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Topic: twilight zone
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amittman
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posted 01-01-2001 02:58 PM
hey...for my film class at school, the teacher is makeing us do a twilight zone episode. I have a couple of ideas, but i am kinda running dry. I am the kid that everyone comes to in school to ask about film, so if I don't completely shock my class, I am in for some serious dissapointment. Does anyone have any really twisted ideas or scenarios that I can play upon??? |
dogcow
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posted 01-01-2001 10:06 PM
I wrote a story a while back in which a guy takes a detour into some area in the middle of nowhere and accidently hits someone who had stumbled out into the road. When he gets out to check he finds the guy is some kind of zombie. After a lengthy battle with the zombie (the guy gets bit in the process) he finally manages to kill it. In the twist ending the man runs out into the street exaltedly shouts I GOT HIM! I WON! and then gets run down by a car. When the man who ran him down gets out to check our original protaginist rises from the grave, like the previous zombie did. fade out-nick |
Sluggo
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posted 01-02-2001 12:57 AM
heres an old russian legend called Oleg's Death you could adapt into a good twilight zone story: http://www.sunbirds.com/lacquer/readings/1072 ------------------
Simplicity is the Ultimate Sophistication--Leonardo da Vinci, used in an early Apple Computer ad [This message has been edited by Sluggo (edited 01-02-2001).] |
The Replacement Killer
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posted 01-02-2001 02:49 AM
I don't know if it's too late, but sci-fi channel is running a twilight zone marathon. I think it lasts until tuesday, but most of my favorite episodes have already been shown. |
Director/actor
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posted 01-02-2001 10:00 AM
Well one place you can look is a short story by Edgar Allen Poe called Masque of the Red Death. It's a very good story, lots of sybolism, has a twist ending, and is the clasic Poe feeling. Of course the piece could still be very effective if you updated the peace to this time and place.
Or you could go along the lines of the old movie They Live where you hero stumbles upon a plot of world domination is able to see that all the highranking citizens of the city are aliens. Check out the movie it is hysterical w/ all the bad special effects and fight scenes but it has some great movie ideas.------------------
S.R. Gentry
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Piker
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posted 01-02-2001 04:29 PM
I've been watching some of that marathon on Sci-Fi...Anyways I had an idea for a short film a while back that seems like it would work for a Twilight Zone script. I just had the basic idea, that a man/woman is doing whatever and things begin to dissapear (or appear), for example "I could've sworn there used to be a painting on that wall" or "How long has that tree been there? I don't remember it being there before". A couple of the twilight zone episodes are like this where somebody slowly loses their mind. It's up to you to come with some classy ironic ending like in the show. |
Lolita
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posted 01-02-2001 08:19 PM
Can you adapt a short story? If so, I suggest Vonnegut or Ray Bradbury (e.g. little by little, during the day, normal words keep getting replaced by babble talk, or a little kid has lived in a mansion all his life and, when he finally escapes to the outside world, he thinks that's death) or you should go to any urban legends page for ideas. |
