∞pan's Plot Points of a Futuristic Urban Noir

PLOTS POINTS OF A FUTURISTIC URBAN NOIR
by ∞pan

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FADE IN:

EXT. DEBT NOIR - NIGHT

Rain soaked alleyways, glistening hyper-colored neon reflections... Mess with money men, pay a price. Lay claim to control the Fates, burn a path of Karma. Pay a deeper price. Time to see a few old friends and take a swim in the lake with some concrete shoes.

LACY NOYES, confidently seductive yet charmingly clumsy, struts into the smoke-filled room. She steps up to the vintage microphone, but it's not plugged in.

LACY NOYES

An incessantly skipping beat lures
the ponderous pining piano. Laced
with the cheap promises of a pawn
shop bass, the plot thickens.

A final crescendo emerges with an escalating cliché, leaving only the lingering memory of a spark, intermittently buried and dug up by a doppelganger of sorts. The final piano trips itself up in imperfect measures and missteps, but that shouldn't be an excuse...

LACY NOYES (CONT'D)

I just always sort of liked it that
way.

EXT. IN THE PINES - LATER

Ambient version of the haunting classic folk song of an unfaithful lover, sculpted in silicon and slicing valleys of reverb. Stolen Midi, broken heart, lost love, absinthe - putting the pieces together before and after the incident in the company of all parties involved.

The thief reaps his reward.

THIEF

This is my ambient version of the
traditional folk song "In the Pines"
which has been covered by many artists
over the years. I found a Midi
interpretation of Nirvana's "Where
Did You Sleep Last Night" and then
sampled it and sound-sculpted it in
an attempt to create a moving piece
of the folk song from purely
electronic means start to finish.

CREATURE OF CIRCUMSTANCE enters, surrounded by an aura of mnemonic torturers. The abyss stares back...

INT. FRAYED - THAT MOMENT

Words remembered, distorted, as they often are.

INT. RESURRECTING LUNA - AFTERNOON

Theme music for an epic science-fiction love story with haunting consequences for those involved.

EXT. MIDNIGHT BLOOM - NIGHT

Night friends in flora emerge saturated beneath the glow of a full moon. The thick foggy atmosphere that sneaks in is foreboding and alluring at the same time.

INT. PALACE OF THE SNOW QUEEN - DAWN

Soundtrack for a fairy tale reading. Brave young souls enter a world of ice castles and broken mirrors. The tingling sound of snowflakes and pieces of glass intermingle. The Snow Queen lurks somewhere within her frozen lair, lying in wait...

INT. HOPEFUL ENDING - PRESENT

A slow lingering fade out into darkness with a soft glow in the distance signaling the promise of hope.

SUNNY FROST walks in from the cold clutch of winter mist.

SUNNY FROST

The sweetness that lies deep down
beneath the snow was an echo from
the past once heard between
skyscrapers and mountains.

Like everything that's special, its return is always welcome.

BACK TO MIDNIGHT BLOOM (EXTENDED) - THAT NIGHT

Spirits walk through mirrors and pass by on infrasonic waves.

INT. FOUND & LOST MESSAGE - FLASHBACK

An old recording plays a message from the past into the future. Memories captured with a light gun are illuminated on cracking walls.

EXT. SPARROWS ON WINTHROP - DUSK
Chirping birds swoop and circle en masse, waiting for the right moment to dive into an open chimney of the nearby high rise.

FADE TO BLACK.

Recorded and Mixed Fall 2002 - Spring 2003

Part of Pan's Labyrinth of Music and Noise

All Tracks Copyright 2005 Ambitious Productions/Mythopolis

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