Humanity - The Movie (a parody about humanity and modern life in particular) [possible satire]
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Abstract
Humanity is a screenplay for a movie that aims to be a parody about humanity and modern life in particular. It tells the story of a day in the life of a Semitic city in Canaan circa the year 500 B.C. Each scene is dedicated to one of the city’s elements: The Cathedral (OK - an altar with a priest), the Bazaar, the Well, the Wall, etc.
The original Humanity project, back in 2000 was my opening shot of the the open content / Web 2.0 revolution aiming to be a "bazaar-style" collaborative project for writing a screenplay. It failed due to the clunky CVS UI, but nowadays collaboratively written screenplays are common - only using wiki software or git DVCS or similar.
Read Online or Download (Formats)
EPUB eBook - (free download).
Raw HTML - (view online without style and formatting).
PDF - (view online or download for free).
Version control repository for the screenplay’s source on GitHub. It is useful for cloning, sending pull requests, and filing bugs/issues in the bug tracker
Source in text format (requires XML-Grammar-Fiction’s Screenplay-Text processing, in order to render)
Hebrew Translation
- Ongoing Text in Hebrew - Read Online
- Source in text format (requires XML-Grammar-Fiction’s Screenplay-Text processing, in order to render)
Songs’ Recording
- Recording of songs - from the screenplay - on YouTube.
Licence
This document is Copyright by Shlomi Fish, 2000, and is available under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike License (CC-by-sa) 3.0 Unported (or at your option any later version).
For securing additional rights, please contact Shlomi Fish and see the explicit requirements that are being spelt from abiding by that licence.
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The original Humanity project, back in 2000 was my opening shot of the the open content / Web 2.0 revolution aiming to be a "bazaar-style" collaborative project for writing a screenplay. It failed due to the clunky CVS UI, but nowadays collaboratively written screenplays are common - only using wiki software or git DVCS or similar.
I originally envisioned the film with the first written scenes as having been written and filmed by a Bajoran extraterrestrial (but human-like) visitor to Earth, during an extended period of Mania around 1997. He came to Earth to study its cultures, and Humanity was his way of parodying and paying tribute to them. I also imagined that the Terran film crew filmed it using 2-D equipment, but it ended up as a 3-D film.