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Age 24
Location Los Angeles
Website http://www.destroythisrecording.com*
Favorite films/plays

Films: The Adventures of Buckaroo Banzai, Blade Runner, Chinatown, Citizen Kane, Dogville, Mission: Impossible, Network, The Ninth Gate, Re-Animator, RoboCop, Solaris, The Third Man.

TV Shows: 30 Rock, Arrested Development, Babylon 5, Cowboy Bebop, Daria, Deadwood, Farscape, Firefly, Frisky Dingo, Futurama, Metalocalypse, Mission: Impossible, The Office, The Prisoner, Pushing Daisies, Twin Peaks, The Venture Bros.
Other interests

Reading. Writing. Yo mama.
Script title A Battle in the Mist
Script type Screenplay
Script genre Epic/War
My script is Citizen Kane meets Excalibur
Logline It's, like, Arthurian, man.
Main character would be played by Eva Green
My soundtrack would be Lots of really old Cornish, Irish, and Welsh harper-ballads. (In practice: Loreena McKennitt, some Hayley Westenra, etc.)
An Excerpt from A Battle in the Mist

MORGAN
Think you that drops have any say in the rain?

TALIESIN
P-pardon?

MORGAN
A simple query, bard. Is nature subject to a democratic process, within which each single element ventures an opinion regarding distribution of the all? Can their opinions be swayed? Will reason
alone suffice to change thunder to sparrow's song, transmute lashing storm to summer's day, or must we give of more than our tongues to acquire our ends?

TALIESIN
Well, I --

[Morgan raises one hand to the air. Thunder CLAPS. The RAIN begins anew. She turns around to observe him, face obscured by her heavy hood.]

MORGAN
Too late for answers, bard, too late by far. Everything will change, and nothing. Nothing will change, and everything.
(beat)
Who kills my son?

[The bard shifts his weight. Dangerous territory here, and he does not, after all, want his lifeless head dangling from the witch's front gate.]

TALIESIN
Mordred?

MORGAN
(vehement; low)
Amadán.

[The bard frowns, knowing the insult.]

TALIESIN
His lord and king, Lady, against whom he raised arms in rank treason.

MORGAN
(bitter)
"Pot of honey," yes, yes.
(beat)
How sick is he?

TALIESIN
Mordred?

MORGAN
Him who dealt the death.

TALIESIN
Your brother -- our King -- dies, Lady, of the wound your son put upon him.

MORGAN
No more than his due for abandoning his inheritance, and no less than the price we all paid for lighting Britain's way.
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