Power

"No one man should have all that power." So far in 2011 no film has affected me more than Black Swan, directed by Darren Aronofsky. With themes of perfection and fighting to be the best at something you spend most of your time doing, the film really strikes you emotively and haunts you with it's combination of beauty and ugliness. This made me think about other industries where people strive for perfection and the result is beautiful yet what got them there was quite ugly. There were two industries that I could think of: Acting and Art. So when I saw the film Paranormal Activity and instantly the idea of murdering to get to perfection came to the forefront of my mind. Even though this is an idea, which is played out in Black Swan, I wanted to develop it and make it the main theme of a film. So out of this came two ideas, one being called Power, which features an artist who has been struggling for a number of years to make an impression in London. When he is walking through Hyde Park, someone attempts to mug him but in the struggle the artist murders the attacker. When he steps back from the aftermath the artist sees beauty in the murder scene and feels the urge to paint it. This painting becomes massively successful and he then feels pressure to gain perfection in his paintings so he has to keep on murdering people to create the perfect painting. As he gets more and more obsessed, colour starts to fade from his vision before culminating in him ending his life in front of the woman he has been pining over.

The other idea is about an young college student, who by chance becomes a megastar when he acts in a successful film. He gets all of the perks that come with being famous but he can't get enough of it. So this drives him to insanity before he loses it all. There is a lot more to this idea but it all needs to be worked out before I lay it all down on here.

Stranger is slowly coming together and now emerging as one of my stronger ideas but is still a long way from being finished. Exciting times ahead.