Greg:
A story about someone who was once somebody incredible,
someone who had a massive amount of rumours about who he was and the deeds he
had done. They faked their own death and opened a tavern in a tiny town in the
middle of nowhere but were eventually found by a man named the chronicler who
writes down true accounts of the stories of anyone with a legendary status so
that rumours aren’t the only knowledge about them. The chronicler blackmails
this man into telling his story by saying he’ll reveal who they are if they
don’t and so the man tells his story starting from the beginning when he was
just a child and encompassing all the things that happened to him through his
life.
Chris:
From page 73/74:
He was acting tough, but it was still just acting – typical
fifteen-year-old macho posturing. I was so mad I could have killed him right
there, but I forced myself to calm down. I was better than this – and I was
better than him. He wanted to act scary? I’d give him scary.
‘I’m smiling because I’m thinking about what your insides
look like.’
‘What?’ asked Rob, and then smirked. ‘ Oh, big man, trying
to threaten me. You think you scare me, you little baby?’
‘I’ve been clinically diagnosed with sociopathy,’ I said.
‘Do you know what that means?’
‘It means you’re a freak,’ he said.
‘It means you’re about as important to me as a cardboard
box,’ I said. ‘You’re just a thing – a piece of garbage that no one’s thrown
away yet. Is that what you want me to say?’
‘Shut up,’ said Rob. He was still acting tough, but I could
see his bluster was starting to fail. He didn’t know what to say.
‘The thing about boxes,’ I said, ‘Is that you can open them
up. Even though they’re completely boring on the outside, there might be
something interesting inside. So while you’re saying all of these stupid,
boring things I’m imagining what it would be like to cut you open and see what
you’ve got in there.’
I paused, staring at him, and he stared back. He was scared.
I let him hang onto that fear for a moment longer, then spoke again.
‘The thing is, Rob, I don’t want to cut you open. That’s not
who I want to be. So I made a rule for myself: anytime I want to cut someone
open I say something nice to them instead. That is why I say, Rob Anders of 232
Carnation Street, that you are a great guy.’
Rob’s mouth hung open like he
was about to talk, than he closed it and backed away.
I should have been a pair of ragged claws
Scuttling across the floors of silent seas.
The love song of J.
Alfred Prufrock.
T.S Elliot
Misprinted: Bright disease.
Goncalo:
Harry:
When the broken hearted people
living in the world of greed, there will be an answer. Let it be.
Imagine all the people, living
life in peace.
I am what I am.
Sam:
Fringe ideas -
The idiot- Dostoevsky - about a completely beautiful human
being, beautiful in his pureness and kindness. And he is looked on by other as
an idiot an holy fool. He has no malice or manipulative intentions so he often
takes things at face value and gets mocked for it. Two women scorn him and mock
him but it turns out that they love him and he I stuck between his wanting to
save one from a psychopathic suitor and his feelings for another young girl who
scorns him in public. The book deals with the themes of religion, love, pious
was and most importantly the eradication of the conscience in a capitalist
world. And how all death is like execution because of this.
Karamazov- brothers - it is a very dramatic book. With very
clear characters. It centres around three brothers. One who is holy, good and
almost very ordinary. The other who is atheist, intellectual and sometimes cold
and scornful. And the other is big, strong, brash, angry and a drunk. One of
them is said to have killed their father. And it deals with the drama behind
this. It combines family difficulties and arguments, with inheritance rights,
religion. The justice system an court rooms and the theatrical influence it has
on peoples loves and love.
Master and margarita- about a visit from the devil to an
atheistic Soviet Union- farcical and philosophical
High rise - JG BALLARD. Within the concealing walls of an
elegant forty storey apartment tower block, the affluent tennants are hell bent
on an orgy of destruction. Cocktail parties degenerate into marauding attacks
on enemy flora and once luxurious space becomes a battleground for riot and
technological mayhem. It's a tale of urban disillusionment and how a society
slips into a violent reverse as the isolated inhabitants of the block, driven
by primal urges, create a dystopian world rules by the laws of the jungle.
Dan:
LS Lowry – Freaks, Focusing on the defects of the people within
the images, personality traits wec can get from this? Can we use the
personality or physical defects in each character and basing a stimulus around
how different personality disorders or physical defects can change people or
show how people with these disorders live?
Rolling Stones: Exile on main st.
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wow lots of ideas. remember to keep thinking from an audience not an actor's perspective. cannot wait to hear and see more. over half term, please keep working on your pitches. it is important that you practice how to sell your ideas yourself in a short effective blurb type paragraph rather than links to others' work. very excited. thanks for posting Greg.
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