Part 2 Chapter 10 PORTLAND NOIR DIALOGUE WITH SCENES

PORTLAND NOIR DIALOGUE WITH SCENES11

A 16mm film22

Entry for FFW33

ProfessionallcFilm44

Italy: voiceover. (1 minute) Portland Noir Dialogue55

Our Hiro is basking in the Italian Sun and thinking back upon the dark and mean and ugly business in Portland Noir. His Yours Truly is very much on his mind. It is not a happy story, sad but true.66

Portland: Part One. (3 minutes) Portland Noir Dialogue77

Our Hiro leaves his office in the Acme building alone headed for a clandestine meeting at Powell's Book.88

In a shadier and seedy neighborhood passing by, he is set upon by a bunch of brothers seeking rumble.99

In this fight, he bests the biggest man, and the others leave the scene. He returns to his office.1010

Green Hills of Africa by Ernest Hemmingway. (paper, 1996)1111

Our Hiro: "I was sure you hit him." (p. 43)1212

Yours Truly: "I still think you hit him."1313

Our Hiro: "I'm sure I missed him."1414

Yours Truly: You hit him.1515

Snow Crash by Neal Stephenson. (paper, 1992, 2003)1616

Our Hiro: "I was thinking we should be partners."1717

Yours Truly: "The same thing occurred to me." (p.93)1818

Our Hiro: "But I have to think how it would work." 1919

Portland: Part Two. (four minutes with dialogue)2020

DISSOLVE TO:2121

17. INT. HALLWAY - OUR HIRO APARTMENTS - CLOSE SHOT - 2222

YOURS TRULY 2323

pressing the buzzer of Apartment 1001. 2424

YOURS TRULY,2525

in a belted BLACK crepe dress; 2626

HIRO opens the door immediately.2727

Her face is flushed. 2828

Her BLACK hair parted on the left side sweeping2929

back in loose waves over her right temple, is somewhat tousled.3030

OUR HIRO3131

(taking off his BASEBALL hat WORN SIDEWAYS)3232

Good morning.3333

YOURS TRULY3434

(lowers her head3535

-- then in a hushed3636

timid voice) May I come in?3737

OUR HIRO3838

Come in, Ms. Truly.3939

18. INT. LIVING ROOM4040

Several bags stand open on the floor.4141

YOURS TRULY and OUR HIRO4242

enter from the hall.4343

YOURS TRULY4444

Everything is upside-down.4545

OUR HIRO4646

{aside} {I haven't even finished unpacking.}4747

He lays his hat on a table, sits down on a walnut settee.4848

YOURS TRULY4949

She sits on a brocaded oval-backed chair, facing him.5050

She looks at her fingers, working them together. Then:5151

OUR HIRO5252

Come in, Ms. Truly.5353

{aside} {Everything's upside down.}5454

I haven't finished unpacking.5555

YOURS TRULY5656

Mr. Hiro, I've a terrible, terrible5757

confession to make.5858

OUR HIRO5959

He makes a polite smile.6060

YOURS TRULY6161

That -- that story I told you6262

yesterday was all -- a story.6363

(she stammers,6464

looks at him6565

with miserable6666

frightened eyes)6767

OUR HIRO6868

Oh, that...6969

(lightly)7070

We didn't exactly believe your story,7171

Miss -- Miss -- is your name Truly7272

or Yours?7373

YOURS TRULY7474

(working her fingers again)7575

It's really Y.T. for Yours Truly.7676

OUR HIRO7777

We didn't exactly believe your story,7878

Miss Y.T. 7979

We believed your8080

two hundred dollars.8181

YOURS TRULY8282

You mean...8383

OUR HIRO8484

I mean, that you paid us more than8585

if you had been telling us the8686

truth...8787

(blandly)8888

...and enough more to make it all8989

right.9090

YOURS TRULY9191

(bites her lip)9292

Mr. HIRO , tell me...9393

(her face becomes9494

haggard, eyes9595

desperate)9696

Am I to blame -- for last night?9797

Yours Truly knocks on his door radiantly beautiful. They embrace. They kiss. They leave together. And so begins the gentle slid down to hell for both of them. 9898

She is his double self: that portent of his doom. She is the fem fatal and he is the fatal mal. Him dead meat. She is the siren song of Homer's dream. 9999

What one fatal woman can do to entirely ruin your day. It makes a fatal man rue the day he was born.100100

My Antonia by Willa Cather (paper 2006) 101101

(An' -ton -ee -ah) (p. Xf)102102

"the best days are the first to flee." 103103

("The Big Read," NeftA) (pp. 3, 14) (p. 233)104104

"Now read me a chapter in 105105

'The Prince of the House of David." (p. 77)106106

[In the house of Da5id.]107107

Our Hiro: "He [Da5id] don't like this [country]." (p. 76)108108

Yours Truly: "… [he] ought to stay at home."109109

Our Hiro: {aside} "… [she] wants other people's things."110110

Yours Truly: "Why not help [me]?"111111

Our Hiro: {aside} " [as] If I got [everything] …112112

Yours Truly: {aside} "… like you [have], …."113113

Our Hiro: " … I [would] make [things] much better." (p. 75)114114

Yours Truly: "I never made anything…" 115115

Our Hiro: {aside} "… with my eyes." (p. 144)116116

Yours Truly: "Your are quite comfortable here, … (p. 229)117117

Our Hiro: "I am in business for myself."118118

Yours Truly: "I have made a really good start."119119

Our Hiro: "Perhaps it’s your clothes…"120120

Yours Truly: "You like my new suit?" 121121

Our Hiro: "I have to dress pretty good in this business."122122

Yours Truly: {aside} "… aren't you?" 123123

Our Hiro: " that makes the difference."124124

Yours Truly: Look at you. You owe me. (p. 239)125125

Our Hiro: {aside} "'Look, all of you, I owe this woman nothing.'" 126126

Yours Truly: "Look at me." (p. 230)127127

Our Hiro: What a prince am I!128128

Yours Truly: " … won't you make Prince behave?" (p. 246)129129

Our Hiro: "This old chap will be proposing to you someday." (p. 249)130130

Yours Truly: "Oh, he has -- often!" 131131

Our Hiro: "Every handsome girl like you marries." (p. 250)132132

Yours Truly: {aside} "Of course!"133133

Our Hiro: {aside} "Nonsense!"134134

Yours Truly: "Haven't I been nice to you?"135135

Our Hiro: "You are going."136136

Yours Truly: "… but you haven't gone yet, have you?"137137

Our Hiro: "You were such a funny kid!" (p. 252)138138

Yours Truly: "Not me." (p. 250)139139

Portland: Part Three. (1 minute) Portland Noir Dialogue140140

Our Hiro finds Yours Truly dead of a dose. He cannot forget her. He pines for her love. She is gone gone. {She is not gone; just dozing.}141141

The Sun Also Rises by Ernest Hemmingway. (paper 1986)142142

Our Hiro: " [there] Isn't … 143143

Yours Truly: " … anything we can do about it?" (p. 26)144144

Our Hiro: "There is not a damn thing we can do."145145

Yours Truly: "We better keep away from each other."146146

Our Hiro: "I have to see you."147147

Yours Truly: "That's my fault."148148

Our Hiro: "Don't we always pay….149149

Yours Truly: "… for the things we do, though?"150150

Our Hiro: "I'm paying for it all now."151151

Yours Truly: {aside} "I never think about it."152152

Our Hiro: {aside} "Oh no. I'll lay you don't."153153

Yours Truly: "I laughed about it, too, myself…"154154

Our Hiro: "Once…"155155

Yours Truly: "No… (p. 27)156156

Our Hiro: "Nobody ever knows anything."157157

Yours Truly: "I think it's hell on earth."158158

Our Hiro: "Don't you want to?159159

Yours Truly: "I have to."160160

Italy: voiceover (1 minute) Portland Noir Dialogue161161

Our Hiro's suicide from a fatal head wound began when he let his heart take over his head. 162162

{His attempt failed. He is just dozing.}163163

He should have been wiser; she should have been wiser. But they both wound up dead; both he and his other self. {Their attempts both failed; just dozing.}164164

An Alexander and Alexandra Hay Mystery Series Film165165

Alexander Hay was an actor and director on television. 166166

Undercover (1983) (as Alex Hay) .... Show Director 167167

Date of Birth 31 December 1919, London, England, UK 168168

Date of Death 22 July 1987, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia 169169

Alexandra Hay was an actress on television. (photo above)170170

Invitation to a Murder (1970) TV episode .... Eadie Parker171171

Date of Birth:172172

24 July 1944, Los Angeles, California, USA more 173173

Date of Death:174174

11 October 1993, Los Angeles, California, USA 175175

Notes: This is a marketing script. Yes, a shameless plug, trying to sell.176176

The best image of marketing is that of the train conductor, going from car to car, punching tickets. Into the far future, and from the far distant past, he is riding through time, making cookie cutter images of himself. No man is an island; no man stands alone. John Dunne.177177

SNOW CRASH178178

Part One: Rumble (p. 1) "Nothing but trouble."179179

Part Two: Boy meets Girl (pp. 16, 18, 50) "Yours Truly."180180

Part Three: Metaverse-all (pp. 24, 26) "Not … live at all."181181

Part Four: Avatars (pp. 35, 38, 41, 42) "try some snow…?"182182

Part Five: Black-and-white (pp. 63, 65, 66) "Adam and Eve."183183

Part Six: Da5id (pp. 60, 61, 67, 71, 72, 74, 75, 77) "white."184184

Parody185185

The word parody comes from two Greek words: para and ode, meaning another story, usually meant to be humorous.186186

The story of Adam and Eve is set in a tragic and dramatic scene in the Garden of Eden, which is metaversal or universal in the telling of a parable, or sharpened tale. In the Greek, Parousia means a judgement of the world. (Bible dictionary) "… she took the fruit thereof, and did eat, and gave also unto her husband with her, and he did eat. And the eyes of them both were opened…. Sent him forth from the Garden of Eden…. (Gen. 3:6, 7, 23)187187

By the use of Antics3d, the director of Professionallcfilm Company, creates a Metaverse-all set giving directions to actors in the real world of Reality. Adam and Eve in the Metaverse are prototypes of the genetic actors in Reality.188188

What Snow Crash lets us see with our eyes opened is the giving of white noise or snow to Da5id to bring about his fall from the pride of the world. It is done through a woman.189189

There are two men: Hiro and Da5id. There are two women.190190

Juanita and Yours Truly. This adaptation combines the men in one man Hiro, our Adam, and combines the women in one woman Yours Truly, our Eve. The story is the seduction of Adam by Eve, who herself was seduced by the dark one.191191

The white one in the black-and-white tale is the Origin.192192

The director has taken the Noir story of Reni Fou, age 16.193193

He has replaced the name of Sam Spade with Our Hiro.194194

He has replaced the name of Eadi Parker with Yours Truly.195195

Noir is a condensed version of The Maltese Falcon (1941)196196

or Dangerous Woman (1931) by Dashell Hammitt. It could be a statement of this entire genre of film. Man doing his thing just getting by but getting there. He meets her, the she devil, who persuades him through feminine wiles (sex), to do her murderous pursuits (kill). This brings him down to ruin.197197

In the Eden version, man is sent into the wilderness to die. He has woman to give him children, some of who kill. We loose focus that it was meant by the Origin to bring about his redemption. He willingly took of the fruit; she was seduced.198198

In Noir, Yours Truly has already taken drugs, which drive her to suicide. Our Hiro's longing for her memory takes his life.199199

In Portland Noir, Yours Truly was drug-free when she meets Our Hiro. She is radiant, beautiful, unspoiled, and pristine. It is the meeting of Our Hiro, which inflames her passions to see the possibilities of making him the fall guy. Together their eyes are opened and they see an opening. They both take it. Her ending is left ambiguous; she has left him for Italy. He follows her to Italy to his disappointment. His demise is left ambiguous. (There is room for a return.)200200

The finality of drug overdose and of gun shot is implied.201201

Some of deeds they have done provoke others to kill.202202

We can take a parable from modern physics: there is a community of fish living on the top of a waterfall. If a fish swam too close to the lip of the falls, it would never be heard from again, because the speed of sound is slower the water. The other fish will hear no cries for help. This point of no return is like death. So far we hear no cries from the other side. In this Reality, we make mistakes: some are fatal.203203

Physicists substitute light for sound with the black hole. The shades are not just black-and-white, but charcoal gray. Around every shower hole, there are sounds coming back, warning us of danger. A whirlpool or a charcoal-gray hole.204204

Each has a kind of radiation of sound or light returning, warning us of danger, death, darkness, with some light.205205

This is what this parable or pointed story, Portland Noir, tells us. Beware of woman and man. It is a deadly situation. Both of you were going great in your way. He was Mars; she was Venus. Together you made a new constellation; new stars.206206

She saw the good in him as well as the potential of evil. Whatever she wanted, she wanted it more than just him. She wanted to make him the fall guy. But it drove her to thirst after other drinks other fruit. 207207

We are left with the moral:208208

Why did the Origin do that to our lives? Why to theirs? Is there any hope? (Perhaps in the trailer or the series?) The plot thickens. More parodies of Snow Crash? Just what am I selling said the dark one? Is it black-and-white or gray?209209

Wanted: A ending for Our Hiro and Yours Truly. Will they get together? Will the same happen to Our Hiro as did Da5id? Will Yours Truly do drugs or push drugs or dose drugs?210210

This black-and-white 16mm film will be entered into FFW. This is your chance to make an ending, a trailer or a series.211211