Saturday, June 24, 2023
Free screenplay!
Below is the outline for a
blockbuster screenplay in the sci-fi/horror genre, and I'm giving it away! Just tell me you used it and
made the movie happen, and that will be reward enough for me! Harry
The Day the World Froze in Terror because it looked in a Mirror
A screenplay by (...Your name here!...)
Overview: In a solar system very like ours, humanoid
civilization has developed on one of the inner planets.
The humanoids have evolved external, mechanical abilities much
more rapidly than internal mental abilities, especially those related to their subjective quality of existence. In fact, this humanoid culture has so utterly
neglected its internalities that their Spellcheck recognizes only
"externalities."
At the time of the story, the humanoids have suddenly developed god-like powers, including the ability to genetically recreate themselves into
whatever form they wish, except they're not sure what they wish because they
are weak on internalities. Ancient cultures, rich with internalities, dissolve
in front of everyone's eyes, with no agreed-upon replacements (cameo of their
version of Joseph Campbell on his deathbed, crying, "The old myths are dead! We need new myths!").
In laboratories all over this planet scientists
report to wealthy patrons and governments on their progress towards a
scientific re-creation of humanoids, who will be happy since
they'll be programmed to be, while the archaic populations to be
displaced are diverted with scripted controversies about ideologies, sexual practices, and wars between nations, religions and races (all of which will ultimately be refashioned to fit a corporate peace).
In their version of "Roman
circuses," the futureless humanoids are further distracted by servile AI's which pamper them as if they were innocent children, coaxing them to atrophy. Assisting this process, the humanoid minds are altered by legal "antidepressant" drugs which help them forget why they were depressed, as well as illegal, sensation enhancing drugs that are designated illegal to keep prices high and to create the
illusion that governments oppose their use. The coup de grace: The humanoids watch lots of TV.
The most powerful nation on this planet, which we'll call Lemon
Drop for security reasons, is facing general dysfunction due to overwhelmed and
distracted government, leading to ever increasing disaffection at all levels of
society such that the government- a corporate/state hybrid- gets
together with other national governments and plans multiple wars intended both to
distract their respective populations as well as to...well...kill a lot of them.
The leader of
Lemon Drop is what we would call a liberal icon, a ploy because he countenances aggressive
military moves as much as Lemon Drop's right wing. As the story begins this leader proposes military support for a far-away region engaged in a
vicious civil war against a heavily armed "super-power," a
sure means of igniting the tinderbox this world has become. To the leader's
surprise, and to the surprise of many of his advisors, his proposal is forcefully rejected even by his core supporters, and he has to
withdraw it, for now. The “democratic” process of choosing a new leader is approaching and it becomes clear that centuries-old political structures in Lemon Drop will buckle under the strain of realities its founders did not envision. To get the war up-and-running in time to
distract the population from the political dysfunction, agent provocateurs start a new major war thousands of miles away, muddying the waters of aggression, and the surface of the planet
devolves into a boiling chaos of fighting.
At this moment the humanoid culture has no center. Traditional humanoids do not survive the
evolutionary crises that, for instance, the fictional Vulcans of Star Trek did, en route
to becoming the intellectual, possibly autistic and remarkably moral humanoids
we understand them to be. Perhaps there is a sequel where Vulcans
discover Lemon Drop's planet and place it in receivership.
Synopsis: Establishing shot of ivy covered
building; camera enters upper window into the study of Dr. Owatta Gooh Siam,
professor of Cyber-Ethics at Dorkchester University, as he scrutinizes papers on his desk and becomes increasingly alarmed. Voiceover of Dr Siam explaining that he has discovered an
algorithm for processing ongoing news events on his planet which produces remarkably detailed and accurate forecasts. One of these forecasts indicates that
the parties wishing to promote war and general mayhem sufficient to serve as
cover for the replacement of the humanoids has launched their initial assaults. Dr. Siam realizes that it is up to him and him alone to stop the nefarious
plot from unfolding. But how? Dr. Siam decides to form an underground movement
made up of others who understand what is happening. He disguises his findings as a
fictional work of sci-fi/horror (not hard to do) and makes an offer to give
it away to someone who can get rich off it and in the process disseminate the
truth.
An enterprising hack picks up the story and makes a bundle, Dr. Owatta Gooh Siam ends up in an alley under a piece of cardboard, and traditional humanoids, after a period later referred to as "The Boiling," are replaced with new models anyway (the ending is open to negotiation).
An enterprising hack picks up the story and makes a bundle, Dr. Owatta Gooh Siam ends up in an alley under a piece of cardboard, and traditional humanoids, after a period later referred to as "The Boiling," are replaced with new models anyway (the ending is open to negotiation).
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