Hedonist the music video has been a huge undertaking. As pleased as I am with my last music video Lapdance Romance, my goal is to make Lapdance Romance look like and idiot compared to Hedonist. Hedonist is going to have 4 sets with separate action sequences that relate the overall concept of the song visually. I've decided to post the scripts I've written for each set in a 4 part series.
In my first post of this series I revealed the script for The Psychiatrist's Office of the Mind's Eye. It' lays down the premise and overall concept for the video.
The the second of the sets is what I've called The Padded Cell of Hedonism. The set is where my character goes to escape the pain of being abused, and is a visual metaphor for my character's relationship with hedonism. Hedonism is portrayed as a physical being who rules the world inside the cell and ultimately seduces my character to over indulge in substance use until she becomes an addict.
The third set is called The Padded Cell of Terror and Art Therapy
This set is all about my character "The Patient" coming to the grim realization that she is an addict trapped in a vicious cycle of domestic abuse and substance abuse.The fourth and final set is simply titled...
The Operating Room
The Operating Room is not only about the abusive relationship between the domestic violence victim and their abuser, but also the abusive relationship between the domestic violence victim and herself. The domestic violence victim uses substance abuse as an escape from the pain of the violence and through the use of drugs and alcohol creates an alter ego for herself as depicted in the script below.
THE OPERATING ROOM
by JENNY KIRBY
Scene 1
INT: Operating Room
A continuation from the last scene of Little Miss Liquid Courage the patient
lays motionless on the operating table. Her chest and head wounds from where
she tore off her fake stapled on breasts and hair are gushing blood. Surgeon #1
and Surgeon #2 enter wearing white “Howie coats” and full biohazard masks that
hide their identity. Surgeon #1 straps the patient down and places the patients
head in the vice grips at the top end of the table. Surgeon #2 pries the
patient’s mouth open with a metal mouth speculum, shoves a tube inside the
patient’s mouth, then connects the tube to a vodka bottle suspended from an IV
stand.
Next to the operating table is a metal tray
with surgical instruments and power tools. Surgeon #2 marks 4 circles on the
patient’s torso and then hands surgeon #1 a scalpel. Surgeon #1 slices into the
patient’s skin dragging the scalpel along the perimeter of the marked circles.
Surgeon #1 peels off the circles of cut out skin as Surgeon #2 wipes away the
blood leaking out of the incisions.
Surgeon #1 digs into the wound with a pair
of surgical tweezers and fishes around inside the wound which causes more blood
to begin gushing out. Surgeon #2 uses a sponge to absorb and wipe away the
excess blood. Then Surgeon #2 pokes her finger into the wound and pulls out an
artery. Surgeon #1 places 2 clamps on the artery and cuts between the two
clamps with a pair of scissors. Surgeon #2 lifts the bottom of Surgeon #1’s
mask revealing his mouth and wipes the blood off her gloved finger on to his
lips. Surgeon #1 licks the blood from his lips and smiles.
SURGEON #1
“Oh! You taste so good”
Scene 2
INT: Operating Room
In the back corner to the left of the
operating table sits a cylindrical glass tank with a metal base that is made up
of several small piece held together by rivets. Inside the glass tank is a
living growing fetus. Several small tubes are connected to the fetus and lead
down into the metal base. At the bottom of the metal base are 4 large black
tubes that carry nutrients to the fetus and waste away from the fetus.
Surgeon #1 stretches the patient’s circular
incisions open and inserts a short metal cylinder with a flared base into each
circular incision. The flared base has screw sockets and is positioned just
under the skin. The cylindrical portion juts out of the wound and will fit
inside the opening of the large black tubes.
Surgeon #2 is holding a large black tube at
the open end and pulls a small catheter type tube from inside. Surgeon #1 pulls
the clamped end of an artery out of one of the patient’s incisions as Surgeon
#2 inserts the catheter tip into the artery.
After the surgeons have repeated this
procedure for all of the catheter tubes, Surgeon #1 attaches the black hose
into the circular incisions by placing the opening of the black tube over the
metal cylinder jutting out of the incision an screwing the flared opening of
the black tubes into the skin and down into the sockets of the flared base of
the metal cylinder inside the wound.
The patient’s body now provides nourishment
to the growing fetus inside the tank. Surgeon #1 pulls off his mask and reveals
his face. He’s a sinister looking man with a sadistic gleam in his eye. Surgeon
#2 pulls the mask off her face revealing her identity. She is the patient. She
leans in towards Surgeon #2 as if to kiss him.
SURGEON #2
“I need an anesthetic to numb me to you”
Surgeon #2 leans in even closer, nose to
nose, lips almost touching. Surgeon #1 is entranced, and doesn’t notice as
Surgeon #2 grips his throat tightly with her bloody hand and begins to choke
him.
Wow...
ReplyDeleteThis is good, just as a read alone; it makes me wonder what the fucking hell the actual visuals will be like. Hedonism is reflected very well here, and nicely woven into the narrative, so far with all the reads. I get it, I really do, without the need of exposition, which many stories fail at. I HATE doctors, so I automatically like the portrayal of the surgeons, and especially the twist with Surgeon 1 and 2 (sweet vengeance imo).
There's a factor of vengeance, its very satisfying in this narrative (for part 4) I think that, vengeance is an important factor about hedonism, especially when it becomes your enemy, vengeance is an ally, when used correctly. So far again, great blend of macabre, philosophy and horror to tell a very relatable story that only progressive minds and freethinkers would understand and appreciate. The overall story also addresses internal conflicts, and the internal pain they cause us, which seems well portrayed, based on your writings.
I fucking love it so far, I really look forward to the video, I'm really psyched to what's next!