roger: I can’t answer that. That is something that is unexplainable. Just like me. I’m not real, but yet… here I am.
Danny: True… wait are you saying that there are things in reality that aren’t really here?
Script for "The Mind" continued:
Roger: Maybe. Fake things in real reality, or real things in a fake world. I wouldn’t know. I don’t exist. I must go… you no longer need me… (Roger leaves).
Bully 2: What were you talking to? There is no one here?
Danny: Hum? Oh… nothing… (Bully 2 and Danny leave)
Narrator: This is the story of a strange young boy with strange abilities. His name is Danny Mercury. He has figured out and conquered his problems with my help. He will always be grateful for what I did to him. I will always know that, and he knows that I know. Hehehe…
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Post by bluesabre1 on May 4, 2005 19:44:52 GMT -5
I presume this is the completed script? As in done finished, no more changes until we're on set?
And where is this props list and projected shooting schedule that has been spoken of?
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Post by kenny on May 6, 2005 15:41:12 GMT -5
.......................................................Wow. Mr. Man can write. (unlike some people I know [cough e cough r cough i cough c cough cough])
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Post by MrMan on May 15, 2005 23:47:28 GMT -5
Thank you. I don't know when I will write the props list. It will be done eventually though. I also have the starting date of the filming. I want to start when school gets out so that there will be more time to work on each day. I' m also thinking about writing a book on this. I want to test my ability to write books so that I might be able to practice typing and maby make alittle extra money. -MrMan
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Post by kenny on May 16, 2005 16:02:55 GMT -5
U could try to turn FM Miniseries into a novel with my synopsis... ;D
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