Movie about high school Anarchists

[I Watch The Watchers]

I’ve written a short script about high school anarchists. The basic themes came to me a long time ago so the whole thing isn’t quite as far left as I am at this point but I just want to know if people think it’s too reactionary.

Three high school kids (Peter, Louis, and Emma) bond over a hatred of corporations that they don’t really understand. Peter, who the other two never question, says they should start attacking corporate stores at night, and they do. They have no particular ideology, goals, or long term objectives. They don’t really know what Anarchy is.

An older friend of Peter’s dismisses what he’s doing as lashing out. He speaks for the real anarchists and revolutionaries. A teacher (Mr. Mill) also figures out what’s going on but protects Peter, cautioning him that he won’t be understood by the masses. He represents the liberal-minded left at large.

Through a complex series of events Louis is accosted by a drug dealer who’s Hummer window he had broken. Seeing that Louis is an anarchists, the drug dealer tells him that, as an outlaw, he can’t wait for anarchy, assuming there would be chaos. This represents the general misconception of anarchy by the public. Then I wrap it all up in some self criticism and leave my characters hanging.

If you think this sends the wrong message please let me know. I’m about to start casting and doing pre-production so I want to know if I need to make any changes to my themes now. Your input is greatly appreciated.

[Qwerty Dvorak]

no way, im not very clever when it comes to film-making, but as a politically-minded person i think this movie sends a powerful and important message.

nice one dude :D

[Hate Is Art]

Sound's interesting. Change the name Peter though, you need something a bit more dashing, like Sanchez, or Zorro.

[Black Dagger]

Peter = Kropotkin?
Emma = Goldman?

:P

I like the basic story that you have outlined, but i'm not sure how you plan to elaborate these issues with much depth, ie. how you get 'the point' across-without having heavy theoretical dialogue? How do you sum-up and refute all the misconceptions that the characters bring to the film?

[I Watch The Watchers]

Well I'm basically going to state it as artlessly and blatently as possible. It will be said at one point that they are not REAL anarchists. This will never be refuted and hopefully everyone will pick up on it. The "older friend" is in fact supposed to be an anarchist and that will become clear, though it's not exptressly mentioned.

[YKTMX]

What are you trying to say?

Anarchy is misunderstood? Maybe it is.

That young people are more radical? Possibly.

Unless you have something particuarly insightful to say, or the movie is very enterataining, what's the point?

This sort of thing has been done many times before.

[codyvo]

Well, I like the idea, I definately feel that you must reinforce the fact that the man with the hummer is not an anarchist, overly reinforce. Anyways it sounds good.

[JKP]

Proving that anarchy is not chaos is good, but you''ll also have to show what anachism is. Maybe you could draw up some scenarios that do that? Things like anti-fascism , democracy, etc.

[I Watch The Watchers]

The movie isn't really for anarchists. It's points should be well understood by anarchists already. My target market will be lefties who are afraid of anarchy because they know nothing about it. The characters are designed to seem like real anarchists to the un-informed but reveal themselves through action and through the criticism of their actions. We'll get a little taste of how I think anarchists really act in a meeting Peter calls at the end of the movie. It will be implied in dialogue that Peter wants to be a real anarchist and will learn what that really means to him.

And I'm being very careful with the Dealer's dialogue. I've revised it several times and it now comes of as so senselessly violent that the audience has to assume it's all just uninformed mockery of anarchy.

Thank you for your criticisms :)

[Guerrilla22]

I would like to see a movie made about horny high school kids, who constantly trying to get laid and the hilarious hijinks that entail. The movie could be called Porky's or American Pie.

[Latifa]

If you follow anything blindly you can not be an anarchist.

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Originally posted by [email protected] 28 2005, 07:29 PM
I would like to see a movie made about horny high school kids, who constantly trying to get laid and the hilarious hijinks that entail. The movie could be called Porky's or American Pie.
I agree with you :D

[Guerrilla22]

This anarchist movie should also be narrated from the first person, and should include a cast of colorful characters, the lead character should be a male from a middle class family in his mid 20's. You could call ths movie SLC Punk or the Anarchist Cookbook.