The Names Have Been Changed To Protect The Innocent
Yeah well, like I said yesterday...
I've been following Evelina's Blog, smiling at some of her reviews and the comments made by visitors. Evelina so graciously posted a pic of Marvin's book cover sitting against the base of a wine glass:) Appropriate. She was sort of intrigued by the name "Marvin", which she found unusual. So did a few other followers of her blog. I bit my tongue and replied that names of characters are SO important, and listed a few that I used for characters in the first draft of Marvin. Yesterday she commented with a chuckle at Marsten Dick, the warden of the jail Marvin spent so many days in.
I took those characters, I don't know, back in 2010, and wrote a script, centering the story on a small time houseboat burglar who is nabbed and sent to jail. While in the holding tank waiting to be admitted, he has a vision. Across the small area, hanging on a wall, he sees a painting; Michelangelo's famous Sistine Chapel view of the Creation of Adam. Beneath it on a small piece of brass, the names of the artists are listed...and he is among them.
Long story short, he is inspired to help make the violent jail into a beautiful house of incarceration, and thus lift the lives of the inmates by having them join him (along with "Beautiful" Myron Fleur and Lavern "Buddy" Budd) in a great art-inspired, inmate project. The challenge will be to get permission from the visionary warden, Marsten Dick--who has his own set of challenges to quell the violence in his institution on orders from the governor. "Zippo" Gonzalez is the antagonist, bent on defeating the plan. He nearly succeeds, until in the last scene we see Lavern lying on his back atop a scaffold near the ceiling of Cellbock 5, calling out in his brutalized and lisp-voice for more plaster.
A friend offered to create a video teaser for the script, and I excitedly agreed! On seeing it at Youtube I nearly fainted. He'd somehow gotten pics of famous and talented actors and used them (brilliantly, I thought), but neither he nor I had bothered to ask their various permissions. I pulled it down, but weeks later said, "Hail Mary, don't let them sue me..." and re-posted it.
Anyway, thinking of hers and other's comments on the names I'd used, I pulled up the video again at Youtube. The background music I suggested worked perfectly. Thank you Karl Jenkins years later.
"Heinz 57 original" at Youtube:)
www.youtube.com/watch?v=aT_MmZDku_o
I've been following Evelina's Blog, smiling at some of her reviews and the comments made by visitors. Evelina so graciously posted a pic of Marvin's book cover sitting against the base of a wine glass:) Appropriate. She was sort of intrigued by the name "Marvin", which she found unusual. So did a few other followers of her blog. I bit my tongue and replied that names of characters are SO important, and listed a few that I used for characters in the first draft of Marvin. Yesterday she commented with a chuckle at Marsten Dick, the warden of the jail Marvin spent so many days in.
I took those characters, I don't know, back in 2010, and wrote a script, centering the story on a small time houseboat burglar who is nabbed and sent to jail. While in the holding tank waiting to be admitted, he has a vision. Across the small area, hanging on a wall, he sees a painting; Michelangelo's famous Sistine Chapel view of the Creation of Adam. Beneath it on a small piece of brass, the names of the artists are listed...and he is among them.
Long story short, he is inspired to help make the violent jail into a beautiful house of incarceration, and thus lift the lives of the inmates by having them join him (along with "Beautiful" Myron Fleur and Lavern "Buddy" Budd) in a great art-inspired, inmate project. The challenge will be to get permission from the visionary warden, Marsten Dick--who has his own set of challenges to quell the violence in his institution on orders from the governor. "Zippo" Gonzalez is the antagonist, bent on defeating the plan. He nearly succeeds, until in the last scene we see Lavern lying on his back atop a scaffold near the ceiling of Cellbock 5, calling out in his brutalized and lisp-voice for more plaster.
A friend offered to create a video teaser for the script, and I excitedly agreed! On seeing it at Youtube I nearly fainted. He'd somehow gotten pics of famous and talented actors and used them (brilliantly, I thought), but neither he nor I had bothered to ask their various permissions. I pulled it down, but weeks later said, "Hail Mary, don't let them sue me..." and re-posted it.
Anyway, thinking of hers and other's comments on the names I'd used, I pulled up the video again at Youtube. The background music I suggested worked perfectly. Thank you Karl Jenkins years later.
"Heinz 57 original" at Youtube:)
www.youtube.com/watch?v=aT_MmZDku_o
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