Monday, December 09, 2002
alright, if i ever get off my ass and write a movie script, i figured out what its going to be about. i had an epiphany at about 4:30 in the morning when i was staring at my wall. i was listening to foo fighters, in particular Come Back off their new album. i realized that you could build an entire movie around this one song, and it would be good. so i was like, where would the main character be coming back from? i figured the only place really worthy of the song was war. a few things stemmed from this. it really is an uplifting song, i mean, it kind of instills strength and all. i WILL come back. kind of like, everything was looking down, there was no good side to going to war. but i will come back....
so yeah, that meant that there was no good side to me (the main character obviously) going to war. this made sense. this means i didn't want to go to war, because some people see the whole patriotic aspect to going to war as a good thing. this means i was drafted. it makes sense, because i wouldn't go to war on my own anyways. but i hate the draft, and i would do anything to avoid being drafted. this song would come in at a point at which all hope was lost. obviously, what is happening is this:
setting here.... present or near future, but with kind of a little dimensional shift. you see parallels between this society and our society, but things are taken to extremes and such.
we are going to war, but no one cares. the army needs people, but enlistment booths are dead. literally no one is joining the army because they hate the war and don't believe in it. the government is very stronghanded and frightnening to most people, so there is an air of silence, and pent up rage and fear. no one can stand up, because they are too afraid of what is going to happen to them. so they hide, and go about their business, doing their best to avoid the governments eyes.
the army has no troops, hence the draft. this fills the entire country with a sense of dread, because it is something they will not be able to avoid.
some of us have not been able to avoid the governments eyes. there is a list of young men who are being watched. they don't do anything overtly treasonous, they just don't care enough about the government to fear it. this makes them the most dangerous people in the world, in the governements eyes. the governement builds a list of people to enter into the draft. we are at the head of this list, obviously ;) the governement feels, if they take us out first, those most likely to resist, they will take out everyone elses will to exist. no one really knows us, but they feel our aura of defiance, and build strength on us. verrrry dangerous things. so we need to be out of the way. this is where the draft comes in.
the draft...... no one avoids the draft. if you try to run, you are hunted down. you will be enlisted in the military. NO ONE has ever avoided the draft. the government is smug, they know they are getting rid of their biggest enemies. they never expected us to resist, and more importantly, they never expected us to resist successfully.
so yeah, its all about a group of 5 people. 4 of them we know, one we don't. there are some great scenes where the 4 of us are escaping the draft cop dudes, killing them all and speeding off in various cars, high speed chases, kung fu and such. see, underneath all our non-caring attitudes. we know we are the most bad ass people ever, so we meet up to plan stuff. we figure we would be the top 4 people on the list, hands down, like in our whole own category. but we figure out that there is someone else on the list. not only that, there is someone in the #2 spot, right under me. this is shocking to us. we make it our mission to find this person to help us. we do, and we take on the goverment. we break into the army base where they are holding the draft, and bust our friends out. we prepare for a war with the government. but, during our huge kick ass thing, we can't win. the 5 of us are just not enough, so in the end, we end up being drafted. kind of a surprise ending sort of thing, us getting drafted. there is a nice scene at the end where i'm about to be sent off to boot camp, and i'm talking to my cliche action movie love interest, and come back comes on. when you go into the army, you never come out. you either die, or are a military man forever. kind of a brainwashing 1984 thing. so yeah, i convince her i will come back. see, there have been scenes with our friends throughout that show boot camp, and people being shipped off and tortured and stuff in preperation for the military. lots of torturing, and lots of people having their wills broken. so, the 5 of us meet up on the battlefield during a huge battle, as per our plan. the 5 of us have been taken into special torture consideration, and programmed to kill each other on site so this wouldn't happen again, that kind of thing. so we meet up, and we are all facing eachother, guns drawn. and then we smile, lift up our guns and start running away from the war. at the very end, we destroy draft headquarters, and we bust through the heavily armed border into canada. the last thing you see is this general dude overriding the huge draft database program and changing our 5 statuses from "drafted" to "dodged." it is a huge deal, and involves a complete program override, that kind of thing, and dodged is entered in huge red letters, that kind of thing, and is overall great, because come back comes on again, because i actually did come back.
i think this would make a great movie. my description here really doesn't do it justice, i mean, how do i put images in my head down and get them all in there
so yeah, that meant that there was no good side to me (the main character obviously) going to war. this made sense. this means i didn't want to go to war, because some people see the whole patriotic aspect to going to war as a good thing. this means i was drafted. it makes sense, because i wouldn't go to war on my own anyways. but i hate the draft, and i would do anything to avoid being drafted. this song would come in at a point at which all hope was lost. obviously, what is happening is this:
setting here.... present or near future, but with kind of a little dimensional shift. you see parallels between this society and our society, but things are taken to extremes and such.
we are going to war, but no one cares. the army needs people, but enlistment booths are dead. literally no one is joining the army because they hate the war and don't believe in it. the government is very stronghanded and frightnening to most people, so there is an air of silence, and pent up rage and fear. no one can stand up, because they are too afraid of what is going to happen to them. so they hide, and go about their business, doing their best to avoid the governments eyes.
the army has no troops, hence the draft. this fills the entire country with a sense of dread, because it is something they will not be able to avoid.
some of us have not been able to avoid the governments eyes. there is a list of young men who are being watched. they don't do anything overtly treasonous, they just don't care enough about the government to fear it. this makes them the most dangerous people in the world, in the governements eyes. the governement builds a list of people to enter into the draft. we are at the head of this list, obviously ;) the governement feels, if they take us out first, those most likely to resist, they will take out everyone elses will to exist. no one really knows us, but they feel our aura of defiance, and build strength on us. verrrry dangerous things. so we need to be out of the way. this is where the draft comes in.
the draft...... no one avoids the draft. if you try to run, you are hunted down. you will be enlisted in the military. NO ONE has ever avoided the draft. the government is smug, they know they are getting rid of their biggest enemies. they never expected us to resist, and more importantly, they never expected us to resist successfully.
so yeah, its all about a group of 5 people. 4 of them we know, one we don't. there are some great scenes where the 4 of us are escaping the draft cop dudes, killing them all and speeding off in various cars, high speed chases, kung fu and such. see, underneath all our non-caring attitudes. we know we are the most bad ass people ever, so we meet up to plan stuff. we figure we would be the top 4 people on the list, hands down, like in our whole own category. but we figure out that there is someone else on the list. not only that, there is someone in the #2 spot, right under me. this is shocking to us. we make it our mission to find this person to help us. we do, and we take on the goverment. we break into the army base where they are holding the draft, and bust our friends out. we prepare for a war with the government. but, during our huge kick ass thing, we can't win. the 5 of us are just not enough, so in the end, we end up being drafted. kind of a surprise ending sort of thing, us getting drafted. there is a nice scene at the end where i'm about to be sent off to boot camp, and i'm talking to my cliche action movie love interest, and come back comes on. when you go into the army, you never come out. you either die, or are a military man forever. kind of a brainwashing 1984 thing. so yeah, i convince her i will come back. see, there have been scenes with our friends throughout that show boot camp, and people being shipped off and tortured and stuff in preperation for the military. lots of torturing, and lots of people having their wills broken. so, the 5 of us meet up on the battlefield during a huge battle, as per our plan. the 5 of us have been taken into special torture consideration, and programmed to kill each other on site so this wouldn't happen again, that kind of thing. so we meet up, and we are all facing eachother, guns drawn. and then we smile, lift up our guns and start running away from the war. at the very end, we destroy draft headquarters, and we bust through the heavily armed border into canada. the last thing you see is this general dude overriding the huge draft database program and changing our 5 statuses from "drafted" to "dodged." it is a huge deal, and involves a complete program override, that kind of thing, and dodged is entered in huge red letters, that kind of thing, and is overall great, because come back comes on again, because i actually did come back.
i think this would make a great movie. my description here really doesn't do it justice, i mean, how do i put images in my head down and get them all in there
