Here's a couple of westerns, one contemporary, I want to write:
When a despairing artist recognizes a US Marshall as her mother's killer, she volunteers to illustrate his campaign to bring in an Indian Chief then realizes the most righteous retribution would be to set Crazy Horse free.
A stroke victim needs the help of Jack Pine Gypsies to herd his only friends, wild mustangs, from Stratusphere Bowl before a methane mining company releases toxic water into the basin.
An idea for a children's animation, based on my three-legged pup, Delaney (who just happens to be 17 years old today...Happy Birthday, Laney!!):
A Muybridge motion 'actor' is made redundant by the loss of a limb, but the three-legged dog finds purpose through helping an 'unhinged, neurotic puppet find it's discarded extremities.
A hi-falutin, pretentious one:
A winged waif saves the orphaned Bertrand Russell from suicide, inspiring the future Nobel Prize winner to formulate his concept of symbolic logic.
..and I wouldn't be me if I didn't have some freaky ones up my sleeve...
A botanist who discovers an 'ariadne thread' in plant estivation which leads to Eden, mongrelizes the seeds to see where they will lead, but the thread breaks and he must find his way out of a bouquet of hell.
Exiled heretic regrets altering L-fields to create the world of his dreams then tries to re-create 'home' through re-radiating the only visual reference left of that world, a set of 1939 encyclopedias.
Broken down and waiting for roadside assistence, the 4 Horsemen of the Apocalypse find no quarter save for the garden of George Washington Carver who convinces them that humans deserve a reprieve, together they lobby god.
Believing she's capturing spirits with a magic lantern, an ostracized, backwoods girl stumbles upon a portable transistor TV only to discover she can affect the broadcasted programming, including stopping a natural catastrophe approaching the area.
When a dying man discovers that the drawings he makes on a cave wall comes true, he plots out his children's bright future , but discovers their loss of free will kills their spirits, so he must come back in ghost form and prevent or undo their glad tidings.
