JazzX
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i was asking if you can voice act in my new film
see this thread to more info

http://www.tmoaradio.com/vb/showthread.php?t=2566

Hi Jazz. I have posted my entry into your review thread.

Hi! Just wanted to let you know that my new film is out now.
Here is the Link: http://www.tmunderground.com/watch/6...-LAST-CLOSE-UP

Or is it? It's a joke to Lawkins... I'll stop posting now

Not that hell is funny of course...

Yeah, the Old Firm massacre sounds funny as hell

Oh I really do hope you continue "The God Illusion" series. From your tantalizing descriptions of upcoming episodes, I'm chuckling already!

I know that they're all "90 minute bigots" and I love the "prostitute" line - I may well use that in the movie! Of course, it's all a bit exaggerated and cartoonish, in keeping with the last episode. Tanks on the streets of Glasgow every Old Firm game and dead bodies everywhere in the aftermath - I hope that gives people a laugh! Serious as the underlying points raised will be, I'm keen to carry over the sense of fun about it all from the last episode.

I think people often follow religions out of the same kind of blind loyalty, and feeling of collective solidarity as following a football team or a political party. In many ways, the cross and the crescent and the star of David are corporate logos, advertising brands for religion. But I'll go into that more in part 3 "The Virus of Ignorance" which deals with brainwashing and conditioning of kids etc.

Wow, that sounds like a difficult project!

Of course, I'll help if I can but loud singing and swearing I can't do unfortunately. I do have the Scottish accent though so maybe if Lawkins was interviewing fans outside the stadium I could do VOs there. I can think of several funny things my friends have said regarding the religious aspect of the teams. It's clear that the average fan has no religious interest (ie. blind faith) when I hear comments like, "Ah hate they Catholic c*nts. Ah prefer Rangers 'cause they're a prostitute team." Protestant you mean lol . The average Celtic fan also seems determined to be Irish, no matter how distant the relation, yet they condemn Rangers for flying British flags and being 'un-Scottish'!

So anyway, anything I can do to help, even if it's just quoting Old Firm fans from my experience, just PM me or e-mail me at macwemyss@live.co.uk and I'll be happy to help.

Well mac - I didn't want to hijack the poetry thread with this, but it's going to be a while:

The second episode is called "The Morality of Faith"

I know the basic "plot". I've already recorded the VO for the opening.

This one will open with a very personal, hopefully moving, VO by Lawkins as he described the day he switched on the TV and saw 9/11 as it happened (exactly the same as I remember that day) ... he'll then say how he came to realise that religious "faith" led up to it. Then we'll see Lawkins talking to us from his house with a bandage over his head as he finishes the argument.

Then opening credits,

Then the film opens proper with an overhead shot of Ibrox stadium (I'll use Google Earth to get that if necessary) and the opening of Bach's Tocatta and Fugue reminiscent of the film "Rollerball" setting the scene for the carnage to follow - yes, you've guessed it, it's Old Firm day - where "centuries of religious hatred turn the streets of Glasgow into [dramatic pause] ... a bloodbath".

Then there'll be some interviews with Rangers supporters about why they hate Catholics and examining some of the songs like "Billy Boys" and "No Surrender" that we'll see the fans singing. (Lawkins has chosen to sit with the home Rangers supporters during the game)

Then the game itself - there won't be too much football (I'm going to see about using Fraps to grab some shots off "pro-evolution" - or I might delegate that to someone with a faster computer) - but I will need a shot of the kick off and a shot of Celtic's fatal winning goal as well as some brutal fouls and punch-ups (no ball required - The Movies should handle most of that)!

Yes, Celtic win, and we see Lawkins trying to talk to us outside the ground after the game (we see a tank in the distance and the sound of explosions, maybe some soldiers running around!) - unfortunately, as you'll have noticed from part 1, he loves his green shirt - he wears it everywhere! A bunch of Rangers hooligans beat the living crap out of him thinking he's Celtic ... (hence how he got his bandage that we saw at the beginning of the film - that section obviously being recorded while he was resting at home).

There'll be a summing up of the experience from Lawkin's house again. He'll make the argument that whether these people are genuinely religious or not, their mindless behaviour is in every way religious tribalism writ large. And that "faith" in a football team has just as little bearing on morality as religion does. He's going to equate going to church and "supporting" Jesus as the same kind of sheepifying experience of togetherness as "supporting" Rangers or Celtic.

End of Scene 1! (Phew!)

After that - I don't know where I'm taking it. But I want to touch on things like the fallability of The Bible or Koran for basing moral decisions on, the treatment of females in religious societies and the squashing of free thought and speech as "immoral".

However, I'm keen to make my "big interview" near the end be with a very moderate Christian who does think that the Bible guides them morally. It will be a much more civil encounter than when Lawkins met Falwell. Nobody will be able to say that this christian is not a nice guy or a moral person - unlike Falwell and Haggard.

Lawkins will win the argument though, by showing us great examples of animal morality (like in the last episode, I'll be using The Movies stock creatures to humourously deliver the message!) and how we must have evolved our own morality in a similar way, not have it handed down by a deity.

Then the summing up from a place of natural beauty (maybe even The Grand Canyon again as a running theme in the series - but we'll see).

A finishing line like "There really is no need ..." [turns to camera] ".. for the morality of faith!" (I might come up with something better as there are bound to be changes in the above plotlines)

Then the "next time" bit ..

And then I'll finish with a sunset over Ibrox stadium where we began, as the end credits roll, dead bodies everywhere and a lone janitor sweeping up some of the rubbish ... a kind of "look what 'faith' has brought us" finish to the film.

Cast:

I'll do Lawkins of course, but I need some boisterous Scottish people/accents to play the hero Rangers supporters that get interviewed (a willingness to swear and sing badly at the top of one's voice is essential!)

I need a person to play the nice christian, Bishop of Cambridge (any nationality)

I need a person to play "The Voice of God" for when we read out the atrociously nasty bits of the so-called "good" book & Koran. A very theatrical deepish voice is required (I might do this myself with some effects if no-one else fancies it)

That'll probably do it - but the main feature of the film is its Ibrox set-piece. I'm going to try to recreate the Big Match atmosphere - it's easily going to be the hardest scene I've ever done involving lots of inserts, reaction shots and severely difficult sound design on several layers.

That's the project so far mac, and thanks to your poem I was inspired to watch more football hooligan films last night and paid real attention to the way the stadium scenes were shot and how the sound was handled.