the exquisite, cinematic, livejournal-based corpse
As the computer said to the hacker, "Do you want to play a game?"
So, you know the game The Exquisite Corpse, where people pass around a paper and contribute a line or a segment of drawing, either according to some grammatical rule or by letting the next contributor see the end of the previous contribution?
I was thinking, rather than complain about movies with sub-stellar scripts, why not write my own (sub- or super-stellar)? Well, there are obvious answers, the most obvious being: damn, it's been a while since I tried to write anything. Not to mention the corollary to that: damn, it's hard to write.
So I thought I would enlist y'all. So, let's make an exquisite corpse movie script! (If you prefer to sketch some scenes rather than write them out, that works for me.) What are the rules? No rules--write a line, write a scene--interject a line or a whole scene into someone else's scene--change the genre, declare the previous fantasy to be the dream of a robot or a knight or a superhero or a person in love or out of love.
Think of it, if you want, as a wiki-script. (And don't worry about formatting right now.)
THE DISCONTENTS
On a black background, the epigraph comes up in white letters:
May your skin shiver and crawl
And creep like a sick cow's hide,
Pause before the rest of it comes up:
May pain like liquid mercury
Come running up your asshole
-Rabelais
A bright white line of light scans across the screen from top to bottom, once, twice.
Cut to copy machine tray where page after page of this epigraph is coming out.
Cut to copy shop interior, with manager coming over to girl in copy shop uniform at the machine which is putting out this material. The manager has a scowl on his face; the girl is bored.
SARA (voice over): I decided the copy shop wasn't going to work out.
So, you know the game The Exquisite Corpse, where people pass around a paper and contribute a line or a segment of drawing, either according to some grammatical rule or by letting the next contributor see the end of the previous contribution?
I was thinking, rather than complain about movies with sub-stellar scripts, why not write my own (sub- or super-stellar)? Well, there are obvious answers, the most obvious being: damn, it's been a while since I tried to write anything. Not to mention the corollary to that: damn, it's hard to write.
So I thought I would enlist y'all. So, let's make an exquisite corpse movie script! (If you prefer to sketch some scenes rather than write them out, that works for me.) What are the rules? No rules--write a line, write a scene--interject a line or a whole scene into someone else's scene--change the genre, declare the previous fantasy to be the dream of a robot or a knight or a superhero or a person in love or out of love.
Think of it, if you want, as a wiki-script. (And don't worry about formatting right now.)
THE DISCONTENTS
On a black background, the epigraph comes up in white letters:
May your skin shiver and crawl
And creep like a sick cow's hide,
Pause before the rest of it comes up:
May pain like liquid mercury
Come running up your asshole
-Rabelais
A bright white line of light scans across the screen from top to bottom, once, twice.
Cut to copy machine tray where page after page of this epigraph is coming out.
Cut to copy shop interior, with manager coming over to girl in copy shop uniform at the machine which is putting out this material. The manager has a scowl on his face; the girl is bored.
SARA (voice over): I decided the copy shop wasn't going to work out.