Posts by dan from why.movie

Joe sets off to find the origin of the distress call.

Package delivery Dusk. Standing by his bike, Joe activates the iStone, scrolls through the menus and thumbs the surveillance preset for Gerry’s cabin. A fuzzy image of Christina and Gerry on the bed appears. The boxes in the cabin flash in sync, an exclamation point. The boxes are aware that surveillance has been activated, but…

INT. CHRISTINA’S chair in her Cabin – DAY[] Christina is sitting alone daydreaming, popping packing bubbles. Her phone rings, she answers. CHRISTINA Hello? CALLER Christina? (radio effects) CHRISTINA Yes? CALLER This is your Uncle Joe. (radio effects) flashback INT. child’s bedroom, about 20 years earlier[] Young UNCLE JOE on lying bed, leaning back against headboard.…

Mushrooms Gerry crosses the weather deck and winds his way down the stairs to the main deck and his cabin, ready to resume the mediatronic hackathon. He muses about Christina along the way. Thinking of her seems to heighten his intuition, somehow. He heard she likes to collect gaudy and highly impractical clothing in town,…

Prompt Big Boat A disembodied iStone prompt glows against the dark of closed eyelids. (blinking green retro cursor) Spoken in Joe’s voice, perhaps Hungarian? slight lag while converted to english subtitles “Compose prior 2 hours of surveillance on big boat as intro to golden age American television sitcom with catchy theme song'” [Surveillance can be…

Hidey Hole An abandoned super highway ends at the base of an ancient mountain. Broken pavement is clotted with military vehicles and equipment. Several American Abrams tanks bristle with cannon, heavy caliber machine guns and more mysterious weaponry. Troop transports and shipping containers are jammed together haphazardly. Animated advertisements and vague propaganda slogans blaze across…

Here is the opening line of the first paragraph. This is the first word spoken. The next story starts. Prequel: Star stuff, gaseous consolidation, magma cooling, primordial goop. An ocean was here, then a mile high glacier. Eventually, the ocean evaporated and the glacier melted. All that ancient transience is now echoed in dunes of…

Overview [combine / integrate overview with this outline. move all non excerpt text to notes] The concept for this document is a listing of key story tellings with links to other relevant chapters or notes. I am not sure quite how to do this, I don’t want to over complicate the process, but this could…

Listening to Joe Rogan and Mel Gibson convo today from January 9, 2025. They were talking about subtitles and how the act of reading while watching a movie is next level. There are several sections of of DOG that have subtitles integrated into the story, contextual, and hearing these two talk about subtitles was an…

excerpt from Life Force 1985 A bad British movie. Screenplay by Dan O’Bannon who also collaborated on Alien. Significant budget, special effects and audio are decent, lots of random zombie makeup that doesn’t quite fit the premise, full frontal female nudity, which might have been ground breaking for cinematic science fiction. Terrible acting. In oomparison…