Screenplay No. 12 (For Your Consideration)

"Damon and Pythias"

A series of 20 bucolic Greekish scenes—vibrant fields of yellow flowers, wave-lashed rock shores, cypress glades—each fading out of darkness and suddenly collapsing back into it—15 seconds each. This is a computerized backdrop to two live figures—the whole of it recallingl under-funded video art of the 1980s. The two figures are muscular young men, friends in real life, wearing white tunics and carrying round wooden shields and simple, broad, double-edged short swords. At each fade-in their sword arms are dropped and they are looking around, slightly lost—as the bucolic scene becomes visible they become excited, raise their sword arms, pace around a bit (but always with their faces towards the camera), and shout “Ho! Hooooo!”—lapsing again at the blackout. The figures should maintain roughly symmetrical positions throughout (if one moves left, the other moves right, etc.).