◊ The Lady and the Reaper is a 3D imaging animated short film created by Javier Recio Gracia and co-produced by Kandor Graphics and Antonio Banderas,. It was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Animated Short Film and won the Goya Award for Best Animated Short of 2009.
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A sweet old lady is living alone in her farm, waiting for the arrival of death to meet her beloved husband again. One night, while sleeping, her life fades out and she is invited to cross death’s door. Bue when she is about to do so, the old lady wakes up inside a hospital’s ward: and arrogant doctor has taken her back to life and he will fight hard against death to recover the old lady’s life at any cost.
◊ This Way Up ↓
“This Way Up” is a 2008 short film directed by Alan Smith and Adam Foulkes. It follows the story of two undertakers trying to deliver a body to a graveyard. It was nominated for the Academy Award for Animated Short Film at the 81st Academy Awards.
◊ Vincent ↓ by Tim Burton, 1982
Vincent Malloy is seven years oldHe’s always polite and does what he’s told
For a boy his age, he’s considerate and nice
But he wants to be just like Vincent Price He doesn’t mind living with his sister, dog and cats
Though he’d rather share a home with spiders and bats
There he could reflect on the horrors he’s invented
And wander dark hallways, alone and tormented Vincent is nice when his aunt comes to see him
But imagines dipping her in wax for his wax museum He likes to experiment on his dog Abercrombie
In the hopes of creating a horrible zombie
So he and his horrible zombie dog
Could go searching for victims in the London fog His thoughts, though, aren’t only of ghoulish crimes
He likes to paint and read to pass some of the times
While other kids read books like Go, Jane, Go!
Vincent’s favourite author is Edgar Allen Poe One night, while reading a gruesome tale
He read a passage that made him turn pale Such horrible news he could not survive
For his beautiful wife had been buried alive!
He dug out her grave to make sure she was dead
Unaware that her grave was his mother’s flower bed His mother sent Vincent off to his room
He knew he’d been banished to the tower of doom
Where he was sentenced to spend the rest of his life
Alone with the portrait of his beautiful wife While alone and insane encased in his tomb
Vincent’s mother burst suddenly into the room
She said: “If you want to, you can go out and play
It’s sunny outside, and a beautiful day” Vincent tried to talk, but he just couldn’t speak
The years of isolation had made him quite weak
So he took out some paper and scrawled with a pen:
“I am possessed by this house, and can never leave it again” His mother said: “You’re not possessed, and you’re not almost dead
These games that you play are all in your head
You’re not Vincent Price, you’re Vincent Malloy
You’re not tormented or insane, you’re just a young boy
You’re seven years old and you are my son
I want you to get outside and have some real fun.” Her anger now spent, she walked out through the hall
And while Vincent backed slowly against the wall
The room started to swell, to shiver and creak
His horrid insanity had reached its peak He saw Abercrombie, his zombie slave
And heard his wife call from beyond the grave
She spoke from her coffin and made ghoulish demands
While, through cracking walls, reached skeleton hands Every horror in his life that had crept through his dreams
Swept his mad laughter to terrified screams!
To escape the madness, he reached for the door
But fell limp and lifeless down on the floor His voice was soft and very slow
As he quoted ‘The Raven’ from Edgar Allen Poe: “and my soul from out that shadow
that lies floating on the floor
shall be lifted?
Nevermore…”
◊ Friendship ↓
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In the end I put little hidden hints in the script and subtle sentences wich the audience could discover when they watch the film again. For example the red flower says about the deer: «The most beautiful things, often times, are the most dangerous.» In the end the white flower says to the red one (as the red flower is now healed and regained the poison): «How beautiful you have become!» Friends of mine tell me that they discover something new everytime they watch the movie. I like that thought. It’s not an easy to «understand» movie, but you can understand it emotionally right away. What i call «reverse writing» is a very difficult approach because you have to structure the whole story on various spots on different levels at the same time from the ending to the beginning, but I consider it to be very effective for movies if you want a really punchy ending. I also wrote some feature length films that way wich is way more easy to do and to explain then in a short. All of the ideas and thoughts that i put into «Descendants» ended up in a script that had only 6 pages! I had to write over 30 different drafts to make it work. It took me over 9 months thinking about this story (while modeling the characters at the same time.) until I considered every word to be in the right place. On the free market you don’t have so much time to think about a story, so I wanted to do it at least for my diploma 🙂 This experience in structuring a short, combined with my experience as a feature film writer brought me a huge benefit in my work as a script doctor. Also for me as a German it was cool to do an English spoken movie and explain all this difficult script stuff in a language that I am not native in. I am really happy that I went through this very difficult process and want to thank all of my professors wich had so much patience with me and made me able to develope my own problem solving secrets in matters of my approach of writing reverse.
Heiko van der Scherm
Δ PINCHED ↑ (by David Vandervoort) – A schizophrenic pickpocket scours the underground trains at the command of his inner demons. But when an accidental score reconnects him with a long-lost love, he must test his strength and defy the voices in his head. In the end, the quest for love proves the most meaningful endeavor of all, and the final cure for his sickness _[Short Film produced by Titmouse]
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