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Carl L. June 03, 2010 08:07 2 Thumb-ups
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Putting the Love back into the story

Take this story here:

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http://www.wreckamovie.com/shots/show/6162
Banker's love by Timo-Heikki Mäkelä
An ambitious Banker booms forward and gets to the very top by using every chance opening to him. He dazzles with achievement, creates ingenious inventions, makes friends and makes love with everyone, until desides to change the rules "for the better" and turns them down to get forward - in his own opinion always for the best for everyone, as it initially also seems.

The Banker gets to rule the world. But only by making more promises, "selling more" of himself and borrowing for what he finally realises is impossible to get. He's lethally in love with money, power and greed, but there's no way to turn back. The only way is to continue even further, even deeper towards the inevidently closing certain catastrophe.

Being an ingenious cheater even able to cheat himself, however, the Banker manages to ensure everyone around himself time after time, that everything will just get better by following his advice and by pushing ever further, stronger and faster. And amazingly he does manage to rise from plain catastrophes again and again, and viewers really cannot tell in advance, when it'll actually be the obvious and inevitable end of story. Until it actually is, and everything lies in ruins and the Banker in shame.

As a specialty, the very end of this story could each and every time change a bit, so the spectators could never really know when and how the story ends. At the end, the Banker could save the world numerous times again and again in an intensifying atmosphere, but the number of saves could change each time and include different ideas. It could even be improvised to a degree to hide the actual end to the very last second. And there could even be options for a surprising happy end prepared, so no one really could tell in advance.

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...but replace the one banker with the five members of the 'elite'.
This makes the constant lying, self-cheating, etc more dramatic, and easier to play out on a stage.

THE FIVE are the status quo.
The forces attempting to rule our chaotic world.
They represent the balance of power.

They employ many ways to remain on the good side of the people. There is always somebody else to blame for the problems of society. They will give out charity in the millions. The people love them, not realizing that charity is not change.
They hire assassins, support the cause of fanatics, and set them loose on anyone not
in support of their cause (managing to twist the cause to suit the fives purposes)
The violence can never be traced back to them, save by 'crazy conspiracy theories' put out by the Heroine.

The HEROINE is the unsure future.
She represents the possible disorder. The Yin.
(not in a negative sense, order-disorder are two sides of the same coin)
She starts out as working for one of the five. Possibly a close secretary.
She thinks she is working for the greater good, but soon finds out the truth.
Being an uncorruptible soul, she decides to uncover the truth, and finds the underlying conspiracy of the synarchy.
Deciding that she is in a good position to effect change, she decides to keep her job, and using an anonymous alter-ego, Change Personified (This could be a masked homage to V). She attempts to fight the Establishment from within while trying to educate the People to fight it from without. She is crafty enough not to be caught...
Due to her position she cannot actively engage in fighting the elite, but plants enough defects into their system to form a few cracks, that she then shows to the People who are willing to listen. Mostly a propaganda role.

The Elite then latch on to the Anonymous Alter-Ego, and have a few fanatics perform violence on it's accord. Maybe they manage to manipulate the Alter-Ego for a bit.
Either way, they create an image of mistrust. "If you're against the establishment, then you're a terrorist."

This is how they manipulate the public opinion.

The YOUNG BANKER is the other side of the unsure future.
He represents the possible order. The Yang.
He starts out as an apprentice in their hierarchy. A useful pawn to accomplish the dirty work for each of them. Played to obliterate the competition (the markets, symbolized by the choir), and to thwart attempts by the other four to seize more power.
To stabilize the status quo. To increase power only for the Synarchy (the five).
He is supposed to end up as the scapegoat for all the operations, but always comes away clean...

He might be drawn to the mysterious undefinable innocence of the Heroine. He may try to win her for himself, only to be rejected for his power.

Only in the end do we realize that the Young Banker was the one pulling all the strings in the background all along. And only when he makes the choice which path to follow.
But maybe his choice has been manipulated by the chaotic element in this story
...Love

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