Covenant

lawriejaffa

lawriejaffa

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Covenant - A vicious, bloody 17th century set Scottish Western inspired by the brutal events of civil war!

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Go for it Lawrie! Will we be having Scottish spaghetti by any chance?
Jason

EDIT: I just read your messages in other threads and it looks like spaghetti is indeed on the menu!
 
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It is! It will be a somewhat melodramatic operatic confrontative (okay i made that word up) epic er all condensed into a 10 page script hopefully with a few cracking lines but er i find that part tough!

You'll have to imagine an ennio morricone score playing while you read it! So yes its a Haggis Western!
 
I really like the setting. Not your usual backdrop for a western. I like the old spaghetti westerns....so bring on the Haggis!
 
Yes a Haggis western - it might not win the competition via peer review buuuut i do intend to try and win the body count competition ;) the bloodiest haggis western ever hehe ;)
 
Wow what a coincidence you saying that Nouvou - heres a preview from my script!


INT. Bathroom

Mel Gibson unfurls his trousers, looks at a photograph of Nouvou.

MEL
I'll never forget you Nouvou... just
remember me whenever you read
a historical script of Scottish subject
matter.

Mel wipes his tears, and closes the door!
 
yeah, first time too. first time in any sort of contest for writing. i got my rl friend to join also. he's working on his own. have you entered all of the previous scriptfests?
 
Only the last one i work mostly as a producer but i love writing - most of all i love reading the other scripts and the feedback to and fro. My last script was 'Red Rope' though id suggest reading all of them if you get the chance!
 
looking forward to this Jaffa! Sounds Awesome




Im sorry I must ask. are you lawriejaffa from OFP? If so I think we were in the same mod :P
 
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Done a wee poster (taking as a still a documentary film im producing some FX for) which is similarly set in the time period im working my story from!) I'm having major probs coming up with a decent idea actually - especially one that works (in an accessible way) for what is quite a unique period of scottish history.

So heres a free history lesson (er well, a very crude one anyway!)

Covenant is based on the 'National Covenant' which was an oath of loyalty the people of Scotland were expected to sign by an alliance of religious leaders, aristocrats etc that took the view that the King of Britain (Charles I) was just too popish. It was a revolution (which would contribute to the English Civil War itself - and would not end itself until that war ended also.)

Those who supported the Covenant (The church) were called Covenanters, and if you did not sign... *drum roll* (You did sign!) some might compare them to fundamentlists (many were others were among the most enlightened thinkers of the day.)

The opposition were the royalists (mostly aristocrats) and other power factions allied to Charles I, whose forces were less in number, and located around the highlands, portions of the West.

Anyway the point of all this is that it lead to the most brutal and genocidal civil warfare imaginable (but is one largely forgotten.) It is (for those in the know) where the Campbells got their notoriety (from massacring their rival clans) and basically everyone took the opportunity of the civil war to be a complete evil git.

Its perhaps hard to understand why even within protestant factions there could be such hatred (and how that could even affect ones perception of anothers 'humanity' or life's worth but it did...

The Covenanters would raise huge levies which still only very slowly beat back the royalists into enclaves. They would kick arse in general until eventually Oliver Cromwell kicked the English royalists in the bum. Even then the covenanters were uberly powerful (hehe must not say uber) and would shockingly enough invade England! They got beat however and Cromwell put down the Scottish revolutionaries.

So if you were bored enough to read all that - my story will be set i think in amidst the civil war or shortly after.

I also intend to have the highest death count (petty i know but most my works are quite arty and while im sure this will be - winning the highest death count will cheer me up if my scripts standing in the competition sucks haha!)
 
Sorry dude - but there's a nuclear explosion in mine, killing the entire human race. A few covenanters just ain't gonna cut it :)

KIDDING

Although now I'm thinking...a western set amidst the cold war....hmmmm...now that's fusion...or fission?
 
Does death count mean people that die during the course of the film or does it include those who are already dead: ie. Ghosts?

:laugh:
 
A nuclear explosion! Noooo well I can't beat that BOO!

And the already dead definately do not count! *shakes head* No no nooooo!!

So better get started! See you in the feeest!
 
Nice poster. Interesting background about the history (or am I really that bored, nah that can't be it) yes, very interesting stuff.
Highest body count has to get you 5 stars right off the bat.
 
Hehe cheers Conlan I managed to get a draft together today and yeah bodycount record we'll see - last entry i did was a bit off the genre (serious drama-noir) for pulp fest, though this is pretty dark - a bit like Django Kills if you've ever seen that (almost a horror-western) which would make this a haggis-horror-western) - er almost.

Horror as in just horrible! So hows your entry going bro!
 
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