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Gerlinde, I wouldn't watch Trey Parker's 'The Book of Mormon' Musical if I were you. It violates most of the laws you are talking about, but it is very, very entertaining. I wish Trey would read this script and consider adding it to his Mormon/South-Park Verse. Y'know, that dimension where Satan is lucky enough to have Saddam Hussein as his boyfriend.
What do you mean by that, Dustin? I just made it clear to Matt that you can make a drama (or a comedy) out of it, you just have to research enough. For a good script, extensive research is essential. The creators of my screenplay software, even scriptwriters, who achieved great successes nationally and internationally with the children's film "Auf Augenhöhe" (At Eye Level) have, for example, before they wrote the first line of their screenplay (I have a version) much researched on the subject of dwarfism, because the role of Tom is dwarfed (played incidentally by a Canadian actor). If you want to see the movie (it's in German), just click on the Link:
Gerlinde, I wouldn't watch Trey Parker's 'The Book of Mormon' Musical if I were you. It violates most of the laws you are talking about, but it is very, very entertaining. I wish Trey would read this script and consider adding it to his Mormon/South-Park Verse. Y'know, that dimension where Satan is lucky enough to have Saddam Hussein as his boyfriend.
I would love to see it shown in Berlin. Only, so far there are no plans for it, only stupid Disney musicals are shown. And then, even if it were shown here in Germany, it is questionable whether the lyrics would also be in German, because, as you know, English is not my mother tongue. What the hell did Satan and Saddam Hussein deal with? It's about screenplays, more specifically, the script about the death of Joseph Smith. And there are some historical facts to consider. Because Smith was a historical figure. By the way, explaining much of the plot with drawings, where film is a visual medium, is more evidence of the will to be economical than telling a story visually. I would have started the story with Cyrus walking around the city, scared because the mood is against the Mormons, and you can see where he hid the guns. Maybe Cyrus says something about his mission in the off? And then he comes to the door of the prison. This would create a mood that shows what it was like back then.
Accord to some accounts, it did rain on the morning in Carthage the day before Smith�s death.
It had rained a little bit in the morning (a few drops, not cats and dogs). Then it stopped, and it became a clear day, a clear evening, a clear night. I found this interesting comment from an eye witness:
Thanks. I thought the sound of rain and the rain sketch was effective.
Joseph Smith is a fascinating character of the 19th century who deserves more exploration in film (I have yet to see the Vincent Price version).
Another historical figure I would like to tackle at some point is Aleister Crowley.
It always depends on how you want to portray a historical figure. Based on facts, you have to study friend and foe of JS in order to get a complex image of him. Or you can tell your own interpretation of JS, which describes him either as a hero, as a devil, or something in between. When I wrote my manuscript about the life and teachings of JS, I was faced with the dilemma. I had chosen the historically proven facts. Crowley would be an interesting person, no question! But would he be interesting to most people? If I were to write a screenplay of historical characters (assuming I was good at scriptwriting), I would like to tell the love story of Queen Victoria and Prince Albert, both of whom were instrumental in shaping the British Empire. Or, to take a German, the author Karl May, a truly fascinating person who managed to become from a prisoner to one of the most celebrated German author of youth literature, and of which some of his works were filmed. For example, here: