Tuesday, February 10, 2015

SILVER IN THE SKY - SYNOPSIS

SILVER IN THE SKY


-Marilyn 

LOG LINE:  Silver in the Sky is a story like an impressionists painting with lovely cinematography and deeper questions of French aristocratic characters in Paris coming to the surface about life, the mystery of Nibiru and the fascinating work of a great jewelry house inspired by the explorations of children in nature.


SYNOPSIS: Madeline’s precocious son Jean is an avid collector of frogs with his fiends Criste and Robert who also expand the collection to snakes and butterflies.  The children in the park and trade creatures in their secret club and oddly Nicole’s daughters Anna and Alise have a swarm of bees that appear from nowhere in one of their rooms which have to be coaxed out by a jar of honey. Honey is used ironically to capture flies by Jean’s club to feed their frogs. Nicole is a high fashion jeweler who is inspired by these events to create a unique collection called Creatures in the Gardens. Nicole secretly works on this collections and does not tell anyone about her creations however people around her begin to suspect that she is creating something wondrous.

Anna and Alise speculate about the lost planet of Nibiru in their room having constructed a model of the solar system with the ancient planet distancing itself from the sun. They experience the magical appearance of a phoenix that flies across their balcony dropping a large golden feather. The girls continue to research this maddeningly mysterious topic suspecting that some may have incarnated amongst them from the people of that planet that came to Earth though their mother’s friend Madeline is quiet about this without revealing the truth.

Ingrid a German immigrant who has left her former life to paint is living in Montmartre and is quietly painting discovered by locals and visitors from Paris who love here art. She meets Jean and Madeline and paints his portrait which the parents fall in love with and order two more for themselves. Ingrid’s father Klaus arrive in Montmartre looking for his daughter who left a previous lover a very wealthy older Parisian. Klaus brings her some money and decides to visit for a week.  Ingrid revisits her dad and they catch up on life and he plans a surprise for her. Shortly after Ingrid meets Andre a bohemian French recording artist who stays up with her into the late hours laughing and discussing their philosophies on life. Ingrid has a cynical bite Andre begins to challenge some of her blocks to progress in her life that sets her free to greater happiness while he heals his heart from a deceased loved.

Nicole’s jewellery show held at one of the local prestigious stores is a stunning success Jean brings his pet beetle to the affair nearly enchanting some of the guests, drinks his first glass of champagne  alone at age eight while his parents are not looking and falls asleep against the wall in the corner of the store on the floor. Ingrid and Andre attend the show Ingrid is mesmerised by the collection as she and Andre both have a love of gardens.  Andre purchases a piece for Ingrid as a surprise taking a chance on the new relationship which he presents to her later.

Klaus meets Ingrid on his last day in Paris in Montmartre and presents her with a small home he has purchased for her stay there rescuing her form a horrible little apartment she was stuck in after leaving her previous lover swiftly. Ingrid is thrilled and even more thrilled when her father presents her with a second key to a Paris ultra modern flat that he bought for himself to visit her more frequently. Klaus leaves for Germany and Ingrid finally feels closer to being settled with more order in her life in France.

Andre is preparing for a new album recording and composes several songs inspired by his new relationship. Ingrid distressed one night in her new house calls him to get rid of a ghost haunting the wine cellar in her new home.  Andre slightly chilled from the encounter nevertheless perseveres to extradite the ghost to another dimension of peace away from the house through the tactic of song. He succeeds to Ingrid’s delight and the house is free of lingering spirits of the dead. 

Madeline wakes up one night and has a terrible dream of being in the cold on Nibiru distancing itself from the sun. Charles consoles her in the night and she finds warmth with him in their bed in his arms as they snuggle back to sleep soothing her.

Andre meanwhile get an offer from the USA to become an American recording artist. Knowing he would lose Ingrid for a lavender apartment and Buick he decides to stay in France.

Madeline and Charles lose their stern house keeper to a heart attack and hire a young girl fresh out of culinary school who Jean adores and knows his odd collection of creatures will now be safe from scrutiny as ‘appropriate.’


Jacques has a final show down in a restaurant with an investor acquaintance that has lost him money three times. A scene ensues as he tells him off in public and Nicole and he then commence to celebrate her success and more involvement of her in his investments replacing his previous investment comrade. 

Sunday, January 4, 2015

SHUTTER SPEED - SYNOPSIS

SHUTTER SPEED


-Marilyn 

LOG LINE:  Shutter Speed is a film about the observable we cause all around us that Melanie and Jacob two journalists for Science Revolution magazine are quantifying while Cathay a young Asian woman is solicited by a mysterious spy to look into her past life in Beijing. 

SYNOPSIS:  Melanie catches Baxter on camera and interviews the old scientist about a new treatment he’s developed for all kinds of diseases.  Redmond her editor are hot on the trail of discovery about how the observer observes his world; his life and how to see that paradox sought after by many.  A robbery takes place at her neighbors next door the Nelsons which sees psychically while in the bathtub and she rushes over to see if she’s correct and finds their door broken into.  Melanie’s conversation with a police officer becomes an unhinging experience for the lady because of the nature of how Melanie saw the crime.  Melanie sees how easily people may be accused admitting their gifts of a crime they report for an instant and how skewed the world can become.  

Jacob Melanie’s co worker is an intensely observant journalist who quietly does his assignments and catches up with Melanie determined to blossom his friendship with her into what is hidden in both of them yet unspoken in their friendship.  Melanie and Jacob compare notes on their understanding and perceptions of life through their work.  Melanie’s next story involves the look at magnetic tape of the soul and how we play it which is an intriguing exploration with Redland, Jacob peeking in on her progress with the topic and his own observations through her investigative journalism and intense conversations.

Jacob is living his life with two love birds that one day when Melanie arrives at his door out of the rain are a point of interest of his personal life which is reclusive as he s particular about who he socializes with.  Melanie and Jacob form a closer bond and have a serious conversation about attraction and their observations about each other that culminate in her staying till morning.
Cathay a young Asian woman is spied on by a private hired detective who is working for Mr. Yen a diamond broker from Beijing that suspects she is the reincarnated daughter of his past life.  Finally the man meets with her and gives her an invitation from Mr. Yen to fly to Beijing to meet him and stay a month.  After careful consideration and preparations Cathay takes the flight to Beijing and stays at an opulent hotel where she meets Mr. Yen and he brings her to the house eventually.  Cathay meets his charismatic son Ting who is in business with his father and also is a very adept martial arts instructor.  Ting teaches Cathay martial arts and plans surprises for her that make her visit to their home intriguing and filled with the unexpected.

Melanie meets demise of others in the street a leukemia victim enthralled with the drama of darkens the disease is playing as finally expressed to her like a clandestine secret which creates the confirmation of magnetic moments of wild abandon of reason to be verified behind disease of the mind causing disease of the body. 
Cathay and Ting visit the diamond mines and philosophize about the meaning of unearthing something buried vs theft of brilliant objects of desire. 


Melanie finishes a stunning story for the magazine and Jacob bonds with her in agreement of perusing a relationship.  Cathay decides to stay in Beijing when Mr. Yen offers her a job joining the diamond business. She returns to the USA to sell her condo pick up her cat and returns swiftly to Ting her lover and her new life. 

Monday, November 24, 2014

STARLIT CHRISTMAS - SYNOPSIS


STARLIT CHRISTMAS


Marilyn -

SYNOPSIS:  Ashley and Anthony a middle upper class couple lead a hectic life with two children and plans for the
Christmas season. Ashley works at the local museum where the artifacts have led her to wonder about the deeper meaning of the holiday season.  Her work and the visitation of an apparition of an ethereal being who manifests shimmering  stars magically into trees outside and to others mysteriously, causes an obsession about what is inside of us that she has gotten only glimpses of. Anthony her husband a corporate lawyer is busy helping raise their children Jolene and Riley who love to tease their parents and stir mild chaos. 

Monica a sweet and artistically gifted being creates a magical tree for Christmas filled with white fire like stars and lights which heralds phenomenon in her and her boy friend's lives.  Ryan her love is endeavoring finding solace and peace in his life in the chaotic pace of the Christmas season and struggles to let go of his mother's death.  His moodiness is lightened by Monica's effervescence as she leads him to ease away from his sadness and to move into a joyous season of celebration.

Ellen a young fashion sales lady lives in an old house with her aunt Madge after the death of her parents. Madge lives for weekends with her church baking group who drinks and gambles over baked goods leaving Ellen a little disinterested in the clandestine activities of her older aunt.  Ellen finds companionship with a young tailor who whisks her off to his uncle's cabin in the woods for Christmas leaving aunt Madge to her sordid little group of gals. Paul and Ellen buy a huge, festive train set for the cabin as a gift to Paul's uncle Neil as a surprise for his visit to them on New Year's.

Christmas ensues with more sightings of the mysterious star goddess and the family dinners begin with hilarious chaotic moments of wayward relatives revealing their secrets with children everywhere filled with the magic of the season.


New Year approaches and the festivities are prepared for with Marley's jazz band 'Smooth' rehearsing for a big hotel bash attended by Ashley, Anthony Monica and Ryan who all have an excellent night to the wee hours of New Year with a riveting conversation between Ashley and some guests on the inner magic of the divine.

Ellen arrives home to find aunt Madge dead and a note leaving her everything and gets a promotion.  She  reveals all at the church funeral about Madge's secrets and rebels predicting her reincarnation.

The new year begins and with a pregnancy for Monica and a contemplated engagement offered by Ryan. Ash gets a profound dream giving her some answers about the nature of the divine force within her and a cure for her feverish son.


        

Monday, November 17, 2014

GODS OF THE OCEANS - Synopsis

GODS OF THE OCEANS


-       Original screenplay by Marilyn Starlight. 


LOG LINE:  Gods of the Ocean is a rare film about pro surfing the love of surfing and facing personal growth in the sea of life with its many challenges.

SYNOPSIS:  In the opening scene of Gods of the Ocean Morgan a pro surfer dies under the under tow during a wild ride during an approaching storm. Kelly his bereaved sister is comforted by her boyfriend Jade at her beach house in Malibu.  Both are also pro surfers and after Kelly gets over her loss they enter the Malibu professionals surfing tournament. Jenny Morgan’s ex girlfriend is saved from her attempted suicide after he goes to surf and drowns angry that she left him, and she also enters the tournament with Brent her new boyfriend.  Personal reflections upon their lives and the course of events that have occurred prior to the tournament result in growth of the characters as they approach the tournament.

Chad an ex con who has quietly retired after selling his business; almost loosing it because of jail time, is a semi retired loner who sits and watches his old passion surfing on the beaches of Malibu. His close friend and former jail bird Milton, his main distraction shares mutual interests in custom cars and observing the hypocrisies in life by those who are still impassioned to bully their way through life; their colorful past. Tina, a failed business owner and lover of surfing, finds herself stranded on the street, trying to find a police officer after her trailer is stolen with all her belongings by her ex boyfriend. Chad sees her crying on the street in her pink slippers and pajamas and picks her up.  Chad and Tina form a friendship as he helps her together life back together after the theft of her property.  Tina meets Milton his colorful side kick and the three become close friends. Kyla Tina’s estranged daughter comes to live finally with Tina at Chad’s beach house in Malibu.

Meanwhile the Malibu pro surfing tournament is a wild success with Tracy an Australian surfer who is visiting the US for a year winning the championship along with Jade. Tina Milton and Chad attend the tournament and it reignites Milton and Tina’s passion for surfing. Much celebration occurs following the tournament a dinner and party are attended by the group of friends.

Tina and Chad grow closer in their relationship as Chad finds her bright, effervescent company takes him out of his solitary moodiness that only Milton was able to pull him out of with his sarcastic humor and wisdom about people and their motivations that Chad shares. Milton still has an edge that violence against innocents evokes where he steps in, ends the violence effectively and gets the hell out of the area. Chad tired of the L.A. crime scene retreats to his beach side home to find peace and spends time with his friends who are few for he does not allow many into his life unless they are genuine and non judgmental about his past. Milton has the same disdain for those who cannot take direct communication and is painfully direct with people or ignores them and goes about his business.  

Jade, Kelly, Jenny and Brent travel together to another tournament in Hawaii and rent a luxury condo by the beach together.  A vacation with intense surfing ensues for the group who finds inspiration in the local beauty of the land and their relationships blossom. Hawaii proves to be a thrilling surfing experience for the couples with Kelly winning the pro women’s division and winning an endorsement for Surfing Gear; a local Hawaiian outfitter.

A hurricane hits Malibu and Tina, Chad and Milton hole up with Kyla weathering the storm with generators for their card game into the wee hours. Chad’s beach house is saved from damage and the characters resume normal life. The Hawaii troupe return to Malibu after Jade, stuck in a small bachelor in Malibu buys a condo on the big Island.

Milton saves a damsel in distress, Laurie who is being dragged to the car of her boyfriend.  Milton ends his attack on Kelly and drives her home with Chad shaking his head again at Milton’s heroics. Chad asks Tina finally to marry him and Milton guarded but interested begins to date Laurie.  The end of the film culminates with Milton turning down Billy an ex con’s offer to do a drug deal and skip to the Caymans.  Milton chooses his new life with his legitimate business and budding relationship with Laura over returning to crime. Chad marries Tina creating a permanent home for Kyla and the young surfing group decides to plan a trip to Australia in the following year to the International surfing championships. Gods of the Oceans celebrates the success of those in the film who find within them the supernatural power of success over adversity.


  

Friday, November 7, 2014

THE BIG CATS - Synopsis


THE BIG CATS


Original screen play by Marilyn.


LOG LINE:  The Big Cats is a story about the magical and mysterious rain forest where Salika, a new ascended master, lives on a sabbatical away from her partnership in a green technology firm.  She meets Dryke a private contracted soldier who’s suffered a head injury and he is intrigued by her as the story unfolds.

SYNOPSIS: Salika is a mysterious woman who is from the USA visiting a tropical rainforest region with a small town near by of indigenous people on a sabbatical from her green technology business; Solar Stars Technology after her ascension. Dryke a private soldier injured in the forest is found by her companion a black panther Naila and leads him to Salika who cares for him at her house in the forest.  He recovers and learns all about her stay in the area and sees phenomenon about her that is supernatural yet subtle as a mysterious character in a wild land of great beauty and a strange unspoken magnetism occurs in Dryke to Salika and the land. 

Mean while Josh a technical writer for Tidwell Chemical in the big City of the USA is on vacation and meets Malley a young professional model who is distressed after seeing a nude man run through the hall in the elegant hotel. Josh invites her to spend time with him after having been traumatized him self nearly mugged outside on his way back from town and returning to the hotel. Josh and Malley form a close bond during their chaotic vacation that ensues in a murder at the hotel and the staff on the lookout for Loretta the cross-dressing streakier disturbing the guests.  

Back in the rain forest Dryke has explored the area and taken some time off and is contemplating the future.  He learns from Salika more about Solar Stars back home in the USA run by her disgruntled partner who misses her terribly. Dryke takes her offer to work for the company and flies to the US to meet Lawrence her partner.  He stays for a short period of time and then they are called back due to a contract gained by Salika for the company in the rain forest where they are building a coffee plantation on newly acquired land by a wealthy local from a larger city Tisret.

Salika remote views at a local ancient temple ruin deep in the jungle and Naila is her guardian that keeps her safe; the black panther that came to her as a cub. Eagles appear in the sky identifying the Andromedans in the area looking over the activity that ascended masters attract to them and they converge in a harmonic for upliftment of the vibration in the area where they appear.

Josh and Malley are dealing with more chaotic events in the city trying to make sense of it in relation to their lives. Josh gets him self fired from Tidwell Chemical on purpose when his boss is immovable on innovation of expression added to his job.  He lands a green technology job with Solar Star technology and meets Lawrence who is his dream boss with a great sense of humor and love of adventure.  

One year later celebrations arise of many successes and a way forged out of chaos for the characters by their own sheer will and courage to be living visionaries in both great and modest ways.

Monday, October 27, 2014

SCHOOL - Synopsis

SCHOOL


-Original screenplay by Marilyn 


LOG LINE: School is a surprisingly brilliant story of two private schools that teach the children they are Immortal and everything they need to know to stay that way through the challenges of ‘normal’ society.

SYNOPSIS: A phenomenon has taken place with two mysterious schools teaching mysterious things about Immortality; Little Butterflies Elementary and Blue Metamorphosis High. Children are learning about the divine force within and what it means when others pray to a god they may attract answers from these children who know they are little gods awakening in the application of the curriculum of their schools. 

Liz Malkin, a grade one teacher at Little Butterflies who is witnessing the magical effects of the teachings in their lives.  Liz meets Justin, a human resources CEO and she leads him to the study of consciousness for his own life to unfold greater with better understanding of her and her mind and abilities of supernatural phenomenon that she is teaching the children her students about.

Mr. French, a brilliant science teacher at Blue Metamorphosis High, leads a grade eleven class to ponder and experience hyperspace understanding of perceptions beyond the acceptance of our usual wiring that keeps us ‘safe’ and within a limited reality of our acceptance only within those parameters. He teaches with humor on the second child hood of the ageing and what it is as the protection towards death away from the evolutionary the kids are learning about.  Paradoxes of still body with momentum of active consciousness are addressed with the all important signal receivers of the brain the amygdale of the phenomenal ‘butterflies’ at study is revealed. The grade seven class of Randi’s performs the Dragonfly Merkaba and wows the school with butterflies and dragonflies and other little creatures manifesting off their auric bandwidth in a performance for the elementary school.

Lotrei and Rika two brilliant students at the Blue Metamorphosis school are experimenting with walking on water to the sun and almost make it at the beach then fall in worried they are wearing dry clean only clothing.

Randi Shelton the brilliant teacher of seventh graders is slightly nervous about her new relationship with Martin and puts him through his paces with tests and tribulations of loyalty to her in fulfilling important tasks of great simplicity. He proves himself worthy and their relationships grows deeper.

The end of the year approaches and the wild twists and turns of the teachers in their time off collides with their top students accelerating their growth through the humorous challenges all beings face and the eminence of attainment that gets them through to the other side of life.  

Monday, September 8, 2014

ANTIQUE DEALER - SYNOPSIS

THE ANTIQUE DEALER©


Original screen play by Marilyn.

LOG LINE:  The Antique Dealer, with a Cameo appearance by The Alchemist's Laboratory character Claryssa, is a magical film about portals through time and the keys of wisdom that good sleuthing and perseverance beyond the accepted reality provides; magic and a grand destiny. (Reference for the antique furniture mentioned is the book; World Antiques, Hamlin publishing).

SYNOPSIS:  Richland is thawing from the violent accidental death of his wife; his long time companion who ran their antique business along side him.  Sharla his manager senses his pain and reaches out to him to pull him back to life and to help him get over the traumatic demise of his wife.  Richland is drawn to Sharla’s hidden mysterious side that drives her to the study of history and to glean answers long forgotten and lost in the antique world in much of the craftsmanship all over the world about symbols carved within the furnishings of the deep subconscious and its motivations of humanity and its evolution.  Richland reveals a private interest in these questions that his wife did not share being admired for pragmatism and business savvy amongst the greatest antique merchants.   

Outrageous discussions ensue with the clairvoyant Sharla who is falling in love with Richland as the days go by in the antique store as he gets over his wife’s death.  Sharla sees visions of St. Anthony the great in the desert and then dreams of the man and feels a foreboding of meeting the entity in the present in some form.  Andrea a wealthy, educated socialite is making herself available for a friend going through horrible divorce Charles who is at his wits end and buys a condo from her. 

Meanwhile modern conceptual design is manifesting itself; a new slate of new design that calls forth the future.  Sharla and Richland visit the studio and meet Malina and Liz who are ultra modern interior designers and they discuss the secrets unrevealed of the 70’s and what ultra contemporary smooth line décor really meant and how it relates to their business.  Revelations of hilarious proportions and startling insights ensue in the discussion of interior design and the heritage of history humanity inherited.

Sharla and Richland fall in love mutually and plan a buying trip to France the Loire Valley region to meet an enigmatic friend who contacted Richland with some furniture he desired to sell them.  The trip brings magical revelation about Bourges the ancient alchemy capital of France and Joquin an enigmatic master who is a fine craftsman of furnishings and also sells authentic antiques greets them.  Sharla and Richland tour the sights of Bourges and Paris observing interesting signs of ancient symbols of genetic lineages of the Royals present carved intricately on antiques and find the answers to why humanity is attracting Extra Terrestrial visitors.  Sharla gets over the shock of understanding a key Jonquin asked for before allowing them to purchase an item of furniture; an old chest with symbols to decode.  Sharla wears the dark cloak of psychic people manifesting; previously burnt and tried for witch craft and glimpses what lies beyond it when she and Richland meet Claryssa an ascended master who greets them and gives clues to the key they must find to purchase an antique chest from Joquin if they find the required key. Sharla and Richland find the information that reveals what humanity is as a possibility.   They purchase the chest and learn of Joquin’s other moonlighting activities in the future of antiques.