Tuesday, February 28, 2006

Film Treatment

The basic idea would be to combine the Zombie and Samurai (chambara) genres.  This could either be a live action or animated film.  Even better would be an animated prequel and a live action feature. Don't steal this film treatment.  It is copyrighted now that it has been posted here and the date is here for everyone to see.

I am seeking financial backing or a production company looking to make a cult-film that will have a long shelf-life.  By combining these two genres, fans of both will want to see this film and buy the associated merchandising.  Much of the design work can be done in house by WoodyCompton.com.

 

The majority of the fun will be in the zombie attack scene in the 2nd act.  Most of the plot is written to allow for many creative ways to dispatch zombies with traditional Japanese weapons.  The film should be a hard R rating or unrated to allow for very gory scenes of zombie-related mayhem.  This film will have an all-Asian cast and characters will be named for famous Japanese actors.

 

The film starts with avery delapidated han (village) that looks like it has fallen into severe disrepair.  You see villagers going about their daily tasks, but they look thin, unhealthy, and depressed.  As we enter the village the shot pans to a traditional Japanese dwelling where a meeting of the leaders of the village are discussing their plight.

 

A drought has left most of the crops dead and the village in a desperate situation.  After paying taxes, the villagers have no money left to feed themselves or replant the village.  The elders and leaders are discussing a solution to the drought and the idea of bringing in a "wizard" to try to bring rain.  Even though they can't really afford to pay such a wizard, they have no choice but to try.  They decide to put out the word that they need a rainmaker.

A wizened old tiny man sits in a tree sleeping balanced on a single branch. This is the traditional old wise-man character of many Japanese films on which they based Yoda: short, very wrinkled, and difficult to deal with.  He is a smart-ass and a bit of a pervert.  He overhears two villagers discussing the plan to find a rain-maker and decides to head towards the village.  He drops down 20 or so feet and lands gracefully and effortlessly showing us there is more to him than we initially suspect.

 

He approaches the villagers with the promise of being able to cause rain.  They discuss the payment with him but he is cranky and difficult to negotiate with.  They offer money but he prefers to take a young girl as his wife.  They harshly rebuff this offer as it is the leader's daughter (Zyang Ziyi); they eventually settle on gold.  They don't believe he can really make rain, so they want proof.  He says he will return the next evening to collect his money after they have their proof. 

 

That night there is a brief misty rain that evaporates quickly but convinces the villagers that the old man is serious.  They decide to pay him, but can not afford to do so.  They scrape together everything from everyone in the village with the promise the money will only be gone for a few days.  No other explanation is offered.

When the old man returns the following night, they give him his gold and he quickly leaves.  later that evening the villagers are discussing the fact that they might have been had.  There was no rain that night, and the misty rain might have been just luck.  The old man was gone and they didn't have anything to show for it.  They convince themselves to find the old man and get their gold back any way they can.

 

We see the old man sitting in the dark in a clearing with only a small fire.  He is reciting an incantation and using Japanese magic symbols with hand gestures.  He is obviously very focused and concentrating on the task at hand.  Suddenly, a fabric bag covers the man.  We see three villagers.  One is holding the bag as the old man struggles and curses them.  The samurai villagers stab their sheathed swords into the bag trying to get him to talk and reveal where the gold is hidden.  They give up and tie him to a tree branch while he thrashes in the bag and curses them.  They find the gold right out in the open and still in the box he received it in.  They take the gold and just leave the old man tied to the tree.

We see the three samurai return to the village with the gold, and they talk about other possible solutions to the drought problem.  We pull back as the talk fades away.

 

Cut to the old man freeing himself from the bag and falling onto a root head first.  He is black and blue and angry.  He speaks to himself promising rain for the village and laughs wickedly.

Cut to the village and their reactions as it slowly starts to sprinkle and builds to a full, heavy rain.  The villagers cheer and celebrate, going to bed with hopes for a brighter future.  Their double-cross of the old man is forgotten amongst the high hopes.  The following morning, the rain has stopped and the earth appears cracked.  As the villagers awake they see recently departed relatives and friends ambling around town (Romero style--no running).  Due to the recent drought, there have been many deaths.  The villagers approach the zombies and many are eaten and killed.  As the police and samurai are made aware of the zombie threat a series of samurai/zombie battles begin.  At first the samurai approach the undead as normal humans and attack with a single stroke.  They quickly find that that does not kill the undead.  Many fights occur with limbs flying and many zombies cut in half, but still coming forward. 

Eventually the samurai realize that they have to behead or split the head to stop the zombies.  Many beheadings ensue.  A number of villagers are lost to the zombies and they have begun to attack the samurai.  They find this very disturbing and seem to be overwhelmed with the growing attack.  They defend the village elders and protect the leader's daughter bravely.  As things look their worst...

The old man appears on one of the houses.  He offers to stop the zombie horde for his gold back AND the head villager's daughter.  They refuse, but as the zombies close in, the leader gives in a selflessly says yes.

 

The old man repeats the magic incantation and the zombies crawl back into the earth in a disturbing and unusual manner.

 

After the scene calms, the villagers curse the old man and tell the leader not to give up his daughter.  But they all fear the old man and let them leave as his daughter cries and emotions run high.

Cut to:  Another village but this time they are discussing the drought issue around a campfire outside. As they talk they don't notice a couple walk up.  They are a slender woman and a short man only seen in silhouette.  As the group stops talking they notice the couple.  As they get closer to the fire you can see the old man and the villager's daughter who looks either VERY unhealthy or like the walking dead.  The old man removes his large straw hat and says, "Did someone say, "rain?" 

ApocalypseŠ

Thursday, February 23, 2006

Woman Admiring a Drawing of the Sea.

Just sitting down to watch "Ultimate Avengers" on DVD.  Not a bad cartoon version of the Avengers comic book.  The animation is not too bad, although the character designs have that sort of lame saturday morning look.  But, for anyone who ever read the Avengers comics, it is pretty enjoyable.  Be forewarned... Kick Fury is now black, and Captain America has blonde hair.  Also a few of the costumes are "modernized".  Good points:  It has Nazis and the Hulk fighting the Avengers. Admiring

Wednesday, February 15, 2006

Rubber or Leather?

Shiny Black leather?

 

Ugh, sick today.  My friggin neighbor passed me his illness.  feel like crap.  Lazy, quick art today.

 

Into Darkness

Monday, February 13, 2006

Kinky/disturbing song lyrics from Siouxsie Sioux.

All Attitude

Melt - Siouxsie and the Banshees



You are the melting man
You are your situation
There is no time to breathe
At least one single breath
Leads to an insatiable desire
Of suicide... in sex

So many blazing orchids
Burning in your throat
Making you choke
Making you sigh
Sigh in tiny deaths

So Melt
My lover, melt
She said melt
My lover, melt

You are the melting man
And as you melt
You are beheaded
Handcuffed in lace, blood, & sperm

Swimming in poison
Gasping in the fragrance
Sweat carves a screenplay
Of discipline... and devotion

So Melt
My lover, melt
She said melt
My lover, melt

Can you see?
See into the black of a long, black car
Pulling away from a funeral , the flowers
With my hand between your legs
Melting

 

Obsession -Siouxsie

Do you hear this breath?

it's an obsessive breath
Can you feel this beat?

it's an obsessive heart beat
waiting to be joined with its obsession

i close my eyes but i can't sleep
the thin membrane can't veil
the branded picture of you

the signs and signals show - the traffic lights say go
again you baffle me pretending not to see ...me

i broke into your room - i broke down in my room
touched your belongings there - and left a lock of my hair
another sign for you

you screamed into my face get the hell out of my place
another sign for me? can you forgive me?
for not understanding your ways

you know sometimes you take it all too far
then i remember it's a game between you and me
a divine test for us two

it's all in my imagination
yes they even say that our mission ...is only
my obsession

Do you hear this breath ?

it's an oppressive breath
suffocating in the poison of your obsession
Can you feel this beat?

 it's a possessive beat
your pulse stops in the claws of your obsession

 

Possibly the best stalker song ever.  And a woman wrote it!!!

Saturday, February 11, 2006

Warm Leatherette

Gothic Girl

 

Leather Corset

See the breaking glass
In the underpass
See the breaking glass
In the underpass


Warm leatherette

Hear the crushing steel
Feel the steering wheel
Hear the crushing steel
Feel the steering wheel


Warm leatherette

Warm leatherette

Warm leatherette
Melts on your burning flesh
You can see your reflection
In the luminescent dash


Warm leatherette

A tear of petrol
Is in your eye
The hand brake
Penetrates your thigh
Quick -- Let's make love
Before you die


On warm leatherette
Warm leatherette


Warm leatherette
Warm leatherette
Warm leatherette


Join the car crash set

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Friday, February 10, 2006

Kind of Blue

Blue Goth  1

 Red Light-Siouxsie                                 I adore the terms "shutterslut" and "Kodawhore".

 

She falls into frame with a professional pout but the polaroids ignite on seeing their subject and the aperture shuts-too much exposure

Voyeur sucks into focus-floodlit the glossy kiss-pit but as emulsion drips down...down
the aperture shuts-too much exposure

Come into this room-Come into this gloom See the Red light rinsing another shutterslut wincing the sagging half-wit sister
pretty, pretty picture
of an ancient nipple shrinking-that Kodakwhore winking 'til the aperture shuts-too much exposure.

Randy Couture

Randy Couture

Randy Couture retires after an amzing career of competition in mixed martial arts.  A great competitor and a great human being.  Humble, soft spoken, and  a true man of honor.  You will be missed.

Wednesday, February 8, 2006

My cartoon of Muhammad

My cartoon of MuhammadMuhammad

Please don't protest or call for a Jihad.  This is the Muhammad I grew up with.

Tuesday, February 7, 2006

It's hard to not think you guys are nuts when you act like complete idiots!

Cartoons are for protesting

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I have seen all three Academy Award nominated animated films, and they are good!  Usually there is a stinker in there that I pray won't win despite its popularity.  Something Like Shrek 2, or another mediocre computer animated mind-number.  This year, the animation is all retro!  We have clamation and cell animation.  No computer stuff.  I loved The Incredibles, but there is a lot of lame-o computer stuff out now.  This year, we get another great cell animated film from Myazaki, a Tim Burton stop-motion beauty and a full-length Wallace and Gromet claymation feature.          

Howl's Moving Castle is not Miyazaki's best work, but it is still pretty damn good.  The characters are quirky and the story unique, so if you like Miyazaki, give it a shot.  The only reason it looks like a lesser work is that Spirited Away was so well done.  Howl's Moving Castle is based on a Japanese children's book, and man does it look cool.  I have the region 2 japanese disc, but definately get the Disney release once it is available if you enjoy Miyazaki.

The Corpse Bride is quite possibly as well done as a claymation or stop-motion feature can get.  Technically, it is flawless.  The charcater designs are great and I love the color palette of the world of the living and the world of the dead.  It is far better animated than The Nightmare Before Christmas, but the songs are far superior in Nightmare.  Still, this is a great film and highly recommended for those who enjoy the Tim Burton look.

 Wallace and Gromet:The Curse of the Were-Rabbit is another very funny adventure of the mad-inventor team.   The log-suffering Gromet is the brains of the operation and Wallace quests for cheese.  In fact, in an earlier short, he goes to the moon to eat the cheese there!  The comedic timing and action pieces are great in all of Wallace and Gromet's adventures.  The Rube Goldberg devices used throughout are very clever and often laugh out loud funny.  The characters are very simple and not nearly as technically accomplished at The Corpse Bride, but when Wallace wears a cardboad box to hide his nakedness and the box is labeled, "May Contain Nuts"... It's hard not to blow milk out of your nose.  There are a lot of small sight gags like this throughout, so be alert and observant.

 All are great, so whichever one wins the Oscar.... GREAT!  Tim Burton's Corpse Bride is my personal fave, but wouldn't it be cool for Wallace and Gromet to get it!  Miyazaki has already got one.  I don't know who to root for, but you can't go wrong by renting any of these!  I wish all of life's choices were between three great options.

Boots and Fishnets

Monday, February 6, 2006

The Artist Hard at Work

Hard at Work

Drawn on the couch while watching Eddie Izzard

Reaching Out

How I feel today.

One of those days with a migrane and a gloom hanging on my head.  We had another flood this weekend and the living room is still full of relocated items from the lower portions of the house. I have a serious fear associated with the sound of rain.Nightrees

Sunday, February 5, 2006

A Logo for a Friend

Little Blue Kitty

The above for a logo/character design for friend wo needed something "retro", "cute" and "simple".  I did a few sketches with her present and the sat down to draw up the final version.  The design was completed in about 90 minutes from the initial meeting to e-mailing the final design.

 So, I can do more than fabulous gothic beauties.  So anyone needing me for a corporate gig, just make they check payable to "Woody Compton".

Friday, February 3, 2006

Drawn the old-fashioned way

Putting Boots on 

Wth Just a brush and some india ink.

Topless Babe

All fancied up with Photoshop Layers I created...

Spices Part 2

Lingere

Spicing Up a Very Simple Drawing

Here is the very simple Original...

Crotch Goth Raw

And here it is with my previously created and stored patterns added.  Fence/fishnets are added to the legs and a lace pattern is added to the bra and is blended with black to give the right effect.  A background tone is added tio make the picture look less flat.  It tok longer to add the tones than it did to draw, but the end result is much improved. It also helps me to draw quickly so my hand doesn't go numb from the nerve damage I have.Goth Crotch Toned

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Thursday, February 2, 2006

Goths with Guns

Goth with Gun

What Goth Girls wear underneath all that black...Red  Headed GothŠ

About the Opera Gloves

In case anyone thinks I am drawing armless "Venus De Milo" women or cut up "Boxing Helena" victims, these women are wearing long opera gloves.  The black gloves are receeding into the darkness and vanishing in to negative space.  No women were harmed during the illustration of this blog.

Yet another Vampire Mistress of the Dark

I know there have been a lot of Goth Babes on here lately.  I will add more variety to the pictures I post next week.  I just wanted to have plenty of art to pupulate the site  www.womenwhowearblack.comVampire from Overhead

I tried drawing in the texture on the fishnets, but it didn't look quite right.  So I built a texture pattern by using vertical lines and pasting another set over them at a 45 degree angle in Photoshop.  Once I create a pattern like this, it is stored and available for use again in another picture.  I tried using a patern made for fences, but again it didn't look right.  These patterns are used by cartoonists and especially japanese manga.  They ae probably used to speed up the process of drawing, but after seeing applied patterns used by many of my favorite artists, I have come to enjoy the uniformity of Zip A Tone like paterns.  Japanese artists are masters of their use and now that they can be pasted in using another layer of Photoshop, they are far less difficult to use and far less expensive.  I have bought a collection of some patterns and I make the ones that I need beyond those.  Computers certainly can make artwork for reproduction easier.  The downside is that if someone wanted to purchase the original, I would have to create a transparent adhesive of the pattern to apply to it.  Some of my originals are "finished" in the computer.  This is nice as your originals stay "clean".  White out flakes off over time and ZipaTone adhesives come lose eventually.



Digital originals will not yellow or degrade, but if you didn't scan it at high enough a resolution, you might have to recreate it from scratch.  For example, if someone wanted to use the above illustration for t-shirt, it would need to be atleast 300 DPI.  It was scanned to 100 DPI originally, it would have to be recreated at the higher resolution. 

Another Dark Mistress

Dark Mistress