Thursday 25 October 2012

Progress

I am in the process of typing up my script for the opening of my film with the rest of the group. We are unsure of the name of the film and the main character, but have placeholders that we may use. Our current name for the film is Slick Icing (icing meaning cocaine) and Charlie is the current name of the main character. The premise of the film is a gang of drug dealers work for Hao Zheng, a Chinese drug boss. Charlie has been under performing with his amount of drugs that he delivers to the boss (as revealed by his monologues), but thinks that he has got the best quality and amount of drugs by far this time. After confidently placing his stash on the table before Zheng, another dealer places his next to Charlie's. It is much bigger than Charlie's, and the other dealers place theirs down, which are also much bigger than his. Zheng tells Charlie he is going to have to fire him, and all the other dealers begin to laugh at him, the laughter gradually getting louder until Charlie can't take it anymore. He stands up and shoots Hao Zheng in the chest several times and leaves.


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UPDATE: We have decided to call the film Chasing the Dragon for the multiple meanings it would have.  According to Wikipedia, Chasing the Dragon "refers to inhaling the vapor from heated morphineheroinoxycodone or opium that has been placed on a piece of foil." The title is also a reference to Hao Zheng, who is implied to be the leader of a Chinese criminal organisation, or triad. The leader of a triad is called a "Dragon Head". My group and I were thinking Charlie would not have actually killed him but, at the risk of sounding cliché, instead imagined the whole scenario due to his excessive use of drugs. It is simply revealed that Charlie detests Hao Zheng from the opening scene, and is paranoid about being let go.

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