Cinema 2.0: January 2009

Made 12 years ago - Stock footage at the head -Seen in many Italian horror films - COLOR

Heavy Drone opening and stock imagery - Director’s brother in the lead role. Fake bombs in the woods. More drones and VO.

FRANKIE - hero

Boring - all expositional setup - “Something happened, I can’t remember what. I’ve got to get back. This place looks familiar.“

He shoots a vietnamese girl - body parts of GI’s everywhere (half buried friends)

Beaten by VC - badly - body part flashback - it was all a dream - he wakes up back in Staten Island

Baby in crib - His wife gets up for bottle and baby - Gi Joe is now a civilian living in a shit hole - lit like a TV show - weird buzz on soundtrack - electrical noise - grime and plugged toilet and bad acting -

She bitches him out for being a bum - it’s not fair. Baby cries are electronic - We need a doctor -

Ugly baby doll - horrible puppet - purple and weird - set is too bright - empty icebox -

He’s going to be evicted and it’s all too much!!

MONTAGE!!! -

Cut to: Hospital - he can’t remember anything -

Back to Scene: We wanders the streets depressed. What happened? What happened to America - something fucked up - Disco track as he walks thru town. Zoom lens PB’s - a dog is eating better than our hero.

Hero jumped by - loneshark - Paco gives him a chance - post sync dialog - your wife can work off the debt - sell the kid - a great exhibit in a freak show - top dollar to fuck retarded kids (27:00)

Wife - digging around at home - looking for food - has Cocoa Krispies and baby cries - Junkie has a gun and is going to attack Frankie - turns out it’s his friend -

Look at you! Fuck-u buddy, boy. SWELL TRACK - This America is poor and ugly - a forgotten dream

Baby is ugly and mum makes him some cereal. Feeds the baby. Frankie roams the streets - screaming - does nothing

Flashback - Vietnam - Frankie in hut - Napalm drops - ”there’s only room for 1 at the top“ remembers father’s voice - Fuck you father and son memories -

Down at the docks - Paco’s gang - Junkie Mike brings him money - jewelry - gets his drugs and leaves with bad junk

Lineup at the unemployment office - pop synth score over - US as communist state - Biker gal rides up - heckled by the boys in line - she offers Frankie a lift - he declines and she leaves

Junkie needs hardware to fix - they fight - guy pisses in the corner interrupting him - unemployment line waiting and junkie with bad shit - (46:00) looking for a needle - gets a coat hanger and gets ready to inject -

POKES a hole in his arm and starts poring powder into the hole - bad fx - grimy - ugly

Frankie comes in to see counsellor - Joey from friends clone - SIREN in BG - Hippies at the counsellor service (all friends) - Welfare? -

Flashback - Nam/ Hospital - Torture by Vietcong - limbo set - US GI squad on Cong side. Frankie tries to remember - cross cutting - VC cut his finger - buddy hit with bottle

Another junkie finds Mike - runs awa - wife at home - cleaning clothes in sink - Baby cries (hmmmmmmmmm) ET on acid.

Frankie on street. How can I call him (father?). He probably thinks I’m dead. He calls his Dad.

Tilt down on Mansion - Calls his Dad (Mr. Dudley) - Tells him about his treatment - they never found my body - Why are you back to haunt me? We can’t make it. We have nothing - Are you still with Cathy? Cut to telephone pole - we were both so stubborn - I’ve lost everything - I’m waiting to die - Everything is dead -

PAIN - I don’t want to go back - he hangs up on his son - god, he’s balding - man crying on the street - desperation

Woman (from tracks) walks under bridge and sees dead junkie= she goes through his pockets looking for her jewelry - finds the gun and bullets - takes off

Mom the hooker gives kids shit - they swear at each other - bitch - bitch - little kids - hey, mister - you wanna date? (she’s 13) - we live all over - Paco is the pimp -

Taxi Driver - Pimp slaps out hookers - It’s $50 for the kid - how do you live with yourself?

Baby @ home - watches TV - kid cries - it’s all bad and broken. Life is depressing and worthless here.

Frankie down @ factories - man in garbage - maggots in meat -

Flashback - Nam freakout - remembers the maggots

Newspaper - You Can Talk To The Dead - Mike was right - you’re better off in jail. Woman with gun passes by. Frankie tracks her. She now has a gun.

He steals her purse and Pacos gang goes after Frankie. RUN RUN CHASE - get to the station - SLOW MO jump off train tracks with synth slow mo - blind guy on tracks

Under the bridge - Frankie hits one of the gang members and is beaten by thug - Nam flashback as he is punched - Gun falls out

LOVE the plastic chains - hits Frankie in head with bottle -

Frankie left bloody - HAS HIS MOMENT - he has GUN -
(16 minutes to end) 72 min mark

I NOW BECOME GOD!!! - Chopper shot dead - Plastic chain man shot in back . Kills Paco. Dry fires on head of chain punk - gets bullets from the ground - siren’s in distance -

They had killed themselves - Voice memory - the whole squad - we butchered them - I knew I had to get out - What was deserting? Now it was so clear.

Your son died in Saigon - Now I have to save my family! -

Wife - what happened? Bloodied - beten - catatonic - where have you been? - in the jungle? what are we gonna do?? My stomach hurts

Wife yells at baby - do something - Frankie sits at TV - laughter - and trains - voices from the TV - the only massacre was the one you started - TV BLOWS UP!!

Frankie has Nam footage projected on him - of himself running - dripping water - synth in BG - Clockwork Orange noodling - gets out gun - bullets and loads it.

Drips go faster - faster - Wife cries - baby cries - she kisses it - gun loaded -

Goes to shoot himself and HIS WIFE replaces VC woman in Flashback - he goes to her - gun shaking
She kisses baby and he walks in - Shoots Cathy in stomach - she goes down - puking blood - DIE!!! Shoots her again and again!!

Shoots baby!! Coffs up blood - carries it to mirror - looks at himself - and puts baby - dripping blood - in the oven
and turns it on!!!!!!!!

gets a glass - has some milk - but its lumpy!!!! and drinks!

COPS at the door - he gets gun and blows his own brains out - slides down the wall

I go back there every night - train rides into the dark.

BUDDY and RICKY G - pseudonym for Prod & Dir.
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BABY
like ET $140 - critics hated the baby - crying -

BOGLINS - hand puppet for ghoul baby

PROJECTING ON ACTOR’S FACE - to reveal inner mindset -

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