*REVISION*treatment- author of the dying ten(working title)
the movie i am filming is a narrative about a miserable poet who lives with seven omnipresent voices in his soul. they have been with the title character since as long as he knew. they control half of his life, choices, actions, and they are the main source of his poetry and writing, the main character's only luxury in life. as time progresses he notices that the voices inside him start to fade away slowly and slowly. he doesn't know how to write or come up with many without them, since they have been there for so long, but the main issue is how will he be able to live his life normally. he calls to his friends for guidance, and they try to help him, get inspired to write on his own and come up with idea's.they take him to movies, the library, give him music to listen to. they are basically helping him find a new muse, since he has never been inspired or came up with any original thought of his. as he becomes more aware of the situation at hand they voices fade away faster, and frank is finding it harder to do anything on his own let alone write. as the main character is sleeping the final voice appears in his mind. the final voice sounds like a combination of both his two friends as he says. the final voice tells him that it is fading away along like how the others did and will be gone forever, but that he doesn't need to worry. he will always have his two friends that helped him from the get-go. as its fades he tells the character to "call on god but row away from the rocks", basically stating that he is going to always have his two friends to, but he need to find his own direction on his own. as he wakes up from his sleep, he decides grabs his pen and starts writing...
the character is a poet named frank Bondon. frank is a reclusive who's only joys in the world is writing poetry. he is pretty lonely and doesn't have much friends other than his friend Kenny and his literary coach annelle who truly understand him. frank is a deep person who only writes as a luxury and to let out "the voices" in his soul. the voices are the omnipresence that have been guiding frank since he was six years old, they are the source of franks writing and poetry, and they are the only reason why frank is still living. but frank is now in a slump. the voices in his head are disappearing one by one, due to this he has fallen into a creative block, and as the voices are disappearing he is finding it hard to guide himself toward writing and life in general. he doesn't know how to live without the constant, soft ramblings in his soul, he cant get inspired either because inspiration has always come from the rambles in him but not himself. this movie is technically a coming of age psychological story of a man who is trying to get the hang coming up with a ideas on his owns, but truly how to live his own life...
bullet-points for things to come:
-his friends try and help him find idea's of his own. because a good half of his life has been "doing", not much "thinking" of his own
-the last two voices in his head sound just like his friends. as they disappear they remind him that they will exist in some way or form. and that they might already exist in general
-the last two voices in his head tell him to "row away from the rocks from here on out"
-the final message of the movie, albeit vague he is going to have to do things on his own but he will always have his friends. (you truly need your own sense of direction)
-“Call on God, but row away from the rocks.”
~Hunter S. Thompson

Comments
Things to think
Things to think about:
conflict and resolution
beginning, middle, end.
what are the SPECIFIC things that lead him to self-realization? and what is he realizing?
have you seen the movie Waking Life? it's a very talky, experimental, philosophical movie about a wandering guy who encounters all sorts of people on a kind of vague philosophical quest. there is a consistent theme throughout this movie- where is the boundary between our dreaming selves and our awake selves? vague, yes, but poetically done by Richard Linklater in this movie. Give it a watch and see how he plays around with narrative. I think you are very verbal and this movie of yours might benefit from a really solid script, really good conversations between people. Also check out "Coffee and Cigarettes", by Jim Jarmusch, or "Broken Flowers", also by Jim Jarmusch. The former consists of people sitting around chatting, in black and white, and the latter is Bill Murray traveling around the country, visiting his ex girlfriends and in the process he learns about himself.
Narrative structure- how will you do it?
STRUCTURE!!!
Anna
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