{"id":11792,"date":"2015-01-09T08:54:48","date_gmt":"2015-01-09T08:54:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.eoisabi.org\/?p=11792"},"modified":"2020-04-06T14:42:04","modified_gmt":"2020-04-06T14:42:04","slug":"the-lady-the-reaper","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/englishroam.com\/?p=11792","title":{"rendered":"Lady &#038; Reaper + This Way Up + Vincent&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>\u25ca &nbsp;The Lady and the Reaper<\/strong> is a 3D imaging animated short film created by <strong>Javier Recio Gracia<\/strong> and co-produced by&nbsp;Kandor Graphics and Antonio&nbsp;<em>Banderas<\/em>,. It was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Animated Short Film and won the Goya Award for Best Animated Short of 2009.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/player.vimeo.com\/video\/9985840\" width=\"640\" height=\"480\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"autoplay; fullscreen\" allowfullscreen=\"\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/vimeo.com\/9985840\">The lady and the reaper<\/a> from <a href=\"https:\/\/vimeo.com\/user3331994\">Hormoz Zamanpour Siahkal<\/a> on <a href=\"https:\/\/vimeo.com\">Vimeo<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">A sweet old lady is living alone in her farm, waiting for the arrival of death to meet her beloved husband again.&nbsp;One night, while sleeping, her life fades out and she is invited to cross death&#8217;s door. Bue when she is about to do so, the old lady wakes up inside a hospital&#8217;s ward: and arrogant doctor has taken her back to life and he will fight hard against death to recover the old lady&#8217;s life at any cost.<\/p>\n<h4 style=\"text-align: center;\">\u25ca &nbsp;This Way Up &nbsp;\u2193<\/h4>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"\/\/player.vimeo.com\/video\/102605293\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>\u201cThis Way Up\u201d<\/strong> is a 2008 short film directed by <strong>Alan Smith<\/strong> and <strong>Adam Foulkes<\/strong>. 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.<\/p>\n<h4 style=\"text-align: center;\">\u25ca &nbsp;Vincent &nbsp;\u2193 &nbsp;by Tim Burton, 1982<\/h4>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/fxQcBKUPm8o\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen=\"\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<address style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>Vincent Malloy is seven years old<\/strong><br \/>\n<strong>He\u2019s always polite and does what he\u2019s told<\/strong><br \/>\n<strong>For a boy his age, he\u2019s considerate and nice<\/strong><br \/>\n<strong>But he wants to be just like Vincent Price<\/strong><\/address>\n<address style=\"text-align: center;\">&nbsp;<\/address>\n<address style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>He doesn\u2019t mind living with his sister, dog and cats<\/strong><br \/>\n<strong>Though he\u2019d rather share a home with spiders and bats<\/strong><br \/>\n<strong>There he could reflect on the horrors he\u2019s invented<\/strong><br \/>\n<strong>And wander dark hallways, alone and tormented<\/strong><\/address>\n<address style=\"text-align: center;\">&nbsp;<\/address>\n<address style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>Vincent is nice when his aunt comes to see him<\/strong><br \/>\n<strong>But imagines dipping her in wax for his wax museum<\/strong><\/address>\n<address style=\"text-align: center;\">&nbsp;<\/address>\n<address style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>He likes to experiment on his dog Abercrombie<\/strong><br \/>\n<strong>In the hopes of creating a horrible zombie<\/strong><br \/>\n<strong>So he and his horrible zombie dog<\/strong><br \/>\n<strong>Could go searching for victims in the London fog<\/strong><\/address>\n<address style=\"text-align: center;\">&nbsp;<\/address>\n<address style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>His thoughts, though, aren\u2019t only of ghoulish crimes<\/strong><br \/>\n<strong>He likes to paint and read to pass some of the times<\/strong><br \/>\n<strong>While other kids read books like Go, Jane, Go!<\/strong><br \/>\n<strong>Vincent\u2019s favourite author is Edgar Allen Poe<\/strong><\/address>\n<address style=\"text-align: center;\">&nbsp;<\/address>\n<address style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>One night, while reading a gruesome tale<\/strong><br \/>\n<strong>He read a passage that made him turn pale<\/strong><\/address>\n<address style=\"text-align: center;\">&nbsp;<\/address>\n<address style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>Such horrible news he could not survive<\/strong><br \/>\n<strong>For his beautiful wife had been buried alive!<\/strong><br \/>\n<strong>He dug out her grave to make sure she was dead<\/strong><br \/>\n<strong>Unaware that her grave was his mother\u2019s flower bed<\/strong><\/address>\n<address style=\"text-align: center;\">&nbsp;<\/address>\n<address style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>His mother sent Vincent off to his room<\/strong><br \/>\n<strong>He knew he\u2019d been banished to the tower of doom<\/strong><br \/>\n<strong>Where he was sentenced to spend the rest of his life<\/strong><br \/>\n<strong>Alone with the portrait of his beautiful wife<\/strong><\/address>\n<address style=\"text-align: center;\">&nbsp;<\/address>\n<address style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>While alone and insane encased in his tomb<\/strong><br \/>\n<strong>Vincent\u2019s mother burst suddenly into the room<\/strong><br \/>\n<strong>She said: \u201cIf you want to, you can go out and play<\/strong><br \/>\n<strong>It\u2019s sunny outside, and a beautiful day\u201d<\/strong><\/address>\n<address style=\"text-align: center;\">&nbsp;<\/address>\n<address style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>Vincent tried to talk, but he just couldn\u2019t speak<\/strong><br \/>\n<strong>The years of isolation had made him quite weak<\/strong><br \/>\n<strong>So he took out some paper and scrawled with a pen:<\/strong><br \/>\n<strong>\u201cI am possessed by this house, and can never leave it again\u201d<\/strong><\/address>\n<address style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>His mother said: \u201cYou\u2019re not possessed, and you\u2019re not almost dead<\/strong><br \/>\n<strong>These games that you play are all in your head<\/strong><br \/>\n<strong>You\u2019re not Vincent Price, you\u2019re Vincent Malloy<\/strong><br \/>\n<strong>You\u2019re not tormented or insane, you\u2019re just a young boy<\/strong><br \/>\n<strong>You\u2019re seven years old and you are my son<\/strong><br \/>\n<strong>I want you to get outside and have some real fun.\u201d<\/strong><\/address>\n<address style=\"text-align: center;\">&nbsp;<\/address>\n<address style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>Her anger now spent, she walked out through the hall<\/strong><br \/>\n<strong>And while Vincent backed slowly against the wall<\/strong><br \/>\n<strong>The room started to swell, to shiver and creak<\/strong><br \/>\n<strong>His horrid insanity had reached its peak<\/strong><\/address>\n<address style=\"text-align: center;\">&nbsp;<\/address>\n<address style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>He saw Abercrombie, his zombie slave<\/strong><br \/>\n<strong>And heard his wife call from beyond the grave<\/strong><br \/>\n<strong>She spoke from her coffin and made ghoulish demands<\/strong><br \/>\n<strong>While, through cracking walls, reached skeleton hands<\/strong><\/address>\n<address style=\"text-align: center;\">&nbsp;<\/address>\n<address style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>Every horror in his life that had crept through his dreams<\/strong><br \/>\n<strong>Swept his mad laughter to terrified screams!<\/strong><br \/>\n<strong>To escape the madness, he reached for the door<\/strong><br \/>\n<strong>But fell limp and lifeless down on the floor<\/strong><\/address>\n<address style=\"text-align: center;\">&nbsp;<\/address>\n<address style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>His voice was soft and very slow<\/strong><br \/>\n<strong>As he quoted &#8216;The Raven&#8217; from Edgar Allen Poe:<\/strong><\/address>\n<address style=\"text-align: center;\">&nbsp;<\/address>\n<address style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong><em>\u201cand my soul from out that shadow<br \/>\nthat lies floating on the floor<br \/>\nshall be lifted?<br \/>\nNevermore\u2026\u201d<\/em><\/strong><\/address>\n<h5 style=\"text-align: left;\"><span style=\"font-size: 1.17em; line-height: 19px;\">&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; \u25ca &nbsp;Friendship &nbsp;\u2193<\/span><\/h5>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/G4YOqKz8zvk\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen=\"\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>* &nbsp; &nbsp; * &nbsp; &nbsp; *<\/strong><\/p>\n<div style=\"text-align: right;\"><strong><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-33520\" src=\"http:\/\/www.eoisabi.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/05\/descendants.jpg\" alt=\"descendants\" width=\"170\" height=\"170\" srcset=\"https:\/\/englishroam.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/05\/descendants.jpg 170w, https:\/\/englishroam.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/05\/descendants-150x150.jpg 150w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 170px) 100vw, 170px\" \/> <\/strong><\/div>\n<div>Hello,<\/div>\n<div>My name is <strong>Heiko van der Scherm<\/strong>. I am the director and writer of \u00ab<a href=\"http:\/\/www.binaryalchemy.de\/index_desc_makingof.htm\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><strong>Descendants<\/strong><\/a>\u00ab. I wish you all a happy new year 2012 and I hope you enjoyed watching my film. Please feel free to contact me if you have questions or want me to collaborate with you. if you liked my film, feel free to contribute or start a dialogue with me \ud83d\ude42 the starving artist can use every cent! \ud83d\ude09<\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: right;\">My Website: &nbsp;\u2192 &nbsp;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.vanderscherm.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">http:\/\/www.vanderscherm.com\/<\/a><\/div>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/v4adEL21pEQ\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen=\"\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<div><strong>Whoopi Goldberg<\/strong> lent her voice to the project.<\/div>\n<address>&nbsp;<\/address>\n<div style=\"text-align: right;\">\n<address><strong>\u2022 &nbsp;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.vanderscherm.com\/de\/animation\/155-script-for-descendants.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">The script<\/a>. Final thoughts.<\/strong><\/address>\n<address><strong><br \/>\n<\/strong><\/address>\n<address style=\"text-align: justify;\">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: \u00ab<strong>The most beautiful things, often times, are the most dangerous.\u00bb<\/strong>&nbsp;In the end the white flower says to the red one (as the red flower is now healed and regained the poison): \u00ab<strong>How beautiful you have become!\u00bb<\/strong><\/address>\n<address style=\"text-align: justify;\">&nbsp;<\/address>\n<address style=\"text-align: justify;\">Friends of mine tell me that they discover something new everytime they watch the movie. I like that thought. It&#8217;s not an easy to \u00abunderstand\u00bb movie, but you can understand it emotionally right away.<\/address>\n<address style=\"text-align: justify;\">&nbsp;<\/address>\n<address style=\"text-align: justify;\">What i call <strong>\u00abreverse writing\u00bb<\/strong> 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 \u00ab<em>Descendants\u00bb<\/em> ended up in a script that had only 6 pages!<\/address>\n<address style=\"text-align: justify;\">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&#8217;t have so much time to think about a story, so I wanted to do it at least for my diploma \ud83d\ude42 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 <strong>writing reverse.<\/strong><\/address>\n<p>Heiko van der Scherm<\/p>\n<h5 style=\"text-align: left;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/player.vimeo.com\/video\/122104110\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/h5>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>\u0394 PINCHED&nbsp;&nbsp;\u2191<\/strong>&nbsp;(by &nbsp;<strong>David Vandervoort) <\/strong>&nbsp;&#8211; &nbsp;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]<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\u25ca &nbsp;The Lady and the Reaper is a 3D imaging animated short film created by Javier Recio Gracia and co-produced by&nbsp;Kandor Graphics and Antonio&nbsp;Banderas,. 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