Fourteener Films

Walter,

Where are the zealots! Dude, you promised me zealots. Zealots, am I spelling your pseudonym correctly? Can we pretty-please have a teensy-weensy conversation?

No?  ’K.

Goodnight.

-Himself

PS (that’s post-script, not post sanctity or post sacreligious…though that might be nice)

Horseshit on religion as it pertains to the “organized”

i’m operating on about 2 hours of sleep over 2 days….add in school, work, baby, in-laws in de house….and my baby and wife are pretty gosh darn sick….

any-who….going to bed….when I go to bed really tired, I tend to really dream…and I dream about that which I spend most of my time either thinking about or wanting to think about….

last time this happened, I pounded out three hundred pages, resulting in WEIGHSTATION…

off to bed….if they won’t show up on the printed page, well, then tonight I enter their world …and drag them all back with me to mine, kicking and screaming if needs be…

“‘Night Mary-Ellen”

Baby won’t sleep. Been sick for days. Barely got projects in for college coursework I’m working on. Yet, strangely, with mere minutes to spare, everyday I have free time…whether it be minutes…or even seconds…I’m thinking about this project….WEIGH STATION is becoming ARKANGEL…I’m one of those quirky sorts who has to have the entire story in my head, INCLUDING, EVEN, NUANCES…then I sit down and pound the thing out in a matter of days….also, Walter has some very creative ideas on how to add to the story line, along with new story lines…the kind of things that move a story from a screenplay into a tv series.

school will finish and the deadlines Walter and I have established will be met. not long now

this stories close….way different from the “Weigh Station” screenplay, and that’s cool….concept will stay the same..Bullshit on the generalized version of Religion…mostly ’cause it’s gotten us to where were at….es no bueno….so forward we march….college classes and Chloe keep me grounded but am nearing the end of an extremely risque opener….question? the radicals went gunning for rushdie with a vengeance…do i play it safe for my baby’s sake, or do I go for the real true message so she’ll be proud of me…even though she may not know/remember ME…?….guts and experience say FALL INTO THE STORY and let everything else work itself out…good times…note to self….when we go into production, pack extra fun meters…

Arkangel was conceived as a screenplay (The Weigh Station) in direct response to the events of Tues, Sept. 11, 2001. Paired with it was a stage play (9/11: Brotherhood of Fire) about the surviving five fireghters from an entire platoon (Five Fire Houses).

“So, this is where religion got us?”, I thought to myself the moment I could put all events and news snippets into context.

“Really? Really? This is how we have all decided to use this gift of life given to us by our God “(whichever God you choose).

Horseshit.

Fast-forward nine years. Look around you. Is the world in turmoil? Of course it is, it always has been, despite a relative few respites. That’s not my point, and that’s not the overriding goal of this particular project. We feel, our job is to entertain and try to give every side a fair shake. After all, there are two sides to every story.

We’re the crusades a good idea? I don’t think so.

Slavery? No.

Killing each other in the name of our respective God’s? I think, and this is my belief, (one which would land me in several prisons around the world) that the respective gods would say “Horseshit on that!” No disrespect intended toward any religion or God, I just like that word. ‘Hoseshit’, however is a prime example of religions proffering excuses. Me, I’m a recovering Catholic. Since I’m not completely recovered, I figure six hail mary’s per ‘Horseshit’ gets me out of MY God’s dog-house, no pun intended.

By the way, I think I’m up to 24 Hail Mary’s? Should start a spreadsheet in the background…

Not going to put all my thoughts out there. Walter’d kill me. Just know this. This project, in particular, will weigh two concepts.

What does God, in all his/her manifestations think about folks spray painting his/her name on a car bomb or smart bomb and destroying innocent lives. In Arkangel, he thinks “HORSESHIT!” (….thirty…).

Also, what is the relationship between God, his archangels, and Jesus two thousand years after Jesus’ death?

Food for thought.

Walter’s an my Golden rule? Have fun.  If we can let folks fall in love/hate with the characters, maybe ask themselves questions like: Why would my particular God give me a human life to live, and then demand we spend half our lives on our knees praying, and the other half planning the demise of folks halfway around the globe, just because they love a different God as much as I love mine?

If those things happen, and, we break half a million fun meters along the way? I’m cool with that.