Violet In New York, Revised
Brittney Bailey
Experiencing the Arts
Jeanne Romano
Personal Movie Draft
The Wandering Star
Main character, Violet Buehler. Blonde with blue-black eyes. Wears too much eye makeup.
Main character, Lavender Schultz. Like a Modigliani painting. Thin neck and dark hair.
Supporting character, Bradshaw. Tall, painfully thin, dark eyes, dark hair, beautiful lips.
Supporting character, Nila. A lost fairy who collects feathers and makes crowns out of daisies. Her name means “dark blue” in Sanskrit. She accompanies Lavender in many of her adventures, and of course is quick to befriend Violet.
Supporting character, Mary Magdalene. A gritty glam girl in a cello rock band. One of the regulars at the Dead Fleurette. Her music is a mix of Rasputina and The Strokes, with a heavenly, raspy, Carla Bruni-esque quality to the vocals.
Violet Buehler, 18 years old, decides to travel. Blindly choosing a train, she ends up in
the crazy, beautiful land of New York. Upon arrival, Violet is greeted by a thin, dark-haired girl with sad eyes and a wan smile. This girl is selling paintings on matchbooks to make a living. The money she makes from her art goes largely toward her cocaine and cigarette addictions.
Lavender invites Violet to come with her to the hip, smoky, underground lounge known by the regulars as the Dead Fleurette. The two girls spend the night and much of the morning dancing and drinking champagne cocktails.
Two days later Violet and Lavender sit on a floral quilt in the middle of a patch of grass in Central Park. Violet’s eye is caught by the most beautiful boy she has ever seen. And he is standing no more than twenty feet away, cigarette in hand. Violet is stunned by his beauty. He is pale, and thin, and very, very tall. His eyes are like those of a fawn, the most lovely shade of chestnut. He appears to be dying. Does way too much coke and smokes far too many cigarettes.
Acid in Central Park. Over-exposed, washed out colors, and slow, dreamy scanning of events.
Kissing in the rain in China Town. Violet and Bradshaw.
Clock factory. Bradshaw’s apartment is on the top level of an old, restored clock factory. His apartment is decorated in hundreds of old clocks, of course. Violet, Bradshaw, Mary Magdalene, Nila, and Lavender spend many nights there.
Violet develops a psychological identity disorder, she now believes that she is Marie Antoinette.
Soundtrack - Marissa Nadler, Rasputina, Yann Tiersen, and Air.
Experiencing the Arts
Jeanne Romano
Personal Movie Draft
The Wandering Star
Main character, Violet Buehler. Blonde with blue-black eyes. Wears too much eye makeup.
Main character, Lavender Schultz. Like a Modigliani painting. Thin neck and dark hair.
Supporting character, Bradshaw. Tall, painfully thin, dark eyes, dark hair, beautiful lips.
Supporting character, Nila. A lost fairy who collects feathers and makes crowns out of daisies. Her name means “dark blue” in Sanskrit. She accompanies Lavender in many of her adventures, and of course is quick to befriend Violet.
Supporting character, Mary Magdalene. A gritty glam girl in a cello rock band. One of the regulars at the Dead Fleurette. Her music is a mix of Rasputina and The Strokes, with a heavenly, raspy, Carla Bruni-esque quality to the vocals.
Violet Buehler, 18 years old, decides to travel. Blindly choosing a train, she ends up in
the crazy, beautiful land of New York. Upon arrival, Violet is greeted by a thin, dark-haired girl with sad eyes and a wan smile. This girl is selling paintings on matchbooks to make a living. The money she makes from her art goes largely toward her cocaine and cigarette addictions.
Lavender invites Violet to come with her to the hip, smoky, underground lounge known by the regulars as the Dead Fleurette. The two girls spend the night and much of the morning dancing and drinking champagne cocktails.
Two days later Violet and Lavender sit on a floral quilt in the middle of a patch of grass in Central Park. Violet’s eye is caught by the most beautiful boy she has ever seen. And he is standing no more than twenty feet away, cigarette in hand. Violet is stunned by his beauty. He is pale, and thin, and very, very tall. His eyes are like those of a fawn, the most lovely shade of chestnut. He appears to be dying. Does way too much coke and smokes far too many cigarettes.
Acid in Central Park. Over-exposed, washed out colors, and slow, dreamy scanning of events.
Kissing in the rain in China Town. Violet and Bradshaw.
Clock factory. Bradshaw’s apartment is on the top level of an old, restored clock factory. His apartment is decorated in hundreds of old clocks, of course. Violet, Bradshaw, Mary Magdalene, Nila, and Lavender spend many nights there.
Violet develops a psychological identity disorder, she now believes that she is Marie Antoinette.
Soundtrack - Marissa Nadler, Rasputina, Yann Tiersen, and Air.