THE BUFFALO TRIANGLE
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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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