Part 2 Chapter 11 Parodies of Snow Crash

PORTLAND NOIR1

A 16mm film2

Entry for FFW13

ProfessionallcFilm24

Italy: voiceover. (1 minute) Portland Noir Dialogue5

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.36

Portland: Part One. (3 minutes) Portland Noir Dialogue47

Our Hiro leaves his office in the Acme building alone headed for a clandestine meeting at Powell's Book.58

In a shadier and seedy neighborhood passing by, he is set upon by a bunch of brothers seeking rumble.69

In this fight, he bests the biggest man, and the others leave the scene. He returns to his office.710

Green Hills of Africa by Ernest Hemmingway. (paper, 1996)811

Our Hiro: "I was sure you hit him." (p. 43)912

Yours Truly: "I still think you hit him."1013

Our Hiro: "I'm sure I missed him."1114

Yours Truly: You hit him.1215

Snow Crash by Neal Stephenson. (paper, 1992, 2003)1316

Our Hiro: "I was thinking we should be partners."1417

Yours Truly: "The same thing occurred to me." (p.93)1518

Our Hiro: "But I have to think how it would work." 1619

Portland: Part Two. (four minutes with dialogue)1720

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. 21

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. 22

What one fatal woman can do to entirely ruin your day. It makes a fatal man rue the day he was born.1823

My Antonia by Willa Cather (paper 2006) 24

(An' -ton -ee -ah) (p. Xf)1925

"the best days are the first to flee." 26

("The Big Read," NeftA) (pp. 3, 14) (p. 233)2027

"Now read me a chapter in 28

'The Prince of the House of David." (p. 77)2129

[In the house of Da5id.]2230

Our Hiro: "He [Da5id] don't like this [country]." (p. 76)2331

Yours Truly: "… [he] ought to stay at home."2432

Our Hiro: {aside} "… [she] wants other people's things."2533

Yours Truly: "Why not help [me]?"2634

Our Hiro: {aside} " [as] If I got [everything] …2735

Yours Truly: {aside} "… like you [have], …."2836

Our Hiro: " … I [would] make [things] much better." (p. 75)2937

Yours Truly: "I never made anything…" 3038

Our Hiro: {aside} "… with my eyes." (p. 144)3139

Yours Truly: "Your are quite comfortable here, … (p. 229)3240

Our Hiro: "I am in business for myself."3341

Yours Truly: "I have made a really good start."3442

Our Hiro: "Perhaps it’s your clothes…"3543

Yours Truly: "You like my new suit?" 3644

Our Hiro: "I have to dress pretty good in this business."3745

Yours Truly: {aside} "… aren't you?" 3846

Our Hiro: " that makes the difference."3947

Yours Truly: Look at you. You owe me. (p. 239)4048

Our Hiro: {aside} "'Look, all of you, I owe this woman nothing.'" 4149

Yours Truly: "Look at me." (p. 230)4250

Our Hiro: What a prince am I!4351

Yours Truly: " … won't you make Prince behave?" (p. 246)4452

Our Hiro: "This old chap will be proposing to you someday." (p. 249)4553

Yours Truly: "Oh, he has -- often!" 4654

Our Hiro: "Every handsome girl like you marries." (p. 250)4755

Yours Truly: {aside} "Of course!"4856

Our Hiro: {aside} "Nonsense!"4957

Yours Truly: "Haven't I been nice to you?"5058

Our Hiro: "You are going."5159

Yours Truly: "… but you haven't gone yet, have you?"5260

Our Hiro: "You were such a funny kid!" (p. 252)5361

Yours Truly: "Not me." (p. 250)5462

Portland: Part Three. (1 minute) Portland Noir Dialogue5563

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.}5664

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The Sun Also Rises by Ernest Hemmingway. (paper 1986)5967

Our Hiro: " [there] Isn't … 6068

Yours Truly: " … anything we can do about it?" (p. 26)6169

Our Hiro: "There is not a damn thing we can do."6270

Yours Truly: "We better keep away from each other."6371

Our Hiro: "I have to see you."6472

Yours Truly: "That's my fault."6573

Our Hiro: "Don't we always pay….6674

Yours Truly: "… for the things we do, though?"6775

Our Hiro: "I'm paying for it all now."6876

Yours Truly: {aside} "I never think about it."6977

Our Hiro: {aside} "Oh no. I'll lay you don't."7078

Yours Truly: "I laughed about it, too, myself…"7179

Our Hiro: "Once…"7280

Yours Truly: "No… (p. 27)7381

Our Hiro: "Nobody ever knows anything."7482

Yours Truly: "I think it's hell on earth."7583

Our Hiro: "Don't you want to?7684

Yours Truly: "I have to."7785

Italy: voiceover (1 minute) Portland Noir Dialogue7886

Our Hiro's suicide from a fatal head wound began when he let his heart take over his head. 87

{His attempt failed. He is just dozing.}88

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.}7989

An Alexander and Alexandra Hay Mystery Series Film90

Alexander Hay was an actor and director on television. 91

Undercover (1983) (as Alex Hay) .... Show Director 8092

Date of Birth 31 December 1919, London, England, UK 8193

Date of Death 22 July 1987, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia 8294

Alexandra Hay was an actress on television. (photo above)95

Invitation to a Murder (1970) TV episode .... Eadie Parker96

Date of Birth:97

24 July 1944, Los Angeles, California, USA more 98

Date of Death:99

11 October 1993, Los Angeles, California, USA 83100

Notes: This is a marketing script. Yes, a shameless plug, trying to sell.84101

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.85102

SNOW CRASH86103

Part One: Rumble (p. 1) "Nothing but trouble."87104

Part Two: Boy meets Girl (pp. 16, 18, 50) "Yours Truly."88105

Part Three: Metaverse-all (pp. 24, 26) "Not … live at all."89106

Part Four: Avatars (pp. 35, 38, 41, 42) "try some snow…?"90107

Part Five: Black-and-white (pp. 63, 65, 66) "Adam and Eve."91108

Part Six: Da5id (pp. 60, 61, 67, 71, 72, 74, 75, 77) "white."92109

Parody93110

The word parody comes from two Greek words: para and ode, meaning another story, usually meant to be humorous.94111

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)95112

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.96113

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.97114

There are two men: Hiro and Da5id. There are two women.115

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.98116

The white one in the black-and-white tale is the Origin.99117

The director has taken the Noir story of Reni Fou, age 16.118

He has replaced the name of Sam Spade with Our Hiro.119

He has replaced the name of Eadi Parker with Yours Truly.100120

Noir is a condensed version of The Maltese Falcon (1941)121

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.101122

In the Eden version, man is sent into the wilderness to die. He has woman to give him children, some of who kill. We lose focus that it was meant by the Origin to bring about his redemption. He willingly took of the fruit; she was seduced.102123

In Noir, Yours Truly has already taken drugs, which drive her to suicide. Our Hiro's longing for her memory takes his life.103124

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.)125

The finality of drug overdose and of gun shot is implied.126

Some of deeds they have done provoke others to kill.104127

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.105128

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.129

Each has a kind of radiation of sound or light returning, warning us of danger, death, darkness, with some light.106130

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.107131

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. 108132

We are left with the moral:109133

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?110134

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?111135

This black-and-white 16mm film will be entered into FFW. This is your chance to make an ending, a trailer or a series.112136