The Zard of Wo
Mar. 29th, 2004 08:20 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
swestrupSo, maybe I'm not so uncreative today as all that. After my last post I went downstairs to cook supper for ![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
taxlady and I. While I was doing so, I wrote a screenplay. Well, not literally wrote, since I was cooking, but I have characters and a plot. It wasn't so hard, because I started with the notion of updating and adapting the "Wizard of Oz" movie.
So, in this version, a young street kid from Kansas City is, due some WTF-style scientific accident, plucked from the ghetto in which he is living, and propelled into the far future to land in a gleaming futuristic dystopia. His arrival (along with half a cinder-block wall) takes out a police patrol that has just discovered a bunch of munchkins squatting in the bowels of a factory. The munchkins, in gratitude, put through a dangerous call to a rebel leader who advises the hero to run for his life. If he stays in the dystopia, it will disrupt the time stream and possibly alter the status quo, and that will not be tollerated. If they catch him, they're sure to send him back to the slums with all memory of his time here erased.
The Rebel leader tells him to seek the hidden rebel enclave but dares not give its location over a possibly compromised channel. He gives an enigmatic clue about gold bricks and then logs off. The kid then heads into the automated metropolis he finds himself in, looking for the rebel stronghold.
Along the way he meets a genetically enhanced scientist, who wants to be reduced to a drone worker so he'll never have to think again, an empath who wants to lose all ability to feel, and a soldier who wants his bravery chip removed so he will stop fighting battles he has no hope of winning.
Together they find the rebel city, but are sent on a quest to destroy the centrol control room of the automated police units that have been harrasing the heros. They manage to do this, but return to discover that the 'rebel leader' is, in fact, the techno-wizard who built the dystopia, and has now lost all control over it.
I've yet to decide whether to go with the sappy 'Everyone realizes they are special and like the way they are just fine' ending, the literal 'Everyone gets surgery and lives happily ever after, until the time quakes change everything...' or some sort of 'They blow up the world' ending.
I think you could sell that idea. No?
taxlady and I. While I was doing so, I wrote a screenplay. Well, not literally wrote, since I was cooking, but I have characters and a plot. It wasn't so hard, because I started with the notion of updating and adapting the "Wizard of Oz" movie.So, in this version, a young street kid from Kansas City is, due some WTF-style scientific accident, plucked from the ghetto in which he is living, and propelled into the far future to land in a gleaming futuristic dystopia. His arrival (along with half a cinder-block wall) takes out a police patrol that has just discovered a bunch of munchkins squatting in the bowels of a factory. The munchkins, in gratitude, put through a dangerous call to a rebel leader who advises the hero to run for his life. If he stays in the dystopia, it will disrupt the time stream and possibly alter the status quo, and that will not be tollerated. If they catch him, they're sure to send him back to the slums with all memory of his time here erased.
The Rebel leader tells him to seek the hidden rebel enclave but dares not give its location over a possibly compromised channel. He gives an enigmatic clue about gold bricks and then logs off. The kid then heads into the automated metropolis he finds himself in, looking for the rebel stronghold.
Along the way he meets a genetically enhanced scientist, who wants to be reduced to a drone worker so he'll never have to think again, an empath who wants to lose all ability to feel, and a soldier who wants his bravery chip removed so he will stop fighting battles he has no hope of winning.
Together they find the rebel city, but are sent on a quest to destroy the centrol control room of the automated police units that have been harrasing the heros. They manage to do this, but return to discover that the 'rebel leader' is, in fact, the techno-wizard who built the dystopia, and has now lost all control over it.
I've yet to decide whether to go with the sappy 'Everyone realizes they are special and like the way they are just fine' ending, the literal 'Everyone gets surgery and lives happily ever after, until the time quakes change everything...' or some sort of 'They blow up the world' ending.
I think you could sell that idea. No?
