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Okay, here is what was my idea some time ago.
There are two story lines: one takes place in the past long time ago, and another takes place in our time.
The movie starts with images of a tropical forest and mist coming up from the ground.
There's a girl, who's a scientist, and archeologist. She's young and enthusiastic, and works in some university doing research work. She is not a believer or not even a seeker. From her family she only has a stepfather who lives far from her and is sick with something. And he has a boyfriend, and their relationship is past the time when they are happy and in love. But they live together and sometimes talk, sometimes fight, sometimes are intimate.
She has friends who come back from a trip to Egypt, and bring her a souvenir a fragment of clay pot or some vessel with some letters carved on it. The fragment catches her attention as the writing on it is in an unknown language.
She starts examining the fragment on her own and finds that it belongs to an ancient unknown culture.
As she works more on this, in her night dreams she starts hearing a voice that is calling her. And in some time she understands that the voice calls her to search for the paradise. And shows her a way to it. Her boyfriend does not believe in her visions and thinks that she's becoming strange.
She starts exploring to find out as much as she can about the Garden of Eden because this is what she thinks the voice means by "paradise". And she sees how the vision she has with the way to the Garden can actually be found on the 3D maps of mountainous areas somewhere in the Middle East.
She decides that she has to take a scientific trip there and see if what she knows is true. And she forms a group with some university students who are willing to take the expedition trip to that country. One of the students might be a Christian.
As they fly across the Atlantic, she falls asleep, and we see a flashback.
We see panorama of a virgin tropical forest, with mist rising from the ground. Camera flies across the forest and glades and small streams of water. Then we see a place where there is evidence of clay being mined. Then we see a man (who obviously is nude but we can't see below his waist) who makes clay pots. Next to him we see a lot of clay pots. As he does that, he has conversations with God, who appears only as a voice. And these conversations are very personal, meaningful and deep. There we can see a reconstruction of his primitive way of life.
These visions keep appearing to the girl who's our main character on the way their destination point. Basically these visions show first man's life and relationship with God before falling into sin.
As the group arrives into the country believed to be the location of the Garden of Eden, the girl receives a message that her stepfather dies. She has never been really close to him, yet he was the only immediate relative of her as her mom has been dead for a long time already. The message strikes her with the thought that she didn't even have a chance to see or talk to him before he died.
They travel to the desert land in a van, and from there they walk. The land is mountainous and empty with no trees or and not many animals. They walk through the land according to the map she has drawn. As they go, they have conversations about life and their trip and their expectations for the trip. The Christian person on the group shares a little about his faith, but admits, that he still can't really believe that they would find the Garden.
We see another flashback of how Adam makes pots and writes names on them, and stores them. In the evenings he's not alone, and he's having more conversations with God. There we see how God instructs him not to eat of the tree of knowledge of good and evil. And we can see that tree. It's not large, and is pretty, and has beautiful buds on it. God tells Adam truths about both trees.
The group approaches a crack in a rock. Couple of people are selected to wait outside, the rest of the group goes inside. And there they travel deeper through passages and corridors in the rock, and finally approach a massive opening, like a huge cave. It's so wide and so long, and dark. And there's nothing inside, yet on the far end they can see a wall that does not look naturally made.
Here they stop to rest before they move on.
And we see another vision from the past. Adam talked with God and asks about what's going to happen if he eats from the tree of knowledge. And God explains him pretty much everything about what's going to happen. And Adam swears he's never going to eat of it.
As the groups starts moving on, they come to a place not far from a huge black wall with massive stone doors, which are closed. On the left and right from the doors they see two massive figures of angel like creatures that seem to be immovable and inanimate. But near them they find old skeletons and pieces of armor of men of different ages. As some picks up a helmet, cracked in the middle, he sees a flashback of this person's death of a sword.
They stop to think, how are they going to pass, as they are afraid it is impossible.
The girl remembers about her fragment of clay. She picks it out of her backpack and we can see how it reacts to the place, and how the place reacts to it. We see a small glow in the place where the angel like creatures should have their eyes.
Meanwhile, they approach the massive doors. And the doors open seemingly by themselves, and through a little crack between them the group comes into the place behind the doors.
As they get in, they enter a huge open space, it's dark and flat as far as you can see. And the earth below is black like cold glassy lava. Everyone is both excited and frustrated. The girl, our main character, is frustrated more then everyone as this is so much not what she expected to see, as the closer to the place she was, the more she believed she is about to enter the flourishing paradise like garden. You can see it in her face. For a moment we see the beautiful garden that morphs into the black void glassy plain.
They keep walking, and as they walk, they bump into what resembles the place where Adam lived and made his clay pots in her visions. They see the old fossilized potter's wheel and bench and other items, also fossilized. And as they look, we can see flashbacks of what it was like in the beginning of the human era. Everyone has his own thought about what they see.
Further they come to the tree of life. And it is a small and short birch like tree with white branches, and it's the only thing in the entire land that seems to be alive. The soil around it is moist, and the leaves shiver as if there is breeze, yet there is no breeze, not even a draft, not even a noise, in the whole place.
They keep walking and come to what seems to be the end of the garden. They see a tree there, pitch black, also short with no leaves, but with beautiful glowing buds. A thick black liquid resembling oil is slowly flowing down the branches and drip into a very small stream, that flows into a huge mass of "water" like a sea, where you can see no end, and it's filled with this black tar from the small tree.
Anyway. I will finish here for now. I wanna somehow show how paradise (in Russian paradise is the synonim to the Garden of Eden) is not like people might think of it. It's not the same since long time ago, and what the girl thought she's looking for is not that paradise. Also I wanted that these pots Adam was making had some meaning. And that on each pot there would be a name. And she found her pot. And we'd see how paradise changed after the fall of Adam. And also I want her to find a truth. Not necessarily pray the sinner prayer, but at least realize something about God. I am not sure. I just had this vision of a abandoned Garden of Eden, and people looking for things they think might have some meaning, but inside they are as well abandoned.
Well, if you have any comments or anything, please write. If you don't like this plot, suggest another plot we might all consider and write a script for.
There are two story lines: one takes place in the past long time ago, and another takes place in our time.
The movie starts with images of a tropical forest and mist coming up from the ground.
There's a girl, who's a scientist, and archeologist. She's young and enthusiastic, and works in some university doing research work. She is not a believer or not even a seeker. From her family she only has a stepfather who lives far from her and is sick with something. And he has a boyfriend, and their relationship is past the time when they are happy and in love. But they live together and sometimes talk, sometimes fight, sometimes are intimate.
She has friends who come back from a trip to Egypt, and bring her a souvenir a fragment of clay pot or some vessel with some letters carved on it. The fragment catches her attention as the writing on it is in an unknown language.
She starts examining the fragment on her own and finds that it belongs to an ancient unknown culture.
As she works more on this, in her night dreams she starts hearing a voice that is calling her. And in some time she understands that the voice calls her to search for the paradise. And shows her a way to it. Her boyfriend does not believe in her visions and thinks that she's becoming strange.
She starts exploring to find out as much as she can about the Garden of Eden because this is what she thinks the voice means by "paradise". And she sees how the vision she has with the way to the Garden can actually be found on the 3D maps of mountainous areas somewhere in the Middle East.
She decides that she has to take a scientific trip there and see if what she knows is true. And she forms a group with some university students who are willing to take the expedition trip to that country. One of the students might be a Christian.
As they fly across the Atlantic, she falls asleep, and we see a flashback.
We see panorama of a virgin tropical forest, with mist rising from the ground. Camera flies across the forest and glades and small streams of water. Then we see a place where there is evidence of clay being mined. Then we see a man (who obviously is nude but we can't see below his waist) who makes clay pots. Next to him we see a lot of clay pots. As he does that, he has conversations with God, who appears only as a voice. And these conversations are very personal, meaningful and deep. There we can see a reconstruction of his primitive way of life.
These visions keep appearing to the girl who's our main character on the way their destination point. Basically these visions show first man's life and relationship with God before falling into sin.
As the group arrives into the country believed to be the location of the Garden of Eden, the girl receives a message that her stepfather dies. She has never been really close to him, yet he was the only immediate relative of her as her mom has been dead for a long time already. The message strikes her with the thought that she didn't even have a chance to see or talk to him before he died.
They travel to the desert land in a van, and from there they walk. The land is mountainous and empty with no trees or and not many animals. They walk through the land according to the map she has drawn. As they go, they have conversations about life and their trip and their expectations for the trip. The Christian person on the group shares a little about his faith, but admits, that he still can't really believe that they would find the Garden.
We see another flashback of how Adam makes pots and writes names on them, and stores them. In the evenings he's not alone, and he's having more conversations with God. There we see how God instructs him not to eat of the tree of knowledge of good and evil. And we can see that tree. It's not large, and is pretty, and has beautiful buds on it. God tells Adam truths about both trees.
The group approaches a crack in a rock. Couple of people are selected to wait outside, the rest of the group goes inside. And there they travel deeper through passages and corridors in the rock, and finally approach a massive opening, like a huge cave. It's so wide and so long, and dark. And there's nothing inside, yet on the far end they can see a wall that does not look naturally made.
Here they stop to rest before they move on.
And we see another vision from the past. Adam talked with God and asks about what's going to happen if he eats from the tree of knowledge. And God explains him pretty much everything about what's going to happen. And Adam swears he's never going to eat of it.
As the groups starts moving on, they come to a place not far from a huge black wall with massive stone doors, which are closed. On the left and right from the doors they see two massive figures of angel like creatures that seem to be immovable and inanimate. But near them they find old skeletons and pieces of armor of men of different ages. As some picks up a helmet, cracked in the middle, he sees a flashback of this person's death of a sword.
They stop to think, how are they going to pass, as they are afraid it is impossible.
The girl remembers about her fragment of clay. She picks it out of her backpack and we can see how it reacts to the place, and how the place reacts to it. We see a small glow in the place where the angel like creatures should have their eyes.
Meanwhile, they approach the massive doors. And the doors open seemingly by themselves, and through a little crack between them the group comes into the place behind the doors.
As they get in, they enter a huge open space, it's dark and flat as far as you can see. And the earth below is black like cold glassy lava. Everyone is both excited and frustrated. The girl, our main character, is frustrated more then everyone as this is so much not what she expected to see, as the closer to the place she was, the more she believed she is about to enter the flourishing paradise like garden. You can see it in her face. For a moment we see the beautiful garden that morphs into the black void glassy plain.
They keep walking, and as they walk, they bump into what resembles the place where Adam lived and made his clay pots in her visions. They see the old fossilized potter's wheel and bench and other items, also fossilized. And as they look, we can see flashbacks of what it was like in the beginning of the human era. Everyone has his own thought about what they see.
Further they come to the tree of life. And it is a small and short birch like tree with white branches, and it's the only thing in the entire land that seems to be alive. The soil around it is moist, and the leaves shiver as if there is breeze, yet there is no breeze, not even a draft, not even a noise, in the whole place.
They keep walking and come to what seems to be the end of the garden. They see a tree there, pitch black, also short with no leaves, but with beautiful glowing buds. A thick black liquid resembling oil is slowly flowing down the branches and drip into a very small stream, that flows into a huge mass of "water" like a sea, where you can see no end, and it's filled with this black tar from the small tree.
Anyway. I will finish here for now. I wanna somehow show how paradise (in Russian paradise is the synonim to the Garden of Eden) is not like people might think of it. It's not the same since long time ago, and what the girl thought she's looking for is not that paradise. Also I wanted that these pots Adam was making had some meaning. And that on each pot there would be a name. And she found her pot. And we'd see how paradise changed after the fall of Adam. And also I want her to find a truth. Not necessarily pray the sinner prayer, but at least realize something about God. I am not sure. I just had this vision of a abandoned Garden of Eden, and people looking for things they think might have some meaning, but inside they are as well abandoned.
Well, if you have any comments or anything, please write. If you don't like this plot, suggest another plot we might all consider and write a script for.
