Thursday, November 02, 2006

Guest Blog: Bad Idea #3

This one is from a regular reader, JoeyJoJo.

I'm publishing it before I even read it, I have faith in this guy.

Bad Idea #3

The set up is this: it’s several hundred years in the future, the world is all city. There are no more forests and cities are built on top of oceans. Microchips are implanted in every baby born. These chips allow you to communicate with anyone simply by thinking it. Coordinating movement has become instinctual, huge groups of people act together without contemplating why.

But there is a downside as well. Without proper discipline each and every thought can be communicated to whoever you are thinking about. The weak-minded have no privacy, no time alone and they turn to a popular new drug.

"The Flew" blocks your mind’s outputs, so you can’t communicate with others. It’s the only way for some people to survive. But the drug mutates and instead of blocking the output it is soon blocking other’s inputs.

If the world government doesn’t act fast enough, soon everyone will be infected and society will revert to a primitive age.

If this idea isn’t bad enough, let me add this: lead actor – Nicholas Cage.

Here’s the trailer.

In a world where everyone is connected…

Scene: Wide shot of a huge city, huge buildings, people everywhere. Zoom in on a man who is having a conversation in his mind with nobody in particular. Zoom in again, this time inside his brain and come back out to show a woman in a different city carrying on the other side of the conversation.

boundaries shrink…

Scene: A crowded bar, a lonely man sitting on a bar stool. A sexy woman sits down next to him. The man closes his eyes and starts muttering to himself. Zoom inside his brain and there is a shot of him and the woman sharing an intimate moment. The image is shattered and we see the woman throwing her drink in his face and slapping him.

and the only escape…

Scene: A dirty underground area. The man in the bar looks around nervously. Zoom inside his brain and we see him shooting up some kind of drug. The image is again lost and he opens his eyes to see a man standing in front of him, peddling a drug called, “the flew.” The dealer says, “Want to fly away?”

is the one thing you can’t do.

Scene: A multitude of quick-hitting shots, showing glimpses of a highly organized military police converging in the underground area, shots of the man in various locales, wide shots of entire populations moving in unison like a flock of birds, then ending by zooming out and showing the entire world, but there is no more green and blue, it is all gray, an entire world of buildings and pavement.


I also want to incorporate the idea that the entire world has become like one being. The way each part can communicate with others, we don’t have to think about what everything in our body needs to do in order to move our arm, it just all happens. That’s the basis for this bad movie idea. I want to get in that ending shot where you pull way back and get a picture of something like the space baby in 2001.

7 Comments:

Anonymous Anonymous said...

is the one thing you can’t do.

Even I don't know what that means.

5:56 PM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

Wow, that is a bad idea. I most likely wound not go far out of my way to see it because, as I had previously indicated, it is not a good idea.

-Yorke

7:48 PM  
Blogger a spoonful weighs a ton said...

Agreed. A truly terrible idea.

Probably though you should have included in the trailer the phrase "One man..." and then finish the sentence in any number of ways. Possibly with "sees clearly through the veil of lies of his ancestry" (I know that makes little to no sense, but I'm confident no one's paying attention.)

7:58 PM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

Yorke said,

Wow, that is a bad idea...it is not a good idea.

Success!

11:28 AM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

Tonight, I write this story!

6:33 PM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

There is something very strange going on here. Your secrets will not be safe for long.

-SuitedAces.

10:12 PM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

To know about its attractive loan rates and the greatest deals related to these refinancing options, you should do some searching online in order to get quick cash London Business Angels You shouldn't be caught off guard, and never express, 'Well I didn't have got money

10:07 AM  

Post a Comment

<< Home

Site Meter