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rockfenris2005 09:44 am UTC 04/29/21 |
| In reply to: | re: Some memories - Evan 07:21 am UTC 04/29/21 |
I had to post this scene from the treatment on the website. The Northern Half of Obsidian is a haven for the rich and powerful, who live in astonishing luxury, in a fortress-like safe development known as “PARADISE LOTS”. They have been able to make billions bleeding the metropolis dry, discovering and exploiting, confiscating great and valuable resources, natural and otherwise. They benefited greatly from the mass exodus of much of the population, those less daring, or greedy. But The Southern Half of Obsidian is quite a different story. It is totally wild and lawless, dominated by extraordinary gangs, all of whom fight for and fight over turf, supplies, and control. This is a world that may be somewhat referential to elements of “Blade Runner”, “Streets of Fire”, “The Warriors”, “A Clockwork Orange” etc. But it should still be startlingly original. It is raw, scary, and phantasmic. Though dangerous, there is an exciting kinetic pulse here that makes the place really ROCK. (Because most of the population are young, it is also like a “Post-Apocalyptic Dead End Kids”.) Southern Obsidian is sometimes savage and ominous, sometimes shockingly beautiful. Very primal, primeval, and futuristic all at the same time. This is a highly “fevered” place, a perfect setting in which magic and myths can grow wild and untamed. Shimmering grunge – hallucinatory urban detritus – industrial ruins litter the landscape like slabs of Stonehenges to come. Automobile carcasses are everywhere, like rotting fossils. Massive chemical residues, toxins, and radiation have caused impressive “mutations”, human and animal and environmental. Some are horrifying, others quite thrilling. Subterranean caverns, tunnels, grottos, and passageways (former subways) – spectacular chasms of light – charred trees, flashing colors and looming shadows, gutted, graffiti-encrusted buildings – skeletal towers and spectral power stations – smoke and fog and mephitic vapors swirling… And every now and then something jaw-droppingly familiar appears to remind us that this was once, in fact, New York City… This is The Southern Half of Obsidian. It is called NEVERLAND. (partly because it is considered so treacherous that pilots will not bring their planes down there – they will fly over, but they will never land… …And there are other reasons.) The action begins as Captain Hook is carrying out one of his beloved “search and destroy” missions, whereby he rounds up various gangs, destroys their hideaways, and takes them in for random, arbitrary, and excessive punishment. He hates them all for the threat and lawlessness they represent, their wildly reckless youth, as well as for the fact that they still prevent him from controlling the lower half of the Island, which he wants for himself and Obsidian Oil. The Gangs themselves are mostly runaways, orphans, neglected, abandoned, and discarded kids of every kind. The Lost Boys are the supreme “biker gang” in Neverland, and one of the most striking of all. Tales about them are spreading, and they are viewed like rock stars in this world. Their leader is Peter, and they are all teenagers, except for Tink. He is almost like their “mascot” – they let him hang out with them. Tink is 9 years old, and Peter is his hero, the big brother he never had, the parents he never knew. Part of the Lost Boys’ “legend” is their incredible prowess on their bikes, which happen to be able to fly. (They can’t stay in the air indefinitely, but for varying intervals, depending on velocity, altitude, thrust, and power consumption. They can create a soaring, acrobatic “aerial ballet”. Only a few in the other gangs, and the Police, have bikes like these.) "Ryan's Reviews" in the link. > Wow! Thank you for posting this. This, somehow, slipped > through my fingers. As did a lot of the content featured > in the Other Children section of the site. I never saw the > entertainment reviews from back when Jim was in school. > I’ll have to go back and read a lot of them. > > Also, where would I find your “Ryan’s Reviews”? | |
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