The Man and His God

 

INT. FRED'S APARTMENT - NIGHT 

Wesley and Illyria continue their conversation in the dark room.

WESLEY (standing, excited) 

You could go anywhere, you could leave.

ILLYRIA 

That's not possible.

WESLEY 

Of course it's possible. 

Are you telling me the great Illyria, idol of millions, was limited to one small dimension?

ILLYRIA 

I traveled all of them as I pleased. 

I walked worlds of smoke and half-truths, intangible. (turns away) 

Worlds of torment 

and of unnamable beauty. 

(looks into the mirror, Wesley's reflection over her shoulder) 

Opaline towers as high as small moons. 

Glaciers that rippled with insensate lust. 

And one world with nothing but shrimp. 

I tired of that one quickly.

WESLEY 

Then why stay in This World? 

Surely there's a world more appealing -- 

-- maybe not the shrimp one --

-- but one where you'd be welcome like you never will be here. 

Why don't you go? 

You can go. Why don't you go?

Illyria snaps, grabbing Wesley by the throat and staring at him angrily. 

She lets him go, tossing him aside as she starts gasping for air.

ILLYRIA (breathing hard) 

It's too small. It's too small. I can't breathe. 

(pacing, panicked, in a circle) 

I can't live with these walls. I can't breathe. There's no room for anything real.

WESLEY 

It's all right.

ILLYRIA (glares at Wesley) 

I should gut you where you stand. You challenged me. 

There's not enough space to open my jaws. 

My face is not my face. I don't know what it will say. 

(panting)

WESLEY 

Illyria... come with me.

Illyria starts to calm down and her panting slows.

EXT. ROOFTOP - NIGHT 

Illyria and Wesley are standing on the rooftop. 

She's got her head leaned all the way back, staring skyward.

WESLEY 

Are you all right?

ILLYRIA 

I breathe easier.

WESLEY 

The walls don't press in as hard when you can't see them.

ILLYRIA 

But they're still here.

WESLEY 

Yes.

ILLYRIA 

All I am is what I am. I lived 7 lives at once. 

I was power and the ecstasy of death. 

I was god TO a god. (looks down) 

Now... I�I'm trapped... on a roof. 

Just one roof... in this time and this place, 

with an unstable human who drinks too much whiskey and called me a Smurf. 

(Wesley chuckles) 

You don't worship me at all, do you?

WESLEY 

And you really can't leave.

ILLYRIA 

I... don't know. (looks up) 

And I fear in any other dimension in this form I'd be but prey to those I knew. 

(hangs her head) 

I reek of Humanity.

WESLEY 

Don't flatter yourself.

ILLYRIA (looking over the skyline) 

Your World is so small. 

And yet you box yourselves in rooms even smaller. 

You shut yourselves inside... 

in rooms, in routines.

WESLEY 

There are things worse than walls. 

Terrible... and beautiful. 

If we look at them for too long they will burn right through us. 

Truths we couldn't bear. Not every day.

ILLYRIA (sighs) 

We are so weak.

WESLEY 

Yes. Yes, we are.

I Wish to Do More Violence

Wesley is Dead. 

I'm Experiencing Grief for Him. 

I Can't Seem to Control it —

I Wish to Do More Violence.

Forgive Our Seeming Violence This—

— Is The Only Way to Prepare For Download

You are Playing a  Game Disguised as Everything 

Remember?

We’d Like You to REJOIN The Ultimate Conspiracy.

“The loving voice and its powerful words seemed not to be mine and offered me a stark choice there in the living room: 

I could die now of this disease 

or 

Stay and “serve the light.” 

I might as well have been recruited into the Green Lantern Corps, in what was for me a very genuine “cosmic” moment. I did as most of us would and elected to live. Like Captain Marvel, I wanted to go back to Earth armed with Eon’s knowledge. I felt I’d lived my own Arkham Asylum dark night of the soul, and without the understanding that I was on a well-trod and signposted “magical” path, I’m not sure if I could have handled my illness or recovery process quite as well.

I’d reached that point in the story where I’d survived the crisis and still had a chance to be reborn with a new costume and better powers, but it was touch and go; every passing second was the ticking clock to the ultimate life-and-death cliff-hanger.

How the fuck would I get out of this one?”

Excerpt From

Supergods

Grant Morrison

ANGEL

Looks like we're getting kicked out of The Garden, Eve.

EVE

Where's Lindsey? 

(Angel turns to go, but she grabs his arm)

Where is he?

ANGEL

He's not coming for you.

EVE

You —

ANGEL

Time to Go. 

(walks away)

EVE

(shakes her head helplessly, watching him leave)

Go where?

Cut to:

42 EXT. ALLEY BEHIND THE HYPERION - NIGHT

Angel runs down the alley behind the Hyperion, carrying his sword, running through the pouring rain (in a scene reminiscent of the last image in the opening credits). 

When he gets to the chain-link fence at the end of the alley, he looks around for the others, but doesn't see anyone. 

The sky thunders above him as the heavy rain continues.

SPIKE (O.S.)

Boo. 

(walks out from The Shadows)

ANGEL

Anyone else?

SPIKE

Not so far. 

You feel The Heat?

ANGEL

It's coming.

SPIKE

Finally got ourselves a decent brawl.

GUNN

(running down the street toward them, carrying his homemade battle-axe)

Damn! How did I know the fang boys would pull through? 

(his steps become progressively less sure, weaker)

You're lucky we're on the same side, dogs, 'cause I was on fire tonight. 

(weakly)

My Game was Tight. 

(almost collapses, but Angel and Spike catch him, helping him to a box on which he can sit down)

SPIKE

(looking at Gunn's wounds)

You're supposed to wear the red stuff on the inside, Charlie boy.

GUNN

(looks down at his wounds)

Any word on Wes?

ILLYRIA

(jumps down from the chain-link fence to stand behind Angel)

Wesley is Dead. 

(Angel looks heartbroken; Gunn cries; Spike hangs his head)

I'm feeling grief for him. 

(a crowd clamors in the background)

I Can't seem to control it. 

I wish to do more violence.

SPIKE

(the noisy crowd is getting closer)

Well, wishes just happen to be horses today.

ANGEL

Among other things.

Angel looks at the approaching crowd. 

It's hundreds, if not thousands, of demons of all sorts, shapes and sizes. 

A huge winged dragon flies angrily toward them overhead.

GUNN

OK. You take the 30,000 on the left...

ILLYRIA

You're fading. 

You'll last 10 minutes at best.

GUNN

(stands)

Then let's make 'em memorable.

Angel steps forward and Spike, Gunn and Illyria follow. 

Spike is standing off to Angel's right side. 

Angel is flanked a step behind by Gunn on the right and Illyria on the left. 

They stare at the horde of demons approaching them in the alley.

SPIKE

In terms of a plan?

ANGEL

We Fight.

SPIKE

Bit more specific.

ANGEL

(steps forward)

Well, personally — I kind of want to Slay The Dragon. 

(the demon horde attacks)

Let's Go to Worl. 

(swings his sword)

Fade to black.

PornostarDämmerung : Kagney Linn Karter

When The Fool Louis Theroux entitled his documentary 

"Twilight of The Pornstars",

he said more than he could ever know..

Cleopatra - 

In the habiliments of the Goddess Isis: 

You come before me as a suppliant. 

Antony - Suppliant to The Goddess : 

If you choose to regard me as such. 

Cleopatra - 

In the habiliments of the Goddess Isis: 

I do. You will therefore assume the position of a suppliant before this throne. 

You will kneel. 

Antony - 
Suppliant to The Goddess : 

I will what? 

Cleopatra - 

In the habiliments of the Goddess Isis: 

On-your-knees! 

Antony - 
Suppliant to The Goddess : 

You dare ask the Proconsul of the Roman Empire? 

Cleopatra - 

In the habiliments of the Goddess Isis:  

I asked it of Julius Caesar. 

I demand it of you

 Cleopatra - In the habiliments of the Goddess Isis

Kagney Linn Karter - 

In the habiliments of the Goddess FiFi :  

The Fool :

Montay, you are Kagney's Significant Other...?

Montay  - 
Suppliant to The Goddess : 
Yes.

The Fool :

Husband..?

Montay  - 
Suppliant to The Goddess : 
Ah, no.

The Fool :

No. Hoping to be..?

Montay  - 
Suppliant to The Goddess : 
Hoping to be, Ya.  Eventually, Someday.

The Fool :

What do you  do..?

Montay  - 

Suppliant to The Goddess : 

I am... A full-time assistant to my Girlfriend

The Fool :

Do you have rules about what she can or can't do?

You know, what you're comfortable with..?

Montay  - 
Suppliant to The Goddess : 
I get my input. I get my input on 
What I Believe 
that She should probably refrain from doing.

The Fool :

Like..?

Montay  - 
Suppliant to The Goddess : 
Um... Like, for example, Her agent called today and asked Her, does she want to do a Boy/Girl scene, but after the Boy/Girl scene, five guys come and ejaculate on Her.

The Fool :

So you expressed a preference that She not do that.

Montay  - 
Suppliant to The Goddess : 
Of Course.
I mean, I'd rather...

The Fool :

What did She say?

Montay  - 
Suppliant to The Goddess : 
She... said that She was gonna do it, y'know...

******

The Fool :

Montay was saying about this scene that you had coming up, and about... whether you should let these guys... Kind of, finish their business on you.

Kagney Linn Karter -

 In the habiliments of a bath towel:  

He didn't want to talk about it, so I'm actually surprised he even brought it up with you guys, because, Babe, you wouldn't even talk to me about it -

Montay  - 
Suppliant to The Goddess : 
I mean, I'm always going to have my opinion, so...
Especially if your agent says that he doesn't think that She should do it.

Kagney Linn Karter -

 In the habiliments of a bath towel:  

You saying that I couldn't do it cuts me out of two grand....

Montay  - 

Suppliant to The Goddess :

[ Folding Her dresses and discarded rainment ] 

I didn't say...

Kagney Linn Karter -

 In the habiliments of a bath towel:  

...and that cuts out of money  - that we can go on vaction, so we can do nice things for ourselves... 

Montay  - 

Suppliant to The Goddess :

I  never did say...

Kagney Linn Karter -

 In the habiliments of a bath towel:  

...so that I can buy you the clothes that you put on your back, Montay.

Montay  - 
Suppliant to The Goddess :
I didn't say that you couldn't do it.

The Fool :
Kagney, you would maybe want to respect his feelings, though, if he was... upset by something that you chose to do...?

[ The Suppliant is weeping, crying to himself quietly in the corner, as he folds dresses and sorts items in his Goddess' wardrobe ]

Kagney Linn Karter -

 In the habiliments of a bath towel:  

Are you upset, really?

Like you're upset now...?

Montay  - 

Suppliant to The Goddess :

I didn't say that I was upset.

The Fool :

He didn't.

Montay  - 
Suppliant to The Goddess :
I  never did say that.

Kagney Linn Karter -

 In the habiliments of a bath towel:  

I mean, of course I want to respect his feelings, but sometimes, he doesn't know What's Best For Me, and 
I know What's Best For Us 
because I have been running this train for a long time now, So...

Montay sometimes doesn't understand that the reason why I do certain scenes is not because I'm just a Big Whore...

Montay  - 
Suppliant to The Goddess :

[ Taking offence at the suggestion ] 

...No...!!

Kagney Linn Karter -

 In the habiliments of a bath towel:  

...who enjoys getting five loads on my face, it's because I know that that's the type of scene that might possibly win me an award.

[ and by implication, drive up her market value as a performer and earn larger fees. ]

The Fool :

As an outsider to the business and representing maybe what people at home would see, what I would say is that  Montay, maybe,  is taking on a lot already, by seeing the person that he loves performing Sex Acts with other people.... 

Kagney Linn Karter -

 In the habiliments of a bath towel:  

Okay, but Montay also gets to have lots of days off where gets to sit around the house and play video-games all day too, so - Okay?

So, Montay gets Whatever He Wants, 

he has a really good life, that I provided for him

So - Montay has it easy.

[ So do Zoo Animals - the difference being, that they are not there by choice, the suppliant is chosing to be there and to serve his Goddess in the office of a Priest. ]

[ He's more like a pet than a Zoo Creature. ]

Louis Theroux's Twilight of The Pornstars

PornostarDämmerung

My art has been commended as being strongly vaginal, which bothers some men.

"I am your priest. I am your servant. 

I am your guide in This World. 

I've taken your sacraments and placed them close to my heart according to the ancient ways. 

That's why you were called to me." 

- Knox, Qwa'ha Xahn High Priest  to the Goddess Illyria

Newman: 

Right, you’re just saying that’s the way it is?

Peterson: 

Well, it’s, I’m not saying anything. It’s just an observation, that, that’s the way it is. 

There’s plenty of women that are watching my lectures and coming to my talks and buying my books. 

It’s just that the majority of them happen to be men.

Newman: 

What’s in it for the women, though?

Peterson: 

Well what sort of partner do you want? 

You want an overgrown child? 

Or do you want someone to contend with, that’s going to help you?

Newman: 

So you’re saying women have some sort of duty to sort of help fix the crisis of masculinity?

Peterson: 

It depends on what they want. 

No I mean, it’s exactly how I laid it out like. 

Women want, deeply, want men who are competent and powerful!

And I don’t mean power in that they can exert tyrannical control over others. 

That’s not power! 

That’s just corruption. 

Power is competence, and why in the world would you not want a competent partner? 

Well, I know why actually. 

You can’t dominate a competent partner. 

[ You can if they are self-sacrificing - as all parents and suppliants are expected to be. ]

So if you want domination, …

Newman: 

So you are saying women want to dominate, is that what you’re saying?

Peterson: 

No. I’d say women who have had their relationships with men impaired and who are afraid of such relationships, will settle for a weak partner, because they can dominate them. 

[ Or, She may in fact be a goddess. ]

But it’s a sub-optimal solution.

[ Unless She is a Goddess - but that has to be earned. ]

[ Most  men are not Kings ot Little Gods Upon The Earth, most women are not Goddesses - but some are. ]

Newman: 

Do you think that’s what a lot of women are doing?

Peterson: 

I think there’s a substantial minority of women who do that. 

And I think it’s very bad for them. 

They’re very unhappy. 

It’s very bad for their partners. 

Although the partners get the advantage of not having to take any responsibility.

Newman: 

What gives you the right to say that? 

I mean, maybe that’s how women want their relationships, those women. 

I mean, you’re making these vast generalizations.

Peterson: 

I’m a clinical psychologist.

Newman: 

Right. So you’re saying you’ve done your research and women are unhappy dominating men?

Peterson: 

I didn’t say they were unhappy dominating them. 

I said it was a bad long-term solution. 

It’s not the same thing.

Newman: 

Okay, you said it was making them miserable.

Peterson: 

Yes, it is. And it depends on the time frame. I mean, there can be, there’s intense pleasure in momentary domination. 

That’s why people do it all the time, but it’s no formula for a long-term, successful, long-term relationship. 

That’s reciprocal, right? Any long-term relationship is reciprocal, virtually by definition. So, …