Ray Bradbury's The Illustrated Man
http://www.vimeo.com/3179070
http://video.google.ca/videoplay?docid=-2392927052094678391
opening
part one
part two
warning: Some gory scenes. Viewer discretion is advised.
conclusion
closing credits
Obviously one has to write the screenplay before drawing the cartoons in this movie. So one knows what tattoos to include.
The premise of the book is a collection of 18 stories of the tattoos that the illustrated man posessed. However, the original story from which all the other stories are derived is so chilling and masterful that to include any of the other stories would detract. I was thinking of including the Veldt which is a story of a nursery painted with images that come to life, kind of like Night At The Museum, and these images respond telepathically to the children's thoughts which is in this case of a jungle. They think of a lion that comes to life and leaps from the wall and eats the father of the family.
And then that story about nuclear war on Earth and colonization on Mars but I already did a cartoon like that. Therefore I am going to read from the book, and do a cartoon of just the original story of The Illustrated Man. I don't know....
Soundtrack:
Denise McCann - Tattoo Man
Dee Lite - Groove Is In The Heart
Musical segment. A director's vision.
Soundtrack: Kool and the Gang - Get Down On It
Interpretation: The images on the Illustrated Man were visions of the future. One vision held the spectre of nuclear war. Another image was based on the story The Veldt. I once had a dream where I saw translucent* orange curtains made of holographic material ie a curtain that is a hologram, in the back of a CBC trailer as it drove away up a hill plus computers now have a program which follows the movements of the eye to move a cursor, or to secretly graph interest points, plus they have a computer, hooked up to the brain of an amputated monkey, connected to a robot arm surgically attached to the monkey, and the monkey "thinks" the arm into grasping an apple and putting it to his mouth and eating it plus 105 inch television screens or else entire living room walls which become a television screen that uses thought patterns to turn the channels, turn up the volume, etc.
*Opaque, translucent, transparent. Can you dig it?
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