Curious Nature
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Art, Literature, and Life
CENSORED
For TRUTH, ALCOHOL CONSUMPTION, and SOME LANGUAGE
"CENSORED"
By Annemarie Weed
2018
This is a story about an imaginary friend living in an Orwellian world gone mad. A screenplay writer discovers her script is changing reality as she makes problems for the Truth’s Decryption Department. George Washington Hayduke, a Truth employee, fights for his mind through dreams and transversing realities while deciphering a comic book about a drunk seagull. The entire time he is evading the insane Department of Thought he hears voices of those plotting against him. Finally he finds sanity in a secret library where he meets the person who sabotaged the decryption department, and has been sending George messages.
Simultaneously this is an experimental film, one which I have always fantasized about creating. This is a movie about writing a movie. As a documentary about commenting on the scariest dystopian novels which have turned into reality, this story tests all learned conventions of standard film.
A delightful perspective unravels in each scene with a unique compendium of comedy which was inspired by some of the greatest sci-fi novels of the last century. This is an ode to freedom and to those who have inspired it through literature.
Excerpts From "Censored"
INT. BEDROOM OF GEORGE'S UNREMARKABLE HOUSE - NIGHT
George hears machines clicking and whirring. He sees the MASTER IN THE CHAIR WITH RED EYES. Words on screen, "THOUGHT CRIME DETECTED." His heart is beating fast. George is entranced by the MASTER who is looking for the precious T.P. message. He touches his shirt pocket as T.P. thumps.
OMINOUS VOICE 1
You want to look it. What does it say?... Big brother is watching you!
Shaking off hypnosis he downs bottle of Rum, holds head in pain.
GEORGE WASHINGTON HAYDUKE (THOUGHTS)
I feel sick dammit! Going... Crazy!
VOICE 2
No one quits their job.
VOICE 1
Not one person. People disappear though...
VOICE 2
An accident or transfer maybe...
VOICE 3
Or death...
COMIC BOOK AUTHOR (V.O.)
He must survive a thought. The thought being:
HOW TO SURVIVE A THOUGHT.
storyboard for "CEnsored"
Opening scene in movie
The Eye of the Beholder, otherwise known as, "The Master" has red eyes, and likes to smoke medicated cigarettes...
The LOVE have invaded the city due to a shoe and a broken coffee machine. They also like to play bumper tanks in the road.
Opening scene in movie
INT. DEPARTMENT OF TRUTH - BREAKROOM 12 - DAY
GEORGE WASHINGTON HAYDUKE
What's all this loud noise? SHUT UP!
Heads turn to see George is wearing the wrong thing. His cowboy hat clearly a violation.
TRUTH EMPLOYEE
The coffee machine isn’t working.
The fighting resumes but George elbows his way to the cabinet and grabs a mug out of the cupboard. Mug art depicts Nurse Ratched electroshocking a fake smiling Jack Nicholson with big words, "I LOVE MY JOB!" He places it under a faucet and presses, "Brew Cup."
COFFEE MACHINE
(Its robot voice is staticy but intelligible)
C@$k Suc*@r!
(It yells as it refuses to work)
Piece of Sh%! Pansy A*$!