Thursday, May 6, 2010

Scene by Scene Outline-Rebecca Murillo

ANGE'S STORY


Scene 1

It’s November, in the late 90s. The weather outside is sunny but there is certainly no warmth in the air as the wind bites through every layer of clothing. The hospital is necessarily new, but it is apparent is has been kept well and there are no signs of wear and tear.

There is a woman in her late 30s sitting in a hospital bed, it doesn’t appear that she has much energy to do anything, she is slowly dying. A young girl, 11 years of age sits on her bed with her while a middle aged man, most likely the father, sleeps lazily in a chair off to the side. The mom lazily opens her eyes. And looks around the room. Noticing her husband sleeping in a chair.

The woman is Mrs. Carvelli, she is 38 years old with a fairly olive complexion that is losing it’s luster, her hair once was a brilliant golden brown with blonde highlights in just the right places, but now it lay limp on her head, with no light reflecting from it. Her eyes had turned from spring green to more of a moss green. The doctors were not able to diagnose what is plaguing her, but whatever it is appears to be slowly shutting down her organs. She never believed anything would defeat her and continues to believe that she will be cured soon enough. She is a slight feminist although she babies her husband she still believes that women deserve equal power and that a rise in this ideal is approaching.

The young girls is Ange Carvelli, she is a mirror image of what her mother used to be and like her mother believes that this unknown disease will be cured any day know. She has grown up adoring her mother and striving to equal her strength and power as a woman. Ange has grown up taking hin all her mother has to teach her about feminism and the equality of genders and someday Ange hopes to make a difference in the world as a woman.

Mr. Carvelli is a male with the stereotypical view of women in mind. He believes that the women should stay at home while the men work and has always tried to persuade Mrs. Carvelli from her feminist mindset.

As the events unfold, Ange stays by her mothers side until death, but before she dies, Mrs. Carvelli mumurs to Ange “Don’t you EVER let any man tell you that you can’t do something just because you’re a girl. Prove them wrong honey. Prove it to them, and prove it to yourself.”

Scene 2

Ange is now a teenager in the present day, she does all the housework and is forced to care for her incompetent father who refuses to help her out around the house. The house is actually a small 2-bedroom apartment that Ange and her father moved into after her mother’s death. It is slightly unkempt, with some dirty laundry spewed across the furniture but underneath that we can tell that the apartment is normally kept very well.

Ange’s father gets upset with her about the untidiness of the apartment and says that she needs to make him more food because he did not enjoy the dinner she had made. Ange had tried something new that night, enchiladas, making obvious that her father doesn’t like change. Ange has a silent conversation with herself about how she will follow her mother’s advice one day and make a name for herself. She also makes some comment about the terrorist attacks.

She makes her father a peanut butter and jelly sandwich, absent-mindedly picks up the laundry, saying she’ll do it later. She goes upstairs and fiddles with her computer, something goes wrong so she takes it apart, rearranges some wires, turns it back on, enters a code, and continues working.

Scene 3

Ange discovers the Xnet revolution and immediately identifies with it. She becomes excited that she can now be apart of a bigger cause and joins in, readily accepting all of the Xnetters beliefs and the movement’s objectives. Somehow she gets invited to a secret meeting, through Jolu, something about the Xnet. They make their pact (more info).

At the meeting, Ange takes notice of Marcus, she is drawn to his confident yet vulnerable matter. After listening to him and observing him, she realizes that he is mik3y, she has finally come upon her chance to make a name for herself. She knows that she is good enough with computers that she can take over the Xnet and she also knows that she will be able to manipulate Marcus. She approaches him and wins him over with her forward ways.

Cut to a couple scenes of Ange and Marcus hanging out, having a good time, but her obviously just playing with him.

Scene 4

Ange sits in her surprisingly messy room, there are posters of feminists all over the walls and she is typing away on her computer. She is planning her takeover of the Xnet. Her dad continues to yell at her for not being more of a woman.

Ange and her father get in a big heated argument about her role in the household. He gets mad at her for getting involved with Marcus because it takes time away from her taking care of her. She yells back, she has never been so angry at him. She tells him that she wants to be her own woman, that she wants power. She tells him she just wants to be the woman that her mother would have wanted. This strikes a cord with her father, who all of the sudden stops yelling and sits down with his head in his hands. He agrees that he is being a horrible father for not letting Ange be an individual and he is sorry. Sentimental moment between them.

After this event Ange thinks twice about her plans, she realizes that half of her motivation just came out of the hatred she felt towards her father. Then she remembers her mothers last words again and decides she needs to go through with it…for her.

Scene 5

Ange and Marcus are in Ange’s room, they are kissing. They are planning the Xnet interview, Ange knows that she has control now, she tells Marcus what to do and it’ll only be a short while before she overthrows Marcus and becomes the new ruler. She has been planning it ever since she realized that Marcus was the leader, he has just become a pawn to her.

Ange knows that this situation is her time to completely take over the Xnet she gets ready to ditch Marcus and become the only ruler (exact method of this hasn’t been thought of) but then something odd happens, he takes hold of her hand. Just this one act of compassion makes Ange realize that what is making the Xnet such a success is their collaboration. Her maniacal plan has been put aside as she leans into him, accepting his act of compassion.

Ange and Marcus go through the whole conference and everything together and are able to effectively manage the Xnet.

The story will end at this point; leaving an end that is up to the viewers, what happened with the Xnet? Did Ange and Marcus stay together? No one knows…

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