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kosmic_charlie
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Doors of Perception--The Movie
#7706568 - 12/02/07 01:05 PM (16 years, 1 month ago) |
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I was browsing movie scrips and I came across this one, written by someone named Paul Schrader. It's dated year 2000 and I don't think it was ever made into a movie. I bet it would make an interesting film though. I just skimmed through it and there is a lot of talk about psychedelics. I attached the script in case anyone is interested in reading it. When I get more time I'd like to read the whole thing. Anybody know anything about this? Here in an excerpt from it:
EXT. HUME FRONT PORCH - NIGHT
Hume and Russell sit on the front steps sipping Chardonnay. Night crickets are interrupted by the sound of the occasional passing car.
RUSSELL To be honest, I'd sort of come to the end of my interest in mescaline. Mostly just getting stoned.
HUME That's what you were doing in that club? When you had the panic attack?
RUSSELL (sheepish) Not really.
HUME MDMA.
RUSSELL Yep.
HUME It's an interesting drug. There's important work being done on Ecstacy at John Hopkins, in Barcelona: neuroendocrine effects, vasopressin secretion...
RUSSELL What are you into?
HUME We're starting a trial on DMT.
RUSSELL The harmalines? Hoo boy. The heavy stuff. How you get away with that?
HUME Cause I'm a good boy.
RUSSELL How can you put up with it? All the shit you have to deal with in this country?
HUME Somebody's got to stay and fight the good fight. The best labs are here, the best scientists are here -- you do work in this country and the scientific community has to take it seriously. Besides, with the internet, everybody is connected now. You know the organization MAPS? (Russ nods) Through MAPS now we're in constant contact with research all around the world: Spain, Finland, Brazil. It's not like it used to be.
RUSSELL Good old Hume Rankin.
HUME Don't mock me bro.
RUSSELL (lifts glass) Excuse-moi.
HUME (click glasses) Things are going to change. It's too important not to change.
RUSSELL Psilocybin, that's where I realized I wanted to be, but I just wasn't... well, I just I was scared. The big drugs, the See God drugs, that's what it's all about.
HUME This extraordinary imagery we all have within us. These things, unworldly things, that just appear. Where do they come from? What are they trying to say?
RUSSELL The old dilemma. You open those doors of perception, what happens? Do you see this world more clearly or do you come in contact with another world?
HUME Does the inside come out or does the Outside come in?
RUSSELL The Freud/Jung dilemma.
HUME It's not politically correct, and I'll deny I've said this if you repeat it, but I believe there's a parallel world of awareness that these plants give us access to. It may be the way primitive man first became aware of the spiritual world.
RUSSELL (joking) "Jesus was a plant."
HUME (responding in kind) I deny it. I never said that.
RUSSELL So, this DMT trial, you got everyone signed up? (Hume nods) You can't fit one more in?
HUME Why?
RUSSELL You got a bunch of Portland Deadheads signed up for this trial and you're going to interview them silly. Wouldn't it be better to have one subject who has studied psychotropic affect, who's personal history is intimately conjoined with your own, someone with whom you can truly discuss the results of the trip?
HUME You want in?
RUSSELL Can you swing it?
HUME (thinks) Yeah. If you don't advertise.
RUSSELL Yes sir. (beat) Tell me one thing, Professor Rankin.
HUME What?
RUSSELL Do you, ah, offer Mileage Plus?
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Goin' where the water tastes like wine.
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F1234K
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I would see that.
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Re: Doors of Perception--The Movie [Re: F1234K]
#7706900 - 12/02/07 02:29 PM (16 years, 1 month ago) |
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The dialouge seems phony... But hell, a little education to the public would have been better than none at all.
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kosmic_charlie
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And if you jump to the end of the script you see that it's dedicated to Terrence McKenna. Kinda cool.
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haymaker
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that looks like a good film. someone should make it
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Robo
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2000, you say? It probably won't ever become a movie, would have been interesting,though.
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F1234K
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Re: Doors of Perception--The Movie [Re: Robo]
#7707086 - 12/02/07 03:23 PM (16 years, 1 month ago) |
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Where is Terry Gilliam when we need him most!
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