Here we go on invisibility: In the car on the way to the hash ( great running goup I have joined), on Tuesday this week, a fellow passenger said that he had been listening to some podcasts as a means of keeping in touch with the USA. (He is from the USA). The podcast described an American who, as a conversation starter (or ice breaker or whatever), was asking people what superpower they would chose to have if offered a choice. Among the answers people gave were 'Flying' and 'Invisibility'. We discussed the people who are flying in suits with webbing like the man from Atlantis (who was in Dallas but reminds me of the man who played the Incredible Hulk first time round,with the sad piano piece at the end...'you won't like it when I am angry'.
It just so happens... no I don't have this power...that I have thought about it before:
If one leaves aside the obvious abuses one might make of it and the idea that observing anyone without their knowledge is potentially breaking their right to privacy.
Though I'm sure we all do it all the time, probably not with malicious intent, what beneficial use of it might one make?
- The fight against crime; policing and justice
- Fighting of the worthy war
- Sport (rugby, there would be no need to feign injury but how to carry the ball when invisible?)
In addition to thinking about this... the idea of being permanently watched, perhaps by CCTV.
Even the afternoon murder series with the upright American lady...whose name I can't remember but I keep expecting Dick Van Dyke to appear in the same programme... had a take on this one in a recent episode.
An innocent man cheekily piggybacks onto a neighbour's cable connection and gains his girlfriend access to what he thought was a TV station but turned out to be the a secretly placed CCTV camera in a neighbour's kitchen...
...and before they realise it is fiction, they watch a group of men conspiring to commit a crime.
Eventually there is a shooting in the flat, a woman goes missing, they start seeing the 'actors' from the film in their street...then the penny drops.
Invisibilty as topic for a serious film
As a screen play?
- Setting and Context (who, when, where): an individual in the UK in modern times I presume. Elementary
- Discovery of superpower
- Control of superpower.
- Deliberate action (telephone box like wonderwoman?)
- Consumption of something (magic potion)
- Response to emotion (Incredible hulk)
- Change of clothing (Batman)
- Plot;
- Goodies vs baddies
- Moral choice,
- Topical dilemmas....personalisation/internet and the world wide web/closed communities of applications
- Humour, without killing it off (like that scene where Legolas surfs down the steps on his shield)
- Music/soundtrack
- The contrast with being permanently watched
I suppose one place to start, as did the Sherlock Holmes guys, is with the original and subsequent interpretations. Was it H G wells? I shall have do do a bit or research. MMMmm
This blog post needs cleaning up a bit, doesn't it. First there are two of them in succession. The web mail service i was using led to me believe that the initial email to Posterous (how I post to this blog) hadn't been sent, so I sent it again. then there are is the jump from Flying to Invisibility...Anyway, i'm going to leave it as it is. A daily blog is going to be quite demanding if it has got to be perfect, and interesting to me, let alone anyone else and worrying to much about blog corrections after the event (unless affecting other people) is a bit much. Better quality control before eposting might be good though
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