Opening scene of Serenity, what would you like to see? by 3of19

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Opening scene of Serenity, what would you like to see?

POSTED BY: 3OF19
UPDATED: Thursday, August 12, 2004 09:29
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Monday, August 9, 2004 11:06 PM

My take:
Serenity flying through space, an Alliance cruiser in her flightpath. Camera zooms in on bridge, goes through the window and stops on "the red button". Wash hits it, alarms go off. Camera travels through the ship, showing the BDHs getting ready for inspection, River and Simon crawling into hiding in the secret compartment.

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Tuesday, August 10, 2004 12:03 AM

JAYNEZTOWN

more from the battle of Serenity, and more on the life for the independants before the Alliance destroyed them as a force at Serenity

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Tuesday, August 10, 2004 2:05 AM

BROWNCOAT1

May have been the losing side. Still not convinced it was the wrong one.

Our BDHs on a typical rim world rounding up work. They walk down a dusty street past Mr Sonny Rhodes, who is sitting on a porch strumming a guitar & singing the Ballad of Serenity.

"May have been the losing side. Still not convinced it was the wrong one."

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Tuesday, August 10, 2004 5:43 AM

WITLESSCHUM

Credits?

I'm a traditionalist.

Or anyway. I'd start with a crime, a sort of scary one where they might have to menace people a bit, they do their crime thing and we gradually realize these our the heroes. (We already know, but the general audience don't)

Or maybe a slow sequence through the interior of the ship, getting each character in a tiny bit of detail and then ......

Something happens. Something exciting.
I'd suggest explosions, multiple, cold and domestic.

Yeah, the very first scene could be the next installment of "Alan Tudyk presents: This Land" We start tight on a plastic T-Rex.

Dan

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Tuesday, August 10, 2004 5:57 AM

REGINLEIF

Something family like... with everybody together, playing or eating or shooting or whatever. And I wish there will be a way to put the theme song into the movie.

You can't take the sky from me.

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Tuesday, August 10, 2004 6:36 AM

NOOCYTE

You know, I really don't have a clear image of what I'd like the first scene to be. Joss has so much exposition to accomplish in a short time that it all becomes a bit of a jumble in my head (which is why I'm surpassingly glad that it's Joss writing it and not me!). I'll trust in Joss to make things unfold as they must.

That said, it's funny you should mention that long travelling shot, as this is something I've envisioned my own self many a time. I imagine the silence of the Black (well, maybe some pretty, wispy nebula-type-stuff), a plaintive guitar-and-fiddle cue, and Serenity heaving into view from screen top, descending into our field of view, coming right at us. Smoothly, the motion continues, right through the front viewports (cue sound as we pass glass), blending seamlessly into a long travelling shot through the bridge, the foredeck, and into the mess hall, where our BDHs await us. It would be a lovely shot, which we definitely have the tech to accomplish, would introduce new viewers to the layout of the ship, and serve as a love letter to the fans.

255 days to go.......

Department of Redundancy Department

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Tuesday, August 10, 2004 8:52 AM

STEVETHEPIRATE

I'm thinkin' Joss is gonna try to trick us, like showin' us River running through the ship and killing everyone, only to find out Simon is dreaming about it or something like that.

That, or Jayne slitting Buffy's throat. That'd be good. No good little...

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Tuesday, August 10, 2004 11:14 AM

WILDHEAVENFARM

Explosions and nudity, in no particular order.

Mary
Always a beast, never a burden.

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Tuesday, August 10, 2004 11:28 AM

MISGUIDED BY VOICES

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Originally posted by STEVEthePIRATE:
I'm thinkin' Joss is gonna try to trick us, like showin' us River running through the ship and killing everyone, only to find out Simon is dreaming about it or something like that.

That, or Jayne slitting Buffy's throat. That'd be good. No good little...

Two things the opening has to do -

1) Tell people that this ain't Star Wars or Star Trek.

2) Throw people into the action.

I'm thinking a heist scene on a planet, flowing quickly to Serenity, which takes off just in time and jumps to.. credits.

"I threw up on your bed"

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Thursday, August 12, 2004 7:32 AM

GRIMLAKIN

A showdown scene with river and two of the blue sun people with the rest of the crew backing her up.

But it will probably open in a heist of some sort.

Course he could always tarentino it and show the ending then film and show how they got to that point.

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Thursday, August 12, 2004 7:54 AM

CARDIE

I'd like to see it open at the dining table when something happens to kick-start the plot. I think it may start with the Operative getting his assignment, though, in order to catch people up on what the basic situation is. I would also expect the Reaver attack to come up fairly quickly.

Cardie

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Thursday, August 12, 2004 7:59 AM

CYBERSNARK

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Originally posted by WildHeavenFarm:
Explosions and nudity, in no particular order.

Can we avoid the exploding naked people?

I'll agree with people suggesting the heist. Preferably something violent, as Witlesschum suggested, to set up the moral ambiguity of the characters.

Then show them giving medicine to townsfolk, or caring for River, or Kaylee eating strawberries. . .

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Thursday, August 12, 2004 8:05 AM

JUSTANOTHERMUDDER

Something being 'blowed up real good' then pan to Jayne... smiling.

"Always be yourself. Unless you suck." Joss Whedon
"Where else are you going to get a love story that begins:
Boy meets girl. Girl kicks boy's ass." NYPinTA @WatchFarscape.com

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Thursday, August 12, 2004 8:11 AM

GOJIRO

Quote:
Originally posted by WildHeavenFarm:
Explosions and nudity, in no particular order.

Mary
Always a beast, never a burden.

This almost made me spit Coke all over my computer! LOL!

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Thursday, August 12, 2004 8:59 AM

FREMDFIRMA

Quote:
Originally posted by witlesschum:
Yeah, the very first scene could be the next installment of "Alan Tudyk presents: This Land" We start tight on a plastic T-Rex.

I gotta go with this one, folks, Wash and the Dino's is the penultimate in puppet theatre...

-F

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Thursday, August 12, 2004 9:29 AM

LOSTINTHEVERSE

1)Terrifying space monkeys juggling goslings,
2)Kaylee eating strawberries,
3)River killing things with her brain,
4)Jayne blowing something up while Zoe cleans guns nearby,
5)Wash and his dinosaurs,
6)Inara doing Mal's hair,
7)Book lifting weights, and
8)Jubal early saying "Well, here I am."

In a "Brady Bunch-esque" tile pattern with a big fiery Serenity in the middle.

But if that's not possible, the first one. Definitely the first one.

~ Lost In The 'Verse

"About a year before we met, I spent 6 months on a moon where the primary form of recreation was juggling geese. My hand to god. Baby geese. Goslings. They were juggled!"

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Thursday, August 12, 2004 9:29 AM

LOSTINTHEVERSE

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