[ExI] We Need a Movie, People!! Dammit!

[Anne Corwin]

I like this idea.  And don't laugh (okay, laugh if you want to) but after seeing the musical episode of "Buffy the Vampire Slayer" I was thinking how cool it would be to have some sort of H+ themed musical.  You know how show tunes tend to stick in people's heads?  We could have lyrics like:

"Some years ago they froze me
They vitrified my head
Most people laughed and mocked them,
saying, "Why preserve the dead?"

But now I stand before the world
With body made anew
And gaze about in wonderment
At what this world's come through

Through war and existential threat
Through peril deep and dark
And yet I live, a child once more
Aloft on some strange ark.

Some say it happened much too fast:
An exponential function
But others (those who rode the curve)
Look back without compunction.

I wander through the shining streets
With eyes of diamond staring
So much has changed: I don't know what
to call that thing you're wearing!

But still, some things remain the same:
Like friendship, love, and heroism,
And arguments on mailing lists
On freedom and determinism."

...or maybe not.  OK, back to working on some more, um, serious writing...

- Anne

A B <austriaaugust at yahoo.com> wrote: 
 A while back I suggested that someone NEEDS to make a
pro-Transhumanism, pro-Singularity fictional
(hollywood quality) movie in order to help spread the
memes to the masses who are less reading-inclined. I
was a little disappointed that there apparently wasn't
much interest in getting something started (Except by
maybe one or two people possibly). But I still think
this would be a great, highly-leveraged opportunity to
do some real, tangible good. Now personally, I pretty
much SUCK at writing fiction, I'd probably be no
better than average. But if *no-one* else, is
interested, I'm going to *attempt* to start writing a
free-of-charge screenplay. But without any help, the
result could be pretty abysmal. Would someone else
here *please* consider taking up the reigns entirely,
or at least collaborating if they don't want to do it
by themselves? Heartland, might you be interested,(I
recall that you replied to the original post)?

SINCERELY and with Best Wishes,

Jeffrey Herrlich  

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