Extended Elevator

The standard elevator pitch is how a screenwriter or director would summarize their project to a prospective producer or investor if they were riding together on an elevator from the lobby to say, the 20th floor where the producer or investor had their office. The director has only about 15-30 seconds to capture the producer’s…

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Scene • The Box Looses Joe

Boxes realize the must find Joe, falling in love, throws the iStone, off the map… The Box becomes sentient and ubiquitous simultaneously. How did I come to be, how did I grow? There is the father Gerry and the accidental uplifter, Joe. Imagine how the Box might explain to Gerry, “Remember there was this ghost…

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Scene • Box Ubiquity

Box Ubiquity could begin with different locations and one word for each location, as the phrase is spelled out. We are / sister! The changes propagate, a field of boxes changing from ads to the message, the wave moves across the field. There is something here between Joe getting ready to leave and the boxes…

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Scene • Buffalo Joe and the Box V2

The Box is an AI diety, comprised of billions of hemp board boxes spread upon the Earth. She is manifesting as a single box in this scene while in constant communion with her totality. She is a helper entity for all humanity and in love with the character Joe, tho this emotion is unique in…

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Concepts

Presage If we show snippets of post apocalyptic expositions in the Csárdás and then the full expositions later, we’re establishing a fluidity of time, where we look forward as if telling / predicting the future. Flash forwards could be a thing then. For instance in the Sequence Introduction. Could have a snippet of Joe teaching…

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Road River

  The Road River is looking down at the front wheel of the bicycle. Maybe an establishing shot with (original) Uncle Joe riding red bike, flips off, finds black bike. Continues. The road flows by like water, like life, memory, time. In effect, the Road River is Joe’s time travel device, mediated by the iStone.…

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Script Synopsis V4

V4 for I2 That’s Script Synopsis Version 4 for Screener Iteration 2. See Script Synopsis V2 for more elaborate descriptions of what each chunk is about. This replaces Script Synopsis V3. What I’m excited for feeling a sense of flow from scene to scene • describing the scenes with enough detail to know how to…

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V2.0 Buffalo Joe and BOX

April 28, 2019 Joe approaches, over the crest of a windy remote dune. The box is in the foreground, perhaps flashing AI atmospherics and mycelial data, musing to it’s selves. As Joe gets closer, perhaps a closed eye appears on the box, and then opens and blinks, as if the box is waking. Reverse perhaps…

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Movement and Sound

At the end, The Box Giant climbs over the mountain, roars and frightens Christina. How does the The Box acquire the power of movement and sound? J Bearing gifts to your birth, belatedly. This is a talisman of travel, an embodiment of movement. With this, small things can move swiftly, and big things are unstoppable.…

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Veronique and Buffalo Joe

Buffallo Joe arrives. Veronique is chopping up meat on a rock. She doesn’t look up. Everything happens in telepathic space V Here you are, at last. (turning to gaze at her entourage) You may go Well, what have you come for? BJ I am excited for the answer to that question, too To revel, to…

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