Story C: The Student Surpasses His Masters!

                                    

INT. LA SILICON VALLEY – UNIVERSITY AUDITORIUM – DAY

AI graduate students have submitted their ideas at the entrepreneurial center of the university for consideration. There’s a pile of papers next to DR. RICHARD’S desk while he reviews the profile of his best student, JACK.

DR. RICHARD
(excited)
 

AI and math with honors, Google Academy, Johns Hopkins, Creative Writing, a thought leader with a record of repetitive innovations in the internet, screenwriter, developer, Jack… I’m impressed!

JACK
 

Thanks a lot professor, it’s an honor hearing you say it.
 

DR. RICHARD
 

So, Jack… what brings you by?
 

JACK
 

A chance to get recognized and ranked for my pioneering work!

Two other students, BRANDON and MARK gossip Jack close to one another.
 

BRANDON
(tilting his head towards Mark)
 

Moves with guts, pal…!
 

MARK
(whispering)
 

You bet they are!
 

DR. RICHARD
 

I believe you will have ample time and opportunities to prove that! That’s it, people, for today. Remember the final day for filing papers is one week from now. Mind the homework, the exams and get ready to write history. It’s your turn, now!
 

Dr. Richard stands up, packs his notes inside his suitcase and leaves the auditorium. It’s time for a break.
 

CUT.
 

INT. LA – UNIVERSITY HALLS – DAY – A FEW MOMENTS LATER
 

Students are having a break from class. The place is crowded, there’s noise, while Jack chit chats with his fellow classmate, GEORGE.

GEORGE
 

You have an extraordinary history of accomplishments Jack! Interested to explain your past and your pitfalls behind this experience?
 

JACK
 

Got fed up with going back and forth with high school math logic and reading poetry gobbledygook by inglorious professors. You know… the web!
 

GEORGE
(happily smiling)
 

Hey, hey, that’s competitive intelligence or better say… your own shadows?!
 

JACK
It’s the price of science into the applied world. There are ups and downs everywhere…
 

The two students head towards the coffee machine next to the canteen. As soon as Jack grabs a cup of coffee he replies back.
 

JACK (CONT’D)
 

You know, science and math are superficial while in high school. Being bombarded with dozens of equations, vague theories for years, bemusing your head vainly, without knowing how to use anything at all… Just for the showoff of saying I know…!
 

GEORGE
 

So, what’s the difference between good and bad science?
 

JACK
 

Time? It’s only a game of physicists, chemists and mathematicians that believe they will have to learn piles of complicated equations by-heart…
 

GEORGE
(enthusiasted)
 

So that weeee, can have a chance to change the world now, right?
 

JACK
(shaking his finger)
 

Not with your ego…! Also a contradiction to some university professors who believe the world, students, are their marionettes…

 

GEORGE

 

Marionettes of their own ideas.
 

CUT.

INT. LA – JACK’S FAMILY DETACHED HOUSE – AFTERNOON
 

Jack has called NICOLE & BRENDA - his classmmates – at his home to study together. They looked puzzled and absorbed over the table with open books and notes on entrepreneurship, creativity and innovation. They have a discussion.
 

BRENDA
 

It’s big ideas and not big money that can make positive difference. Pure and simple!
 

JACK
 

Are you thinking the one without the other, Brenda?
 

BRENDA
 

No, just thinking of my sequence of steps.
 

NICOLE
 

Bigger than what you were used to in some initial schools, Jack.
 

BRENDA
 

You can’t have traction without money or money without traction, folks. Just like the chicken or the egg dilemma.
 

JACK
 

But we can focus for those, who seek to find a way to leave their world behind…! Do you remember this is a Jumanji quote?
 

NICOLE
 

You’re so Robin Williams as an artist, Jack, at many aspects of him!
 

Being baffled inside the books and the coursework, Brenda decides to throw the books on the table and take a break.
 

BRENDA
 

Anyone out in the garden for a cigarette?
 

JACK
After a few of our noble interests, but it’s actually words that change lives, right?
 

Nicole and Brenda cheerfully nibble Jack and they all go out together.
 

FADE OUT.

Story B: Shades Of TV Taste!

                                     

This is a story about Anna, an ambitious storyteller who finally learns that opening up about her preferences, her interests and her culture in her personal and professional relationships might be more important than her ego.

 

Opening up the YouTube she feels allured by the shows and the interests and the performances that have played their part in her almost breaking-up mode with her boyfriend, Mark.

 

American Idol, America's Got Talent, writer's room in TV studios and plenty of examples around art and culture have forged her by being the continuous choices in her professional endeavors.

 

Walking away from Mark's worldview boosted by the bodification of emotions, she will seek of creative luck. What does the future hold for her?

 

INT. LA CALIFORNIA VILLA – SLEEPING ROOM – DAY

 

ANNA, an ambitious storyteller has just woken up in her room and watches TV. Opening up the YouTube she feels allured by the shows and the interests and the performances that have played their part in her almost breaking-up mode with her boyfriend, MARK.

 

ANNA 

(looking angry and disappointed)
 

Boys, boys, boys… Such a jerk!

 

Anna watches the audition of a 17 years old girl in America’s Got Talent, singing and playing the piano simultaneously that gifted her the golden buzzer. After a few moments the phone rings. It’s Mark.

 

MARK

 

Hey, what’s up girl? Changed your mind? Wanna hear me now?

Anna tries to get up while holding the phone.

 

ANNA

 

I’ve been a witness of your mentality for years Mark… What makes you think you come first now?

 

MARK
 

I’m just missing of what we had… You drove me nuts with your world, Anna…!
 

ANNA 

(abrupt and outrageous)
 

Keep thinking you have a world asshole…! End of story…

Anna hangs up the phone as she eventually breaks up. She stands up while putting on her clothes.
 

ΕΧΤ. CALIFORNIA – VILLA GARDEN – DAY
 

Anna is having her breakfast while her best friend, ELIZA is enjoying a cocktail lying onto their hammock.
 

ELIZA 

(a little bit sarcastic)
 

You did everything you could again, Anna, right?!
 

ANNA
 

As you fall in love, or making friends you become a witness of their culture, their worldview, if you get my point…
 

ELIZA 

(a little bit ironic)
 

So, it must definitely be American Idol?
 

ANNA
 

The same it goes with mobile phones, the same it goes with platforms and data entry, the same it goes with art exhibitions, the same it goes with model shows, theater, it’s always the same with anything that goes against their economistic perception, or worse, their own anatomy and negligence towards culture. Sometimes I believe they got some money and started to shit everyone…
 

ELIZA
 

Of course it’s so as long as you correlate him with yourself! Must you be the same?
 

ANNA 

(losing control)
 

Forget it! We broke up now…
 

ELIZA 

(skeptic)
 

I truly hope you will find what you search for, Anna, one day…
 

Anna finishes her breakfast and leaves the house.
 

INT. LA - TV WRITER’S ROOM – AFTERNOON
 

Anna works in the development of a TV pilot together with directors and producers and becomes the receiver of angry feedback from management.
 

DIRECTOR
 

You don’t need to become Whitney Houston to mirror interests and preferences in your scripts…
 

MANAGER
 

Hold on a second, JOHNNY (DIRECTOR). My biggest criticism – reflecting your art as well - is that unless you open up your interests to what’s truly inside your heart, you shouldn’t be expecting of breakthroughs in Hollywood or TV…!
 

ANNA
 

I guess my character should open up artistically, right?
 

DIRECTOR 

(Winking)
 

You got it kiddo!
 

EXT. LA RED-CARPET EVENT – PREMIERE TIME – NIGHT
 

Anna and the production crew of their musical “He’s going Hollywood” are celebrating their premiere posing excited at photographers. There’s electricity in the atmosphere as well as gossiping the performance with endorsements.
 

ANNA
 

It’s been a long road, folks! Do you believe it?
 

DIRECTOR
 

This film will reap awards in the future, you bet it!
 

Spectators of the event as well as teen audience cheerfully scream and are being pushed to get autographs. There’s a majestic view of Anna smiling with satisfaction in her ballgown while signing autographs.
 

INT. LA – VILLA – LIVING ROOM – AFTERNOON
 

Anna and Eliza discuss in Anna’s home by making a journey of consciousness in terms of their personal and professional relationships and successes. They look calm and thoughtful.
 

ELIZA
 

Always remember it was these wars that revealed the true face of yours, Anna…!
 

ANNA
 

No matter what it costed, right?
 

ELIZA 

(looking reluctant)
 

Well I can’t fully agree with you, though… When you make criticism, you better look yourself in the mirror. Cos they will always judge your ego and not just what you believe.
 

ANNA
 

It’s my time to disagree now, I guess… Being work-centered with a career holding pattern is 1-dimensional when it comes to movies and Hollywood. We’d better search for ourselves in the ‘area of destiny’…
 

ELIZA 

(giggling)
 

Eventually you learned to win, didn’t you?
 

The two women hug each other with satisfaction.
 

FADE OUT.

Story A: The Transfigurations Of A Poetically Inspired Scientist!

This is a story about the things that change, a story of transfigurations that depicts how from the old occur the new...! 

 

Biblically inspired, writer and physicist Noah discusses with his son Robert inside the abyss of his leather-bound books into the library of his study office.

 

Visions and rebirths take place and suddenly Noah and Robert are witnesses of the re-animation of Noah's past. The entire set of characters he once interacted with are there, into a unique space to interact with him and lead to enlightenment...

 

Will he manage to accept the power of his past and his ideas?

 

INT. NY – STUDY ROOM – DAY

NOAH sits on his leather chair at his study office in his apartment. As a background, including the two side walls, there is a library with leather-bound books on the shelves of which there are numerous wooden constructions and sentimental cultural items including scientific equipment.

VOICE OVER

This will be a story about the things that change, a story on transfigurations, to portray how from the old occur the new, a poetic testament of NOAH revealing how one man’s vision can be shifted into the universe of words and change lives! A physicist and a writer, that is Noah, is found at the in-between of his past life with the future exploiting the precious love of his family to change perceptions. Who is to say about destiny in front of God’s eyes?

NOAH is discussing with his son, ROBERT, at his office. They read John’s Revelation. ROBERT closes his eyes to start envisioning the city of God. There’s an otherworldly electricity in the atmosphere at the shades of dark brown and creamy light pink, equivalent with the interior decoration of the office.

ROBERT

And out of precious stones, gold and several other artifacts there will be created a Heaven in which there will be no anathema and people there will reign as kings forever!

Robert soliloquizes. Noah stares at his son with an approbative look. Immediately afterwards Robert slightly opens his eyes and uses his imagination to start transforming the environment around him.

ROBERT

At the beginning, there is only word. And word will become the poetic tool of God to create a universe that is not made up by atoms but by tiny stories…

NOAH (passionate and inspired with his son)

You know it, Robert! The power of God is inside of you! What is it that’s keeping you from accepting God into your deeds and actions and transform your life?

ROBERT

Our life, father, is a far cry from what once it could be. The question is, are we willing to fight and adapt and struggle to get back to our own Belle Epoque of creativity?

NOAH 

(disappointed)

Naaah… We got disappointed once but life is for those who keep trying!

VOICE-OVER

There was always a vision inside Noah’s head, the windswept sperms of which were being reflected into the environment and were being got back through the prism of words inside his online diary. As if this was a canon that perhaps, what he once thought it could be his own identity was not what it seemed and there were always paradigms and humans from the outside, with the same common basic needs with him that were guiding his thoughts and actions. Even though not the perfect decision maker, he was a great listener. But now, there was something in both of them and their thoughts that was being rebirthed around them, as an invisible miracle or an act of Renaissance.

INT. NY – LIVING ROOM - DAY

Paintings and figures were being reanimated, leather-bound books onto the tables were being opened to emit stardust, men from the past were being brought back in his memory and even this fatal period of being an entrepreneur would remind him the bittersweet days of his glory but also the other side of doom.

ROBERT

As a writer and a scientist haunted by the excitement but also the ghosts of the past, I believe dad you possess the perfect raw material to refine your future. The question that remains to be answered is…, are you willing to?

NOAH

It’s still… it, Robert! Notions and words and ideas isolated and personified can be the best argument when we read literature for example but I still can’t explain it in real life.

ROBERT

Then perhaps it’s the interpretation that you give. A selfish approach with which you complete the entire work as a team, on your own thoughts and then cancel the other side…

NOAH

A team… Or an imagined dream team… I guess it’s just a matter of time and mind…

A sudden shift into Noah’s and Robert’s study office and John’s Revelation that was being left onto the desk was being opened to create apparitions in the room. As if all the people that Noah interacted with at the past, were being brought back as avatars from parallel universes, his beloved ghosts, and they would interact with him, emerged from the spacetime of Revelation, only to lead to catharsis.

FIGURE 1

You’re being lost inside the flow Noah…! Management should be all about spirituality!

FIGURE 2

These should be moments of great decisions…!

FIGURE 3

Congratulations! I wish only distinctions for you Noah!

FIGURE 4

I can’t found a theory if I don’t accept a hypothesis externally defined! For Einstein, this was the speed of light…

As a stream of consciousness and memories, a light beam risen from the book and travelled up to the living room, these apparitions into the air had come back, so now Noah’s mind was being bombarded by a mixed reality of emotions and thoughts.

ROBERT

I believe mocking is a repetitive motif when it comes to your history dad… Dirtying the sacred maybe?

NOAH 

(shocked and reactive)

I don’t know! I just don’t know!

ROBERT

Any idea of how to honor your past and the memory of all those you left behind?

NOAH 

(shocked)

Words and patterns… Scientists are makers of patterns…

Noah immediately afterwards started to touch and play with the wooden constructions and the scientific equipment that was found in their living room. A wooden globe standing in the middle of it, a small telescope onto a shelf, a ship resembling the boat of Columbus, a kaleidoscope, Noah would turn around the medium size space and would fight with his ideas and emotions.

NOAH (CONT’D)

I guess we shouldn’t put the blame to men that did everything they could and they just had no more to give, right? Or it’s just that they couldn’t give…

ROBERT

The future holds secrets only the past can reveal… And in this journey, nothing is what it seems and nothing lasts forever!

VOICE-OVER

Noah has been a scientist and a writer who would lack the motivation to acknowledge the good that was being done to him and only accuse others based on their weaknesses and personal attacks! Not until the revelatory experience had he realized destiny was only known to God and unless he could find a way to reconciliate with him and his own stories, he couldn’t be expecting of more to come… And even though perfection belongs to Him and only, force majeure is a reality of humans, right?