Posted by Konan on 05.13.2005, 12:43 PM:
quote: Originally posted by Azhur:
Konan I would definately like to see your ideas.
Well , here's one idea that I have, an epic a la Nausicaa or Mononoke-hime. It's called Aroban.
10,000 years after a forgotten apocalypse, a nomadic tribe of a vast, barren desert is slowly being wiped out by a deadly plague, believed to be caused by the wrath of their gods. The priests of the esoteric sciences had long since given up on discovering a cure. The chieftain of the tribe has finally succumbed to the plague, leaving his daughter, who is much too young to rule over the tribe. Political unrest ensues. A winged, crucifix-bearing young man stumbles upon the tribe, speaking in a foreign tongue that the tribesmen cannot understand. However, the moment that he arrives, a young woman dies in the middle of childbirth. The motherless child is offered to him, but he refuses it--he does not want to become a human being and lose his status as a Son of God by tending to a mortal child, but never explains this to the tribesmen. After a fortnight, he leaves. Life resumes in the tribe, and little of his stay is felt. As he travels through the desert alone, without food nor water, he weakens terribly. We see him unleash terrible demons, causing massive sandstorms to erupt, one of which engulfs him and kills him. Long after his death, another tribe finds his body, miraculously intact. The priests of the tribe examine him, and declare that he is a god. When the other tribe hears of this, they realized that this was the same man who had come to their tribe months before. They also remembered that when he stayed that fortnight with them, not a single death from the plague occured. They reasoned that the cross he bore was an antidote to the plague. So they wanted it for themselves. Though allies with the other tribe, they declare "war" against them. We see each tribe plunge into bloodthirsty aggression, but neither tribe ever forgets the virtues of nobility and empathy. In the last of the battles, so many on each side are massacred that only a few are left in each tribe. But now the lethal plague escalates ravaging what is left of both tribes, until one woman is left. She is the chieftain's daughter, terribly ill and near death. She remembers the crucifix that the Son of God bore. Previously it was forbidden even for her to take; but she reached out for it in his coffin (his body is still interestingly intact). It crumbled into fine dust before she touched it. She decides to leave the bitter memory of her tribe's settlement. The night before she leaves, the Son of God is ressurected. He had died for a reason, you know--to redeem the souls of those who had died from war or the plague in the two tribes. But he is not a Son of God any longer--he has lost his memory of his past existence, and his wings have disappeared. That dawn, he stands before the chieftain's daughter as she awakens. They get to know each other well over the next few weeks (this is where much of the character development will take place in the film) and leave into the distance, together. They are the new Adam and Eve. However, we see sand blow in the foreground, revealing a massive obelisk from the ancient industrial civilization.
So, your thoughts?
EDIT: Added some more details.
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