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SCENE ONE
EXT. STREET – DAY
En route to school
JAMES PETERS casually walks towards a shop to purchase some sweets but is then
confronted by a man offering sweets to him just outside the shop. Interested in
the sweets JAMES, with a facial expression resembling surprise, puts the sweets
into his bag; he looks for the STRANGE MAN to thank him, but realises he is not
there anymore. Not making much of it, he looks at his watch and realises that
he is getting late for school, and swiftly breaks into a run to arrive to
school on time.
END SCENE.
SCENE TWO
INT.SCHOOL - CANTEEN
- DAY
After JAMES has
finished his lunch, he opens up his bag and pulls out the sweets and eats one. After
he takes a bite of the sweet, he feels a sharp cold sensation in which he
reacts.
(Sharply whilst shivering simultaneously)
JAMES
That’s freezing cold.
As he says that word
the remaining people in, the lunch hall are now frozen still.
JAMES then looks up
and strangely sees that people have now stopped moving he moves over to a
person to inspect what has happened to them constantly poking them.
He then looks at the
sweet wrapper for what may have caused the place to freeze, to find that there
are instructions on the wrapper, that ‘All You Have To Say Is Freeze’ followed
by a much smaller print that say “Or Unfreeze”. With obtained knowledge of the
powers, he then decides to tie the shoelaces of STUDENT ONE’S shoes together,
as well as placing their face just above a plate full of food, and following
the instructions:
JAMES
Unfreeze! (Loudly)
As he says Unfreeze, everybody starts to
continue again, with STUDENT ONE’S face landing in the food, and then falling
onto the floor with little balance from his shoes. James walks out of the
dining hall laughing in acknowledgement
END SCENE.
MONTAGE SCENE OF
JAMES PUTTING HIS POWERS INTO PRACTICE
FIRST CLIP
INT. SCHOOL - CLASS
– DAY
In class, Teacher
sends out James for not paying attention.
(In frustration JAMES decides to get the
teacher’s apple and gets it dirty before handing it back to him)
SECOND CLIP
EXT. SCHOOL -
PLAYGROUND – DAY
JAMES gets into a
situation with a bully, as he had thrown a ball at him by accident; he quickly
evades the situation by using his abilities.
THIRD CLIP
INT. SCHOOL – CLASS
JAMES is bored in
class, and as the bell is about to ring, He ties some students’ shoelaces
together just before they leave.
END MONTAGE SCENE.
SCENE FOUR
INT. SCHOOL – HALLWAY
– DAY
JAMES is now trying
to talk to a girl that he likes.
JAMES
Hey
LILY
He-
JACK
-GET AWAY FROM HER FREAK
JAMES, rather
frustrated with JACK trying to stop him from talking to the girl he likes,
freezes him and continuously hits him in the groin
JACK then reanimates
and feels a very strong pain in which he is kneels over and grabs his crotch
JACK
Owwwwwwwwwwwww!
LILY
Oh my god, are you okay babe?
JAMES who is now
devastated as he has now puzzled together the fact that Lily has a boyfriend is
heart-broken.
He stands there as
everything has gone mute to him and the sound of the bell sees everyone out.
He is then making
his slow way home.
END SCENE
SCENE FIVE
INT. HOUSE – DAY
Weeks later after
JAMES comes home, sits down to watch TV, He notices that on TV, there has been
a robbery and the people involved have been apprehended.
(He then stands up)
JAMES
I can have anything I want, why didn’t I
think of this before; I have the power!
ALL I HAVE TO SAY IS FREEZE.
As he says the words
‘freeze’, he has turned to the mirror and frozen himself.
Sometime later he is
discovered, and is being taken away by a couple of government agents, whilst a
news broadcaster is reporting the story live, with one of the agents reluctant
to allow any filming of the “frozen boy” given the serious circumstances.
SCENE END
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Narrative Codes associated with themes of Treatment
School Pranks
The school prank involving High School leavers plaguing the school’s floors with baby oil in between lessons is an enviable insight of the mischief teenagers and young people have the potential to cause in the modern era, and how they exploit technology in doing so. What’s interesting as well is the reaction and demeanour of the other students when experiencing the slippery nature of the floors created by the baby oil: the students are intriguingly yearned, with the perception of the hallways becoming playgrounds, and a place for enjoyment.
Greed, Change Of Personality, Powers Go Wrong: Spider-Man 3 (2007)
Frankly, the movie Spider-Man 3 (2007) was the initial thought that struck me, particularly when the character Peter Parker, who in the sequel, had already embedded and settled himself with a double life as a photographer in New York, and the renowned hero Spider-Man, but the new-found stability is peer-shaped as by an alien symbiote arrives and merges with Peter and his Spider-man costume, consequently blackening his previously red and blue costume: what compels is the fact that when the symbiote ingrained itself into Peter, it alters his personality and attitude, and becomes more egotistical: distancing himself from his girlfriend Mary Jane, getting his rival Eddie Brock fired and stringing along with colleague Gwen Stacy to the place where Mary Jane works, in an attempt to make the latter vindictive.
Moreover, there’s the common saying that was just alluded to: “With great power comes great responsibility,” the symbiote strengthens Peter’s powers, and it can be interpreted that the responsibility increases in parallel with the powers, or the responsibility is now too great to consume, and Peter abandons that for personal gain. One can say this is a subtle example of super powers swaying towards the negative side of things in terms of its use: the symbiote enhancing his powers but simultaneously isolating Peter from Mary Jane, and fracturing their relationship subsequently, as well as revealing a dark side of Peter to the audience in the form of the demonstration of arrogance and selfishness from Peter.
Freezing Powers/Time Manipulation
The selection of these articles was primarily down to the ability to expand the main character’s capabilities in the short film: the freezing powers that’s been frequently referred to, falls under the superpower “Time Manipulation”, which not only includes time being suspended altogether, but also means that the user has the ability to slow, reverse and quicken time to their liking. The “Time Manipulation” power can also feature the power being in use for a finite period of time, or the length of the power in operation is based on the size of the area suspended, for example if the whole world was suspended in time, then it would only be so for approximately 45 minutes, but if it was only a city or town, the time suspension would last longer [beyond 45 minutes], the latter would be almost impossible and implausible to demonstrate in the short film, due to the complexity, so perhaps the main character would only be capable of suspending time in areas within certain perimeters. The second article is an epitome of the possibilities that significantly widen as soon as the user suspends time: escaping car accidents, arriving earlier for interviews, casually completing home-works/assignments. In the story, when the main character gains the time manipulation powers, one of the actions he opt take with the powers is to get back at the bullies that previously tormented him. Instead of solely freezing time, he can reverse time and potentially repress the torment or prevent the bullying full-stop, and then forward to the present again.
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