World In ZenFury Vision

“Be not afraid of growing slowly, be afraid only of standing still.” - Chinese proverb

“Begin challenging your own assumptions. Your assumptions are your windows on the world. Scrub them off every once in while, or the light won’t come in.” - Alan Alda

Romantic Blockbuster

Imagine that you are one of the Romantic painters that were presented in today’s lesson, but that you had traveled forward in time to today. You were asked to direct a major motion picture. What would your movie be like?

• Give a brief one paragraph long synopsis about your movie and then explain one scene of the movie in detail. Make sure that your movie and scenes embody the ideas and attitudes of the Romantic artist that you have chosen.
• Post your movie idea and the scene on the discussion board.
• Read the scenes that other students have posted.
• Choose one that you like, then write the scene that you think should come after it, and add it to your classmate’s post.

Scene in-
There is a small grassy hill dominating most of the frame, with a lush valley behind it leading up to an expansive mountain range. The time lapse begins. At first you notice a few huts come and go along the river bed as the seasons change rapidly. You then notice after about the third spring you see a tree sprout growing out of the top of the hill. The tree rapidly grows taller and thicker to a sapling, meanwhile in the distance some huts have become static and no longer dissapear with the seasons. There seems to be a perpetual dance of smoke rising from that area. The time lapse speeds up to when the tree apears to be able to bear fruit. In a flash the huts are replaced with stone buildings, the area of the settlement expands slowly, a few buildings a ‘year’. The tree then slows it’s growth, while the settlement explodes with roads and tall structures, and the river that was once blue and pure is now brown and muddy. The settlement is then beset upon by fire and soldiers, for a whole winter the snow is red with blood, and the tall buildings have fallen. The tree continues to drop fruit. -Scene out

Synopsis- The movie is set in the 2200’s, and is about the global government’s tyranny over it’s people. There has again sprung a stark contrast in the levels of society, almost completely based upon heritage and bloodline like in the medieval times. The main characters are a woman of resource and passion, whose grandfather and father, were of great power and wealth, and a man of reason and great temper, born to a life of poverty and necessity. It is the man and woman’s goal to overthrow the government and install a system less restrictive and oppressive, and they play to do this any way necessary.

Scene in-
It is a dark lit room; a man dressed in finely crafted clothes sits upon an oversized chair akin to a throne. He sits relaxed, stroking his goatee in thought. As relaxed as he may seem, his eyes betray his body language, which are full of malice and plot. The colors of the walls and drapery are of a dark red and gold, (symbolizing blood and wealth). Several paintings cover the walls, bloody scenes of war in all of them. One however, hung above the throne-chair, depicts a man astride a mound of corpses, holding a flagstaff which has been stabbed into them, the flag of but one color, red. The man in the painting holds a striking resemblance to the man sitting in the chair, discernible by the likeness of their facial hair and their eyes. 
The brooding silence is broken by a stout nock, and a bright shaft of light flooding in from the opening double doors. The light reveals a massive scar on the left side of the man in the chair’s face. He does not flinch to the light, as one would expect, but instead takes it in steadfast. A large man, fitted with high-tech battle armor of red gray and black enters the room a few strides, and gives a salute. The man in the armor says “They have made their move, it is time.” The camera frames in on the man in the chairÂ’s mouth and hand, the man stops his stroking and slowly releases a depraved grin. -Scene out.

“Lack of tact merely underlies the absence of wisdom.” - Cyril Alvarez Adriaansen

“Anyone willing to give up liberty in exchange for security deserves neither.” - Benjamin Franklin

“What we think, we become.” - Buddha

“Student says ” I am very discouraged. What should I do?” Master says, “encourage others.”” - Zen Proverb

“Patience is the companion of wisdom.” - St. Augustine