Danimatian - Dan Boujoulian - All Dan, All The Time

My thoughts turn around. Memory fades.

A feeling of utmost insecurity fills me. What if it was just a flash in the pan? A short series of one night stands? Would she still care, an ocean away?

The phone rings.

Her, I think.

You have a collect call from...

YES!

Joey

Will you accept the charges?

yes.

Hey man, I'm stuck in Pheonix!

Joey, what the hell are you doing in Pheonix?

VEGAS BABY! Vegas.

It is raining harder than I've ever seen. I am standing on the top of the vast hill. She is beside me, nuzzled up close.

We fear lightning so we step away from the fence.

Detroit is in the distance, the lights of the city break through the rain. She looks up at me and is almost looksas though she is crying. She smiles and asks what it is I am thinking.

My siblings and I sat on the couch awaiting the flash of light. He eyed the painting of the ducks behind us.

He screams. "DUCK!"

As we scramble for cover the shutter clicks and captures our chaos.

Bad Day

AN ANIMATED ADVENTURE

Brought to you by Bargain Basement and Danimatian Studios.

Confusion by Jason Roth. Disillusion by Dan Boujoulian

BLACKNESS Zoom out from blackness to reveal Protagonist in his room. Colors are inverted (black is white, etc.) The darkness we saw a moment ago was the whites of ProtagonistÃs eyes in this inverted world. An ALARM blares which makes Protagonist agitated until he finally smashes the thing. Repeat several times. Each time is simply a dream of him wanting to smash the alarm. The time on the alarm changes with each blast. The ALARM is heard again, but smashing the clock does nothing. Repeat. Eventually the motion becomes him simply pushing snooze on the clock (instead of smashing it.) Protagonist looks around and sees the phone rising from the table. It sounds just like the alarm. He places the reciever to the phone on his ear and and explosion occurs from the phone. His charred face intently listens to the voice on the phone informing him he is late for work. He stands and walks past a calender. Every date on the calender contains a question mark as one numeral. He slams into the doorway to the hallway. Pauses and opens the door. There is now bright sunlight pooring in from the hallway.

INT. HALLWAY INT. BATHROOM
PROTAGONIST opens eyes. They are red and pulsing. He eyes the empty roll of toilet paper. Perspective changes as he views the new roll. The roll appears to be humongously far from him.

INT. LIVING ROOM
He walks into the living room to find his car smashed through the wall. Stray animals are running about and a bum is sleeping on the hood of the car. The DOORBELL rings. He turns to face the door. MORE OBSTACLES TO COME! He passes out a foot from the door. Exhuaustion setting in. Again the spectrum inverses and the camera zooms into his eye. It is white because he is sleeping. Awaiting him outside at the conclusion to all of this is a team of sweepstakes winnings providers. They walk away in frustration when Protagonist does not answer the door.

Thom's iBook

an animation of Thom Yorke from Radiohead doing a commercial for an iBook G4. I am gonna try to track down an English guy to do the voice so we'll have a hilarious sountrack to sync to. Then we draw a slanty eyed cartoon somehow and we're golden.

Dan Boujoulian
Scriptwriting 1
Tuesday, March 31, 1998

SFX: Radiohead 'Fitter, Happier'

JIMBO: Man, turn that down.

(MUSIC FADES DOWN BUT NOT OUT)

BRAD: That is so weird. People controlled, everything about how we lived can be commanded by computers and we wouldn't even know it.

JIMBO: I'm not commanded by anything.

SFX: (flicking of flint on lighter starting slowly and then fast paced)

BRAD: Our entire existance is predefined.

JIMBO: Piece of crap.

SFX of lighter hitting dashboard

BRAD: No, it's true, we could all be commanded by satelliteu

JIMBO: Shut, up, I don't want to hear it, I was talking about the lighter anyway. Like I listen to anything you say. I shouldn't have listened to you anyways, I should have got the Bic instead of the lighter with the naked woman on it.

SFX: Fade in Fitter happer again and Cut after words "an empowered and informed member of society (pragmatism not idealism)"

"Fitter Happier" © 1997 Capitol Records, is a freaky computer voice telling you how to live example "fitter, happier, more productive, comfortable not drinking too much, regular exercise at the gym (3 days a week) getting on better with you associate employee contemporaries" etc. It's really freaky to hear. In the background is very dramatic string instuments orchestrated to drive you into a utopian frenzy. It is found on the Radiohead OK Computer album.

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