The near future.
A mysterious explosion has destroyed the television network.
A group of five wealthy trustees are arguing in a dimly lit parlor of a bed and breakfast House in Savannah, GA.
They are very slick, fast talking Yankee businessmen.
They have a mysterious connection to the event.
They are gathered around the CEO who seems to have a bit more insight into their dilemma.
Above his head is a television screen with snow on it.
The initial shot begins with the snowy screen filling the vision.
The vision slowly zooms out.
The men are looking at the screen periodically while they talk.
CEO
Dreams are the Commodities of the Information Age.
And television is the new marketplace...
The possibility of another world.
Can't you people see it?
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The men have serious looks on their face.
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TRUSTEE 1
There was an explosion.
Television.
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He flicks his hands up.
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Gone. Unbelievable.
CEO
Yes. From what we can gather.
At the conclusion of the State of the Union Address.
Amidst the mayhem of applause,
BOOM!
TRUSTEE 2
A short circuit.
A scrambling of the airwaves.
Some force apparently jamming any efforts at repair.
A state of chaotic Emergency.
TRUSTEE 3
But what exactly does that have to do with us?
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CEO shakes his head.
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CEO
Everything.
They traced the explosion to our theme park here in Savannah.
That is why I called you all here on such short notice.
TRUSTEE 4
Island of the Old South.
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Shakes from reverie.
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Wait a minute.
What about the investment?
TRUSTEE 3
300 million.
Sky high.
TRUSTEE 2
Forget about that now.
We’ve got to figure out what happened.
Speculation is that he was part of a terrorist network.
TRUSTEE 1
How many people died in the explosion?
TRUSTEE 4
No one knows anything for sure.
TRUSTEE 3
He knows.
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He looks at the CEO.
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CEO
You’re not gonna believe this one.
TRUSTEE 2
The plans had been laid for at least a year.
TRUSTEE 4
About the explosion...
TRUSTEE 3
Yes, what was it exactly?
CEO
You know the signature ride he designed
As an advertisement of Uncle Sam’s Amusement in Georgia?
THE LEVIATHAN.
The new project.
It was part of the investment.
Remember?
TRUSTEE 4
Yes. On the Island of the Old South...
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His voice has a mock wistful tone.
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Under the Moonlight And Magnolias
of the old Harralee Plantation...
South of Savannah.
TRUSTEE 1
Brainwash Billboards for tourists.
TRUSTEE 2
I believe something bigger is at stake.
The Veil has been ripped.
There is a force...a feeling...
It’s a goddamn revolution.
TRUSTEE 4
But what in the hell does that mean?
CEO
It has to do with his extraordinary claim...
And our refusal to work with him.
TRUSTEE 3
The ride. You were talking about the ride...
CEO
Yes, the ride, a roller coaster.
THE LEVIATHAN.
TRUSTEE 2
Why did he choose that name?
CEO
It’s complicated.
It was supposed to be a big monster, dragon contraption with its tail in its mouth.
The Ouroborus, an ancient alchemical symbol of the eternal space/time continuum
Apparently,It is also a paradoxical metaphor of the hellish spirit of self-devouring, the gnashing of teeth, and the burning away of the dross, the transmutation of base metals into gold.
Half of it was above the ground.
There was a big Uncle Sam face with a grimacing laugh and serpentine tongue that you rode through as you went underground.
You were supposed to be riding on the tail.
TRUSTEE 3
Crazy.
TRUSTEE 4
He advertised it as THE DERAILED RIDE.
It was supposed to be a subterranean journey through Space and Time.
CEO
The virtuality was made to seem real through sensory deprivation techniques.
It was supposed to appear that the mind had been derailed from the body.
And it had been thoroughly checked.
TRUSTEE 2
But what does that have to do with Television?
CEO
Television is a working model of the human Imagination.
It operates on the same principles, same fundamental frequency patterns.
Television is an artificial imagination.
The more people watch it, the more they are relieved from having to conduct and generate substance in their own imaginations..
TRUSTEE 1
It is the ideal advertising vehicle. Television is a direct medium for translating a visual demand into the brain stuff of humans.
CEO
The physical brain is curvy and can hold a lot more data than it currently does.
Television facilitates the transfer of larger amounts of audiovisual information.
TRUSTEE 3
I don’t see the connection.
CEO
Multiple channels, multiple worlds, coexisting simultaneously.
The electrical waves that produce images and sounds in the mind are very similar to the electrical waves that produce images and sounds on a screen.
Electromagnetic energy.
Television is a vision of the imagination.
TRUSTEE 4
Or a reflection.
TRUSTEE 1
Therefore it can be used to sell anything that can be visualized.
TRUSTEE 3
To anyone who is watching.
TRUSTEE 2
He understood that connection?
CEO
Yes. Very intimately.
He understood how to turn the process around.
The possibility of transducing a person into an electrical wave frequency that could travel at light Speed, right back into the very airwaves themselves.
TRUSTEE 4
To reveal the power of the individual human transmitter.
TRUSTEE 1
To challenge the corporate hegemony of the American television network.
TRUSTEE 3
That was the goal.
TRUSTEE 2
But how did he do it?
CEO
By controlling all of the elements in an artificial environment, And isolating and amplifying a particular frequency until...
TRUSTEE 1
The reversal.
Amusement Park theory.
Instead of bringing the plastic realm into the real world as television does...
We take them out of the real and into the plastic fantastic...into the dream world.
CEO
Dreams are the commodities of the Information Age.
TRUSTEE 2
The basic machinery is in all of our parks.
CEO
He just took it further.
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Trustee 4 has a glazed look on his face.
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TRUSTEE 4
Island of the Old South...
TRUSTEE 3
What was his frequency?
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