So after scrambling my head...
As you all know because those of you who have me friended on Livejournal know me very well, I've been wrestling around with a few different script ideas trying to move forward with at least one of them and not getting very far. I was either discouraged by the fact that I knew I would need a large budget to actually try and shoot the film or frustrated with a lack of dramatic tension, and because of these speed bumps I haven't gotten very far with any one of them in the last few months. I have a ton of wonderful synopsis', but nothing that was really sticking until about two hours ago. I was sitting here in the basement at my computer, Ray at his laptop on the other side and he played a piece of music, very folkish sounding almost like it was from the Civil War era, and it made me remember a story I'd thought up in my head, and I can't seem to get it out...
Once, a long time ago, in Boston, there was a young Irish married couple named Michael and Sophia. While Michael and Sophia loved each other very much, Michael was often a cold man who neglected Sophia, who regarded herself as very plain. All of this changed when Sophia was diagnosed with polio.
Basically the story follows this young couple dealing with the fact that Sophia has polio, which at the time (the exact time I want to set this in is still a bit fuzzy for me) is incurable. Grief stricken with guilt, Michael wanders the streets of Boston drunk one night and stumbles upon an abandoned house which he is drawn too, and inside the house he finds a doorway to a mythological land from Irish folklore called Tir-Na-Nog. Time in Tir-Na-Nog passes by slower than it does in the real world, so that a few days in Tir-Na-Nog is like several years in our world. It is a paradise of green with young, happy people living there full of valleys, forests, rivers, lovely music and pure happiness. Michael decides that the only thing he can do for Sophia is bring her there to try and give her the good life she deserved rather than the dismal neglectful one he gave her, but the slow passing of time makes her disease all the more painful which can be seen by the inhabitants of Tir-Na-Nog who tell Michael that he cannot selfishly make her stay there out of guilt.
That's the basic plot that I've gathered up thus far, and even though that seems beyond a small budget already I really don't care because I'm completely in love with the idea of 1) the chance to actually include my own heritage into my work and 2) writing a film with good dramatic tension that doesn't have an evil antagonist (if you don't know I'm not really a huge fan of the evil antagonist formula, I think it's gotten pretty old).
Just thought I'd share that since I haven't made a Livejournal entry in a while, plus I would love to know other people's opinions on this. Just another month of Jersey and then I'll hopefully be in D.C. with my baby... snoogens...
Once, a long time ago, in Boston, there was a young Irish married couple named Michael and Sophia. While Michael and Sophia loved each other very much, Michael was often a cold man who neglected Sophia, who regarded herself as very plain. All of this changed when Sophia was diagnosed with polio.
Basically the story follows this young couple dealing with the fact that Sophia has polio, which at the time (the exact time I want to set this in is still a bit fuzzy for me) is incurable. Grief stricken with guilt, Michael wanders the streets of Boston drunk one night and stumbles upon an abandoned house which he is drawn too, and inside the house he finds a doorway to a mythological land from Irish folklore called Tir-Na-Nog. Time in Tir-Na-Nog passes by slower than it does in the real world, so that a few days in Tir-Na-Nog is like several years in our world. It is a paradise of green with young, happy people living there full of valleys, forests, rivers, lovely music and pure happiness. Michael decides that the only thing he can do for Sophia is bring her there to try and give her the good life she deserved rather than the dismal neglectful one he gave her, but the slow passing of time makes her disease all the more painful which can be seen by the inhabitants of Tir-Na-Nog who tell Michael that he cannot selfishly make her stay there out of guilt.
That's the basic plot that I've gathered up thus far, and even though that seems beyond a small budget already I really don't care because I'm completely in love with the idea of 1) the chance to actually include my own heritage into my work and 2) writing a film with good dramatic tension that doesn't have an evil antagonist (if you don't know I'm not really a huge fan of the evil antagonist formula, I think it's gotten pretty old).
Just thought I'd share that since I haven't made a Livejournal entry in a while, plus I would love to know other people's opinions on this. Just another month of Jersey and then I'll hopefully be in D.C. with my baby... snoogens...