shit, brotha.

it's been more than a minute, and i'm taking off for a short little vacation-in-a-vacation in the coming week, but i'm excited by all these ideas floating around, so i'ma lay some things down on paper.

first of all, i like the idea that he is physically seeking a tangible object.

second, i think he should naturally render the events in his life into art. so he starts writing this play about his search... maybe it's an epic a la gilgamesh or odyssey... but what he creates he only considers to be an exercise-- to stay sharp... and we're not limited to scripts. he can write poems about girls he meets or write songs about parties he's been to... these are just a normal part of his life... rendering things around him into art.

anyway, the search should be kafka-esque... maybe you're not familiar, so i'll elaborate. his search will take him places. he might run into that creepy chorus we were talking about. he'll run into an marginal underground drug scene. it'll be almost mythic in proportions... strange places and strange people. at the same time, he doesnt get anywhere. the feeling he gets is that, everyone else is in on the joke, but he's not. though he moves through circles of people, his quest never moves forward. (this is reminiscent of pynchon, i know, but the godfather of it all is definitely kafka) ... i guess the reason why kafka (and pynchon) is so incredibly resonant, is that, his characters (kafka's) are easily universal, and they evolve into metaphors for the predicament of modern man. and the same with our movie... the unending search for beauty, for art, for some missing aspect of yourself that you know you once had... these are pretty universal. but at times, we are so frustrated by the search that we doubt that any of it ever even existed. (note, that's good, he should at some point, doubt whether or not he even wrote a script... or wrote anything).

whew. i think that establishes a good general sweep of the plot. it leaves a lot of room for anything we're amused by or interested in writing. i could see it as a darkly satirical kind of movie (the kind i've always wanted to write, given the opportunity).

george out

posted by gxyz at 5:56 PM