I've recently been interested in doing a low budget existential film with a lot of symbolism and meaning. Not necessarily any one meaning, mind you. Obviously any truly successful film can be interpreted a number of ways by many different people.
Anyway, last night I hastily typed out the basic plot of this film. It's essentially the story of two woodsmen who decide to build a trading post. They meet a preacher who helps them create a successful business that eventually grows into a small town. The preacher ends up creating conflict with the local Native Americans. The two woodsmen end up at odds with one another as one attempts to wage war against the Natives. They end up essentially killing each other. This story is representative, to me at least, of the story of humanity. We struggled to create civilization in the beginning, then religion helped us to be structured and orderly. Unfortunately, religion also led to conflict and war and eventually we will wipe ourselves out completely.
In order to avoid creating a huge wall of text in this post, I've put the synopsis, if it could even be called that, on Google Documents and if you are interested enough by the brief description above, you can read it here.
Some bits are much more detailed and drawn out than others (as I said, this was written frantically). Sorry about that. I'd love it if you guys could give me some advice/opinions about whether or not this story is worth writing and eventually filming. I know that it definitely has room to improve and I need to definitely work to make it more subtle and cerebral. But I think that, at its core, it's a decent enough idea.
The idea's been heavily influenced by Nicolas Winding Refn's Valhalla Rising and Only God Forgives. Hopefully it doesn't seem like an exact rip off. I'm not sure whether it would be a feature or a short, honestly. I think it could work as either. What do you guys think?
Thanks in advance.
Anyway, last night I hastily typed out the basic plot of this film. It's essentially the story of two woodsmen who decide to build a trading post. They meet a preacher who helps them create a successful business that eventually grows into a small town. The preacher ends up creating conflict with the local Native Americans. The two woodsmen end up at odds with one another as one attempts to wage war against the Natives. They end up essentially killing each other. This story is representative, to me at least, of the story of humanity. We struggled to create civilization in the beginning, then religion helped us to be structured and orderly. Unfortunately, religion also led to conflict and war and eventually we will wipe ourselves out completely.
In order to avoid creating a huge wall of text in this post, I've put the synopsis, if it could even be called that, on Google Documents and if you are interested enough by the brief description above, you can read it here.
Some bits are much more detailed and drawn out than others (as I said, this was written frantically). Sorry about that. I'd love it if you guys could give me some advice/opinions about whether or not this story is worth writing and eventually filming. I know that it definitely has room to improve and I need to definitely work to make it more subtle and cerebral. But I think that, at its core, it's a decent enough idea.
The idea's been heavily influenced by Nicolas Winding Refn's Valhalla Rising and Only God Forgives. Hopefully it doesn't seem like an exact rip off. I'm not sure whether it would be a feature or a short, honestly. I think it could work as either. What do you guys think?
Thanks in advance.