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Fellow Gubatnon:

I’ve been very busy rewriting my movie script, “Root of Vengeance” lately. But thanks, God, I’ve made it good enough for submission. Actually, resubmission to literary agents, because I tried submitting this script to few agents already. Below is just a logline and synopsis of it. But if you have time, and really curious on how a movie script for Hollywood is written, you could follow this link.

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Title: Root of Vengeance
Author: Jess Guim
Genre: Sci-fi Thriller
Spec Script, 90 pages
WGAE# I47496

Logline:
Father and son venture on designing a super-hacking program which endangers their family and the world going into nuclear war. Now, they’re racing against time to save them and the world.

Synopsis:
Calvin Bailor, big-time programmer, is selling his hacking program to the FBI to save his $10-million worth problem on his consulting business and residential mansion. But Division Chief for Cyber Crimes, Hanz Graven, is interested in getting the program for his personal ambitions. So, he steals the program with the help of his Saudi Arabian secret partner, Sheik Ahmad, arms dealer and terrorist.

The program’s authentication process uses biometrics of Calvin’s eyes. To make Medusa work, he abducts Calvin, his wife (Adelle), and his son (Mark). While boarded in a private jet from New York to Paris, the group tests the program to hack a missile testing center in Japan. The test creates a pandemonium in Japan, and incites North Korean government to launch their own missile, targeting Japan.

Hanz considers the family as tough and dangerous. He chains them like hardcore criminals and terrorists in the jet. Hans orders father and son to remove the biometrics authentication on the program, or they’ll all die.

Mark finds a heavy-duty paper clip taped underneath his notebook. He always has this clip with him, to manually eject his broken DVD player, by inserting the clip’s wire on a pinhole at its front. Calvin unlocks his handcuff and other chains on his belly and feet using the paper clip. He fails to free his wife and son, when the paper clip cuts-off on Adellene’s handcuff.

The jet goes into trouble when a gangster accidentally fires and breaks its window, while he’s trying to stop the escaping family. Sheik Ahmad tries to escape with a parachute on his back, but Calvin shoots him while exchanging fire with him. Hanz gets the bullet-ridden parachute from dead Sheik Ahmad, and escapes the troubled jet. But the torn parachute opens like a blanket, and chokes him.

Calvin thought the tragedy created by Medusa program ended already after the jet crashed at the Atlantic Ocean. But five months later, the twin children of Sheik Ahmad, Abdul and Aisha come to avenge for their father’s death. Abdul explodes Calvin’s mansion using shoulder-type missile, and escapes on expensive limousine car with a backup rescue helicopter following them.

Calvin runs after the escaping car, using the EMS ambulance that’s going to rescue and bring him to hospital. The second fire truck that’s about to go to Calvin’s burning mansion accidentally hits the escaping car in an intersection. Calvin reaches the accident site and identifies the twin as children of Sheik Ahmad through an old French newspaper, “Le Figaro,” in the limousine car. The rescue helicopter picks-up the injured twins at the accident site.

Calvin finds the shoulder-type missile launcher of Abdul inside the car. He loads it with a projectile and fires it to the escaping helicopter – exploding it into pieces. Calvin vows to stop using his hacking program, and never to trust it to anybody else. Calvin receives $10 million reward from the FBI for killing Sheik Ahmad, a wanted terrorist.

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The script is 90 pages in all. So, you really need time to read this spec script. Once you’re done reading it, please send me your own personal criticism on it. You could post your comments here, or you could send them personally to jessguim(@)yahoo(.)com – parenthesis not included.

Again, the main movie script is at http://gubatnon.com/movie_script_the_analyst.html

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Courtesy: blog.onlinemoviesunlimited.com

INVICTUS (‘Di Pasupil)
ni William Ernest Henley

(Isinalin sa Tagalog ni Jess Guim)

Mula sa gabing bumabalot sa akin,
Sa singdilim na hukay at buong lalim,
Ako’y nagpasalamat sa Diyos natin,
Sa espiritu ko’ng ‘di kayang supilin.

Sa pagkalugmok na walang makapitan,
Hindi umigtad o dili kaya’y sumigaw.
Minsa’y binubugbog o ginagarote man,
Ulo kong duguan ay walang yuyukuan.

Sa kabila ng mga pagpipighati at galit,
Bumabadha’ng mga pangamba’t lagim,
Mga panahong nagbabalang-panganib,
Anumang takot sa’kin walang masilip.

Walang silbi makipot na bilangguan,
Maging lahat na naitalang kaparusahan,
Ako ang panginoon ng aking tadhana:
Ako ang kapitan ng aking kaluluwa.

INVICTUS (unconquered)
By William Ernest Henley

OUT of the night that covers me,
Black as the Pit from pole to pole,
I thank whatever gods may be
For my unconquerable soul.

In the fell clutch of circumstance
I have not winced nor cried aloud.
Under the bludgeonings of chance
My head is bloody, but unbowed.

Beyond this place of wrath and tears
Looms but the Horror of the shade,
And yet the menace of the years
Finds, and shall find, me unafraid.

It matters not how strait the gate,
How charged with punishments the scroll,
I am the master of my fate:
I am the captain of my soul.

This was the poem that inspired Nelson Mandela, while he was in prison.
Please copy and pass this to your Pinoy friends, if you can. Thank you.

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Kumusta, kapwa ko Gubatnon?!

Bag-o na an panahon niyan.  An kinakahiligan na san mga bata mga electronic games pareho san PlayStation, Wii, Game Box, etcetera.  San bata pa ako wara kami suon.  An aram lang namo na palipasan sin oras an mag-uyag piko, taratsian, serikyudan, tumba preso, pataraguban, paturubigan, mag-guyod sin kariton na an mga ruweda tansan sin botelya, o saday na mga lata sin gatas.  Sayo na inkahiligan ko sa Gubat san says anyos pa lang an edad ko, an magbasa sin komiks.  Dini ako naka-aram magbasa, bago ako pormal mag-adal o mag-basa sa eskuwelahan (Grade I) san mga libro manunungod kara Badong nan Miling, nan san kanira bayong na si Iling. 

An komiks magazines niyan, lalo na dini sa America, magayunon pagbasahon kay baga na man lang an pelikula.  Kulang sa mga letra nan eresturyahan, dahil an mga ilustrasyon sini mismo an nag-kokomunikar sa ato mga mata para ma-intyindehan an estorya.  Sayo na klasi sin komiks niyan an Manga na orihinal na nag-batog sa Japan.  An mga mata san mga bida sini daragkuon, pero, cute pag-imudon. 

Komiks an pinakabarato ko na palipasan sadto sin oras sa Gubat kay diri ko man kaya magpara-imod sini kara Oga.  Sa kababasa ko sini na mga komiks, dini ko man naaraman na si Carlo J. Caparas dating security guard na naging popularon na manunurat.  Para makalipas an oras sa pag-sekyu, sige niya an basa sin mang-iba ibang libro, hanggang mahikayat niya an sadire mag-surat sa komiks.  An pagyaman niya bilang manunurat sa komiks an naghikayat sa ako na maging manunurat man sa komiks. Sabi ko, kun kaya niya mag-surat, kaya ko man.

An pagsurat baga an anino ini na diri ko madulagan – anino na permanenting nakatakod sa ako maski diin ako kumadto.  Gusto ko nang dulagan ini.  Pero, wara ako mahimo,  lalo na niyan na may computer maski diin, nan may Internet an kada computer.  Diri mo na kaipuhan maging Journalist para maging manunurat; diri mo na kaipuhan maging Internet expert para sumurat pareho sini na inhihimo ko na blog niyan.

Anino man ini na katakod sa ako,  diri ko sinasaboot na maging propesyon kay kaipuhan ko an madalian na kuwarta sa pang-uruadlaw na pangangaipo sa buhay.  Pareho halimbawa san komiks scriptwriting, 1974 pa maaram na ako mag-surat sin estorya o script sa komiks. May napublikar man ako na estorya sa komiks sadto, pero, sunurender ako kay sa Manila pa ako dapat mag-estar kun gusto ko ini ipadagos na propesyon. Nag-tiyaga na lang ako mag-trabaho bilang Abaca Fiber Development Officer sa Gubat, para mabuhay ko an ako pamilya. At least, regular an suweldo sini sa gobyerno.

San 1975, nadiskubre san maestra ko sa kolehiyo an interes ko mag-surat san naaraman sini na dati ako editor-in-chief san “Dangkalan Breeze” sa Gubat High School.  Nagbatog ako bilang news writer sa “The Seedling” (BU College of Agriculture) hanggang san sumunod na taon (1976) ako tulos an naging editor-in-chief sini na peryodiko. San 1977 nadagdagan pa an ako responsibilidad san an “Universitarian” o peryodiko san bilog na Bicol University, kinuwa ako na associate editor.  Kaya, naglalagadi ako sadto pagkadto sa Legaspi City para mag-surat sa “Universitarian,” nan sa Guinobatan, Albay, para mag-manihar san “The Seedling.” At least, may magayon na naihatag ini sa ako, kay naging scholar ako sini na duwa na peryodiko.

San 2006, naingganyar naman ako mag-adal sin movie screenwriting sa New York Film Academy.  Dini man nag-adal sin movie directing si Rolly Quizon, an bata ni Dolphy.  Upat na bulan ako nag-adal dini sa pag-surat sin script sa pelikula.  Nakahimo ako sin script.  Sinubmit ko ini sa mga literary agents sa Hollywood.  Daghan an nag-surat sa ako, nag-ayo san kopya san ako script.  Pinadarhan ko an mga ini.  Pero, maski sayo wara sin nagkagusto sini na script.  Tulong taon na an nakalipas, dahil san propesyon ko bilang computer engineer, diri ko man ini natagan na movie screenwriting sin siyento porcientong atensiyon. Sabi sin sayo na manunurat sa screenwriting, kinakaipuhan na makatapos ka mag-surat sin sampulo na script sa pelikula para mahasa an imo pag-surat, nan may mabakal saimo na script o mahimo na pelikula sa imo script.

Balik kita sa komiks screenwriting.  Sa tu-o sini na pahina may link ako na dinagdag para saiyo reading entertainment. Sa irarom san “Blogroll,” may sub-title na “Komiks (Scripts)” pakadto ini sa mga sampol sin komiks scripts na sinurat ko.  Aram ko, bag-o ini saiyo, pero, sana ma-apreciar niyo kun pan-o an pag-surat sa komiks.  Paki-email tabi sa ako san iyo mga komentaryo.  Kun nagustuhan niyo mag-basa sin naiiba na klasing pag-surat (komiks scriptwriting), sa masunod ibutang ko man dini an ako sampol na movie script na pang-Hollywood. Kun kamo naka-estar niyan sa Manila, mahilig mag-surat, magayon pag-adalan ini na movie screenwriting kay harani lang kamo sa koron, o sa mga producer nan mga literary agents diyan.