Stephen King's The Running Man

Stephen King's The Running Man








part one








part two



Ben Richards: The baby is crying again. Her temperature is up to 85 degrees. She has a high fever. I have to find a way to make money, Sheila. I worked at jobs so disgusting like shovelling slime from sewers when people who honestly believed that they were looking for a job were unemployed. I am going to the games building and try out for one of the death games on television. The one I think that I will most likely qualify for is Swim The Crocodiles where a man must survive crocodiles.

Sheila Richards: Give me a kiss before you go, then.

Richards walks past, under a red neon sign. The inner city. The future. The occasional flying car.

Narrator: The line up outside the Games Federation Building stretched for blocks.

Nurse: The next part of the test is the Weschler's Word Association Test. Red.

Richards:Black.

Nurse: Silver. Richards: Dagger. Nurse: Rifle. Richards: Murder. Nurse: Win. Richards: Money. Nurse: Sex. Richards: Tests. Nurse: Strike. Richards: Out.

Richards: Nice tits.

Nurse: I could have you disqualified.

Richards: You could get yourself fired, that's all.

In the lobby with the other contestants. One of the contestants named Laughlin with the name on a nametag.

Laughlin: They handed us these envelopes which tells us which games we have been assigned to. Which one did you get?

Richards: The Running Man.

Laughlin: That is Prime Time. Not one of the ones where they take out an eye or an arm. That is one where they kill you. I got assigned The Running Man too!

Secretary: Mr Laughlin, Mr Killian will see you now.

20 minutes later, Laughlin emerges with a girl around his arm. He winks:

Laughlin: A friend of mine from the car pool.



Secretary: Ben Richards, Mr Killian will see you now.

A large office.

Mr Killian: The Running Man has been on for thirty five years. We have no survivors. To be honest. We expect none.

Richards: Then you are running a crooked table.

Killian: You will have to contend with McCone and the Hunters.

Richards: Sounds like a neo group.

Killian: If you survive 30 days, you get a billion new dollars.

Richards threw back his head and laughed: Ha ha ha ha ha ha!

Killian: My sentiments exactly.

Killian about to press a button.

Richards: Spare the cheap snatch. I'm married.

Killian: Are you sure? Is there anything you want?

Richards: A bottle of bourbon, make that two.

Narrator: Friday night. In the room, there were three novels, Not As A Stranger, God Is An Englishman and The Pleasure Of Serving. Poor boy makes good in General Atomics. Rises from engine wiper to gear tradesman. Takes night courses, on what money? Richards wondered. Meets a beautiful girl, apparently syphilis had not rotted her nose off at a block party. Promoted. Three year marriage contract follows.

Richards throws the book across the room.

He looks at a picture of his little daughter. Drinking bottle of bourbon. Easy drunken tears flow down his face.

Narrator: He wonders if he could finish the second bottle before passing out. He almost made it. He spent all Saturday nursing a hangover. Sunday night he orders two more bottles of bourbon. He wakes up Sunday morning seeing green caterpillars crawling all over the room. He decided then that it would be against his best interests to completely wreck his reflexes before Tuesday and decided to stop the booze.

A cutaway to auditorium and audience: Richards! Richards!

Richards runs out onto the street. He catches a cab.

He goes to ID forger Molie: I have been doing this for a quarter of a century. Saty close to your own people. You have the power to cloud men's minds if you use it.

The cab takes him to the airport. The plane lands in Los Angeles, the largest city on Earth.

The Brandt Hotel. Richards signs in using his ID the name on the ID John Griffen Springer.

Narrator: A black boy wearing a shirt large enough to play killball in was yelling at a slot machine.

Black boy: Yo! I lost my mufuckin nickel. I lost my motherfucking nickel!
That goddamned machine took my nickel!

Desk clerk: Good to have you here, Mr Springer.

Narrator: Richards walked down the hallway of the Brandt hotel. In his room, he looked out the window and looked casually at the traffic. However there was a man in a trenchcoat leaning against a lampost. He just stayed there. Another man came and sat down at the bench. A Police Officer showed up and a man was talking to the Police Officer. Richards became aware of all this like when you recognized the voices of the dead in your dreams. I'm being bracketed, he thought with a helpless rabbit terror. No, his mind corrected, you have already been bracketed.

Richards returned to the lobby to the desk clerk: I am paying for two more days.

Desk clerk: Very good sir.

Richards went to his room and put on a Do Not Disturb sign around his door. He then then took a toothbrush and snapped it in half. He goes to the elevator. He presses B for basement. When the elevator reached the basement, he jams the toothbrush end into one of the elevator buttons. The elevator panel smokes and the elevator lights go out.

Richards is in the basement of the Brandt. He lights a match and lights up some newspaper and places it under the boiler near some gasoline tanks. Some hunters outside the Richards room at the Brandt hotel. Richards runs for it. Outside as Richards runs away, the Brandt Hotel blows up.

Narrator: Richards stays with some people. He stayed with a black family in the ghetto projects but the mother called the Police. Mother in nightgown on phone. Police cars pull up to the projects. The black guy drives Richards across the State line but the car falls over a bridge.

Black guy: I am too injured to go on. Run! Go on without me!

Richards runs across a minimall.

Richards: At the minimall there is a mailbox. I have to send in my video clips. I have to send one everyday. I made one this morning:

Richards in hotel room: Peekaboo! You can't see it, but I am laughing at you shiteaters!

Richards hitchhikes. A woman pulls over and picks him up.

Woman: You are that guy, Richards!

Richards: Just drive to the airport!

They drive past a billboard. Rich folks blow dokes.

Woman: Have you got a jay?

The car drives into an airport.


Richards uses aikido and gets the gun away from one of the Hunters. Evan McCone fires two fast gunshots. One blowing away the head of the other hunter and one shot getting Richards in the stomach. Richards fires and blows away McCone.

Richards: Gutshot. I'm gutshot.

Narrator: Richards remembered once sitting at work during a midnight lunch break discussing with his coworkers the worst ways to go. Gutshot has got to be one of the most painful one of them said with no conception of Pain.

Pilot: He didn't like Otto, do you know that?

Smash. A coffeepot smashes down on the pilot' head. Richards takes over the helm.

Voice over radio: C one niner eight four. Acknowledge. What's wrong?

Richards: Speak boy! Rowf rowf!

Narrator: A Push freak stood in a doorway stared up and thought he was seeing a hallucination, the last dope dream, come to take him away, perhaps to General Atomics heaven, where all the food was free and all the piles were clean breeders.



author's note: No rules. I will endeavour to employ the 85% rule which is better than going for a just as imaginary 100%. As long as I come up with some image which has a semblance, or even a semblance of a semblance of what I am trying to portray.

I thought of re-reading the book. The movie The NeverEnding Story said that every time you reread a book, it is a slightly different book and you will pick out parts that you didn't the previous reading. If I reread the book two, three times the third time I would find parts that I did not the second. As it is, I already remember enough of the book. So I won't reread it.

Note: Only an ET or an extra advanced shaman can look at my movies, and say, that frame is from a daydream; from the imagination, but that frame is culled from the dreamworld. There is a resonance.

I have, it seems reached a level, which is a level, where I have inadvertently become a walking dream encyclopedia. Say kitchen and I can draw a dream I had in a kitchen. Say fancy hotel, and I can draw a dream of a fancy hotel. Say run down skid row hotel and I can draw a dream I had in a run down hotel. Say bus and I can draw a dream where I was riding on a bus. Say Safeway, say Chinese restaurant, say European restaurant even. Say zoo and I can draw dreams where I had where I was in a zoo. In most cases, not just one dream of say, a kitchen, but multiple dreams. etc etc etc.









PS

http://www.horrorking.com/runningman.html












Photographs taken on November 14, 2008.

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Stephen King's Pet Sematary animated cartoon series

Stephen King's Pet Sematary






Part one.






Part two.







Part three.





Episode one


Opening scene:

1915 MikMaq Reservation Territory, Maine, USA

Chief: We have been walking for four days. I say we rest here. I feel sleepy, even drawn to this place.

Elder Medicine Man: The medicine of this place is not good. The ground here is sour. The drifting clouds have a dark grey colour. My grandfather told me about this area, it is not good. We should keep on walking another few days to get out of here.

Chief: As Chief, I say we rest here. Most of the people are too tired to walk on.

That night, the sleeping medicine man has a dream of a buffalo that wanders onto a flat rock plateau and lies down and dies. The spirit of the buffalo is tranformed into an owl. The owl is a death omen. Next to the moth, the owl is king of all death omens.

Sound: Hoot of owl.

The Chief: Today is a good day for a buffalo hunt. I feel it.

The Medicine Man awakes and sees a woman elder of the tribe. He walks next to her.

Medicine Man: Where is the Chief. I must tell him not to go to the buffalo hunt. I had a bad dream. I tried to wake up earlier, but some force stopped me from waking up earlier and I overslept.

Medicine Woman: It's too late. The Chief is already left.

A buffalo is seen. It charges. One of the Indians kills the buffalo with a tomahawk.

During the ritual ceremonial cardioectomy, where the heart of the buffalo is taken from the body of the buffalo and eaten raw, as it is along with the pancreas and liver, one of the sweetbreads.

However the young warrior is disgusted and exclaims: The heart is supposed to have a red colour. This heart has a blue colour like it died some time ago. And the meat smells slightly rotted.


However, the Chief was charged and when he fell off his horse, he died. His body was taken to the burial plateau where the buffalo died. The young warrior attends the interment ceremony.

One morning, a young Native wakes up and says: Where is my horse? Has anyone seen it?

Narrator:

The Chief who was supposed to be dead was eating a carcass of a dead horse. The horse that went missing. The Chief did not even cook it first. He thought he was acting in secret but was soon discovered by the others in the tribe and then he was killed with arrows for the last time.
Sooon after this, the Natives decide to leave the area.


1975

A doctor returns home in his hatchback car.


This episode is dedicated to all my Native Friends


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Episode Two


Doctor Louis Creed: Rachel, you would not believe the day that I had today. I thought it was going to be slow, and then a college student was wheeled in. From looking at him, right away, I knew that he was going to die. Nothing could be done for him. I was surprised that he was still breathing. I could see his brain inside his head like looking through an open window.

College campus hospital. Car pulls into parking lot. Dreamlike dreamspace entrance into hospital.

Pascow is wheeled into the hospital.

Victor Pascow: The pet semetary is not the real pet sematary. The soil of a man's heart is stonier. Injun bring my fish.

That night, Louis sleeps with his wife. In the bedroom, Victor Pascow stands at the foot of the and motions Louis with a beckoning gesture.

Louis follows and walks down a dark forest path. Through the woods. To an old graveyard. Louis thought it was an old Indian graveyard, but it is actually some kind of strange cemetary evident looking at the tombstones. BIFFER BIFFER HELL OF A SNIFFER, UNTIL HE DIED HE MADE US RICHER, and SMUCKY THE CAT, HE WAS OBEDIANT 1971 - 1974.

Victor Pascow motions to a dead fall which the flash light illuminated only part of in the dark. The wood seemed to move and turn into the bones of animals.

Victor: That deadfall is the barrier. It was not meant to be crossed. Remember, there is more power here than you know. It is old and restless.

Louis wakes up thinking it was just a dream but he sees some leaves and an acorn on his bed.

The seasons come and go. Inside the house, it goes from normal to Halloween decorations with the children running through the room in Halloween costumes and laughing, Ellie and then Gage.
Then Christmas and then New Years decorations.

Outside, on the fence post, a jack o lantern, then snow, then snow melts and Spring time.

Spring.

There is a knock on the door.

A thin average height spectacled old man: I saw the sticker on your car. You are a doctor. I just live half a mile down the road. Strange that we have not met before. We are neighbours. My name is Jud. My wife is sick.

Summer.

The cat Church is found on the road. It is picked up. Sticky goo is between the cat and the ground before it is ripped away.

Obviously since it is summer, Louis as a University staff member does not have to work. His wife works and his daughter is at school since it is June and University is finished in April but elementary school goes on until the end of June.

Jud: We want to bury the cat before your wife and daughter come home. Do you love your daughter? Do you want to spare her the pain? I have an idea. Come with me. We are going to bury the cat in the Pet Sematary. Grab your shovel.

They walk through the woods. The same ones walked with Pascow. They reach the first Pet Sematary. BIFFER BIFFER HELL OF A SNIFFER.

Jud: We rest here.

Louis: But we are here.

Jud: No. Next we go up that deadfall.

Narrator: Even though the deadfall was treacherous. Louis never lost his footing and neither did Jud.

They brought the cat to the flat rocky plateau, opened the garbage bag and let it out onto the ground.

On his bed, Louis sleeps. In the morning, his wife had already left for work. Nestled on top of him was the cat. He thought it was a dream but when he saw the red spot of blood under the chin a couple of drum beats of alarm are heard.

At Jud's house over the kitchen table with bottles of beer, Jud tells his story.

Jud: It was Stanley Bouchard who told me about the Pet Sematary. Old Tosspot Stanny B. My dog Spot had died the first time in 1937, the first time. The second time he died he outlived old Stanny B by two years.
His grandfather was a trader who had an old wagon with crosses all over it as he was a Preacher and the Indians liked having him around when they wanted to hear the words that the old Blackrobes used to speak. The wagon also had Indian objects all over it. His grandfather also had a trading post and he used to trade with the MicMac Indians who came around to trade and it was them who told his grandfather about the Pet Sematary.
I followed Stanny through the woods then past the first pet cemetary then over the deadfall and through the woods. The cry of loons and what appeared to be glowing eyes. Stan was leading the way but part way through the woods I could swear I was following an Indian from the old times with war paint and grinnng.
My mother was carrying a hamper of laundry in the kitchen backed up against the fridge and a cabinet. There was Spot. Calm but with a strange energy. My mother sensed it.
Lester Morgan had a prize winning Black Angus bull called Hanratty. Died and Hanratty pulled it up even over the deadfall and all the way there on a sled. Incredible.
Although there were lots of animals buried up there over the year. The bull was the only animal that turned mean. And it was killed two weeks later.
Most of the animals turned out pretty good actually, just slow, a little weird as if it were drugged.
I could tell you that the reason why I took you up there was to make your daughter feel better. But that ain't why I took you up there. It ain't why!
I did it the same reason why Stanny B took me there. I did it the same reason Lester Morgan did it. He took Linda Lavesque up there after her dog got run over.
The reason is because the place gets ahold of you and because it's got a power!
Hanratty the bull was the only one who ever turned mean. Linda's little Pekinese poodle bit the postman, and other little things but that was it. My dog Spot behaved perfectly until he died a second time five years later although he always seemed a little doped and he always smelled of dirt.
Because you looked after my wife a few weeks ago, I did this for you to return the favour.

Louis: Did anyone ever bury a human being there?

Jud: Hell no! And who ever would! What would make you even think of something like that?

A few weeks later, Gage, aged four dies of a fever. The baby dies at ten am. The wife is at work. The daughter Ellie is at elementary school. Louis, being a doctor is an old hand when it comes to knowing the signs of death. Louis carries the child through the woods.

Jud talks about Timmy Baterman: I see that you just went to the Pet Sematary. I can tell just looking at you. Your son Gage died and you buried him there.
I can see what you are planning. Before you go on, let me tell you this. Louis.
Back in those days during the war, the train still stopped in Orrington and Bill Baterman had a funeral hack waiting at the train depot to pick up the body of his son Timmy. The coffin was unloaded by four men. I was one of them. The man from Graves and Registration which was the Army's version of undertakers was sitting drunk in a train full of coffins.
We put Timmy into the back of a mortuary Cadillac. In those days it was not uncommon to refer to thm as hrry up wagons since the major concern was to get the coffins into the ground before they rotted.
Huey Garber was driving the train that day. The army fella comes up walking to Huey as he is taking a swig from a fifth of rye whisky and says, "You are driving a mystery train today, you know that? At least that's what they call a funeral train down in Alabama."
When he got off the train, Huey got drunker than he had ever been in his entire life and he said that if that was what they called a mystery train, he never wanted to drive no mystery train again.
A few days later, Timmy is seen walking down the street. His eyes were sunken like raisins in bread dough. He emitted a strange frequency similar to one that is experienced when one encounters a ghost of the dead.
Bill Baterman was sitting on the front stairs of his house with a pitcher of beer. Timmy was in the yard staring at the sunset. His face was orange with the light of the sun. His face had deep red pockmarks which was where the machine gun bullets got him.
Bill Baterman had lost forty pounds, and the expression on his face. He looked damned, Louis.
That night, the house was burned down. Bill Baterman had burned the house down along with himself and his son Timmy Baterman."

When Louis returns to his house, the telephone rings.


In the family car with mother and daughter.

Ellie Creed to her mother sitting next to her as she is driving: Daddy I had a dream. A ghost named Victor Paxcow was sent to warn Daddy. He told Daddy not to go to the Pet Sematary. That is what he said before he dis, dis, I don't remember the word."

Victor Paxcow's ghost appears: Discorporated.

The front door of the house opens. Standing there at the doorway, silhouetted is a young child and a cat.


Production note: The above is the ideal. I employ an 85% rule in my artwork. I try only for 85% accuracy. Often I fluke out and get 100% anyways. Like the zen story of the archer who got the target only when he thought the master was not around to scrutinize him. I am only going to do 85% of the actions portrayed in the above synopsis. The changing of the seasons, the New Years, etc. I have added parts that were not in the original narrative, so it evens out.



Early versions.














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Ray Bradbury's The Martian Chronicles

The Martian Chronicles


http://www.vimeo.com/3179117











Rocket Summer


Sounds: Monkey sounds. Rocket blast off.

At a launch site in Sri Lanka, where Arthur C. Clarke lived, and in 1968, when Stanley Kubrick's 2001 A Space Odyssey was released, a large vehicle with tank wheels is being wheeled at one mile an hour, actual speed to a launch site. This is a Top Secret Classified Mission to Mars.

As the rockets blast, the fire from the rocket thrusters turns night into day.

This 1968 ship arrives on Mars and the astronauts take a look around. No Martians are seen. They return to Earth.

Astronaut: No sign of life. Looks pretty dead. Do you see anything.

Astronaut 2: Nothing at this end. Let's just pick up a few samples and head back to Earth.



2008: The International Space station spins on its orbital axis. A team of scientists is sent to Mars to set up a few permanent scientific observation posts. During a routine expedition Martians are finally contacted. Entire Martian cities are seen, houses on hills. Glowing crystal large ampitheatres can be seen great distances away.

Narrator: There is a variety of architecture on Mars. In one part of the red planet, it is mostly domed cities. In another part of Mars, there are cities in extended architectural anomaly formations called Railtowns. The Martians resemble humans and are 6 feet tall, thin, milky white skin, blue eyes and long black hair.


In normal civies, they wear robes with a culturally adored pattern. When they are soldiers, they wear cotton soldiers clothes just like the soldiers of World War One.

2042:

Narrator: In the year 2052, the first waves of colonists are sent to Mars. Not just select scientists, large waves of immigrant poor are sent to colonize the red planet. No longer are petroleum based fuels required for jet engines and rocket ships. New fuel is made from sawdust and algae. The sawdust is brought to the processing plant in huge scows. The algae is farmed from large shallow watery pits with the whole scene resembling a salt mine.

They arrive in a sleek new silver space ship more closely resembling the ships in the STAR WARS movies.

5 years later, 2057 downtown Mars City. Sam Parkhill has a hotdog store.

Sam Parkhill: Ever since I came here from Earth three years ago, my life has been on the upswing. In fact, next month, there is going to be a new wave of immigrants as thousands of ships are bringing over a few thousand more people to Mars.

A Martian walks in the store.

Sam: We don't serve your kind in here! Just joking, that is line from an old movie from the last century. What do you want?!

The Martian telepaths to Sam: A Nuclear War has just broken out on Earth. Waves of cities are annhilated. The Earth is a glowing ball of nuclear fire visible from space. Only one ship of immigrants out of thousands managed to escape the war by leaving early and are expected to arrive in Mars today.

38 years later. 2095.

Narrator: War erupts on Mars between the humans and the Martians.

Martians in a bunker: All in position? Fire! Remember men, tomorrow morning, we storm the anthill.

More explosions. It is easier to not add sound effects. Silent mortar explosions like in the Omaha Beach sequence in Saving Private Ryan. Kind of.

Soldier: Over the top!

Narrator: The last wave of Earthlings finally arrives on Mars. They settle and start a new life on the red planet.

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Author's note: No rules. This cartoon at the outset only attempts to be one that is just loosely based on the Ray Bradbury story. This is an abridged story and a few details are made up and not at all found in the novel.

Also, there is no minimum length. Before I started the Romeo and Juliet cartoon, I aimed to make the cartoon no more than two minutes. The cartoon turned out to be almost ten minutes. I am trying to make this cartoon about a minute and a half although it will probably turn out to be more than that.

A lot of the things I depict in cartoons in reality have little or no sound, a squid swimming through the water, a squirrel slowly moving through the forest underbrush that is it it does not chirp and make a sound.

"Clouds form around small particles." Stephen King, The Running Man

When I make the cartoons, and anyone who has ever gotten involved in creating an animated fature can say this, the cartoons take on a life of their own. A few small ideas turn into alot of ideas as I get more ideas along the way.


This cartoon animated feature is dedicated to Scarlett.

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Romeo And Juliet

Romeo And Juliet


http://www.vimeo.com/3179091







Romeo And Juliet part 1









Romeo And Juliet part two


http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-9135915483260400048&hl=en




Narrator: Two households, both alike in dignity,
In fair Verona, where we lay our scene,
From ancient grudge break to new mutiny,
Where civil blood makes civil hands unclean.
From forth the fatal loins of these two foes
A pair of star-cross'd lovers take their life;
The which if you with patient ears attend,
What here shall miss, our toil shall strive to mend.

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ABRAHAM Do you bite your thumb at us, sir?

SAMPSON I do bite my thumb, sir.

ABRAHAM Do you bite your thumb at us, sir?

GREGORY No.

SAMPSON No, sir, I do not bite my thumb at you, sir, but I
bite my thumb, sir.

GREGORY Do you quarrel, sir?

ABRAHAM Quarrel sir! no, sir.


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LADY MONTAGUE O, where is Romeo? saw you him to-day? Right glad I am he was not at this fray.

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BENVOLIO Good-morrow, cousin.

ROMEO Is the day so young?

BENVOLIO It was. What sadness lengthens Romeo's hours?

ROMEO Not having that, which, having, makes them short.

BENVOLIO In love?

ROMEO Bid a sick man in sadness make his will: Ah, word ill urged to one that is so ill! In sadness, cousin, I do love a woman.

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JULIET How now! who calls?

Nurse Your mother.

JULIET Madam, I am here.What is your will?

LADY CAPULET This is the matter:--Nurse, give leave awhile,
We must talk in secret:--nurse, come back again;
I have remember'd me, thou's hear our counsel.
Thou know'st my daughter's of a pretty age.

Nurse Faith, I can tell her age unto an hour.

LADY CAPULET She's not fourteen.


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ROMEO I dream'd a dream to-night.

MERCUTIO And so did I.

ROMEO Well, what was yours?

MERCUTIO That dreamers often lie.

ROMEO In bed asleep, while they do dream things true.

MERCUTIO O, then, I see Queen Mab hath been with you.
She is the fairies' midwife, and she comes
In shape no bigger than an agate-stone
On the fore-finger of an alderman,
Drawn with a team of little atomies
Athwart men's noses as they lie asleep;
Her wagon-spokes made of long spiders' legs,
The cover of the wings of grasshoppers,
The traces of the smallest spider's web,
The collars of the moonshine's watery beams,
Her whip of cricket's bone, the lash of film,
Her wagoner a small grey-coated gnat,
Not so big as a round little worm
Prick'd from the lazy finger of a maid;
Her chariot is an empty hazel-nut
Made by the joiner squirrel or old grub,
Time out o' mind the fairies' coachmakers.
And in this state she gallops night by night
Through lovers' brains, and then they dream of love;
O'er courtiers' knees, that dream on court'sies straight,
O'er lawyers' fingers, who straight dream on fees,
O'er ladies ' lips, who straight on kisses dream.

Romeo: Talk about that later. The television. They are talking about that dance tonight again.

Television Lady Capulet: Tonight there is a dance at the Capulet house. Welcome Gentlemen! Ladies that have their toes unplagued with corns will have a bout with you!

Mercutio: We should go! Drink beer, meet women!

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ROMEO [To a Servingman] What lady is that, which doth enrich the hand Of yonder knight?

Servant I know not, sir.

ROMEO O, she doth teach the torches to burn bright! It seems she hangs upon the cheek of night.

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ROMEO But, soft! what light through yonder window breaks?
It is the east, and Juliet is the sun.

JULIET Ay me!

ROMEO She speaks: O, speak again, bright angel!

JULIET O Romeo, Romeo! wherefore art thou Romeo?
Deny thy father and refuse thy name;
Or, if thou wilt not, be but sworn my love,
And I'll no longer be a Capulet.

ROMEO My lips, two blushing pilgrims, ready stand
To smooth that rough touch with a tender kiss.

JULIET Then have my lips the sin that they have took.

ROMEO Sin from thy lips? O trespass sweetly urged!
Give me my sin again.

JULIET You kiss by the book.

ROMEO I take thee at thy word:
Call me but love, and I'll be new baptized;
Henceforth I never will be Romeo.

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Narrator: Romeo and Juliet were from families that were at rivalries with one another. Visiting a Priest, Friar Lawrence, Romeo is convinced of a plan that involves faking his own death. Later, Juliet would be told the news and they would be reunited in a new town under assumed names. In this version of Romeo and Juliet, the Priest sends Romeo to Mantua and starts a rumour of Romeo's death. However, on the way to Mantua, Romeo dies in a car accident. Juliet hears the news and acts upon the information, drinking poison and dying on her own bed.

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JULIET Farewell! God knows when we shall meet again.

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Nurse She's dead, deceased, she's dead; alack the day!

LADY CAPULET Alack the day, she's dead, she's dead, she's dead!

CAPULET Ha! let me see her: out, alas! she's cold:
Her blood is settled, and her joints are stiff;
Life and these lips have long been separated:
Death lies on her like an untimely frost
Upon the sweetest flower of all the field.

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20,000 Leagues Under The Sea

20,000 Leagues Under The Sea



http://www.vimeo.com/3041133

I have a new friend, Vimeo. This is my first Vimeo video and the URL contains the number 33. That number comes up often for me and my videos.





Wind blowing.

The North Sea. Icebergs floating past.

A Narwhal is seen in the distance.

A crew man aboard a ship says: It is not usual to see Narwhal this far North at this time of year.

New York, 1895. Two women aboard a ship for rich people, actually this ship was to take them to a larger ship. Like an airport shuttle to take people to the airplane.
One woman to the other: Isn't this first leg of our trip exciting? This ship, as large as it is, serves as just a transport ship to transport us to a much larger luxury liner waiting in the distance.

The other woman in response: I just saw a Narwhal. You don't see Narwhal often in New York harbour.


The South China Sea.

Two Chinese aboard a junk. One says to the other, in Chinese: Gum dy tue yue jer yow ah? Ngor je meng geen gor. Translated subtitles, essential: Such a large fish. I have never seen that before.

At the ship's office: My name is Arronax. As an experienced sailor with my own 75 foot wooden steamship, I am going go on a trip to South America for a vacation. Maybe I might even run into the Narwhal that everyone is talking about. Rumour has it that that it is no Narwhal. It is a man made craft that is much faster beneath the surface of the ocean than most ships above the surface of the ocean are. Whispered legend speaks of a man named Captain Nemo.

Arronax as narrator: I set sail from New York, I pass the Coast of Florida but am careful to avoid the Bermuda Triangle. Then I sail pass the Coast of Brazil. Off the Coast of Patagonia, there is another stop. I see a lighthouse illuminating the waters for any ships that may pass. I drop anchor and rest for the night.

It is late at night as I walk along the prow of my wooden steamer ship. I light a pipe of Captain Black Peaches and Cream pipe tobacco and I spot the Narwhal in the distance. It seems to be just resting there. I take a row boat and row out to the ship.

Beneath the ship is Captain Nemo in all his glory. He is an eccentric man who can telepathically commununicate with all sea animals.

Captain Nemo: Welcome aboard. I waited in the harbour. I knew that you would attempt to visit. I am Captain Nemo. This submarine is called The Nautilus. It runs from electricity wirelessly stolen from whatever ships are in the water. Right now, your steamer has absolutely no electricity. Oops. Sorry. I have been at this for a few hundred years. I lived so long because I am magical. Anyways, you should see Atlantis.

With Captain Nemo, we visit the brilliant golden city of Atlantis which has technology that we will not see for another thousand years. Golden crystal illuminated skyscrapers 500 storeys high. Flying machines. New York harbour has one Statue of Liberty and green. Atlantis's harbour has four and golden.
During our trip to Atlantis, we visit an indoor crocodile zoo with a tinted glass floor.

Octopus cave. past a coral reef. hermit crab. Giant clam.

A large squid attacks the Nautilus. Arronax is taken to his death in the clutches of the squid.

New York harbour 113 years later. The Narwhal like Nautilus breaches the surface of the post 9/11 waters of New York harbour.


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