More walt script ideas

It's the last week of my employment at the film summer camp I've been TAing. It's been pretty awesome, kids are my fav. During the last few days there's a lot of editing going on so I've been at a computer writing out ideas for the walt disney bio-pic. So I've described the idea before, and there wasn't really much going on in the beginning of the movie, just the end. So I decided I needed to work a lot more on plot points. Here's what I've come up with:

Walt is agoraphobic. Lillian dotes over him. After a series of nature related dreams he starts to notice small details outside his window that catch his attention. He starts to venture outside bit by bit. Lillian is proud. His visions continue and start to seep into everyday life, nature takes on a fantastical edge. He overcomes his agoraphobia. His visions inspire him to start trying to bring his ideas to life through animation (because they are unfilmable in a realistic sense).  His new appreciation of nature drives him to buy a pet mouse who becomes a constant companion. Walt's visions and dreams start to take on a twisted edge, becoming creepier. Elements from a hidden past start to resurface. Walt begins to realize he can't draw, his visions confuse him, he starts to uncover the fact that he was an adopted orphan. His mother died during a bombing when trying to bring the farm animals back inside. He wanders into the woods with his mouse and drawing pad, he fails once again at illustrating. He becomes extremely distraught, wanders deeper into the forest and gets lost and trapped. He dies holding/talking to his mouse who talks back to him. Lillian can tell when walt dies, she has been drawing a little over the past few weeks after being inspired by walt. At this moment she draws Walt's mouse, an exact replica of the known mickey mouse. She offers it to a movie studio dressed as a saint in memory of walt.

Still needs some more thought and work, but I feel like this is really on the right track now. In classic janeen style I will be employing the usage of a reclusive main character. I've been doing some research on agoraphobia, and by that I mean I read the wikipedia page.  It appears as though agoraphobia is linked to the development of modernity. Which totally works for the movie because walt is trying to re-frame the sanctity of nature, inspired by his bizarre personal visions.

cool disney stuff

It's kind of weird I'm doing a movie about walt disney since I am not nearly as into the canon of disney classics as most of the american population is. Fantasia is amazing though. It's one of my favorite movies ever. And there are not a lot of those. I found this really nice youtube comment a while ago that someone left underneath a clip of fantasia:

Chin up! There are still cartoonists in the world who cherish the beautiful capabilities of this art form. Yes, films like this are no longer in the mainstream now a days, but we can't say it will never come again.

True artists are still out there and still working to bring art like this into the world. It's up to us as an audience to support true quality and bring it back.

The past is not something to mourn, it is a chance for us to learn so we can make our futures better.


 nice right? Well heres some clips of some disney stuff that I personally like. 


Claire De Lune, deleted scene from fantasia



Destino, Salvador dali and disney collab

Mousing

So I decided I want to purchase a mouse to use in my walt disney movie. The mouse will be walt's constant companion which he confides in.

I've been doing mouse research, and apparently its a better idea to buy a mouse from a breeder than a pet store because they are easier to hand train. I found this breeder in nyc. I'll write him an email once it gets closer to school. http://www.mikiodo.com/mice/

Also, I will be purchasing 2 mice, one will be the understudy. I'm trying to come up with good mouse names. So far meg has suggested "ennio mousiconne" which rules, because I love ennio morricone, and on occasion I can enjoy a good pun. I mean technically I could name them mickey and minnie but thats kind of lame. Maybe babybel, after those delicious miniature cheese wheels..... mmmmmm

UPDATE: the mice will be named Ennio Mousiconne and Hunka Munka (after a beatrix potter character)

end of summer is upon us

So the end of summer is quite here yet, but it's time to start planning. Here's some stuff i gotta do:

1) write rough screenplay for walt disney bio-pic

2) make kick starter for walt disney bio-pic

3) record 22 more songs

Kay. time to get to work.

This song rules

Disney research

Here's some stuff from books I've been scanning

 

This last one is just because the cover is so cool and it's got barbarella on it.

Disney research

The other day I checked out a handful of books so that I could start research for the disney bio-pic. I got books of his art and comics, books on interior design from the 40's, and this really awesome book called film and the american moral vision of nature. This book rules. It's about how images and films have constructed the american idea of nature and the way we interact with it. I thought it'd be useful since one of the main conflicts of the movie is between walt and nature.