Script of staged VR film.
Viewer in VR helmet.
Title: Attention, this is fair play
(The title pulses and is voiced with the sound of a heartbeat, the volume of the voiceover increases).
Stars fly at the viewer at once, and then spirits in infinite space (births, weddings, funerals, conflicts and triumphs from different countries and eras - Oscars, Grammys, Indian funerals, prayers in Tibet and Roman soldiers).
Title: Choose your incarnation
Four UI elements appear, with portraits in them:
Mia Takeshi - 26 years old, rich and very beautiful girl, Singapore, 21st century.
Johnny Cash - 40 years old, successful businessman, European, Sydney, 22nd century.
Asa Yuf - 21 years old, Scandinavian warrior, Sweden, 9th century.
Qin Dao - 53 years old, martial monk, China, 14th century.
Any of the 4 characters can be selected with the joystick, when the viewer clicks on the icon of the character, their story begins. All stories will be partially intertwined and connected.
Qin Dao
We see a tree with luminous currents flowing calmly through it. They descend from the crown, down the trunk and connect with the Chinese monk sitting in asana. He is immersed in deep meditation.
A caption made by fire appears on the screen, introducing the hero: Qin Dao, 14th century
Next appear UI button choices: See the vision/Stay in the location.
In each UI choice in the film, at the bottom of the screen, there is an option to: Step into another hero.
Stay in location: A monk sits in a semi-dark hall of an ancient Buddhist monastery.
See a vision: In meditation, Qin sees a young girl named Miya Takeshi from our time (one of the heroines of the film). She stands on the ocean and the wind flutters her long hair. Her pupils dilate and her breathing becomes deep, smooth pebbles from the beach rise and hang in the air in front of her, they begin to glow and slowly rotate. Mia reaches out and takes one pebble in her hand.
She examines the pebble, which fills the entire screen and the viewer can see its smooth and structured surface in detail. Suddenly the Yin-Yang symbol begins to shimmer in the stone. We see how in Yang the sun rises over the monastery, and in Yin the moon shines in the sky.
In the light of the moon, a thousand brigands, with red headbands, attack the ancient Chinese monastery. Several dozen monks fight bravely, but are killed one by one.
Continuation: The bandits are already in the courtyard and gallery of the monastery, holding torches and all kinds of cold weapons.
The monk Qin is immersed in meditation, and the five are approaching him from different directions, they are very close to him. The brigands strike deadly blows with long Chinese swords.
Time slows down, Qin opens his eyes, dodging the blows at the last moment. He moves quickly on his knees like in Aikido, blocking the attackers, making throws and counter-strikes. The attackers' weapons are left at the monk's feet.
UI select buttons appear: Raise Halberd/Lift Sword.
Qin stands up and tosses a spectator-selected weapon with his foot. More and more brigands arrive in the hall.
The monk is a master of Shaolin martial arts, he advances through the attacking opponents, regardless of their numbers or skill. The red armbands perish one by one. The viewer sees all these actions in first person (Qin Dao's subjective).
Qin is already outside the walls of the monastery. He sees a huge throne with the hideous leader of the robbers standing on a platform standing on top of the living suffering people. He laughs haughtily at the monk. Qin rushes in for one last fight, his path is blocked by two similarly fighting monks like Qin Dao.
A complex and skilful battle ensues between the monks - martial arts masters - but Qin doesn't stand a chance. The opponents are strong and outnumber Qin in strength.
Many swords are thrust into the monk's body, exhausted from wounds. Qin's consciousness fades, he falls, the last thing he sees is the red laughing face of the chief brigand.
Darkness.
The monk's body is burned along with the monastery. The bandits savour their victory.
Amidst the huge fire, UI selection buttons appear: Nirvana/Live.
Nirvana:
A strong wind makes the grass cover the ground. The viewer falls down - to the core of the earth and there shines - the Sun. It pulsates with prominences and lives. The sun grows and goes into infinite space.
The beating of the sun is voiced with the sound of a heartbeat, the volume of the voicing and the rhythm are increasing.
Rocks from the ocean shore rise into the air.
The ocean glistens with pure energy.
There are no incarnations, only infinite space.
Time and space are compressed into the flow of a single river.
Rivers of life.
Spaces fly by in infinity (births, weddings, funerals, conflicts and triumphs from different countries and eras - Oscars, Grammys, Indian funerals, prayers in Tibet and Roman soldiers).
To Live: Qin opens his eyes and there are poor elderly peasants leaning over him. They care for Qin in a fatherly manner and treat him for his terrible wounds.
As he recovers, the monk gets up and begins to help the peasants: he carries water for them, works in the rice field and chops firewood.
One day the monk goes to the market and meets a six-year-old boy, Ji, who is wandering around looking for food. The monk and the boy recognise each other immediately, they are teacher and student, created by the universe for each other. The universe narrows into a single tunnel of contemplation and becomes more colourful.
Qin, begins to train the boy. The viewer sees a quick slicing of the unbearable exercises of Shaolin warrior training: difficult tests of endurance, patience and fighting spirit. Between training sessions, teacher and student warmly befriend and encourage each other. Their bond is predestined; it is harmony and happiness from mutual companionship.
Ji, as a sixteen-year-old young man, comes to the ashes of the monastery and rebuilds it. Peasants and poor monks join him. The monastery flourishes once again.
Ji stands on the ocean shore where Qin sits in eternal meditation. The apprentice touches the master's shoulder and Qin's body blows away in the wind like ashes.
Ji's pupils dilate and his breathing becomes deep.
Asa Yuf
Storming Paris. The warrior Asa is the first to climb the walls of the city and fight the defenders.
An air-coloured caption appears on the screen, introducing the heroine: Asa Yuf, 9th century.
Next to Asa, the handsome young konung Arnbj;rn, her husband, fights bravely. They fight on the walls of Paris as a pair, clearing the way for the Vikings climbing the walls.
In the heat of battle, Asa sees an archer standing nearby aiming at her husband Arnbj;rn and, at the same moment, a huge Frankish warrior brings a heavy war hammer over Asa, preparing to deliver a fatal blow.
UI buttons appear: Protect Husband/Save Your Life.
Protect Husband: Asa deftly throws her sword at the archer's chest and dodges the huge franc's warhammer in a millimetre, defending herself with her shield, which breaks into splinters. She skips at the warrior's very feet and delivers a fatal blow from below with the remnants of her shield to his throat. Asa rises, smiling happily.
At that moment another archer from a high watchtower fires an arrow at the warrior, her husband at the last moment, covering Asa with his chest. Arnbj;rn dies at the feet of his young wife.
To save her life: Asa fends off a blow from the Frank's hammer with her sword and turns round to pierce his body. The young Viking, who has climbed the castle wall, rushes at the archer and prevents him from firing a shot at Arnbj;rn.
At that moment another archer from a high watchtower fires an arrow at the warrior, her husband at the last moment, covering Asa with his chest. Arnbj;rn dies at the feet of his young wife.
The Vikings take Paris and frantically celebrate the victory, a frenzied bacchanalia and looting begins. Asa cannot share the joy of the army, her husband has left her forever and gone to Valhalla.
Arnbj;rn's body is taken to his field tent and prepared for burial.
A depressed Asa walks through the streets of Paris and watches indifferently and sadly as the Vikings happily celebrate their victory: looting, drinking, mocking the inhabitants and singing songs.
Asa sadly enters a Catholic church, church utensils scattered around, she walks up to the altar and stares indifferently at the crucifix. At the entrance appears the rich and nasty konung Knud. He is small in stature with a hooked nose and blistering face, and behind him are stately Viking bodyguards.
Knud begins to pursue Asa right at the altar, he promises treasure and eternal passion. He flames with desire for the warrior, but Asa silently smashes the konung's nose with her shield and passes by the bodyguards, they part and look at Asa with respect.
The morning of the funeral of the fallen warriors under the walls of Paris. The bodies of the Vikings are stacked in huge funeral pyres, but the body of Asa's husband, Alnbj;rn, a noble warrior, is sent down the river in a small boat.
Asa looks pensively at the trail of the boat, beside her stands her husband's best friend, the stately and handsome konung Harold. He looks at the warrior with interest.
The archer sets fire to an arrow and having aptly let it into the distance sets fire to the rook with the body of Asa's husband, he burns right in the river. Funeral pyres are lit.
Night. Asa in the tent has taken off her armour, washed and combed her hair, she sits on the edge of the bed like a statue. There is no limit to her sadness. Harold enters the tent, he is embarrassed and quickly begins to pour out his soul to the warrior. He asks her to be with him, for she cannot survive alone in the cruel Viking world. He approaches Asa, she looks at him thoughtfully.
UI selection buttons appear: Stay with the konung/Stay loyal.
Stay with Harold: An erotic scene of intimacy between Asa and the konung Harold. After the intimacy Asa delivers several blows to the konung's face and sends him away, she realises that their intimacy was a mistake. Asa still loves her husband. Harold shamefully walks away.
Keeping Fidelity: Asa, without any intimacy, delivers several blows to the konung's face, she still loves her husband. Harold shamefully leaves.
Asa comes to a pagan kapist, here a shaman is waiting for her, there are animal skeletons, bundles of dry herbs and wooden totems all around. At the fire sits an ugly blind old man in rags - the shaman, he has been waiting for Asa.
The warrior says that she has lost the will to live and all she dreams of is to be reunited with her husband Arnbj;rn.
The shaman smiles he is ready to help Asa, but she must make the choice herself.
Valhalla
In Valhalla the Vikings fallen in battle are feasting with the Valkyries, there is fun and good luck all around. And only Asa's husband Arnbj;rn does not take part in the general merriment, he looks sadly down to the Earth, where his beloved young wife remains.
The camera flies through the clouds and down to the shaman's shrine.
The shaman holds out a goblet of poison to Asa.
UI button choices appear: Abandon Life/Live On.
Abandon Life: Asa drinks the cup of poison. Her soul leaves her body, leaving the shrine and the body of the young warrior lying at the shaman's feet. Asa's soul finds itself in the middle of a night forest and a strong wind gently sways the bushes and tree crowns.
A light portal opens before Asa, from which her husband in shining armour emerges, he embraces his beloved wife. Together they raise their eyes to the sky and look up at the glowing stars. Having chosen one star, they rush with an instant light ray towards it, leaving all their earthly images in this space.
Living on: Asa refuses the poison and at that moment she feels a slight jolt in her lower abdomen, she is pregnant by her fallen husband Alnbj;rn.
We see a tree with luminous currents flowing quietly through it. They descend from the crown, down the trunk and connect to the baby lying under the tree.
Asa stands on the bow of a large rook and holds the infant in her arms. In a dark and misty sea they approach the shores of Sweden.
Johnny Cash
A sloppily dressed and tired middle-aged man walks through the city of the future. There are huge screens with voluminous 4D adverts, neon and endless rain.
On the screen appears a caption, made by water, introducing the hero: Johnny Cash, 22nd century.
Johnny passes through security guards and enters a nightclub. Light music, naked dancers and waitresses, visitors in euphoria dancing, using drugs and alcohol. There are many security guards in the club, one of them descends with Johnny in a lift, down a long shaft of an underground VIP hideout.
In the luxe space, amongst the artwork and antique furniture. On a couch lies a handsome young man in an expensive suit. Upon seeing Johnny, the man smiles carnivorously and lets his many mistresses and guards leave the room. Only one huge bodyguard, a Mongolian, remains at the door.
The man gets up from the couch and impatiently approaches Johnny.
The man
- Did you bring it!?
Johnny
- Yes...
Man.
- Come on!
Johnny
- Payment first...
Man (irritated)
- Ouch...
He takes a glowing plastic card in his hand and holds it up to Johnny's wristband.
A UI element appears on the screen displaying Johnny's transfer of a huge sum of money: 1 000 000 000
Man (boastfully)
- Just like we agreed!
Johnny (looking at the bracelet)
- That's right...
He pulls a small glass from his breast pocket and hands it to Man.
Inserting the glass into the VR helmet, the Man lays down on the couch.
UI selection buttons appear: View vision/Stay in Space.
View vision: Showing Qin Dao's Nirvana.
Nirvana:
A strong wind makes the grass cover the ground. The viewer falls down - to the core of the earth and there shines - the Sun. It pulsates with prominences and lives. The sun grows and goes into infinite space.
The beating of the sun is voiced with the sound of a heartbeat, the volume of the voicing and the rhythm are increasing.
Rocks from the ocean shore rise into the air.
The ocean glistens with pure energy.
There are no incarnations, only infinite space.
Time and space are compressed into the flow of a single river.
Rivers of life.
Spaces fly through infinity (births, weddings, funerals, conflicts and triumphs from different countries and eras - Oscars, Grammys, Indian funerals, prayers in Tibet and Roman soldiers).
The viewer connects with the universe. In this story, at the end of the vision, the screen goes out and shakes, as if something has broken.
Titre: The subscriber is unavailable.
The sound of a heartbeat cardiogram and after a monotonous and long beep...
Stay in Space: Johnny watches the man in the expensive suit carefully. The man smiles blissfully and enlightened, but gradually his condition deteriorates, he turns red and pale, shakes and dies...
Johnny realises everything and slowly exits the asylum, he goes up in the lift, with a guard looking at him intently.
Through the nightclub Johnny walks to a huge window taped with an advertising banner. The guards, talking on the intercom, turn round to see Johnny, his VR attraction has killed the boss.
The guards grab their pistols and shoving customers and waitresses run towards Johnny. He throws himself through the window, shatters the panes and flies down from a great height.
Pulsing darkness...
Voice-over narration: My name wasn't always Johnny... I was once a successful scientist, working for the best company in the world and developing the matrix... I had a wife and a young son, I was very happy....
In the frame: Johnny's happy memories. In the white light is his beautiful young wife, then his son appears. He is playing on the lawn in front of a large country house.
Titre: Lonsdale. Dr Spencer's residence.
Voice-over narration: The whole world can disappear in an instant, just like life. There is no meaning and no understanding. There is only pain and nothingness. A throbbing nothingness... And no... There is nothing... Nothing...
In the frame: Happy Johnny drives the car and smiles at his wife and young son sitting in the back seats. Terrible impact. Shards of glass and metal fly slowly through space.
Voice-over narration: I'm alone, they're gone. And all I ever wanted was my family back. To have them back, if only for one moment for one second of this life....
Cut to Johnny at his family's funeral. Afterwards, he's working in his state-of-the-art lab and trying to generate a matrix.
Voiceover: I couldn't get it to work. It didn't work for so long. But one morning, it did... All that was needed were tests... This oligarch was just a guinea pig for me, but something went wrong again....
Johnny works 24 hours a day, he's close to despair. He sleeps on the job and doesn't eat at all. He comes to the ocean shore and carefully watches the slowly flying seagulls... Johnny puts on a VR helmet. Smooth pebbles from the beach rise and hang in the air in front of him, they start to glow and slowly rotate.
Falling
Johnny is still flying from the skyscraper, the camera slowly moving away from Johnny's pupil. He presses a button on his wristband and opens a glowing portal beneath him. Johnny disappears into the glowing haze.
Transcript: And now, I myself live in the matrix, just like you. As long as you've got that fucking thing on you....
Backstory: Johnny is still flying down, but the space around him is changing. It becomes: viscous, airy, coloured, made of water and of flame. Johnny points his finger at the viewer's imaginary VR helmet.
Voiceover: I am now an outlaw and all I have to do is escape. To escape the matrix and never find my way out. Help me... I'm here....
The train
Johnny finds himself at a glowing portal. There is white space all around. He looks around carefully.
UI buttons appear: Leave/Stay.
Leave: Johnny is travelling on a train with his wife and young son. A grey-haired, respectably dressed man appears in the aisle. He approaches Johnny.
The grey-haired man
- Is this your wife and son?!
Johnny looks round. There's a terrible bang. Shards of glass and metal fly slowly through space. From the terrible impact, Johnny flies through the collapsing carriage. He flies through the glass and ends up on the railway track.
Johnny lifts his head, a speeding train is flying at him.
Stay: Johnny lifts his head up, a speeding train flies at him. He throws himself onto the tracks and the train whizzes right over him.
As the train passes, Johnny gets up. A helicopter spotlight appears in the darkness. The TV broadcast begins.
The TV announcer's voice-over narration: We continue to follow the pursuit of a particularly dangerous criminal, Johnny Cash. He is accused of murder and sooner or later we will catch up with him live on our super show "Law and Order".
In the dark, a helicopter spotlight shines on Johnny. Johnny starts to run, the helicopter opens machine gun fire on the fugitive. Large-calibre bullets burst and hit....
UI button choices appear: Run/Fight.
Run: Johnny runs along the rails, there are rips all around. He opens the portal in front of him again, using his wristband. He leaps out into the portal and another space a millimetre away from a large calibre bullet.
Johnny stands in the middle of a medieval battle under the walls of Paris (from Asa's story), horses and riders, arrows and spears whizzing past. The combatants are quickly dying one by one, Johnny tries to take cover, but there is no chance. He is hit by an arrow. He opens the portal again.
Fighting: Johnny runs along the rails, there are rips all around. At one point he stops and stares intently at the beam of the helicopter's searchlight. Time stands still. A millimetre away from Johnny, large calibre bullets slowly fly by.
Voice-over narration: I don't want to run anymore, because all this makes no sense, just like the Matrix itself.
Backstory: The bullet pierces Johnny through and through. He looks closely at the wound and the action begins to move in the opposite direction, the bullet returning to the large calibre machine gun.
Johnny opens a portal.
The helicopter or arrow turns into a toy on the Christmas tree. His son touches the toy in Johnny's arms, his wife stands beside him and smiles warmly. Johnny is happy.
Blackout.
Miya Takeshi
A young respectable Asian girl walks into a super modern business centre in Singapore.
She goes up to the 53rd floor to the office of a successful company. She is greeted by the staff.
On the screen there is a caption made by sand, introducing the heroine: Miya Takeshi, 21st century.
She opens the door to the office of the company manager. A handsome young guy, her fianc;, is having sex with a supermodel girl.
She meets her fianc;'s gaze.
UI buttons appear to choose: Leave/Explain.
Leave: Mia calmly closes the door and walks back to the lift and down to her office two floors below.
On the floor, she is greeted by a handsome young I.T. guy, he can see that Mia is extremely upset. He invites her for coffee and tries to support her in every way he can.
Mia looks at the I.T. guy indifferently.
UI buttons appear: Revenge on the fianc;/Quit.
Revenge on the fianc;: Mia invites I.T. into her office, goes to the window and takes off her blouse. Aitishnik gently kisses her shoulder. Erotic Scene.
Mia's fianc; bursts into the office and sees the cheating. Mia is standing on the top floor of a skyscraper, it's raining outside the window. It's dripping down the back of the glass and down her arms. Behind her back, a handsome Asian guy in an expensive suit is hysterical in the room, he's breaking furniture and throwing things. The guy is pretty worked up.
The sun appears outside the window, Mia touches the bright light in the glass. In a frenzy, the guy breaks the window with a kick. Mia flies out the window along with the glass.
Leave: Mia leaves the guy and goes into her office. She looks out the window, it's raining. It drips down the back of the glass and down her arms.
Her fianc; bursts into the office and angrily clarifies the relationship. Behind Mia's back, a handsome Asian guy in an expensive suit is hysterical in the room, breaking furniture and throwing things. The guy is pretty worked up.
The sun appears outside the window, Mia touches the bright light in the glass. In a frenzy, the guy breaks the window with a kick. Mia flies out the window along with the glass.
Clarification: Mia enters the office, looks into the guy's eyes, and with a slight movement of her hand, throws a vase of flowers off the table.
The guy throws the supermodel away, the latter, picking up her things, angrily walks away.
The guy - young and handsome, a successful businessman, begins to get hysterical, apologises, asks for forgiveness, and then turns aggressive. Mia stares blankly out the window.
She is standing on the top floor of a skyscraper, it is raining outside the window. It drips down the back of the glass and down her arms. Behind her back, a handsome Asian guy in an expensive suit is hysterical in the room, he's breaking furniture and throwing things. The guy is pretty worked up.
The sun appears outside the window, Mia touches the bright light in the glass. In a frenzy, the guy kicks out the window with his foot. Mia flies out the window along with the glass.
The guy tries to grab her. But Mia falls from a great height, the walls of a skyscraper in green plants rushing past.
Blackout.
We see the subjective (showing the events from the first person of the hero). Mia walks through a medieval Chinese marketplace, surrounded by intrusive merchants and their wares. She looks at her hands, they are the hands of a six-year-old boy. Mia is surprised, she looks at her reflection in the glass and sees a six year old Chinese boy instead of herself.
She doesn't realise anything. The reflection of the sun appears in the glass, Mia touches the bright light in the glass and accepts her new life. She cries and laughs at the same time.
Mia walks through the market, on her way she meets an elderly Buddhist monk with burns on his face.
Mia touches the monk's hand and hugs him tenderly.
Qin Dao
- Your name now is Ji. Do you accept this life?
Mia
- My name was Mia, but I understand. I accept this life and the name Ji.
Qin Dao
- Do you remember your past incarnation?
Mia
- Yes
Qin Dao
- Are you ready to see this life?
Mia (getting into asana)
- I am ready.
Qin Dao and Mia leave the market together.
Qin, begins to train the boy. The viewer sees a quick cut of the unbearable exercises of Shaolin warrior training: difficult tests of endurance, patience and fighting spirit. Between training sessions, teacher and student warmly befriend and encourage each other. Their bond is predestined; it is harmony and happiness from mutual companionship.
Ji, as a sixteen-year-old young man, comes to the ashes of the monastery and rebuilds it. Peasants and poor monks join him. The monastery flourishes once again.
Ji stands on the ocean shore where Qin sits in eternal meditation. The apprentice touches the master's shoulder and Qin's body blows away in the wind like ashes.
Ji's pupils dilate and his breathing becomes deep, smooth pebbles from the beach rise and hang in the air in front of him, they begin to glow and slowly rotate. G reaches out and takes one pebble in his hand.
He examines a pebble that fills the entire screen, the viewer can see in detail its smooth and structural surface. Suddenly, the Yin-Yang symbol begins to shimmer in the stone.
Mia is again a 26 year old girl from Singapore in our time. She stands on the ocean shore and the wind flutters her long hair, smooth pebbles from the beach slowly rotate in the air in front of her. Mia puts down the pebble she was holding and returns to the 21st century metropolis.
Titre: Reincarnation. Choose your life here and now.
(The titter pulses and is voiced with the sound of a heartbeat, the volume of the voiceover increases).
Nirvana:
A strong wind makes the grass cover the ground. The viewer falls down - to the core of the earth and there shines - the Sun. It pulsates with prominences and lives. The sun grows and goes into infinite space.
The beating of the sun is voiced with the sound of a heartbeat, the volume of the voicing and the rhythm are increasing.
Rocks from the ocean shore rise into the air.
The ocean glistens with pure energy.
There are no incarnations, only infinite space.
Time and space are compressed into the flow of a single river.
Rivers of life.
Spaces fly by in infinity (births, weddings, funerals, conflicts and triumphs from different countries and eras - Oscars, Grammys, Indian funerals, prayers in Tibet and Roman soldiers).
Final
Denis Mishchuk
polar.star.produced@gmail.com