Short Film: "Unencumbured Enthusium"
Awhile back my friend Zach and I came up with an idea for a movie. It's about a Newspaper in the 30's that get's turned around by a plucky young copy boy. We acctually wrote most of a script and shot some of the movie. I thought I'd give you a basic overview of the movie.
The movie is about Mort Spiegelman, the owner and only writer for the failing Saint Lewis Gazzette (notice he spells Saint Louis wrong). It takes place in the 1930's and 40's. Mort couldn't afford a memiograph machine, so he had to make all the papers by hand. He could ussually make about 12 copies a week, and he ussually sold about half of those.
But that all changed when Mort acquired the services of young Jimmy Goodwell. Mort won Jimmy in a poker game. And as it turned out Jimmy could copy papers so quickly that Mort could devote all his time to writing the paper. As Mort would put it, "Jimmy was making so many papers every week we had to come up with a way to sell them. So, we started putting effort into our writing... and we started writing them in English."
Anyway, things were going great for Mort... untill World War II started. Now all anyone wants to read about is World War II, but Mort can't afford to send a correspondant to Europe. So he creates a new plan. Mort plans to go back in time, to the battle of Antitum, and report on that. The task of building the Time Machine falls on young Jimmy Goodwell.
Now Jimmy didn't know much about science, but he sure did know a lot about giving 110%, so he was willing to put his best effor into building that time machine, Basically he ductapes a calander to bycicle. He than writes 1863 on the top, and circels the date June 5th.
So Mort gets on the bike, and rides it into a wall, injuring himself badly. Much to the ammusment of Mort's wife, who was against the time machine idea from the start. The paper folds, and Jimmy turns to alchohol, and ultimately takes his own life. Mort's wife leaves him and returns to her former life as a prostitute.
The movie would end with a statement from Mort (The movie was comprised of an interview with Mort, and flashbacks with voiceovers) Mort would say, "A lot of people ask me why I thought I would be able to build a time machine. But the thing you have to remember, is that in Saint Louis... at that time... there was no arch." Than he would stare blankly off into the distance for a second, and the movie would end.
Well, that's it... I liked it anyway.
The movie is about Mort Spiegelman, the owner and only writer for the failing Saint Lewis Gazzette (notice he spells Saint Louis wrong). It takes place in the 1930's and 40's. Mort couldn't afford a memiograph machine, so he had to make all the papers by hand. He could ussually make about 12 copies a week, and he ussually sold about half of those.
But that all changed when Mort acquired the services of young Jimmy Goodwell. Mort won Jimmy in a poker game. And as it turned out Jimmy could copy papers so quickly that Mort could devote all his time to writing the paper. As Mort would put it, "Jimmy was making so many papers every week we had to come up with a way to sell them. So, we started putting effort into our writing... and we started writing them in English."
Anyway, things were going great for Mort... untill World War II started. Now all anyone wants to read about is World War II, but Mort can't afford to send a correspondant to Europe. So he creates a new plan. Mort plans to go back in time, to the battle of Antitum, and report on that. The task of building the Time Machine falls on young Jimmy Goodwell.
Now Jimmy didn't know much about science, but he sure did know a lot about giving 110%, so he was willing to put his best effor into building that time machine, Basically he ductapes a calander to bycicle. He than writes 1863 on the top, and circels the date June 5th.
So Mort gets on the bike, and rides it into a wall, injuring himself badly. Much to the ammusment of Mort's wife, who was against the time machine idea from the start. The paper folds, and Jimmy turns to alchohol, and ultimately takes his own life. Mort's wife leaves him and returns to her former life as a prostitute.
The movie would end with a statement from Mort (The movie was comprised of an interview with Mort, and flashbacks with voiceovers) Mort would say, "A lot of people ask me why I thought I would be able to build a time machine. But the thing you have to remember, is that in Saint Louis... at that time... there was no arch." Than he would stare blankly off into the distance for a second, and the movie would end.
Well, that's it... I liked it anyway.
posted by Blake Stockdale at 12:01 AM
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