THE BUFFALO TRIANGLE (conclusion)
ACT THREE
_________
25. Montage of Sacred Sites, with VOICEOVER by Dave -
Wyoming Medicine Wheel
Pictoglyphs
Gravesites (of Crazy Horse, Sand Creek, Wounded Knee, etc.)
DAVE (v.o.)
Sure, it's impossible, insane, for anyone to think about millions of cars gone,
cities like Denver with millions of people, trillions in wealth in factories, munitions
and war bases, real estate, and the most heavily-armed population on earth who
are not going peacefully, or giving up their amerikan patriotism and so-called freedom.
But ... to Shamans who have lived here forever, that is all just...well, animal
reflex. Anthropologists have labelled homo sapiens basically a 'killer ape'.
They react like almost all mammals, birds, fishes, insects - survival, eating,
is the primary instinct and reflex.
So how can any of this idealistic dream ever happen, in true reality?
CUT TO:
Conifer, Seasonal FORESTS.
DAVE (v.o. continued)
Trees.
Trees don't kill, at least the great Conifer Forests that provide half of the Earth's
entire oxygen supply. Their sap-laden bristles are inedible to almost all animals, except
moose. So they can't be killed naturally either, it's as if they have an intelligent plan.
They are relatively immortal, as Redwoods can live 5,000 years.
They are a perfect example for us, of an alternative Truth to the violence and reflexes of men.
But how does this relate to people, and returning to a natural, money-free
Buffalo Economy such as flourished in our family's Triangular lands for
many thousands of years?
CUT TO:
CHURCHES - vast cathedrals everywhere, little churches, all denominations, as well as synagogues and mosques.
DAVE (v.o. continued)
Prayer.
Some people, who think of themselves as religious, know they are better than mere apes.
But they have gotten their religions wrong, for the most part. They are worshipping a "God"
who has no name, or relative history. They have disparaged the mythology of the gods and
goddesses of great, successful, human cultures - like Egypt - as falsehoods, "myths".
That's where many in my generation especially - grown to maturity in the revolutionary, irreverent-reverent
60s - have turned back to so-called "Paganism", which is simply a respect for the truths of Egypt
and China and Natives in North America like the Cheyennes.
My epic 'The Creation Myth' is one of these efforts, in poetry,
to study the grammar of mythology, in terms of our own times.
It can help light the way for us to return to an ethical civilization
that honors the trees and the land, and the gods, whom the Native Indians
often call "Spirits". They are the way for us to restore man's place in the
Balance, without false churches and impotent prayers that are not working.
It is a fact-laden history book, preaching no particular messianism or
new proselytising - just a study in language to help us re-discover
the Egyptians and the Cheyenne, and the wisdom of Natural shamans
who don't want money, or cults of followers.
In Act One of this movie I recited a few stanzas from the first eight
chapters of Part One of the Creation Myth - which I labelled 'War in Heaven'.
Part Two has one chapter about the Confederate general Stonewall Jackson,
who was a very religious christian, but who was a killer, a man of war, and his
struggle on his deathbed in 1863 to reconcile this conflict as part of American history.
{pictures can roll under this narration of the gods of Egypt and Cheyennes, Civil War pix of Stonewall, etc, and Lee
Harvey Oswald in the next section; and Julius Caesar in the next, and photos of Caesarea Philippi in Israel}
DAVE (v.o. cont.)
Part Three is titled 'Oswald Antagonistes', about the innocence of the Communist
Lee Harvey Oswald in the 1963 murder of President Kennedy. Part Four is titled
'Caesar Eros' about the actual identity of the man-god known as Jesus Christ, going
back to the basic religious and mythical foundation of Judeo-Christianity, that I
postulate is the cause for the genocide of the Indians and buffalo in our region.
False prayers, greedy, untaxed church empires worth trillions - such as the Roman
Vatican - have preached a false mythology, and they do not honor the gods, and
that is the basic cause of our problems. There are gods in the Other World, after death,
and before birth.
Here's is the first stanza of Caesar Eros, for example:
'The goat Dionysos-Pan from his cave
emerged at Caesarea Philippi,
the grotto Echo, well-beloved nymph
worshipped. Into the sunny Golan Heights
the Libyan Osiris blinked, and smiled,
blinded by the bright day of May Eve,
nine months after the African Set
chased him and Isis with Child underground.'
CUT TO:
26. Day - Ext - FLAGSTAFF
DAVE and BILL walking through the idyllic mountain meadows, concluding their talks and the movie.
DAVE
The Creation Myth goes on from there, in Part Five to 'ARMORICA' in France and Wales and the
Merlin history, Part Six back to the origins of Egypt and Libya, where I lived
as an Air Force kid, titled 'THEBAID', Part Seven 'THEBAID LOST' as the
gods of Egypt are stolen and distorted by the Hebrews of the Bible, and
finally Part Eight which I haven't written entirely yet, titled 'ARIZONA'.
I'll recite just one more stanza, at the end of 'WAR IN HEAVEN', to which
the whole thing will return and end right back here, in modern times and with some
prophecy:
'The beast of many identities old
before his and her time parentless
stared skeptically at the small man.
"Neither god nor mortal am I," It said,
"made unmade as my own Third Entity.
Sleep's the best clue I can give you of
Typhoeus Hesiod recorded of Set;
and the Hebrews jealously changed
him to Seth, the murderous Jehovah.
That is the devilish 'God' they worship
today in futile, impotent prayers.' "
FADE OUT
Friday, May 14, 2010
THE BUFFALO TRIANGLE (Treatment, act 2)
ACT TWO
_______
Detailed efforts and interviews of plans and people who've tried to do something ----
10. The Land blowing away amerika
Neil Young's 'It's a Dream' - over pix of abandoned farmhouses and old roads blowing away on the prairie, ghost towns, and small towns with empty storefronts on main street, etc. An elegy to what once was, as Young sings "It's a memory without anywhere to stay,
and it's just fading away."
11. Buffalo Commons
The SONG overlaps into interior talks by Frank and Deborah Popper, and their 'Buffalo Commons' idea of returning 139,000 square miles of 10 western states to the buffalo. Back in the 1980s-90s there was a lot of talk about it, and generally contempt from the western residents to the idea.
12. ALF and ELF
Vail condos burning where the Earth Liberation Front set them afire, and animal pens by Animal Liberation Front, and perhaps interivews with some of them, including, maybe, Rod Coronado, etc.
13. Intertribal Bison Cooperative
Raising buffalo herds for profit by Indians. Interviews with ITBC guys in Rapid City office, and Indian ranchers on the reservations.
14. AIM
Interviews with American Indian Movement about plans to return to traditional ways.
15. Hopis
The conflict between Tribal Council and Traditionals around Peabody Coal and the Navajo power plant in Arizona, loss of water, land, all torn apart by money and 80% unemployment. The Council recently told Sierra Club and white environmentalists to butt out of their affairs and land.
16. Earth First! and Monkeywrench gangs
Interviews with EF! people and Abbey's book 'The monkeywrench Gang' to blow up Glen Canyon Dam in Utah on the Colorado River =within the Triangle, again, as with all these.
17. Los Alamos, nuclear power plants, and nuclear weapons
Overview of Los Alamos and The Bomb, nuke plants in Phoenix and Denver, Air Force bases in Albuquerque, Rapid City, Colorado Springs, with B-1s, Nuke Crusie missiles, and pix of old Missile Silos everywhere.
18. Ted Turner buffalo herds
Private herds-for-profit-and-meat throughout the West, pix, interviews (we can get a lot of this on the Internet, and to hell with 'rights')
19. Custer State Park
More on the thousands of Buffalo on the Park, and the Gov't involved in buffalo profits.
20. White Buffalo herd
People near Flagstaff have several white buffaloes, they say - for viewing behind walls, for a fee - and are developing an actual 'white buffalo herd'. This illustrates more of the potential sacredness of the Flagstaff Peaks introduced in Act One.
21. Federal & State Grassland Parks
Efforts by Gov't and private companies to make public lands available for some herds, and other wildlife ecosystems like the wolves - with clips maybe of 'Dances With Wolves' and 'Cheyenne Autumn'.
22. Colorado River & Rio Grande plateaux
Both these great rivers have their sources high in the Colorado mountains, inside our Triangle; and analysis and maps of their Plateaus and the water systems derived from them that big cities like Phoenix and Los Angeles are draining, with the whole pipeline/canal systems and dams, power plants, etc. Interviews in Telluride with Art Goodtimes, the only Green Party man who's an elected County Commissioner; maybe the Headwaters people at Western State College in Gunnison, etc.
23. Denver and Rocky Flats
Denver's inside our Triangle - interview with Chicano leaders like Ernesto Vigil, etc.
24. Cattle mutilations, crop circles
Many of the animal mutilations - not just cattle - have been reported in our Magic Triangle, and some crop circle designs have been recorded at ancient PICTOGLYPH sites.
This may be plenty for Act Two, leading back into the Spiritual Theme of the GODS for the conclusions of Act Three.
ACT TWO
_______
Detailed efforts and interviews of plans and people who've tried to do something ----
10. The Land blowing away amerika
Neil Young's 'It's a Dream' - over pix of abandoned farmhouses and old roads blowing away on the prairie, ghost towns, and small towns with empty storefronts on main street, etc. An elegy to what once was, as Young sings "It's a memory without anywhere to stay,
and it's just fading away."
11. Buffalo Commons
The SONG overlaps into interior talks by Frank and Deborah Popper, and their 'Buffalo Commons' idea of returning 139,000 square miles of 10 western states to the buffalo. Back in the 1980s-90s there was a lot of talk about it, and generally contempt from the western residents to the idea.
12. ALF and ELF
Vail condos burning where the Earth Liberation Front set them afire, and animal pens by Animal Liberation Front, and perhaps interivews with some of them, including, maybe, Rod Coronado, etc.
13. Intertribal Bison Cooperative
Raising buffalo herds for profit by Indians. Interviews with ITBC guys in Rapid City office, and Indian ranchers on the reservations.
14. AIM
Interviews with American Indian Movement about plans to return to traditional ways.
15. Hopis
The conflict between Tribal Council and Traditionals around Peabody Coal and the Navajo power plant in Arizona, loss of water, land, all torn apart by money and 80% unemployment. The Council recently told Sierra Club and white environmentalists to butt out of their affairs and land.
16. Earth First! and Monkeywrench gangs
Interviews with EF! people and Abbey's book 'The monkeywrench Gang' to blow up Glen Canyon Dam in Utah on the Colorado River =within the Triangle, again, as with all these.
17. Los Alamos, nuclear power plants, and nuclear weapons
Overview of Los Alamos and The Bomb, nuke plants in Phoenix and Denver, Air Force bases in Albuquerque, Rapid City, Colorado Springs, with B-1s, Nuke Crusie missiles, and pix of old Missile Silos everywhere.
18. Ted Turner buffalo herds
Private herds-for-profit-and-meat throughout the West, pix, interviews (we can get a lot of this on the Internet, and to hell with 'rights')
19. Custer State Park
More on the thousands of Buffalo on the Park, and the Gov't involved in buffalo profits.
20. White Buffalo herd
People near Flagstaff have several white buffaloes, they say - for viewing behind walls, for a fee - and are developing an actual 'white buffalo herd'. This illustrates more of the potential sacredness of the Flagstaff Peaks introduced in Act One.
21. Federal & State Grassland Parks
Efforts by Gov't and private companies to make public lands available for some herds, and other wildlife ecosystems like the wolves - with clips maybe of 'Dances With Wolves' and 'Cheyenne Autumn'.
22. Colorado River & Rio Grande plateaux
Both these great rivers have their sources high in the Colorado mountains, inside our Triangle; and analysis and maps of their Plateaus and the water systems derived from them that big cities like Phoenix and Los Angeles are draining, with the whole pipeline/canal systems and dams, power plants, etc. Interviews in Telluride with Art Goodtimes, the only Green Party man who's an elected County Commissioner; maybe the Headwaters people at Western State College in Gunnison, etc.
23. Denver and Rocky Flats
Denver's inside our Triangle - interview with Chicano leaders like Ernesto Vigil, etc.
24. Cattle mutilations, crop circles
Many of the animal mutilations - not just cattle - have been reported in our Magic Triangle, and some crop circle designs have been recorded at ancient PICTOGLYPH sites.
This may be plenty for Act Two, leading back into the Spiritual Theme of the GODS for the conclusions of Act Three.
Thursday, May 13, 2010
THE BUFFALO TRIANGLE
_________________________________________________________________
a Synopsis of 'The Creation Myth'
first draft of TREATMENT
3 Acts
by Seals & McIntyre
ACT ONE
_______
Introduction to ideas and geography
1. Ext-Day
A lovely open PRAIRIE of waving buffalo grass, original MUSIC (perhaps by Sky Seals)
DAVE (v.o.)
"Of Earth's mistakes, and Heaven's death,
unwilling Man first became the Devil's victim
in crimes atrocious against great Nature's
good, where Xaos in utter whiteness created
the agony of confusion and pain inhuman.
Today, in midst of the final War"
cut to:
sudden shocking noise and ugliness of the Navajo Power plant near Page, Arizona, with strip-mining coal tractors, power lines everywhere, pipelines draining the COLORADO RIVER while simultaneously dumping sludge into it.
2. Ext-Day
Lovely, peaceful scene of BUFFALO grazing in the Black Hills, lyrical music, birds singing
DAVE (v.o.)
"Chapter two of 'The Creation Myth':
God gathered his followers sadly few
in numbers together, in defeat nearly
and desperate, for another Council of Peace
after arguments vainglorious with His Enemy."
cut to:
cowboys whoopingandscreaming in the BUFFALO HUNT at Custer State Park, shootingand killing calves and cows and bulls, with hundreds of tourists whoopingand taking pictures. Then, the slaughterhouse and butchering, auction blocks selling them, etc.
3. Ext-Day
News footage of September 11, 2001, with planes flying into World Trade Center and Pentagon, screams, roar of war; the Voiceover above it barely -
DAVE (v.o.)
"Airplanes turned the American skies over
on themselves, on a clear summer day in 2001
for radios crystalline aboard jumbo jets
clearly heard in traffic control towers
hijackers, serial kidnappers of cities unwhole
who didn't know how to fly any other way.
Chapter Three of the Myth.'
4.Ext-Night
Shooting stars over the ROSWELL sign, and streets, more lyrical MUSIC
DAVE (v.o.)
"God would have none of it, though.
Perhaps mankind accurately recoiled from demands
He envisioned, and unworthily they surrendered.
Like Zeos at Troy He was fed up with both sides."
cut to:
ATOMIC BOMB explosion at Trinity, 1945, with signs describing it, and B-29s firebombing Tokyo, military jets flying out of Roswell Air Base.
5. Flagstaff cemetery - Day
DAVE beside his ancestors' graves, reading, with BILL on camera and listening;
DAVE
"Chapter Five:
When did the warriors Mars and Zeos divide
manslaughtering tendencies? Into what Peace from War
did non-violence separate separate? Dionysos.
Back into Osiris his origins he noted
Osiris Heavenly Ouranos dwelt in Arizona
on immeasurable Peaks, o'ertowering Flagstaff
where his daughter Ysos the mother divine
was born in lightning-engendered storm."
BILL
Wait a minute Man. Osiris? Egypt?
DAVE
Yeah.
BILL
Okay. Should we shoot the Peaks now, and here where the Church bulldozed
all your tombstones back in the Fifties? A crazy priest, you said?
DAVE
Yeah. And then we can go over to Sedona a few miles south, and shoot the damn New Agers
and their death-trap sweat lodges, as bad as the christians, and jews stealing the Egyptian myths.
BILL
Far out. The snowbowl ski area up there, using sewer water to make artificial snow for worthless college skiers
to go play. Hey, let's go over to the University and interview some first.
DAVE
Good idea. They all think piss water on the Toilet Bowl is cool. It's not a Sacred Mountain
of the Dead, to them, where my ancestors are buried.
BILL
And a lot of Navajos and Hopis.
cut to:
6. Day - No. Arizona University campus
Bill trying to ask students what they think of the wastewater snowmaking. We should get at least one of them saying "You fucking idiots", and stuff like that.
7. Night - Cemetery
Davealone still reciting his poem, by the graves;
DAVE
"Six: Isis conceived her son anyway she could
extramaritally, on her wedding night profane
so that even Set her husband and pilot heroic
didn't know. He didn't know. Horus he thought
Set had fathered proudly the Saturnian heir
and a bouncing baby boy strong and fierce!
Thus are deceived men by women ethereal
when it to goddesses elaborate love comes,
and daughters especially to great fathers devoted
mysteriously make of their children their Art."
BILL
Nice. I hope we have enought light that it'll come out. These are your grandparents
graves, right here, eh?
DAVE
Yeah. My motherwas born in Flagstaff in 1924, and her grandparents
pioneered out here in the 1880s, at least.
BILL
And your parents were married in Roswell?
DAVE
Yep. That's why I've thought of this as a big Triangle, a personal
spiritual territory, at least, for our family.
BILL
Your Dad was a b-29 pilot?
DAVE
Yeah. He was in the Group that nuked Hiroshima and Nagasaki,
and he was there for the Flying Saucers when I was born in 1947.
BILL
I never knew that. You never talked about it over the years, when we
worked on 'Sacred Breath' up in South Dakota, and 'Powwow Highway', about
the American Indian Movement.
DAVE
Naw, it was too personal. But that's the tip of the family's territory,
the Triangle as I like to think of it.
BILL
Up at the Black Hills?
DAVE
Yeah. More family graveyards..Do a graphic of a map for this Documentary, and draw the lines.
That's the movie really. A Spirit Geography.
BILL
'The Buffalo Triangle'. Let the land take back the towns and roads, and the high
buffalo grass wipe out the goddamn cowboys and miners!
8. MAP
Graphic showing just those boundaries, and the scheme of this Movie, with MUSIC, while Dave recites again:
DAVE (v.o.)
"Army gunners rushed in their tanks,
to capture the Enemy Star, but he was gone.
Top-secret balloons and jet-bombers flew
over the crash site and well into the morne,
scouring the countryside of sagebrush and cactus
but all but lizards and jackrabbits were found.
Isis and Set hurried their baby away proudly
from the unwatching eyes of Military Policemen."
BILL (v.o.)
Wow, Man. that's Roswell?
DAVE (v.o.)
Yeah.
BILL (v.o.)
Your poem?
DAVE (v.o.)
In heroic verse.
BILL (v.o.)
'Paradise Lost', or something?
DAVE (v.o.)
Well, the new civilization to replace, repair this one.
8. War footage of Iraq
BILL (v.o.)
Yeah. Revenge for 9/11, go slaughter Muslims, civilians.
DAVE (v.o.)
"Isis of penultimate Woman confused,
wandered in the wilderness of armistice,
lost without her husband imprisoned Set;
triumph unsymbolic and maddening to her."
BILL (v.o.)
It's like the Indian Wars, so-called, back here in the West.
Dave (v.o.)
Exactly.
BILL (v.o.)
Hey, you know what, Man?! We should just go around on all this
territory you're talking about, and see if we can find anybody
who's really with us. I mean, see if there really are any Americans
still left out there, and Navajos or Cheyennes, or anybody, who
is ready to go back to the natural buffalo grasslands. Real fucking
Revolution! I mean it.
Dave (v.o.)
You're right. That might really mean something. Really do it.
BILL (v.o.)
Real fucking REVOLUTION! Get rid of all this machinery. It's crazy.
DAVE (c.o.)
Insane. Impossible.
9. Ext- Day
Lovely, lyrical scenes of buffalo in 'Visible Breath' documentary, with BUDDY RED BOW song about Buffalo, and footage of
Dave and Bill talking about Sitting Bull in South Dakota, in 1986, etc. Lots of fast cuts, footage, of Wounded Knee, Leonard Peltier, Anna Mae Aquash grave - all as INTRO to more updated details later in the Doc.
ACT TWO in detail Treatment, coming soon, much longer)
THE BUFFALO TRIANGLE
_________________________________________________________________
a Synopsis of 'The Creation Myth'
first draft of TREATMENT
3 Acts
by Seals & McIntyre
ACT ONE
_______
Introduction to ideas and geography
1. Ext-Day
A lovely open PRAIRIE of waving buffalo grass, original MUSIC (perhaps by Sky Seals)
DAVE (v.o.)
"Of Earth's mistakes, and Heaven's death,
unwilling Man first became the Devil's victim
in crimes atrocious against great Nature's
good, where Xaos in utter whiteness created
the agony of confusion and pain inhuman.
Today, in midst of the final War"
cut to:
sudden shocking noise and ugliness of the Navajo Power plant near Page, Arizona, with strip-mining coal tractors, power lines everywhere, pipelines draining the COLORADO RIVER while simultaneously dumping sludge into it.
2. Ext-Day
Lovely, peaceful scene of BUFFALO grazing in the Black Hills, lyrical music, birds singing
DAVE (v.o.)
"Chapter two of 'The Creation Myth':
God gathered his followers sadly few
in numbers together, in defeat nearly
and desperate, for another Council of Peace
after arguments vainglorious with His Enemy."
cut to:
cowboys whoopingandscreaming in the BUFFALO HUNT at Custer State Park, shootingand killing calves and cows and bulls, with hundreds of tourists whoopingand taking pictures. Then, the slaughterhouse and butchering, auction blocks selling them, etc.
3. Ext-Day
News footage of September 11, 2001, with planes flying into World Trade Center and Pentagon, screams, roar of war; the Voiceover above it barely -
DAVE (v.o.)
"Airplanes turned the American skies over
on themselves, on a clear summer day in 2001
for radios crystalline aboard jumbo jets
clearly heard in traffic control towers
hijackers, serial kidnappers of cities unwhole
who didn't know how to fly any other way.
Chapter Three of the Myth.'
4.Ext-Night
Shooting stars over the ROSWELL sign, and streets, more lyrical MUSIC
DAVE (v.o.)
"God would have none of it, though.
Perhaps mankind accurately recoiled from demands
He envisioned, and unworthily they surrendered.
Like Zeos at Troy He was fed up with both sides."
cut to:
ATOMIC BOMB explosion at Trinity, 1945, with signs describing it, and B-29s firebombing Tokyo, military jets flying out of Roswell Air Base.
5. Flagstaff cemetery - Day
DAVE beside his ancestors' graves, reading, with BILL on camera and listening;
DAVE
"Chapter Five:
When did the warriors Mars and Zeos divide
manslaughtering tendencies? Into what Peace from War
did non-violence separate separate? Dionysos.
Back into Osiris his origins he noted
Osiris Heavenly Ouranos dwelt in Arizona
on immeasurable Peaks, o'ertowering Flagstaff
where his daughter Ysos the mother divine
was born in lightning-engendered storm."
BILL
Wait a minute Man. Osiris? Egypt?
DAVE
Yeah.
BILL
Okay. Should we shoot the Peaks now, and here where the Church bulldozed
all your tombstones back in the Fifties? A crazy priest, you said?
DAVE
Yeah. And then we can go over to Sedona a few miles south, and shoot the damn New Agers
and their death-trap sweat lodges, as bad as the christians, and jews stealing the Egyptian myths.
BILL
Far out. The snowbowl ski area up there, using sewer water to make artificial snow for worthless college skiers
to go play. Hey, let's go over to the University and interview some first.
DAVE
Good idea. They all think piss water on the Toilet Bowl is cool. It's not a Sacred Mountain
of the Dead, to them, where my ancestors are buried.
BILL
And a lot of Navajos and Hopis.
cut to:
6. Day - No. Arizona University campus
Bill trying to ask students what they think of the wastewater snowmaking. We should get at least one of them saying "You fucking idiots", and stuff like that.
7. Night - Cemetery
Davealone still reciting his poem, by the graves;
DAVE
"Six: Isis conceived her son anyway she could
extramaritally, on her wedding night profane
so that even Set her husband and pilot heroic
didn't know. He didn't know. Horus he thought
Set had fathered proudly the Saturnian heir
and a bouncing baby boy strong and fierce!
Thus are deceived men by women ethereal
when it to goddesses elaborate love comes,
and daughters especially to great fathers devoted
mysteriously make of their children their Art."
BILL
Nice. I hope we have enought light that it'll come out. These are your grandparents
graves, right here, eh?
DAVE
Yeah. My motherwas born in Flagstaff in 1924, and her grandparents
pioneered out here in the 1880s, at least.
BILL
And your parents were married in Roswell?
DAVE
Yep. That's why I've thought of this as a big Triangle, a personal
spiritual territory, at least, for our family.
BILL
Your Dad was a b-29 pilot?
DAVE
Yeah. He was in the Group that nuked Hiroshima and Nagasaki,
and he was there for the Flying Saucers when I was born in 1947.
BILL
I never knew that. You never talked about it over the years, when we
worked on 'Sacred Breath' up in South Dakota, and 'Powwow Highway', about
the American Indian Movement.
DAVE
Naw, it was too personal. But that's the tip of the family's territory,
the Triangle as I like to think of it.
BILL
Up at the Black Hills?
DAVE
Yeah. More family graveyards..Do a graphic of a map for this Documentary, and draw the lines.
That's the movie really. A Spirit Geography.
BILL
'The Buffalo Triangle'. Let the land take back the towns and roads, and the high
buffalo grass wipe out the goddamn cowboys and miners!
8. MAP
Graphic showing just those boundaries, and the scheme of this Movie, with MUSIC, while Dave recites again:
DAVE (v.o.)
"Army gunners rushed in their tanks,
to capture the Enemy Star, but he was gone.
Top-secret balloons and jet-bombers flew
over the crash site and well into the morne,
scouring the countryside of sagebrush and cactus
but all but lizards and jackrabbits were found.
Isis and Set hurried their baby away proudly
from the unwatching eyes of Military Policemen."
BILL (v.o.)
Wow, Man. that's Roswell?
DAVE (v.o.)
Yeah.
BILL (v.o.)
Your poem?
DAVE (v.o.)
In heroic verse.
BILL (v.o.)
'Paradise Lost', or something?
DAVE (v.o.)
Well, the new civilization to replace, repair this one.
8. War footage of Iraq
BILL (v.o.)
Yeah. Revenge for 9/11, go slaughter Muslims, civilians.
DAVE (v.o.)
"Isis of penultimate Woman confused,
wandered in the wilderness of armistice,
lost without her husband imprisoned Set;
triumph unsymbolic and maddening to her."
BILL (v.o.)
It's like the Indian Wars, so-called, back here in the West.
Dave (v.o.)
Exactly.
BILL (v.o.)
Hey, you know what, Man?! We should just go around on all this
territory you're talking about, and see if we can find anybody
who's really with us. I mean, see if there really are any Americans
still left out there, and Navajos or Cheyennes, or anybody, who
is ready to go back to the natural buffalo grasslands. Real fucking
Revolution! I mean it.
Dave (v.o.)
You're right. That might really mean something. Really do it.
BILL (v.o.)
Real fucking REVOLUTION! Get rid of all this machinery. It's crazy.
DAVE (c.o.)
Insane. Impossible.
9. Ext- Day
Lovely, lyrical scenes of buffalo in 'Visible Breath' documentary, with BUDDY RED BOW song about Buffalo, and footage of
Dave and Bill talking about Sitting Bull in South Dakota, in 1986, etc. Lots of fast cuts, footage, of Wounded Knee, Leonard Peltier, Anna Mae Aquash grave - all as INTRO to more updated details later in the Doc.
ACT TWO in detail Treatment, coming soon, much longer)
_________________________________________________________________
a Synopsis of 'The Creation Myth'
first draft of TREATMENT
3 Acts
by Seals & McIntyre
ACT ONE
_______
Introduction to ideas and geography
1. Ext-Day
A lovely open PRAIRIE of waving buffalo grass, original MUSIC (perhaps by Sky Seals)
DAVE (v.o.)
"Of Earth's mistakes, and Heaven's death,
unwilling Man first became the Devil's victim
in crimes atrocious against great Nature's
good, where Xaos in utter whiteness created
the agony of confusion and pain inhuman.
Today, in midst of the final War"
cut to:
sudden shocking noise and ugliness of the Navajo Power plant near Page, Arizona, with strip-mining coal tractors, power lines everywhere, pipelines draining the COLORADO RIVER while simultaneously dumping sludge into it.
2. Ext-Day
Lovely, peaceful scene of BUFFALO grazing in the Black Hills, lyrical music, birds singing
DAVE (v.o.)
"Chapter two of 'The Creation Myth':
God gathered his followers sadly few
in numbers together, in defeat nearly
and desperate, for another Council of Peace
after arguments vainglorious with His Enemy."
cut to:
cowboys whoopingandscreaming in the BUFFALO HUNT at Custer State Park, shootingand killing calves and cows and bulls, with hundreds of tourists whoopingand taking pictures. Then, the slaughterhouse and butchering, auction blocks selling them, etc.
3. Ext-Day
News footage of September 11, 2001, with planes flying into World Trade Center and Pentagon, screams, roar of war; the Voiceover above it barely -
DAVE (v.o.)
"Airplanes turned the American skies over
on themselves, on a clear summer day in 2001
for radios crystalline aboard jumbo jets
clearly heard in traffic control towers
hijackers, serial kidnappers of cities unwhole
who didn't know how to fly any other way.
Chapter Three of the Myth.'
4.Ext-Night
Shooting stars over the ROSWELL sign, and streets, more lyrical MUSIC
DAVE (v.o.)
"God would have none of it, though.
Perhaps mankind accurately recoiled from demands
He envisioned, and unworthily they surrendered.
Like Zeos at Troy He was fed up with both sides."
cut to:
ATOMIC BOMB explosion at Trinity, 1945, with signs describing it, and B-29s firebombing Tokyo, military jets flying out of Roswell Air Base.
5. Flagstaff cemetery - Day
DAVE beside his ancestors' graves, reading, with BILL on camera and listening;
DAVE
"Chapter Five:
When did the warriors Mars and Zeos divide
manslaughtering tendencies? Into what Peace from War
did non-violence separate separate? Dionysos.
Back into Osiris his origins he noted
Osiris Heavenly Ouranos dwelt in Arizona
on immeasurable Peaks, o'ertowering Flagstaff
where his daughter Ysos the mother divine
was born in lightning-engendered storm."
BILL
Wait a minute Man. Osiris? Egypt?
DAVE
Yeah.
BILL
Okay. Should we shoot the Peaks now, and here where the Church bulldozed
all your tombstones back in the Fifties? A crazy priest, you said?
DAVE
Yeah. And then we can go over to Sedona a few miles south, and shoot the damn New Agers
and their death-trap sweat lodges, as bad as the christians, and jews stealing the Egyptian myths.
BILL
Far out. The snowbowl ski area up there, using sewer water to make artificial snow for worthless college skiers
to go play. Hey, let's go over to the University and interview some first.
DAVE
Good idea. They all think piss water on the Toilet Bowl is cool. It's not a Sacred Mountain
of the Dead, to them, where my ancestors are buried.
BILL
And a lot of Navajos and Hopis.
cut to:
6. Day - No. Arizona University campus
Bill trying to ask students what they think of the wastewater snowmaking. We should get at least one of them saying "You fucking idiots", and stuff like that.
7. Night - Cemetery
Davealone still reciting his poem, by the graves;
DAVE
"Six: Isis conceived her son anyway she could
extramaritally, on her wedding night profane
so that even Set her husband and pilot heroic
didn't know. He didn't know. Horus he thought
Set had fathered proudly the Saturnian heir
and a bouncing baby boy strong and fierce!
Thus are deceived men by women ethereal
when it to goddesses elaborate love comes,
and daughters especially to great fathers devoted
mysteriously make of their children their Art."
BILL
Nice. I hope we have enought light that it'll come out. These are your grandparents
graves, right here, eh?
DAVE
Yeah. My motherwas born in Flagstaff in 1924, and her grandparents
pioneered out here in the 1880s, at least.
BILL
And your parents were married in Roswell?
DAVE
Yep. That's why I've thought of this as a big Triangle, a personal
spiritual territory, at least, for our family.
BILL
Your Dad was a b-29 pilot?
DAVE
Yeah. He was in the Group that nuked Hiroshima and Nagasaki,
and he was there for the Flying Saucers when I was born in 1947.
BILL
I never knew that. You never talked about it over the years, when we
worked on 'Sacred Breath' up in South Dakota, and 'Powwow Highway', about
the American Indian Movement.
DAVE
Naw, it was too personal. But that's the tip of the family's territory,
the Triangle as I like to think of it.
BILL
Up at the Black Hills?
DAVE
Yeah. More family graveyards..Do a graphic of a map for this Documentary, and draw the lines.
That's the movie really. A Spirit Geography.
BILL
'The Buffalo Triangle'. Let the land take back the towns and roads, and the high
buffalo grass wipe out the goddamn cowboys and miners!
8. MAP
Graphic showing just those boundaries, and the scheme of this Movie, with MUSIC, while Dave recites again:
DAVE (v.o.)
"Army gunners rushed in their tanks,
to capture the Enemy Star, but he was gone.
Top-secret balloons and jet-bombers flew
over the crash site and well into the morne,
scouring the countryside of sagebrush and cactus
but all but lizards and jackrabbits were found.
Isis and Set hurried their baby away proudly
from the unwatching eyes of Military Policemen."
BILL (v.o.)
Wow, Man. that's Roswell?
DAVE (v.o.)
Yeah.
BILL (v.o.)
Your poem?
DAVE (v.o.)
In heroic verse.
BILL (v.o.)
'Paradise Lost', or something?
DAVE (v.o.)
Well, the new civilization to replace, repair this one.
8. War footage of Iraq
BILL (v.o.)
Yeah. Revenge for 9/11, go slaughter Muslims, civilians.
DAVE (v.o.)
"Isis of penultimate Woman confused,
wandered in the wilderness of armistice,
lost without her husband imprisoned Set;
triumph unsymbolic and maddening to her."
BILL (v.o.)
It's like the Indian Wars, so-called, back here in the West.
Dave (v.o.)
Exactly.
BILL (v.o.)
Hey, you know what, Man?! We should just go around on all this
territory you're talking about, and see if we can find anybody
who's really with us. I mean, see if there really are any Americans
still left out there, and Navajos or Cheyennes, or anybody, who
is ready to go back to the natural buffalo grasslands. Real fucking
Revolution! I mean it.
Dave (v.o.)
You're right. That might really mean something. Really do it.
BILL (v.o.)
Real fucking REVOLUTION! Get rid of all this machinery. It's crazy.
DAVE (c.o.)
Insane. Impossible.
9. Ext- Day
Lovely, lyrical scenes of buffalo in 'Visible Breath' documentary, with BUDDY RED BOW song about Buffalo, and footage of
Dave and Bill talking about Sitting Bull in South Dakota, in 1986, etc. Lots of fast cuts, footage, of Wounded Knee, Leonard Peltier, Anna Mae Aquash grave - all as INTRO to more updated details later in the Doc.
ACT TWO in detail Treatment, coming soon, much longer)
THE BUFFALO TRIANGLE
_________________________________________________________________
a Synopsis of 'The Creation Myth'
first draft of TREATMENT
3 Acts
by Seals & McIntyre
ACT ONE
_______
Introduction to ideas and geography
1. Ext-Day
A lovely open PRAIRIE of waving buffalo grass, original MUSIC (perhaps by Sky Seals)
DAVE (v.o.)
"Of Earth's mistakes, and Heaven's death,
unwilling Man first became the Devil's victim
in crimes atrocious against great Nature's
good, where Xaos in utter whiteness created
the agony of confusion and pain inhuman.
Today, in midst of the final War"
cut to:
sudden shocking noise and ugliness of the Navajo Power plant near Page, Arizona, with strip-mining coal tractors, power lines everywhere, pipelines draining the COLORADO RIVER while simultaneously dumping sludge into it.
2. Ext-Day
Lovely, peaceful scene of BUFFALO grazing in the Black Hills, lyrical music, birds singing
DAVE (v.o.)
"Chapter two of 'The Creation Myth':
God gathered his followers sadly few
in numbers together, in defeat nearly
and desperate, for another Council of Peace
after arguments vainglorious with His Enemy."
cut to:
cowboys whoopingandscreaming in the BUFFALO HUNT at Custer State Park, shootingand killing calves and cows and bulls, with hundreds of tourists whoopingand taking pictures. Then, the slaughterhouse and butchering, auction blocks selling them, etc.
3. Ext-Day
News footage of September 11, 2001, with planes flying into World Trade Center and Pentagon, screams, roar of war; the Voiceover above it barely -
DAVE (v.o.)
"Airplanes turned the American skies over
on themselves, on a clear summer day in 2001
for radios crystalline aboard jumbo jets
clearly heard in traffic control towers
hijackers, serial kidnappers of cities unwhole
who didn't know how to fly any other way.
Chapter Three of the Myth.'
4.Ext-Night
Shooting stars over the ROSWELL sign, and streets, more lyrical MUSIC
DAVE (v.o.)
"God would have none of it, though.
Perhaps mankind accurately recoiled from demands
He envisioned, and unworthily they surrendered.
Like Zeos at Troy He was fed up with both sides."
cut to:
ATOMIC BOMB explosion at Trinity, 1945, with signs describing it, and B-29s firebombing Tokyo, military jets flying out of Roswell Air Base.
5. Flagstaff cemetery - Day
DAVE beside his ancestors' graves, reading, with BILL on camera and listening;
DAVE
"Chapter Five:
When did the warriors Mars and Zeos divide
manslaughtering tendencies? Into what Peace from War
did non-violence separate separate? Dionysos.
Back into Osiris his origins he noted
Osiris Heavenly Ouranos dwelt in Arizona
on immeasurable Peaks, o'ertowering Flagstaff
where his daughter Ysos the mother divine
was born in lightning-engendered storm."
BILL
Wait a minute Man. Osiris? Egypt?
DAVE
Yeah.
BILL
Okay. Should we shoot the Peaks now, and here where the Church bulldozed
all your tombstones back in the Fifties? A crazy priest, you said?
DAVE
Yeah. And then we can go over to Sedona a few miles south, and shoot the damn New Agers
and their death-trap sweat lodges, as bad as the christians, and jews stealing the Egyptian myths.
BILL
Far out. The snowbowl ski area up there, using sewer water to make artificial snow for worthless college skiers
to go play. Hey, let's go over to the University and interview some first.
DAVE
Good idea. They all think piss water on the Toilet Bowl is cool. It's not a Sacred Mountain
of the Dead, to them, where my ancestors are buried.
BILL
And a lot of Navajos and Hopis.
cut to:
6. Day - No. Arizona University campus
Bill trying to ask students what they think of the wastewater snowmaking. We should get at least one of them saying "You fucking idiots", and stuff like that.
7. Night - Cemetery
Davealone still reciting his poem, by the graves;
DAVE
"Six: Isis conceived her son anyway she could
extramaritally, on her wedding night profane
so that even Set her husband and pilot heroic
didn't know. He didn't know. Horus he thought
Set had fathered proudly the Saturnian heir
and a bouncing baby boy strong and fierce!
Thus are deceived men by women ethereal
when it to goddesses elaborate love comes,
and daughters especially to great fathers devoted
mysteriously make of their children their Art."
BILL
Nice. I hope we have enought light that it'll come out. These are your grandparents
graves, right here, eh?
DAVE
Yeah. My motherwas born in Flagstaff in 1924, and her grandparents
pioneered out here in the 1880s, at least.
BILL
And your parents were married in Roswell?
DAVE
Yep. That's why I've thought of this as a big Triangle, a personal
spiritual territory, at least, for our family.
BILL
Your Dad was a b-29 pilot?
DAVE
Yeah. He was in the Group that nuked Hiroshima and Nagasaki,
and he was there for the Flying Saucers when I was born in 1947.
BILL
I never knew that. You never talked about it over the years, when we
worked on 'Sacred Breath' up in South Dakota, and 'Powwow Highway', about
the American Indian Movement.
DAVE
Naw, it was too personal. But that's the tip of the family's territory,
the Triangle as I like to think of it.
BILL
Up at the Black Hills?
DAVE
Yeah. More family graveyards..Do a graphic of a map for this Documentary, and draw the lines.
That's the movie really. A Spirit Geography.
BILL
'The Buffalo Triangle'. Let the land take back the towns and roads, and the high
buffalo grass wipe out the goddamn cowboys and miners!
8. MAP
Graphic showing just those boundaries, and the scheme of this Movie, with MUSIC, while Dave recites again:
DAVE (v.o.)
"Army gunners rushed in their tanks,
to capture the Enemy Star, but he was gone.
Top-secret balloons and jet-bombers flew
over the crash site and well into the morne,
scouring the countryside of sagebrush and cactus
but all but lizards and jackrabbits were found.
Isis and Set hurried their baby away proudly
from the unwatching eyes of Military Policemen."
BILL (v.o.)
Wow, Man. that's Roswell?
DAVE (v.o.)
Yeah.
BILL (v.o.)
Your poem?
DAVE (v.o.)
In heroic verse.
BILL (v.o.)
'Paradise Lost', or something?
DAVE (v.o.)
Well, the new civilization to replace, repair this one.
8. War footage of Iraq
BILL (v.o.)
Yeah. Revenge for 9/11, go slaughter Muslims, civilians.
DAVE (v.o.)
"Isis of penultimate Woman confused,
wandered in the wilderness of armistice,
lost without her husband imprisoned Set;
triumph unsymbolic and maddening to her."
BILL (v.o.)
It's like the Indian Wars, so-called, back here in the West.
Dave (v.o.)
Exactly.
BILL (v.o.)
Hey, you know what, Man?! We should just go around on all this
territory you're talking about, and see if we can find anybody
who's really with us. I mean, see if there really are any Americans
still left out there, and Navajos or Cheyennes, or anybody, who
is ready to go back to the natural buffalo grasslands. Real fucking
Revolution! I mean it.
Dave (v.o.)
You're right. That might really mean something. Really do it.
BILL (v.o.)
Real fucking REVOLUTION! Get rid of all this machinery. It's crazy.
DAVE (c.o.)
Insane. Impossible.
9. Ext- Day
Lovely, lyrical scenes of buffalo in 'Visible Breath' documentary, with BUDDY RED BOW song about Buffalo, and footage of
Dave and Bill talking about Sitting Bull in South Dakota, in 1986, etc. Lots of fast cuts, footage, of Wounded Knee, Leonard Peltier, Anna Mae Aquash grave - all as INTRO to more updated details later in the Doc.
ACT TWO in detail Treatment, coming soon, much longer)
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