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The official ***GLP MOVIE*** thread. [Update: THEME: "Be true to yourself" GENRE: Drama SETTING: GLP-like conversations at univ. campus]

 
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The official ***GLP MOVIE*** thread. [Update: THEME: "Be true to yourself" GENRE: Drama SETTING: GLP-like conversations at univ. campus]
Welcome!

This thread will track the development of the ***GLP MOVIE*** from concept, to screenplay, funding, production and eventual release.

Everyone is free to contribute, and contributions, when used in the final product, will be recognised. By contributing to this thread, you agree - in principle - that all contributions that are used in the final product will be awarded a percentage of returns in accordance with the percentage to which the contributions become part of the final product. This thread will be the store of all contributions unless another site (e.g. blog) is agreed by the majority to be more appropriate to maintain the developing work.

If you wish to contribute with no intention of reward or acknowledgement, then that is fine also.

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I know and have worked with a number of screen-writers. They both write and assess screenplays. I have read many and can honestly say that 99% are bad. It is sometimes quite sad to see so much effort go into something that obviously has no hope. When you see the scripts being created today, it is obvious why there are so few good films coming out.

As this thread progresses, we will take a film idea from concept through to production. There is a lot of talent in the members of and visitors to GLP - AND a lot of creativity - that I believe can be tapped for a greater benefit.

The initial stages of script development:

- The idea/theme: Anywhere from a sentence to a paragraph that describes what in general what will happen but more importantly what the theme of the story will be.
- Characters: There are exceptions, but in general, there is the protagonist (hero) and antagonist (bad guy), and support characters. At most there should only be a handful of key characters. Each characters' story within the 'story' needs to be identified. Each character will have their own journey and will be changed in some way by the end of their story.
- Broad Stucture: Three acts. Act one, typically 18 minutes long, will introduce the characters and theme, and at the end of it, the audience will know what the story is about. Act two involves complications and turning points for the characters in their journey. Act 3 climactically resolves the characters stories. (This is the hardest part and is where most films fail.) Each act has, in turn, its own intro-body-climax structure.
- Detail structure: The acts will be broken into steps (or plot points) that will total from 45 - 60 for the whole story, which detail everything that happens. This is the critical part. No writing should take place until the detail structure is agreed and solid.
- Drafts: To be discussed as progress is made.

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So, to begin, we need a theme. Since this is GLP, conspiracies (to most, but FACTS to us) come to mind. CFR, Rothschild, Bildeberg, Money Changers, UFOs, Technology cover-ups, Drug company corruption, etc. BUT then I think, have there been any great conspiracy movies that have become classics, watched time and again. None that I can think of. In fact, if there was one that really told the truth, I would doubt it's ability to get made in the first place.

So, what else. What types of movies become classics? We want to change the world, open people's minds, but not risk suppression by TPTB. It MUST be entertaining, and commercially viable. Art-house movies will not have the impact we want.

So, it's tricky. We need a theme that will open peoples' minds, allow some action and entertainment, some laughs and emotion (i.e. mostly propagandic BS) but embed it with a message that will stick.

At the moment I keep coming back to 'Open peoples minds', but I will have more thoughts over the next few weeks.

I want to hear your thoughts and suggestions.

(Will the ideas be stolen? Maybe someone will try, but it's such a huge undertaking, that to do anything with those ideas that is distinct enough will be very difficult. And by posting here, the idea is time-stamped with your name/id on it, which is the best protection in a court. Besides, most ideas have already been done somewhere. It's really not the idea that's new in a film, it's the implementation.)

Hopefully there is interest and something great can happen.

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Progress Update, 22 April 2009
THEME: "Be true to yourself"
GENRE: Drama
SETTING: GLP-like 'Perpetual conversation' at a university campus.
FORMAT: Filmed in real-time, following 3 main characters, and various (GLP-like) conversations they experience in a university campus.
CHARACTERS STORIES: In progress

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The year is 2012. Life on planet Earth is radically changed by ___(pick your favorite doom scenario)____. TPTB kill the Internet and most ground communications, but the GLP'er's, wisely anticipating such devilry, had developed a skeletal Net (of some sort) that enables members all over the world to tap into what is now the only non-fascist global comm. network left in existence. Via that medium, the day is saved.

GLP'ers who had long enjoyed one another's company (or not) online begin communicating in the midst of the high drama, meeting in real life, showing up at one another's door unexpectedly, thereby either thrilling or scaring the shit out of each another. Many mysteries are solved that have long hung behind the digital veil, as the personalities behind the avatars are exposed, questions are honestly answered, shills and trolls are exposed, and A/C's are forced out into the light of day.

Plot Twists: It turns out that Trinity is (pick a famous, rich, top-tier entertainer/movie star) who went renegade years ago, but no one knew… When his industry fails (along with all other institutions), s/he pours the last of his/her wealth into the GLP digital web in a desperate last ditch attempt to bring the "good people" back together by developing a free, unassailable comm vehicle that can never again be compromised by TPTB.
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Maybe you have a story about how you came to open your eyes.

How did mine begin?

I saw an ad. on TV several years ago about a coming major world-wide television event called 'the Secret'.

Interested to find what it was about, I googled it and up came a link to GLP. And so it began...

A bit boring for a movie though.

(BTW, it was not the Secret which opened my eyes, but GLP.)

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The year is 2012. Life on planet Earth is radically changed by ___(pick your favorite doom scenario)____. TPTB kill the Internet and most ground communications, but the GLP'er's, wisely anticipating such devilry, had developed a skeletal Net (of some sort) that enables members all over the world to tap into what is now the only non-fascist global comm. network left in existence. Via that medium, the day is saved.

GLP'ers who had long enjoyed one another's company (or not) online begin communicating in the midst of the high drama, meeting in real life, showing up at one another's door unexpectedly, thereby either thrilling or scaring the shit out of each another. Many mysteries are solved that have long hung behind the digital veil, as the personalities behind the avatars are exposed, questions are honestly answered, shills and trolls are exposed, and A/C's are forced out into the light of day.

Plot Twists: It turns out that Trinity is (pick a famous, rich, top-tier entertainer/movie star) who went renegade years ago, but no one knew… When his industry fails (along with all other institutions), s/he pours the last of his/her wealth into the GLP digital web in a desperate last ditch attempt to bring the "good people" back together by developing a free, unassailable comm vehicle that can never again be compromised by TPTB.
 Quoting: Jdd


Good story, Jdd.

We'd need to pick a hero and a villian, though. The story needs to be told through the hero's experiences, and either they should 'wake up', or suffer in a way that makes the audience 'wake up'. Is Trinity the villian? If so, this could be hidden until the climax. Interesting to think about...
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We'd need to pick a hero and a villian, though. The story needs to be told through the hero's experiences, and either they should 'wake up', or suffer in a way that makes the audience 'wake up'. Is Trinity the villian? If so, this could be hidden until the climax. Interesting to think about...
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The villain can be the agents and forces of the NWO. We could even use the device from the Matrix where agents are activated in people as they go about their daily business, suddenly to be transformed into these agents - we'll get a sense of the enemy crawling out of the woodwork at any time.

Don't feel the need to explain how the NWO actually does everything too and we can have their ever present tentacles into everything. Able to observe anything anytime.

Make trinity one of the good guys until his sleeping agent status is woken up.
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A college student who frequents a conspiracy board notices an unusual pattern in a series of seemingly meaningless anonymous threads that leads him to uncover a government plan for a false flag attack.

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The villain can be the agents and forces of the NWO. We could even use the device from the Matrix where agents are activated in people as they go about their daily business, suddenly to be transformed into these agents - we'll get a sense of the enemy crawling out of the woodwork at any time.

Don't feel the need to explain how the NWO actually does everything too and we can have their ever present tentacles into everything. Able to observe anything anytime.

Make trinity one of the good guys until his sleeping agent status is woken up.
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I agree it's better (safer for the film-maker) not to explain anything in detail about the NWO.

Is the villian best left faceless, or should there be a 'Don', who may or may not be a puppet him/herself?

I'm also wondering if it's better to have the hero aware of what's going on early - with no-one believing him/her - and desperate chases/suspense the whole way, or to have strange things happening that he/she doesn't believe until the climax...

The goal will be to have people walking out of the theatre and really thinking about it themselves, not to just move on to the next bit of entertainment.
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A college student who frequents a conspiracy board notices an unusual pattern in a series of seemingly meaningless anonymous threads that leads him to uncover a government plan for a false flag attack.
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The college student hero angle is good.

There's something special about the amount of change that a young person can undergo, and the reaction of their peers who can see the change but don't understand it. It's like, I leave today as a child, but I return tomorrow as an adult, having experienced things that you can't understand.

Teens are also a profitable target market.
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Yeah, the (unassuming)college student hero is good. No, Trin couldn't be the hero... too obvious. He might instead represent generic well-meaning good (that's in us all, but that only has an opportunity to manifest if circumstances/karma are right). And then, perhaps only partially.

Perhaps the college unconsciously expresses some fundamental hero quality that Trin consciously strives towards, but is frustrated in achieving because of his life choices. So in watching the younger hero emerge and take the stage, our Trin gets to ponder a life that, to a degree, took itself off in another direction. At face value, it might seem that the rich/famous would-be hero has it all... but the college kid hero (who has nothing) is still enough of a blank canvas to be able to actualize a purity of spirit that's required in order to meet the challenge.

Hmmmm.
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The villain, would have to be one who is thought of as a good guy. He would always be in the open, where people wouldn't expect him to be anything other than a very kind person. His or her life, has always been known as benevolent, but privately run a vast empire that controls your very life.
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Im thinking the story line should be circular. By that I mean the story ends just like it starts. That was a nice suprise that Stephen King played out in the Dark Tower Series (Which took a few years to write). That way the storyline is going to produce a different effect than the regular diatribe crap that comes out of, well you know where ever most of those "Hit" movies come from.

With the Alpha-Omega storyline you would in effect, encapsulate the story.

The college kid is an admirable effort, but Im thinking we should show it from the Nararators point of view. Whats the old saying? You cant always trust the Nararator. I think that comes from Poe. Anyway, why not go for the gold and have the main protagonist/antagonist (either can be the hero) be an Alien. Show that point of view. The ET can be wise or evil. The underlying theme could, could be about how the ET controls the minds of men/women to make them sell out their fellow citizens (I mean you gotta say sheople once in the movie)

You could use all the usual villians/heros that live here on our beloved site. Illuminati, Bildebergs, Gov, Trolls, Shills etc... You should be able to find three or four of the main characters through that loop. Once you nailed down specific characters you could then create them as you need them. Even do a backstory on one if need be. Ok, sorry to be so long winded. Heres a taste:

Screen Black: add SFX. From the blackness a vibration begins to rumble in the fabric of time and space itself. A Crimson lightning shape starts to emerge from the top left of the screen. Pan to center the rip. As the rip enlarges increase SFX to heighten the electricity building up. Dive into the rip and it would be a Mandlebrat Set of a Malicious looking Fractal.

The Fractal would pass the camera and the angle would shift to show the new rip/wave heading off towards the Milky-Way Galaxie. Somewhere in the Fractal the camera would zoom in to show the Ship of the ET embedded in the Fractal. Cut screen and go to next storyboard.

Now using the Alpha/Omega storyline, you have the ending of the story already. You simply replay the same event, but from a different perspective.

Oh well that was just off the top of my head. So Im game. I want to contribute. Later
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Interesting idea, Phasephere. Reminds me of the film by Akira Kurosawa, 'Rashomon', where the same event is seen through many eyes.

Perhaps the circularity moves not just on a timeline, but across the group of characters, who all experience one core (archetypal) dynamic of the plot in their own space/time continuum. Meaning, timeline's not the driver, so much as time/place/circumstance and consciousness of each person. In this way, you could demonstrate the moral of the story over and over, nuanced, as diversely as the characters themselves.



Now using the Alpha/Omega storyline, you have the ending of the story already. You simply replay the same event, but from a different perspective.

Oh well that was just off the top of my head. So Im game. I want to contribute. Later
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The year is 2012. Life on planet Earth is radically changed by ___(pick your favorite doom scenario)____. TPTB kill the Internet and most ground communications, but the GLP'er's, wisely anticipating such devilry, had developed a skeletal Net (of some sort) that enables members all over the world to tap into what is now the only non-fascist global comm. network left in existence. Via that medium, the day is saved.

GLP'ers who had long enjoyed one another's company (or not) online begin communicating in the midst of the high drama, meeting in real life, showing up at one another's door unexpectedly, thereby either thrilling or scaring the shit out of each another. Many mysteries are solved that have long hung behind the digital veil, as the personalities behind the avatars are exposed, questions are honestly answered, shills and trolls are exposed, and A/C's are forced out into the light of day.

Plot Twists: It turns out that Trinity is (pick a famous, rich, top-tier entertainer/movie star) who went renegade years ago, but no one knew… When his industry fails (along with all other institutions), s/he pours the last of his/her wealth into the GLP digital web in a desperate last ditch attempt to bring the "good people" back together by developing a free, unassailable comm vehicle that can never again be compromised by TPTB.
 Quoting: Jdd


on that note...

make that communication between glp'ers telepathic in nature who are the key to the destiny of the net and our plane. more? bump
~you are love
~the key...it's almost time.

!poke the bulge!

~here is my hand...it can be closed like a fist...or open to hold...yet it is still my hand.
~Today is cancelled...due to lack of interest.
~Without order nothing exists. Without chaos nothing evolves.

ac 618285:
~"without both order and chaos, the illusion would not be able to continue.
one day in the far away future, order will submit to chaos and the entire illusion will vanish."
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We all ride around on dirtbikes.
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Oh, yeah! Nanuke

Telepathic. Of course! And there I was, thinking about 'old school' satellites...

So let's see... in the GLP context, I guess that means all those little dancing bananas were actually triggers, stimulating the synapses and training the grey matter to get the kidz ready for the big event...


make that communication between glp'ers telepathic in nature who are the key to the destiny of the net and our plane. more? bump
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Already some pretty cool ideas.

Love the circular concept. It reminds me of the BOOM-BUST depression cycle which TPTB orchestrate. (I can even see a time-travel twist in which an apprentice kills his master who it turns out is actually the same person who at some stage goes back in time to complete the loop, to be killed by a younger version of himself! Anyway, that's probably another idea not suitable for this purpose...)

I also really like the idea that after the DOOM we begin understanding the true nature of reality, and its implications for our understanding of telepathy, telekinesis, etc.

However, we do have to be careful about overloading the audience with ideas. We don't want to distract them from the message we are trying to convey. (And we shouldn't get locked into sci-fi just yet.) Very quickly, we can get a lot of really good ideas, so I think I want to step back for just a moment to help guide these ideas.

Everything must come down to one thing: the theme of this film. So, I think we need to identify the essence of GLP as a theme that we can convey.

Personally, I'd love to tell the sheople (which, yes, MUST be said in the film!) about so many things, but it'd be even better if we could convey one thing to them, that one thing would make them go out and seek out this huge amount of great information for themselves, or ask others who know about it.

So, for a theme (to help guide the ideas), I propose the following:

"Everyone will wake up to their life at some point. Better make sure that your death sentence isn't your wake-up call."

Perhaps that's a bit long-winded? Suggestions are welcome. But at least it conveys the point. If we can convey this one (or closely related) message, then maybe a few more people will seek out answers. Thoughts?
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Hmmm. I was sure I was logged in then.
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Center it around the economic crash and the aftermath. This would be tricky though as it may end up looking a lot like a repackaged Jericho.

I do like the dirt bike idea! lmao
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This thread doesnt look official.
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This thread doesnt look official.
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"Everyone will wake up to their life at some point. Better make sure that your death sentence isn't your wake-up call."

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I dunno, I see a lot of people slapping their foreheads as they're lead into the gas chamber.

One of our frustrations here is that people are not waking up, no matter what gets served to them.

I'm thinking the story would be set in an environment where there are a lot of zombie like sheople in the way of what's going on.

We could do it like 1984 and have the hero waking up to total bliss and love of big brother in the end. his death sentence could be his wake up call there.

As for a theme: Freedom may not be pretty, but at least it's yours.

(Not tied to it, just trying to be constructive)
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Can I play Anonymous Coward?
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is the jew / satan in the movie?
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"Everyone will wake up to their life at some point. Better make sure that your death sentence isn't your wake-up call."



I dunno, I see a lot of people slapping their foreheads as they're lead into the gas chamber.

One of our frustrations here is that people are not waking up, no matter what gets served to them.

I'm thinking the story would be set in an environment where there are a lot of zombie like sheople in the way of what's going on.

We could do it like 1984 and have the hero waking up to total bliss and love of big brother in the end. his death sentence could be his wake up call there.

As for a theme: Freedom may not be pretty, but at least it's yours.

(Not tied to it, just trying to be constructive)
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Thanks, some good thoughts.
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Can I play Anonymous Coward?
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Yes, you can have a bit part sitting at a terminal in an internet cafe, swearing at the screen.
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All your thoughts and ideas are welcome. I'd like to avoid any quick decisions. Everything so far is helpful.

Can you tell us what opened your eyes up?

Or what made freedom a concern to you?

Your experiences may be the inspiration to a great story.
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Your experiences may be an inspiration to others too, so please share.
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You know Dolphin, this is going to be a work in progress and all ideals should be considered. I also agree though, we need some kind of working storyline, and that should take shape in time. Right now its just going to be deciding what the main storyline is going to look like. Once we have a basic structure, character developement will become easier for us. The hard part is going to be how to decide what to "cut/edit". We might even think on a grander scale and try to make a trilogy. Just a thought.

Ok, Lets see if I can be constructive to the process here.

Lets take the concept. Most successful written works are based on certain tried and true concepts, like good vs evil or Love and Hate, the good guys always win in the end.

So we would have to decide early what method we want. Im assuming it would be some kind of inspiring plot. Its hard not to go in a certain Sci-Fi kind of direction, with the way that GLP works. Its sort of overwhelming, but Im sure we can come up with something extraordinary.

Something cool, I just thought of, is that you could use the Avatars of the members who contribute in the credits instead of names. I dont know, it just seems that the Avatars may become something we could use, to make it uniquely GLP.

Concept 2:

Screen: Inside a multi-tiered building, Library. A group of people are seen sitting at a table looking at a monitor. The camera swings in to the monitor and the view would be of a page/thread on GLP. Character X starts to speak:

Character X: "I guess we dont have anymore doubts as to the validity of this thread" He grabs the arm of a woman standing next to him. "We've got to handle this with kid gloves, or we will be exposed" "The wave is coming" or "Financial Meltdown is certain" or "The Illuminati have found us" or etc...

Man Abstract can get confusing. Anyway, I'll stay here as long as you need me to. Ive been thinking about it all day. Stay tuned....... Trees
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04/18/2009 10:41 PM
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Re: The official ***GLP MOVIE*** thread. [Update: THEME: "Be true to yourself" GENRE: Drama SETTING: GLP-like conversations at univ. campus]
Oh, yeah! Nanuke

Telepathic. Of course! And there I was, thinking about 'old school' satellites...

So let's see... in the GLP context, I guess that means all those little dancing bananas were actually triggers, stimulating the synapses and training the grey matter to get the kidz ready for the big event...



make that communication between glp'ers telepathic in nature who are the key to the destiny of the net and our plane. more? bump

 Quoting: Jdd


dern it...

you're not getting the triggers...

read that again.

are you getting it yet?

:)
~you are love
~the key...it's almost time.

!poke the bulge!

~here is my hand...it can be closed like a fist...or open to hold...yet it is still my hand.
~Today is cancelled...due to lack of interest.
~Without order nothing exists. Without chaos nothing evolves.

ac 618285:
~"without both order and chaos, the illusion would not be able to continue.
one day in the far away future, order will submit to chaos and the entire illusion will vanish."
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:nan1:





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