Reply #41: I'd start with the media... [View All]

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opening shot: 40's maybe, girl reporter...close-up legs encased in contraband silk, crooked seams...personality jaded, insecure...fragile like Cameron Diaz and tough like Angelina Jolie. maybe making a deal to present a story vital to self-promotion via connection with a love interest. OK cut to slick technocracy where the great grandchildren acting as reporters are sitting in front of screens ..."voting"... on election night while the plebes wait in the rain for the chance of marking their life with a decision irrelevant to the moneyed screens of personal interest...maybe TIA (total information awareness) set-up like DoD with a Mother screen viewing all

I'd do it all in metaphor to make it salient and palatable with the reality of science fiction because it's coherent so that if you assume the truth of the story line, you've already accepted the initiating premise...

It could also be like a subtle joke...turning schwatzenager genre on its head.

Of course, Nicholas Cage and Brad Pitt would have to be in it. Billy Bob Thorton could be waiting in the rain to vote...for Bush...he has small children.

This is turning into a good movie...I need to visualize it some more...