Christine, Edward, and the Cube
Hippopotamus Migration in Africa
Raven (baltimore2@excite.com)
Emily (carstrucksbuses1@home.com)
"The End"
Treatment
Scene takes place during the day on Red Square at The Evergreen State College on a typical weekday afternoon. Students are walking to and from class others are sitting around reading, eating lunch, or visiting with friends. Various laid back vendors dressed in hippie style clothing display their goods on the grass, occasionally selliing to passerbys. We catch glimpses of random conversations, eavesdropping on what people are talking about. Phrases or statements are captured by a variety of different people including all ages, sexes, and backgrounds. Shot from the point-of-view of someone wakiing around square casually interacting with the groups. Camera focus in on what a specific person/character is saying then moves on. Ends with quick shots of all the characters that we've heard from, then of an image that will represent 'the abyss' (referring to a previous quote) with a voice over saying the last line, can all this change?
CAST LIST
Child- Young boy or girl is around the age of seven.
Senior Citizen- A man who appears physically very old in age. Grey haired and wonderful expression lines in the face.
Professor- A modern-looking female who is between the ages of 30-55. She is very intelligent and extremely complex.
Teenager- A girl,
Traveler- Also could be interpreted as a visitor. A man who has done traveled the world. Punk Girl- She is a fiend for cigarettes. What better suits smoking than coffee? This combo makes for the subtle feeling of jittery urgency in her speech. Contrasting the habit of her smoking is her insistence that she only intake food that is all vegan-organic
Screenplay
EXT. RED SQUARE, THE EVERGREEN STATE COLLEGE-DAY
Students and various others sit around in Red Square talking, eating, and hangiing out. Some are selling clothes, jewelry and other random goods. it is a cloudy day but unceasonably warm for winter so the square is bustling with activity.
Punk Girl -
All women become like their mothers. This is their tragedy. No man does. That's his.
Traveler-
I see, perhaps in this particular turning, an anti-European movement destined to surn into fanaticism and fin expression in the widlest rage-Sir Robert Hart, French consul in Cairo.
Child-
Before going on, we need, I believe, to insert a long parenthesis to examine the unused possibilities of the avant-garde.
Professor-
What is a play that doesn't even carry us beyond all plays?
Teenager-
You shoyuld be careful how long you look into the abyss. For the abyss is also looking into you.
Traveler-
After a stop in Manila, American silver also crossed the Pacific and again ended up in China by this new route.
Punk Girl-
Yield and overcome; Bend and be straight; Empty and be full; Wear out and be new; Have little and gain; Have much and be confused.
Professor-
What about the voice inside the logic of supplement? Within that which should be called the "graphic" of the supplement?
Traveler-
Dixit Lopee de Vega, annum sixteen oh seven, in Madrid's Golden Age: "Todo se ha vuelto tiendes" -Everything has been transforem into shops.
Teenager-
Dark, unconscious Forces shape out lives.
Senior Citizen-
The soul is born old but grows young. Tha is the comedy of life.
Child-
The body is born young and grows old. That is life's tragedy.
Professor-
This culminates in a brilliant homogeneous group of early Cubist paintings executed at Horta de San Juan, in Spain,
alongside friends, who, limited and in the the minority, yet active and powerful, are characteristic of modern growth.
Quick shots of the people's faces as a reminder of who we just saw, then a picture of the " abyss" appears.
Punk Girl
- Can all this Change?
FADE OUT
Continuity Script
(Many characters come into a large public square, walk about, and occasionally stop to speak to one another. Toward the end, there is a gradually increasing intensity.)
- LS: we see a straight on shot of students walking onto campus, some hurried, while others move at a relaxed pace.
- MS: a shot at head level showing the profiles of faces walking by and through the camera frame.
- LS: a very strained shot upward, it is leaning slightly off kilter, as if a student checking the time. Through the left side of the screen is seen a towering, concrete clock.
- WS: looking down from high above the camera reveals the pace of students milling. The pace moves incrementally faster and takes on its own pulse of activity.
- LS: from a skewed view low to the ground shooting up we see pulling in and out of the loop. Feet unloading off their former transportation.
- MS: we see a face in an over-the-shoulder shot that is engaged in a conversation.
- CU: A person talking, we do not know what they are saying or see the other involved in converse.
- MS: walking feet.
- LS: various groupings of people have occurred, they are mostly talking while standing, sitting and goofing around. Venders can be seen and people greeting one another.
- Pans across the motion of people, comes to a halt. It stays there for a beat, a pause in motion then the picture dissolves.
- ECU: An eye blinks.
- MS: a breeze.
- ECU: An extreme close up of lips moving. They say:
PUNK GIRL:
- MS: we see a punk looking girl staring down into the camera silent.
- CU: hands gesturing.
- LS: angled upward we see a man talking vividly.
- MS: Mans face. He says:
TRAVELER:
- MS: a headshot of a child, from shoulders up. The child says:
CHILD:
- CU: professor speaking. Professor says:
PROFESSOR:
20. LS: Pan across treetops.
- MS: placid face of a teenager stares into camera, unmoved and unblinking.
- CU: teenagers face fades out while a galaxy pattern fades up over the face. Galaxy stays on screen while teenager says:
TEENAGER: You should be careful how long you look into the abyss,
- ECU: teenager’s eyes. Teenager continues:
TEENAGER:
- Eyes look away.
- MS: over the shoulder shot of traveler standing outside talking near the lunch tables. Traveler says:
TRAVELER:
- Camera pans away from traveler in boredom with him. Camera spots face of punk girl and zooms down towards her.
- MS: Camera is now at same level as girl, showing her organic vegetarian selections of food sitting on the table. She pulls out a cigarette and lights it. Smoking, punk girl says:
PUNK GIRL:
27. LS: Group sitting on ground outside in a circular pattern for seminar.
- MS: We see the leader of the group discussion, the professor. Professor says:
PROFESSOR:
28. LS: the group of students stare blankly at the teacher and questioningly at each other. Camera directs itself away from the group and back up to the Traveler.
- MS: face of traveler. Traveler says:
- ECU: Teenagers eyes. We hear teenager say:
TEENAGER:
- various moving close-ups along hands and face of senior citizen. The camera settles on face. Senior citizen says:
SENIOR CITIZEN:
- CU: child’s face. Child says:
CHILD:
- MS: professor in outdoor seminar says:
PROFESSOR:
- ECU: punk girl’s mouth. She Says:
PUNK GIRL:
- We see the galaxy shaped image ad hear punk girl say:
PUNK GIRL:
Including the whole of the individual
Revealing a campus with academic diversity as well as subcultures. These various types intermingle somewhat comfortably with each other operating on a generally high level of humane consideration for one another. There is a beautiful blending of faces that seem to
I am up in a tree peering over heads that bop in conversational recognition
