Tropical Island Make-Your-Own-Movie Draft (Round 16)
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Indeed.
Slim says his is coming in tommorow, so I will will hold off until then, and maybe Dime or the other peeps can chip theirs in too. Then the polls will be going up this weekend -- opening weekend at the movies.
Slim says his is coming in tommorow, so I will will hold off until then, and maybe Dime or the other peeps can chip theirs in too. Then the polls will be going up this weekend -- opening weekend at the movies.
So it seems you did not. Upon re-reading, it appears that that was me misreading you saying "It seemed as if Slim assumed I pulled out due to laziness or something equally unserious" as "I assumed Slim pulled out due to laziness or something equally unserious." So, on that particular point, I will apologize for misquoting you, and responding based on that misquote.
As to the rest of it, however, I don't apologize at all: I asked you a neutral question, and you responded with attitude. And then, when I replied to your attitude with attitude, you got personal. Don't act like you're the victim here, kid; from my point of view, you started it.
And, as far as this:
It works both ways. You don't know me or what I'm capable of, and it's real easy for you to hide behind a computer screen and accuse me of being "internet tough" when you don't have to worry about ever dealing with me face-to-face. And, let me remind you that you're the one trying to make it personal, not me, so before you accuse of anything else you don't know, and can't possibly prove, you may want to remember that.
As to the rest of it, however, I don't apologize at all: I asked you a neutral question, and you responded with attitude. And then, when I replied to your attitude with attitude, you got personal. Don't act like you're the victim here, kid; from my point of view, you started it.
And, as far as this:
It works both ways. You don't know me or what I'm capable of, and it's real easy for you to hide behind a computer screen and accuse me of being "internet tough" when you don't have to worry about ever dealing with me face-to-face. And, let me remind you that you're the one trying to make it personal, not me, so before you accuse of anything else you don't know, and can't possibly prove, you may want to remember that.
Now, getting on with this write-up business...
I don't have any photoshop skills, so I hope my write-up is enough:
Our movie opens with convicted eco-terrorist “Gaia” Green being escorted out of the courthouse, and into the vehicle that will transport her to the maximum security facility where she has been sentenced to spend the next five years. The path to the transport is beset on all sides by reporters and cameramen; as the cameras begin snapping photographs with remarkable frequency, the flare of each flashbulb switches what we see on the screen, from a questioning reporter, to a close-up of Gaia, to frequent looks back on the trial:
FLASH
… the reading of the charges against her…
FLASH
… quick snippets from the opening remarks by the prosecution…
FLASH
… And the defense…
FLASH
A few other quick snippets of the trial follow, culminating to the reading of the verdict. As we return to “real time,” Gaia is led inside the transport, with her face still being illuminated by flashbulbs as it pulls away from the courthouse.
As the transport makes its journey, the screen shows a despondent Gaia looking forlornly out the window, interspersed with images of the trial being discussed on various news programs and talk shows, some demonizing her, and others praising her as a hero. A similar conversation is taking place in the cab of the transport between two of the guards assigned to escort her, when their conversation is abruptly interrupted by the sound of an explosion, followed almost immediately by a blast that knocks the transport off the road!
Disoriented guards spill out of the transport and escorting vehicles, only to be ambushed by the Harpies, an all-female gang! The camera pans back and forth between various fight scenes, with the most damage clearly being done by the “hitter” of the group, Lucia Carmona, and their leader, “Chas” Knight. With radio transmissions from the gang’s absentee member, “Mouse” Carmona, reminding them of their time constraints, they quickly make their way to the transport and free Gaia. As they make their escape, Chas explains to Gaia how the national coverage of her trial brought her to their attention, and how Chas felt that Gaia and the Harpies could help each other.
Cut to:
At the J. Edgar Hoover Building, FBI Deputy Director Darius Franklin is dressing down Special Agent Jim Crupi, who had worked the Gaia Green case for three years as a junior agent, and was the one who had finally apprehended her and brought her to justice (resulting in his promotion to Special Agent) in his office. It quickly becomes clear that Deputy Director Franklin has decided to hold Special Agent Crupi responsible for Gaia Green’s escape, despite the fact that Crupi was not assigned to her transport detail. Franklin tasks Crupi with tracking Green down and returning her to custody, jokingly implying that his recent promotion may be at stake.
Cut to:
The Harpies arrive at their headquarters, with Gaia Green expressing that, while she appreciates their part in helping her escape, she is accustomed to working alone, and unsure about joining a group. Chas, having a minor injury attended to, assigns her second-in-command, “Shiva” Lohrum, to try and recruit Gaia into their group. Shiva makes an impassioned “sales pitch,” convincing her that the Harpies need her, and that they can help her do so much more to achieve her ecological visions, while also surreptitiously suggesting that Gaia is what the group has always needed, and that she hopes that Gaia will agree to join them, in the hopes that she will one day lead them, and mold them in her image. The idea of using a group with the talents of the Harpies as the kind of political radical she considers herself to be convinces Green to join the group.
Cut to:
Agent Crupi in the field doing the sort of police work that helps establish his character for the movie as an honest, determined lawman. He gets a tip from a CI that Gaia Green was seen in the vicinity of Seattle, Washington, and that she may be planning something there. Crupi arrives in Seattle just as reports pour in about a demonstration at the Space Needle. It turns out to be a diversion, however, as the Harpies, less the Carmona sisters, are infiltrating the military base in nearby Everett, Washington, triggering an explosion that destroys an ecologically-unfriendly power plant which provides power to the base, and the surrounding community.
What follows is something of a montage of criminal activity by the Harpies, all of which ends with them successfully eluding capture. Throughout these capers, all six Harpies are never seen at the same location, but Chas explains this to Gaia as there being certain members of the gang that specialize at certain things, and that there is no real need for every member to be at every job. Because of the seeming eco-political nature of their crimes, the national media sparks a debate over whether they are really evil, or misunderstood. An unscrupulous media personality christens them “Spice Girls with Guns,” while another calls them “Gaia Green and her Planeteers,” which raises the ire of Chas Knight. Chas tasks Shiva with making sure that Gaia understands her role in the group, but Shiva instead begins to fill Gaia’s head with notions of Chas wanting to lead the Harpies back away from the eco-political activities that they’ve been involved in, and suggests that she may no longer be fit to lead them.
Conflict between Chas and Gaia reaches a head following a job where Agent Crupi finally catches up with them. Although they eventually escape, Chas witnesses an interaction between Gaia and Jim where it becomes clear that the two of them have a relationship beyond the typical fox-and-hound relationship of a cop and a criminal. After they get away, Chas gets into a confrontation with Gaia, telling her that she has become a liability, and that she needs to leave the group. Gaia responds by saying that she has become a Harpy, and that she feels that she embodies the spirit of the group moreso than Chas does, and that she needs to leave instead. This leads to an extended fight scene between the two of them, which is ultimately broken up by the rest of the Harpies. Both women vow never to work with the other again, but Shiva goes to each of them individually, convincing them to work together one last time, with her making the added suggestion to Chas that they leave Gaia at the job to take the fall.
Agent Crupi gets a tip that something is going down in Chicago but, remembering the Seattle job, starts looking for vulnerable targets near Chicago, and ends up intercepting the Harpies at the nuclear power plant in nearby Zion, Illinois. In the shootout that follows, Chas orders Shiva to follow through on her mandate to sacrifice Gaia so that they can escape but, in a surprising twist, Shiva traps Chas between the FBI and the reactor, and then triggers an explosion that kills Chas, and forcing the reactor workers and the FBI to put all of their effort into ensuring containment, enabling the Harpies to escape.
Playing the role of grief-stricken apprentice, a seemingly disconsolate Shiva convinces Gaia to take the leadership role. But, as Gaia pledges to lead the Harpies towards her vision, Shiva exchanges knowing looks with Lucia and Harley, and suddenly the scene cuts to flashbacks from earlier in the movie, where Shiva has taken the other members of the Harpies aside, even before Gaia became part of the group, and told them of her intentions. As Gaia pledges to lead the Harpies into the same sort of eco-political activity she believes they have been involved in, more flashbacks make it clear that the reason why you never saw all six Harpies at the same job is because they were using the eco-terrorism as a cover for the actual crimes that they were committing; the site of one harbor demonstration, for example, was conveniently close to a bank that Chas and Harley were robbing. Additionally, more flashbacks show local LEOs and civilians killed in cold blood by other members of the Harpies, Shiva in particular, when Gaia had been led to believe that they had just been incapacitated.
In the aftermath of the power plant incident, Agent Crupi is made aware that some of the nuclear material is unaccounted for. As Crupi ponders what an eco-terrorist would need with nuclear material, continued flashbacks make it clear that Shiva is, in fact, the mastermind behind the Harpies, and that she has possession of the nuclear material. In the privacy of her office, it is revealed that stealing the nuclear material is actually part of a much more grandiose and diabolical plan…
Which is where the first part of the trilogy ends, and the credits roll.
Angelina Jolie as Gennifer "Gaia" Green
Christina Ricci as Sharon "Shiva" Lohrum
Michelle Rodriguez as Lucia Carmona
Natalie Martinez as Maria "Mouse" Carmona
Beth Riesgraf as Helen "Harley" Davidson
Michael Weatherly as FBI Special Agent James Crupi
Tiffani Thiessen as Chastity "Chas" Knight
Keith David as FBI Deputy Director Darius Franklin
I don't have any photoshop skills, so I hope my write-up is enough:
Our movie opens with convicted eco-terrorist “Gaia” Green being escorted out of the courthouse, and into the vehicle that will transport her to the maximum security facility where she has been sentenced to spend the next five years. The path to the transport is beset on all sides by reporters and cameramen; as the cameras begin snapping photographs with remarkable frequency, the flare of each flashbulb switches what we see on the screen, from a questioning reporter, to a close-up of Gaia, to frequent looks back on the trial:
FLASH
… the reading of the charges against her…
FLASH
… quick snippets from the opening remarks by the prosecution…
FLASH
… And the defense…
FLASH
A few other quick snippets of the trial follow, culminating to the reading of the verdict. As we return to “real time,” Gaia is led inside the transport, with her face still being illuminated by flashbulbs as it pulls away from the courthouse.
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BAD MEETS EVIL
BAD MEETS EVIL
As the transport makes its journey, the screen shows a despondent Gaia looking forlornly out the window, interspersed with images of the trial being discussed on various news programs and talk shows, some demonizing her, and others praising her as a hero. A similar conversation is taking place in the cab of the transport between two of the guards assigned to escort her, when their conversation is abruptly interrupted by the sound of an explosion, followed almost immediately by a blast that knocks the transport off the road!
Disoriented guards spill out of the transport and escorting vehicles, only to be ambushed by the Harpies, an all-female gang! The camera pans back and forth between various fight scenes, with the most damage clearly being done by the “hitter” of the group, Lucia Carmona, and their leader, “Chas” Knight. With radio transmissions from the gang’s absentee member, “Mouse” Carmona, reminding them of their time constraints, they quickly make their way to the transport and free Gaia. As they make their escape, Chas explains to Gaia how the national coverage of her trial brought her to their attention, and how Chas felt that Gaia and the Harpies could help each other.
Cut to:
At the J. Edgar Hoover Building, FBI Deputy Director Darius Franklin is dressing down Special Agent Jim Crupi, who had worked the Gaia Green case for three years as a junior agent, and was the one who had finally apprehended her and brought her to justice (resulting in his promotion to Special Agent) in his office. It quickly becomes clear that Deputy Director Franklin has decided to hold Special Agent Crupi responsible for Gaia Green’s escape, despite the fact that Crupi was not assigned to her transport detail. Franklin tasks Crupi with tracking Green down and returning her to custody, jokingly implying that his recent promotion may be at stake.
Cut to:
The Harpies arrive at their headquarters, with Gaia Green expressing that, while she appreciates their part in helping her escape, she is accustomed to working alone, and unsure about joining a group. Chas, having a minor injury attended to, assigns her second-in-command, “Shiva” Lohrum, to try and recruit Gaia into their group. Shiva makes an impassioned “sales pitch,” convincing her that the Harpies need her, and that they can help her do so much more to achieve her ecological visions, while also surreptitiously suggesting that Gaia is what the group has always needed, and that she hopes that Gaia will agree to join them, in the hopes that she will one day lead them, and mold them in her image. The idea of using a group with the talents of the Harpies as the kind of political radical she considers herself to be convinces Green to join the group.
Cut to:
Agent Crupi in the field doing the sort of police work that helps establish his character for the movie as an honest, determined lawman. He gets a tip from a CI that Gaia Green was seen in the vicinity of Seattle, Washington, and that she may be planning something there. Crupi arrives in Seattle just as reports pour in about a demonstration at the Space Needle. It turns out to be a diversion, however, as the Harpies, less the Carmona sisters, are infiltrating the military base in nearby Everett, Washington, triggering an explosion that destroys an ecologically-unfriendly power plant which provides power to the base, and the surrounding community.
What follows is something of a montage of criminal activity by the Harpies, all of which ends with them successfully eluding capture. Throughout these capers, all six Harpies are never seen at the same location, but Chas explains this to Gaia as there being certain members of the gang that specialize at certain things, and that there is no real need for every member to be at every job. Because of the seeming eco-political nature of their crimes, the national media sparks a debate over whether they are really evil, or misunderstood. An unscrupulous media personality christens them “Spice Girls with Guns,” while another calls them “Gaia Green and her Planeteers,” which raises the ire of Chas Knight. Chas tasks Shiva with making sure that Gaia understands her role in the group, but Shiva instead begins to fill Gaia’s head with notions of Chas wanting to lead the Harpies back away from the eco-political activities that they’ve been involved in, and suggests that she may no longer be fit to lead them.
Conflict between Chas and Gaia reaches a head following a job where Agent Crupi finally catches up with them. Although they eventually escape, Chas witnesses an interaction between Gaia and Jim where it becomes clear that the two of them have a relationship beyond the typical fox-and-hound relationship of a cop and a criminal. After they get away, Chas gets into a confrontation with Gaia, telling her that she has become a liability, and that she needs to leave the group. Gaia responds by saying that she has become a Harpy, and that she feels that she embodies the spirit of the group moreso than Chas does, and that she needs to leave instead. This leads to an extended fight scene between the two of them, which is ultimately broken up by the rest of the Harpies. Both women vow never to work with the other again, but Shiva goes to each of them individually, convincing them to work together one last time, with her making the added suggestion to Chas that they leave Gaia at the job to take the fall.
Agent Crupi gets a tip that something is going down in Chicago but, remembering the Seattle job, starts looking for vulnerable targets near Chicago, and ends up intercepting the Harpies at the nuclear power plant in nearby Zion, Illinois. In the shootout that follows, Chas orders Shiva to follow through on her mandate to sacrifice Gaia so that they can escape but, in a surprising twist, Shiva traps Chas between the FBI and the reactor, and then triggers an explosion that kills Chas, and forcing the reactor workers and the FBI to put all of their effort into ensuring containment, enabling the Harpies to escape.
Playing the role of grief-stricken apprentice, a seemingly disconsolate Shiva convinces Gaia to take the leadership role. But, as Gaia pledges to lead the Harpies towards her vision, Shiva exchanges knowing looks with Lucia and Harley, and suddenly the scene cuts to flashbacks from earlier in the movie, where Shiva has taken the other members of the Harpies aside, even before Gaia became part of the group, and told them of her intentions. As Gaia pledges to lead the Harpies into the same sort of eco-political activity she believes they have been involved in, more flashbacks make it clear that the reason why you never saw all six Harpies at the same job is because they were using the eco-terrorism as a cover for the actual crimes that they were committing; the site of one harbor demonstration, for example, was conveniently close to a bank that Chas and Harley were robbing. Additionally, more flashbacks show local LEOs and civilians killed in cold blood by other members of the Harpies, Shiva in particular, when Gaia had been led to believe that they had just been incapacitated.
In the aftermath of the power plant incident, Agent Crupi is made aware that some of the nuclear material is unaccounted for. As Crupi ponders what an eco-terrorist would need with nuclear material, continued flashbacks make it clear that Shiva is, in fact, the mastermind behind the Harpies, and that she has possession of the nuclear material. In the privacy of her office, it is revealed that stealing the nuclear material is actually part of a much more grandiose and diabolical plan…
Which is where the first part of the trilogy ends, and the credits roll.
CAST
Angelina Jolie as Gennifer "Gaia" Green
Christina Ricci as Sharon "Shiva" Lohrum
Michelle Rodriguez as Lucia Carmona
Natalie Martinez as Maria "Mouse" Carmona
Beth Riesgraf as Helen "Harley" Davidson
Michael Weatherly as FBI Special Agent James Crupi
Tiffani Thiessen as Chastity "Chas" Knight
Keith David as FBI Deputy Director Darius Franklin
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Okay, I'm working on the polls right now and they will be up this morning/afternoon -- waited an extra day rather than trample over the Pain & Misery polls that went up and turn the whole Lounge into one big poll thread.
There will be an explanation fo the voting rules in the intial two polls (remmeber we are going with a "going to the movies" system rather than head to head matchups). Be fairly simple, but something a little different than the norm.
There will be an explanation fo the voting rules in the intial two polls (remmeber we are going with a "going to the movies" system rather than head to head matchups). Be fairly simple, but something a little different than the norm.
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