Fifteen Post

08/04/10 from Richard and I




The Moon: Main character (actor)



The Fool: Sarcastic Joker character, skinny, tired character.

Job: Slacker.

Age: late 20’s

Eyes: Pale grey, tired, youthful

Looks: boyish, 5:00 shadow, side burns, dark, straight, floppy, parted hair, large Adam’s apple. Pale loose fitting t shirt, skinny jeans, baseball shoes

Animation: Armature



The Lover: Seductive sexualised character.

Job: Personal Escort girl.

Age: late 20’s, early 30’s

Eyes: undecided

Looks: curvaceous, fiery red head, good looks but signs of positive maturity, aged well.



The Chariot: Idealistic/Highly will powered character. He’s arrogant, aggressive with a hint of violence. He doesn’t like being questioned.

Job: High flying business entrepreneur or a priest

Age: 40’s

Eyes: dark, almost black

Looks: smartly dressed, suit and black tie or priest outfit, angelic features adds to the impression he gives he is an honest man, but looks can be deceptive.



The Hermit: Reclusive, isolated character, Wildman/friendly old man.

Job: Travelling carnival worker

Age: 60+

Eyes: wandering, manic eyes

Looks: eccentric, white crazy hair, grin, nervous ticks, gnarled wrinkly face, earthy dirt



Justice: Rational, emotionless, cold calculated character.

Job: hit man/ ex army

Age: Late 30’s

Looks: heavy set, military, choppy peppered grey hair, 100 yard stare, chiselled features. Moss green shirt unbuttoned top button, light brown trousers.



The Devil: Ruthless, un-scrupulous, greedy character.

Job: inmates defence lawyer

Age: Early 50’s

Looks: snaky, shifty eyes, menacing glint, pointy angular features, smartly dressed but boots made of croc skin, Tanned, leather skin, sneering, sly. Roughly shaven with soul patch. Receding widows peak, dark hair.



From Richard: 14/05/2010 12:04



Fracture Structure



As I've mentioned before, I'm going to do 1st drafts for both of the ideas - (1: The stories leading up to his capture.  2: Differing separate tales of what has happened to the girl)



However at the moment the 2nd option is the one I can make the most sense & believability out of so I'm doing that one 1st



NOW...



We have six stories, and if a girl goes missing what could happen?

I've narrowed it down to: Girl is murdered

                                          Girl is abducted

                                          Girl has ran away

                                          Girl has faked her own death



Now 2 of these options will have to be repeated twice to make it six stories   -- so if you want to come up with some stories based on these premises?



The clues: 

· before girl goes missing she rings the asylum to speak to the Moon

· her room has half her drawers open, the clothes missing

· there is a bloodstain on the floor



these clues would leave it open for any of the possibilities I mentioned E.G. Blood, could be murder, it could be her getting roughed up and running away, she could of done it to herself to fake death, she could have simply cut herself by accident and left without incident....you know, options are open for any which way



It can involve shady black market dudes, politicians, trailer trash, journalists, conspiracies, bank robberies, jealous lovers, ninjas (joke)

In other words think of a story you like that is possible to fit in to these 4 ideas of how the girl could disappear.

These stories can (and are kind of meant) to contradict previous stories from previous characters, after all the point of these personalities and their stories is that they’re all fictitious accounts in one guys head.



These stories can be set (location wise) anywhere; they don’t have to be in or near the Asylum.

We'll collect our stories together, see what we like, composite them together and make a 1st draft which we can then hand onto Ian cottage for review or another scriptwriter to re-write.



Reply:



Ok, here goes... For each character obviously plausible fitting their personalities, attitudes to what happens to the girl when they witness it, where they are, what they're doing at the time. So...



The Fool: He's young, having trouble sleeping and basically lives at the university his mates are studying at when he's not at home trying to sleep. She's connected to him but only just through his circle of friends. He knows her attitude towards people but isn't really friends with her. He says that she's a bit of a bitch at the uni, makes a lot of enemies because of her shallow, superficial attitude towards people. He says to most of the 'normal crowd' she wasn't liked very much. The last he remembers is walking home alone after a late nighter seeing her strutting home putting it about a few guys and was picked up by a person he didn't get a good look at in a sports car with blacked out windows. He just assumed she was getting off with one of the popular guys but that was the last he saw of her then he was dragged in. Obviously, he's a guy who lives on his wits and cocky, so the interview is broken up with trying to get the information out of him without making some kind of snide or sarcastic comment.



The Lover: Says she has a similar story to The Fool, she remembers the girl as a female rival. They both always had to outdo each other with whatever they wore, whoever they were seeing etc. She then goes on to talk about more shady activities they were involved in. 'Good looking girls like us mixing with a lot of guys; it's not long till we got noticed.' The Lover then goes on to talk about becoming a local social escort; she needed the money and says she remembers the girl also delving in that area too. The last she heard was the girl getting involved with the wrong people, the kind of people you don't mess with and having a disagreement with them, never seen since.



The Chariot: Working as a member of the church, he remembers her in the last few weeks turning up quite frequently to talk to him about her problems. She'd never been a church goer before, said she wasn't even religious, but felt the need to come to somebody she felt she could trust, to 'confess' to. He said she felt the need to see him after the first time she went to confession, told him she was in a mess, she'd certainly sinned. She told him she was in with the wrong crowd and she realized finally that if she stayed on the line she was going, she would pay the price, but she was finding it hard to 'disappear'. After the large amount of visits to the church and discussing 'disappearing' with The Chariot, she disappeared. The Chariot is cagey about what happened, he feels the need to protect the girl's confessions in the eyes of God. To divulge them would be against his duty. The detective gets very annoyed by this and probes The Chariot severely and we never find out why he's so angry till the end when we realize who he and everyone else are.



The Hermit: He's wild, manic, obviously not a full shilling. The majority of the interview is mainly aimed at bribing the detective for a good place to stay and a nice mound of cash, so he could reveal what he knows, the key being he doesn't really know a lot (or again of course leading the detectives on a wild goose chase with having a hidden motive) He says he remembers seeing a girl of her description arguing with a bloke pretty heatedly as he was walking the street, he then got drunk on the money he'd been begging for all day from the public and whilst rummaging for his tea in a bin, he saw the same bloke loading a rolled up carpet into his car boot. He says he didn't really put 2 and 2 together till he heard about a disappearance and saw her picture in a paper he found lying round on his travels. He believes the bloke's probably murdered her.



Justice: He's hard to read, being emotionless and all. The detective tells him he's brought in because they believes he knows something about the girl's disappearance, that he grew up with the girl's father, served time with him in the army and had something to do with his search for her. He says he knew her from when she was very young and was pretty fond of her. When she disappeared he felt the need to do everything he could to find her, to bring the one responsible for her disappearance to 'justice'. He acts quite passionately about accusations that he might be involved in her death, like he was more than just her father's friend but had feelings of his own for her. (Almost like a stalker. This could reflect the main character's feelings for her if you count all the characters as a whole person. Little snippets of each personality revealing an element of truth).



The Devil: He doesn't know the girl as such. He's just the defence lawyer for all in question. He's slippery about what all the suspects or witnesses have said and tries to twist everything that was said by them so that the detective can't possibly pin blame to any of them. This is obviously nullified when we realize that they're all the same person. The Moon comes through for the last time when the detective cuts through the lawyer facade and comes to his conclusion, whichever one that may be.



I personally think that elements from each story are true, that The Moon appeared in each version, either as an outside influence (like the bloke loading up his boot with a carpet, the bloke in the blacked out car) or as a direct influence (Justice being there watching her from the beginning, The Chariot listening to her problems, mainly just so he could be around her, The Fool, giving his actual opinion of her being basically a slag, not interested in him etc. The Lover, when he starts to get verbally aggressive towards her rejections of him) So they're all inter connected but subtly, in a way that the audience aren't automatically going to think they're all the same but something he's managed to conjure up in his head to describe what happened after possibly killing her, the trauma of doing whatever has happened to her, whatever he's done more than likely being what's fractured his mind.)



Each personality obviously covers the separate scenarios, her being missing, her faking her death or 'disappearing', her being kidnapped or her being killed. Yet all situations can be linked back to The Moon at the end cleverly to understand the twist that he's got D.I.D and it's all him. The audience still don't get the confession from The Moon, but as he's dragged away kicking and screaming back to his cell flashing his face between personalities, the audience are still in an understanding that he was involved in everything, kind of like 'Keyser Soze' if you like.