Timeless

by Areful Eeslam
(Dhaka, Bangladesh)

Areful Eeslam

Areful Eeslam

After the high school exam Annie is spending routine boring time. One day she goes to a dvd parlor to get some dvds. She finds a dvd called "Wizard of Time" and the manager alerts her saying it is very unusual movie and whomever takes it returns hysterical. Annie finds it intriguing and takes it. At home, when she is about to watch the movie, she finds a caution in the dvd frontal: "Watch at your own risk. For best result see at midnight. ALONE!".

Everything is going very atypical so far. The movie begins at midnight; it starts in the era of Greek Mythology, when Helen of troy is being abducted. After that sequence a frame freezes, completely stuck for couple of minutes. Annie thinks the dvd got scrambled from a scratch, but everything in the frame keeps moving. It's a night scene there are fire, flames are moving from torch. She gets closer, hears some voices, when she goes too much closer, she puts her hand into the tv & gets into tv screen imagine when neo (keeanu reeves) was captured from the Matrix to real world in the first part. She falls into the fence of troy arena. She sees a 4:3 ratio screen is being vanished in the middle of a sculpture as if it was made for it. Now what happens?

She meets a wizard name Maximus. He makes gadgets & gizmos. She has the dvd remote in hand, when she presses next chapter they find themselves in between Trojan war, she lost her remote in the middle of the battle. They manage to hide, Max says the sculpture is full of mystical power where she came from. Now starts Annie's journey, with help of max they discovers the remote. She makes leaps in the history of time to find the gateway to her world. Chapter after chapter she witness almost every major even of the history. The wars & independences of nations, in a fast forward motion, but she fails to find the door which goes back to her time. The wizard appears in many space of time with a different name, he becomes her companion in many avatars. After the era of independence of India, the remote battery gets damaged. The wizard made a power booster, but it misfires, skips lots of chapters of dvd.

It leads her to future in 25th century. When Machines control everything & an evil emperor rules the world. She finds the wizard once again. A futuristic intelligence force of the emperor detects the remote control. Annie gets arrested. She is unfamiliar with the future technology, so she can't do anything to escape. Emperor gets to know that the remote is a key to time travel & orders to make a gateway to extract its technology. The wizard rescues Annie, they steal the remote & escape.

Lot of adventure happens, after the entire journey, at climatic point when the movie will finish the dvd will be stopped. But Annie doesn't belong here, she will be stuck here too. In the nick of time the wizard makes a digital time shift menu attached with the remote which triggers to the exact time of movie where she accidentally came into this world.

She finally made the comeback to real world. Not a second passed in real time. But guess what, she is in love with the wizards after all the adventures journey together, but he is a part of the movie, he is unreal. After some day when she is about to return the dvd. On the way she stops into a local toy store & see a toy maker exhibiting amazing toys who exactly looks like the wizard. Yes wizard, in a way, in a sense of mythic & love. Now that's the end of this story & the beginning of another.

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Feb 18, 2010
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by: Anonymous

thanks nathan for your comment, frankly speaking this idea came into my mind before matrix came out, yes i have seen videodrome, time machine & lots of similar genre. now this is just a plot, i have ots of sub plots in my mind which i assure will not be cliche. thanks.

Feb 17, 2010
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The Good, The Bad, and The Ugly
by: Nathan Lawrence

The Good: You have succeeded in creating a story that fuses many other attractive films. Personally, I wasn't a fan of The Matrix, but that's water under the bridge.

I am, however, a big fan of Videodrome, to which this bears many similarities. If that's the direction you're going, make it clearer. If you have never seen Videodrome, I suggest you rent it or watch it on YouTube. You may find that your premise is not as unique as you suspected.

The Bad: I would like to direct your attention to the following quote from your pitch:

"She meets a wizard name Maximus. He makes gadgets & gizmos. She has the dvd remote in hand, when she presses next chapter they find themselves in between Trojan war, she lost her remote in the middle of the battle."

What? This story has gone from intriguing to cliché in one fell swoop. In order to keep this story interesting, you should change the character of this "wizard" to something else.

Currently, your plot thickens with a time machine. This may work, but it means that you will have to avoid all of the pitfalls associated with that particular plot device.

The Ugly: Decide on your audience. Are you making a film for small children or their parents? Who do you want to see this? Once you determine that, then you can move on to create a more decisive story.

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by: Areful Eeslam

Thanks jonathon for your comment. I'd certainly love to advertise this idea to transform into movie. I will look at your idea too.

Sep 30, 2009
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Great Idea
by: Shaded Tree Studios

Wow. That is a very good idea. Your film sounds like it would be very good. If you need help advertising your film I will be glad to help you. I am also trying to film a movie. Check out my film, The Third Hour. Please comment and add your true opinion on my idea. Thank You!

Jonathon

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