Showing posts with label Perfect-10. Show all posts
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Tuesday 4 January 2022

That's Why it's Been Left up to Me and Me and Me.




Well, I'll Do My Best
but I can't make any promises

In that case, you'd better consult those 
All-Powerful superiors 
of yours for their advice.

Oh, I don't think that'd 
do any good --
At The Moment They're far 
from being All-Powerful. 

That's why it's been left up 
to Me and Me and Me.




Doctor Who - The Day of the Doctor - 
This time there's three of us


The Moment : 
You wanted a big red button.

(A red, rose-like button stands on 
a stalk above the Moment box.)

The Moment : 
One big bang, No More Time Lords. 
No More Daleks. Are you sure?

The Warrior : 
I was sure when I came in here. 
There is No Other Way.

The Moment : 
You've seen the men you will become.

The Warrior : 
Those men. Extraordinary.

The Moment : 
They were you.

The Warrior : 
No. They are 
The Doctor.

The Moment : 
You're The Doctor, too.

The Warrior
No. Great Men are forged in Fire. 
It is the privilege of lesser Men 
to Light The Flame, 
whatever The Cost.

(His hand hesitates over The Button as he
 recalls the sound of children's laughter.)

The Moment : 
You know the sound The TARDIS makes..?
 That wheezing, groaning
That sound brings Hope 
wherever it goes.

The Warrior : 
Yes. Yes, I like to think it does.

The Moment : 
To anyone who hears it, Doctor. 
Anyone, however lost.

VWORPP! VWORPP! 
(and, in Stereo, as well..!)
VWORPP! VWORPP! 

The Moment : 
Even you.

(Two TARDISes park themselves in The Barn. 
Enter The Doctors and Clara.)

CLARA: 
I told you -- He hasn't done it yet.

The Warrior : 
Go away now, all of you. 
This is for Me.

Perfect-10 : 
These events should be Time-locked. 
We shouldn't even be here.

The Chin : 
So something let us through.

The Moment : 
You clever boys.

The Warrior : 
Go back. Go back to Your Lives. 
Go and Be The Doctor 
that I could never be. 
Make it worthwhile.

Perfect-10 : 
All those years, burying you 
in My Memory.

The Chin : 
Pretending you didn't exist. 
Keeping you A Secret, even from myself.

Perfect-10 : 
Pretending you weren't The Doctor, 
when you were The Doctor 
more than anybody else.

The Chin : 
You were The Doctor on The Day 
it wasn't possible to get it right.

Perfect-10 : 
But this time...

The Chin : 
....You don't have to do it alone.

(They put their hands 
on The Button together.)

The Warrior : 
Thank you.

Perfect-10 : 
What We Do today is not 
out of fear or hatred. 
It is done because 
there is No Other Way.

The Chin : 
And it is done In The Name 
of the many lives we are 
failing to Save.

(He glances over at Clara, 
who shakes her head,
in the corner of his eye.)

The Chin : 
....what? 
What is it? What....?

CLARA: 
Nothing.

The Chin : 
No, it's something. Tell me.

CLARA: 
You told me you wiped out 
Your Own People. I just.... 
I never pictured you 
doing it, that's all.

The Moment :
 Take a closer look.

(It suddenly goes dark.)

CLARA: 
What's happening?

The Warrior : 
Nothing. It's a projection.

The Moment : 
It's The Reality around you.

(They are seeing Gallifrey at War.)

CLARA: 
...These are the people you're going to burn?

Perfect-10 : 
There isn't anything we can do.

The Chin : 
He's right. There isn't another way. 
There never was. Either I 
Destroy My Own People or 
let The Universe burn.

CLARA: 
Look at You. The Three of You. 
The Warrior, The Hero, and You.

The Chin : 
And What am I?

CLARA: 
Have you really forgotten?

The Chin : 
Yes. Maybe, yes.

CLARA: 
We've got enough Warriors. 
Any old idiot can Be a Hero.

The Chin :
Then What Do I Do?

CLARA: 
What you've always done. Be a Doctor. 
You told me The Name You Chose was 
A Promise -- What was The Promise?

(The Fighting seems to have stopped on Gallifrey.)

Perfect-10 : 
Never Cruel or Cowardly.

The Warrior
Never give upnever give in.
(The images vanish.)

Perfect-10 : 
You're not actually suggesting that we 
change Our Own Personal History?

The Chin : 
We change History all the time. 
I'm suggesting far worse.

The Warrior : 
What, exactly?

The Chin : 
Gentlemen, I have had 
four hundred years to think about 
this -- I've changed My Mind.

(He sonics The Big Red Button 
back into The Moment Box.)

The Warrior : 
There's still a billion billion Daleks 
up there, attacking.

The Chin : 
Yeah, there is. There is.

Perfect-10 : 
But there's something those billion 
billion Daleks don't know.

The Chin : 
Because if they did, they'd probably 
send for reinforcements.

CLARA: 
What? What don't they know?

The Chin : 
This time, there's Three of Us.

The Warrior : 
Oh! Oh, yes, that is good
That is brilliant!

Perfect-10 : 
Oh, oh, oh, I'm getting that too
That is brilliant!

The Chin : 
Ha, ha, ha! I've been thinking 
about it for centuries.

The Warrior : 
She didn't just show me any old future, 
she showed me exactly 
The Future I needed to see.

The Moment : 
Now you're getting it.

The Chin : 
Eh? Who did?

The Warrior : 
Oh, Bad Wolf girl, 
I could kiss you.

The Moment : 
Yup, that's going to Happen.

Perfect-10 : 
Sorry, did you just say 'Bad Wolf'?

CLARA: 
So what are we doing? 
What's The Plan?

The Warrior : 
The Dalek fleets are surrounding Gallifrey, firing on it constantly.

Perfect-10 :
 The SkyTrench is holding, 
but What if the whole planet 
just disappeared?

CLARA: 
Tiny bit of an ask.

Perfect-10 : 
The Daleks would be 
firing on each other
They'd destroy themselves 
in their own crossfire.

The Warrior : 
Gallifrey would be gone, 
The Daleks would be destroyed, 
and it would look to 
The Rest of The Universe 
as if they'd annihilated each other.


CLARA: 
But where would Gallifrey be?

Perfect-10 : 
Frozen. Frozen in an instant of time, 
safe and hidden away.

The Chin : 
Exactly.

The Warrior : 
Like Painting.



Jack Parsons/Captain Marvel/ Jor-El :
Could be A Warning -- 
To show Us What's 
Going to Happen.
A sort of... remote camera 
view of The Future....
So that We can 
CHANGE it.

Someone Has FINALLY
Shown-up to Tell Us :
I Think it's Time We Stood-up 
for What We ARE.




Friday 3 December 2021

It IS Possible, and It is HAPPENING.







The CAPTAIN
Er, excuse me! Doctor?

Dr. Disco
Get back inside.

The CAPTAIN: 
I'm not quite sure, 
but it seemed to me that 
this young lady's life 
was being offered 
in exchange for my own. 

As it happens, I think my number is 
pretty much up anyway.

Bill's Ghost :
What are you talking about? 
Doctor, what's he talking about?

CAPTAIN: 
So, might as well make it 
count for something, eh?

I should be happy to take your place, 
if that would resolve this situation.

Testimony
Accepted.

Bill's Ghost :
That is, that is not Happening. 
That's totally Not Happening. 
Agreed?

Dr. Disco
Tell me What to Do, then. 
Bill Potts would Tell Me 
What to Do.

Bill's Ghost 
Do What You Always Do -- 
Serve at The Pleasure of 
The Human Race.

Dr. Disco
Here's What's Going to Happen :
First, I'm Going to Escape
You, with Me.

Old Grandfather
Where are we going?

Testimony
Escape is Not Possible.

Dr. Disco
It is Possible, 
and It is Happening
and 
I'm Taking Bill 
and The Captain with me.

Old Grandfather
Why are You 
Advertising Your Intentions? 

Can't you stop boasting 
for a moment?

Dr. Disco
Mister Pastry, too. 
I could do with a laugh.


Testimony
Escape is Not Possible.

Dr. Disco
Oh, I'm Going to Do 
WAY More Than Escape. 

I'm Going to Find Out 
Who You Are and 
What You're Doing, 
and 
If I Don't Like it, 
I Will Come Back 
and 
I Will STOP You. 

I Will Stop ALL of You!

Old Grandfather
Who The HELL 
Do You Think You Are..!?

Dr. Disco
The Doctor.

Old Grandfather
I am The Doctor
Who YOU Are, 
I cannot begin to imagine.

Testimony
Then let us show you, Doctor. 
See who you will become.

DAVROS: 
Doctor!

DALEK: 
Exterminate!

CYBERMAN
You will be assimilated.

(Images of past Doctors fly around in bubbles, 
including The War Doctor.)

Dr. Disco : 
No, no, that's not a good idea.

Perfect-10 [OC]: 
They all Died.

Testimony
The Doctor has Walked in Blood 
through all of Time and Space. 
The Doctor has 
MANY Names.

DAVROS [OC]: 
The Destroyer of Worlds.

Testimony : 
The Imp of the Pandorica. 
The Shadow of the Valeyard. 
The Beast of Trenzalore. 
The Butcher of Skull Moon. 
The Last Tree of Garsennon. 
The Destroyer of Skaro. 

He is The Doctor, of War.

(The images disappear.)

Old Grandfather : 
What, what was that?

Dr. Disco : 
To be fair, they cut out 
all The Jokes




Wednesday 17 November 2021

237


“Oh no, now I really 
am in Trouble..!”


The Dark Multiverse is A Shadow 
under the primary Multiverse, one formed of every fear and bad decision ever made or dreamt. 
Worlds in the Dark Multiverse are fragile and constantly deteriorating, 
inevitably doomed to destruction 
by their own malformed construction.






“….While news reached The Courtroom of The High Council's mass resignation, The Master warned The Inquisitor that 
The Valeyard had materialised his TARDIS 
aroundTime Vent in The Matrix. 

If The Vent were to be opened for too long
there would be catastrophic ramifications 
for the Space-Time continuum. 

The Valeyard - now shown to be 
a pitiable old man afraid of dying 
planned to use this threat to force 
The Time Lords to give him 
The Doctor's remaining regenerations.
 
The Master revealed that he had 
been hired by the High Council 
to murder The Doctor in 
exchange for A Pardon
but he had now decided not 
to follow through 
on His Mission. 

The Doctor bluffed his way 
into The Valeyard's TARDIS 
just as The Valeyard opened 
The Time Vent Door -- 

Struggling, The Doctor and The Valeyard 
plunged into the Time Vent 
while The Master had Glitz seal The Door
Saving The Universe but trapping 
The Doctor for all eternity.

Kubrick's TIMEDOORS

“Well, it’s not easy, you know…!”

“It's not as if we know 
what That Thing IS....”

“Well, I'll Tell You -- 
it's a TIME VENT.”





“I see…!”

“Now,
What’s A Vent for, eh?”

“Well, err…”

“…Flushing?”

“Right! So stop dilly-dallying —
and FLUSH it!”

“Then we return to the motif of the shower head,
the impassive eye which has just watched this horrible thing happen.

This shot of the shower head at the beginning of the scene was
one of joy, she was going to get a new start and now that same
water is washing away the evidence of her existence and the murder.

The Water keeps running 
and The Blood flows,
but The Heart is stopping.

It's just such an amazing image 
to see Her Life flowing 
down The Drain.

What a metaphor that is!”

Elijah Wood :
And it switches to The Eye, right?
Oh, come on.
That's so good.

Eli Roth :
“I wonder how long this shot is, how long she had to hold —
To get her eye to stay open?
Just to make sure her eye didn't twitch even a tiny bit.

Oh, my God, that's incredible.

Eli Roth :
The Pointless Spiralling 
of  The Universe 
and the way that 
Everything is ultimately 
drawn down The Plughole 
towards Oblivion,  
towards Meaningless Death.

I think to some extent 
we are looking at 
Hitchcock's fears 
as well as his obsessions.”


“You see it in Barton Fink, you see it 
in so many movies and you're like, 
"Why is he going inside the drain?
Are we going to go inside?"

That is the moment of Psycho where 
Everything Changes.

This was made by an auteur film-maker and that is a very personal stamp.

It's a rupture in the movie
but the movie never achieves this 
kind of poetry again and you begin
to realise that, 
"Oh, this was what really mattered 
most to Hitchcock."

Tomasini has done a clockwise turn optically which then, right about here, hooks back up to the freeze-frame footage.

I'm just amazed they were able to get that clean.

Usually when you do an optical it's pretty grainy but it looks
so smooth and so beautiful.

It's surprising and seamless where they go from live action,
it's like one of the greatest opticals in the history of movies.

It's also kind of like what the title sequence is doing
in Vertigo, it's a theme that runs through this film
and then later on, of course. 

It's not style just for style's sake,
it's got content.


The cameras were huge and very difficult to manipulate.

You can actually see pictures of Hitchcock behind a Mitchell
and you get a sense of what it was like riding on that
carriage behind that huge locomotive of a camera.

Whereas today it's a snap, you just do it like Gus Van Sant.
In the remake he did it all live action.

The pull-back from her eye was 
a whole robotic camera move.

Gus Van Sant's Editor :
I seriously followed the original 
film shot by shot.

I was able to cut it exactly like The Original, 
and we watched it,
and it was weird and 
it didn't work.

I said, "Well, Gus, come over, watch the scene. I have a few reservations of how it's playing right now
and it doesn't feel like The Shower Scene yet."

We went in and tried to make it 
a little more Gus Van Sant-y.

To duplicate something as iconic 
as The Shower Scene,
:: ::
I really think it wasn't going to work.
:: ::
And it just didn't.
:: ::
I always loved the placement of those drops of water cos
:: ::
they're like tears.
:: ::
Right at the end it was a little flicker in her eye,
:: ::
a little highlight in her eye.
:: ::
And you can see her eye move.
:: ::
There's a tight, slight flick of the eye, there.
:: ::
Hitchcock almost fetishistically lingers in this postmortem moment.
:: ::
This is what happens after you die and no-one turns off the water.
:: ::
Hitch had a little snap of the finger to let Janet know
when the camera had past and was going to pan into the room.

It took a lot of takes.

I can feel the moleskin pulling away from my top part and so I could feel this, it was just of going...
SHE SQUEAKS
..and I thought, "You know what?
I don't want to do this damn thing again. 
I really don't want to."

And there are all the guys on the scaffolding and I said,
"I'm not going to be modest. 
Let 'em look."

Q: Why would you cut to the shower there?

A. : I don't think The Reason has anything 
to do with artistic decision. 
It's The Solution to some 
technical problem that he had.


Hitchcock's Granddaughter :
After my grandfather filmed Psycho
and it had been shown to all the executives,
the last person he showed it 
to was my grandmother
and they were sitting in the screening screen,
and he's panning out and she looks 
at my grandfather and says,
"Hitch, you can't release this."

And he said, "Why not?" 

She goes, "Janet Leigh took a breath."

They couldn't reshoot it.
Janet was gone, they didn't have the budget,
so they simply cut back to 
the shower head spewing water."

And then that cynical camera move —
She made her moral decision 
and this is what it got her.

There's an image of 
The Uncaring Universe
if you want one.

You see the headline there - "OKAY
it is not OK. Nothing is OK.

He always comes back to his MacGuffin which is the —
He throws the newspaper into the quagmire, 
it goes down with the car.

And The Audience says, 
"That's The Money that we thought 
was important in This Story,
it's totally unimportant."

“This is the thing in the movie that always tortured me —

The greatest scene in movie history ends 
on a sour note with a bad ADR line — 
That has been the doom of so many movies.

Here comes Norman.
Just wondering What Happened 
and oh, my, he can't believe it —
‘Another murder at the motel. 
How did that happen?’

It's an extraordinary aftermath, 
it's a crucial piece of the film-making to sort of let the consequence of it actually land —

It's not about getting the blood stains out of the tub,
it's about this incredibly laborious process
that this unbearably damaged soul needs to work through.

It demands not just that we watch 
as we've watched The Murder of Marion Crane, 
we're also voyeurs to 
The Horror of Norman's World.



For me, the clean up represents 
Alfred Hitchcock's Sense of Orderliness
sense of 
"I wasn't sexually aroused by this woman, and I'm just going to pretend that this unhappy episode just didn't even occur."

I think that cleaning always represents sexual guilt.

You care about this guy. 
And I know it sounds crazy 
but you do.

You want to know 
what's going to happen to him, 
you want to know
is he going to be free of this 
or is it going to consume him?

The fact that he is able 
to get you to care is one of 
the miracles of the movie.






















(The Doctor runs back for The Screwdriver.)

Perfect-10
Why? Why would I give her 
My Screwdriver? Why would I do that? 
Thing is, Future-Me had years 
to think about it, all those years 
to think of A Way to Save Her
and What He Did was 
Give Her a Screwdriver. 

WHY Would I DO That?

(Because it also contains a neural relay
which has Two Green Lights on it.)

Perfect-10 : 
Oh! OH! Oh, look at that
I'm VERY Good!

DONNA : 
What have you done?

Perfect-10 : 
Saved Her.

[Stacks]

(The Doctor is running as one green light goes out.)

Perfect-10 
Stay with me! 
You can do it, stay with me!
Come on, You and Me
one last run!

[Reading room]

Perfect-10 : 
Sorry, River, shortcut!

COMPUTER
Platform Disabled. 

(The Doctor dives into the gravity well. The last light is blinking.)

[Data core]

RIVER [OC]: 
Everybody knows that Everybody Dies. 
But not every day.

(The Doctor plugs the screwdriver into the core, and her neural energy is transferred.)

RIVER [OC]
Not Today.

(Charlotte Node smiles.)

[Hospital grounds]

(River is wearing a loose white robe. Charlotte and Doctor Moon walk up to her.)

GIRL
It's okay, you're safe. 
You'll always be safe here. 
The Doctor fixed the data core. 

This is a good place now. 
But I was worried you might be lonely, 
so I brought you some friends. 

Aren't I a clever girl?

Miss EVANGELISTA
Aren't we all?

(Anita, the two Daves and Miss Evangelista with her normal face are walking towards her.)

RIVER
Oh, for Heaven's Sake. 
He just can't do it, can he? That Man. 
That Impossible Man. 

He just can't give in.

RIVER [OC]: 
Some Days are Special. 
Some Days are so, so Blessed. 
Some Days, nobody dies at all.

(The Doctor returns to the Reception and stares at the Tardis. He snaps his fingers, and the door opens. Donna is waiting inside.)

RIVER [OC]: 
Now and Then, every once 
in a very long while, 
every day in a million days, 
when The Wind stands Fair, 
and The Doctor comes to call --

(He snaps his fingers again and the door closes.)

[Children's bedroom]

(River closes her diary.)

RIVER
Everybody Lives.

(She kisses Charlotte goodnight and looks at Ella and Joshua.)

RIVER
Sweet Dreams, everyone.



In the Steve Gerber miniseries The Phantom Zone #1-4 (January–April 1982), it is revealed that the Zone not only has a breach through which other inmates had escaped, but that they were never heard from again. The imprisoned Superman and Quex-Ul use this method and travel through several dimensional “layers” seeking the exit into the physical universe. They finally encounter a Kryptonian wizard named Thul-Kar, who tells them that he believed Jor-El’s prophecy of Krypton’s doom and entered the Phantom Zone through magic. Using the same breach, he discovered the truth about the Phantom Zone: all its levels are manifestations of the consciousness of a sentient, malevolent entity called Aethyr, The Oversoul.

As explained by Thul-Kar, Aethyr itself came into being uncounted millennia ago when two spiral galaxies collided at an almost primordial stage after the physical universe’s creation. Countless worlds were simultaneously destroyed and the deaths of so many beings merged somehow to form a single, evil consciousness that called itself Aethyr The Oversoul. This supremely powerful entity enclosed itself into a dimension outside the physical universe within itself, forming the Phantom Zone.

The Zone itself is an interface between the Earth-One dimension (the physical universe) and Aethyr’s mind, the outer layer (where zone criminals are housed) representing its ability for abstract thought; the Zone is basically Aethyr’s capacity to imagine other possibilities of existence, and is the outermost template of its consciousness. Only by entering Aethyr’s core realm can a zone prisoner escape back to the physical universe, but this process is dangerous since any being who tries risks being destroyed in numerous ways as well as by forever having their souls merged with Aethyr’s essence while within Aethyr’s core realm. This is because as you enter deeper into Aethyr’s consciousness, you no longer exist as an abstract entity and your existence becomes subject to Aethyr’s whims. When attacking Superman and Quex-Ul, Aethyr personified itself as an aggressive, purple-skinned dog’s head that breathed flames capable of destroying and absorbing the souls of those that it wishes to conquer. While Quex-Ul is killed by Aethyr in this fashion, Superman manages to make his way out of the Phantom Zone by avoiding those flames and flying directly through Aethyr’s skull and its mind, returning to Earth through a tear in the fabric of Aethyr’s mind and the physical universe, but not without encountering the horrific remains of all of the souls entrapped within Aethyr over the millennia.

Mister Mxyzptlk is later possessed by Aethyr. During the process while Myyzptlk is imprisoned on his own home dimension, Thul-Kar communicates with Mxyzptlk and offers him an escape in exchange for the merger. This merger, however, empties the Phantom Zone of its criminal inhabitants. As the Phantom Zone villains head to Earth to conquer it, Thul-Kar and Nam-Ek are re-absorbed into Aethyr. Superman awakes and sees that the Phantom Zone villains are wreaking havoc on Earth, causing destruction to the Capitol Building in Washington, D.C. and demanding Superman come out and fight them. Superman battles the Phantom Zone villains in Washington D.C. While fighting Faora Hu-Ul, he witnesses her disappearing as she is absorbed into Aethyr. Mister Mxyzpltk reveals that his strong personality has taken over Aethyr and he absorbs all the rest of the Phantom Zone inhabitants back into himself, determined to torture them endlessly and wreak havoc as he sees fit. Mxyzpltk-Aethyr leaves, intending to next take over the Fifth Dimension, and Superman is left to put out the fires in Washington and then rid Metropolis of the Kryptonite remains of Argo City.

Main LOKI : 
[SHOUTING] 
No! This way! 
Come and get me! 
 
[DRAGON ROARING]
 

CLASSIC, UGLY LOKI :
No! No!

[UPLIFTING MUSIC PLAYING] 
RIDE OF THE VALKYRIES
[GRUNTING] 

He resurrects [An Image of] 
Lost and Fabled Asgard, 
in The Heart of The Phantom Zone 
using only His Magicks 

LADY LOKI :
How is he doing that?

Main LOKI : 
I think we're Stronger than we realise.

CLASSIC, UGLY LOKI :
[GRUNTING] 
Go! 
[ECHOING] 


What are you doing? 

SYLVIE
We're gonna enchant it. 

Main LOKI
I don't know how

SYLVIE
You do. Because We're The Same! 

[ROARS] 
[BOTH GRUNT] 
[GRUNTING] 
[DRAMATIC MUSIC CONTINUES] 

CLASSIC, UGLY LOKI :
[GRUNTS WEAKLY] 
Glorious Purpose
[LAUGHING] 

[EXHALES] 
Open your eyes.




"Once Denny enters Room 237, like, that's... that kind of is, like, the activation of the rest of the movie. 

Like, that's what causes Jack to go insane finally. 
That's what brings Hallorann to The Hotel. 
Like, The Room 237 is, like, is sort of this... 

I mean, I compare it to the mysterious hotel room at the end of 2001
where there's... 
It's this strange, strange place that somehow, like, transforms the rest of the narrative. 

The Shining takes place on the top of a mountain in kind of like a, you know, magical shape-shifting environment. 

And, like, travel is... traveling out of it is... 
You know, instead of 2001, where you're Traveling to Something
The Point of The Shining is to Escape
is to travel out

And Room 237 is, like... it's kind of like 
The Escape Pod of The Hotel.

You're, like, in this LOOP. 
But, you know, there ARE escape routes, 
like the... like, 
I think he puts escape routes into it
into This Maze, into This Trap

I mean, there are ways out of it. 

And Danny finds a way out of it, you know, 
by retracing his steps, by going backwards and forwards. 

And once you start, you know, studying, you know, synchronicity and symbolism, then, like, suddenly, like, you're noticing in Your Own Life, like, things start popping out. 
Things that you hadn't noticed before

Your Point of View is being altered 
by Your Study. 

It's Quantum Physics, you know, like, 
The Act of Observing, 
affects The Thing Observed.

And, of course, Vice-Versa.