Dan and I were talking today and we reiterated one of the ideas we had discussed earlier. The film is like a parody in the sense that it takes certain conventions and tries to turn them inside out and upside down in a playful way. Examples...
> Everyone knows there's supposed to be a build and climax at the end. We have a conceptual build and a cartoon fire. The whole ending claims to overturn all we know about physics! What an incredible tale! But it's presented in fuzzy abstract text. You don't see anything, you just imagine most of it.
>Everyone knows that clues take you from one place to the next. In our movie, unlike the Da Vinci Code, however, the clues are open to question. For example, the shrine interior is based on the idea of dinosaur bones in which they restore a whole dinosaur from just a couple of bone fragments. Is it a real creature or just wishful thinking? Is that really a spinner plate in there? Does XNHILO really spell "ex nihilo?" Is it a real clue or just wishful thinking?
>There's a protagonist caught up in a conspiracy and two other characters--one trying to help him and the other trying to kill him. But you only see the protagonist.
It's as if I tore out the center of a typical conspiracy story and built a film around the shape of the hole that remained. A film for a movie-savvy generation.
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