I just realized that I'm a gusher. It's true, all of my reviews thus far are gushers. Sad, I will never be as critical of films as I am of strangers.
So, more on the Sun=Hell story. So here's how I see it. The main character is a scientist, a man of reason, who has never even thought about religion as a viable concept. So, it's a few years from now, everyone has gone green, there is no more reason for global warming, but it's gettting worse and worse. So they start to say, "Huh, maybe it's not the gasses, maybe it's the sun." They start doing all sorts of analyses of the sun and then they listen to it. (I have no idea about any of the science here, but then, neither do you, most likely. And Miss Teen South Carolina would eat it up, so I feel safe with this concept.) They listen to the sun and they hear millions of people's voices, screaming. (Which would be an incredibly scary moment in the movie I am imagining. Main scientist played by... Steve Coogan? Someone like that.)
So they start to do all sorts of tests on the sound. And we're saying the sound takes... a long time, a matter of months or a year or something, to get back to Earth, so there is all this speculation and fear and no one knows whats going on, but they start to get this picture of the sun as having bodies on it, and when the clearer, more pinpoint sound comes back, it's individual voices and they are screaming about being tortured. They are cursing the beings that are torturing them and they are saying that they would have lived better lives if they'd only known, things like that. It's intense and it's kind of hard to deny that something strangely like hell is going on.
But I have no idea how it ends. I like little things about the idea, like that it isn't the Industrial Revolution that kick-started the warming, it was Darwin's Theory of Evolution. That there are periods of cooling, and they coincide with times that there are revivals of spiritual belief on the Earth. Things like that, you could play with them, it'd be fun.
Thoughts?
Wednesday, August 29, 2007
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It sounds a lot like Event Horizon, where hell s just on the other side of a black hole. I suppose it's an original enough idea, but the only way, it seems to me, that it could end well is if there was a spiritual resurgence on a global scale, or someone went to the sun and found a way to get rid of hell.
Gotta admit, it sounds like a good one. In a world where far too many movies are sequals and Hollywood seems out of new ideas (which is why they seem to keep plundering comic books now) it's nice to hear an origional idea come out. Wish there was someway you could actually pitch this to a company.
rapitrone, if the sun is Hell, and we got rid of it, what would happen to the solar system? What if the souls in torment provide the needed enzyme-like quality that allows/forces the conversion of hydrogen to the sun's radiant energy of light and warmth - the burning of those who live in darkness provides the living with heat and light? You do not want to get rid of that.
This seems like a good story and ripe for the writing.
I didn't mean get rid of the sun, but only find some other way of fueling the sun besides the souls of people. Make the proverbially deal with the devil to set them free, or possibly kill whatever entity it is that oversees the sun, and find some alternate fuel for the sun.
And then it occured to me: Joe Dante directs, entitles it The Inferno! Man, that would be great!
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