Beloved (An Insufficient Allegory)
- Ro
- Nov 17
- 3 min read
A pair of spec scripts in the form of an allegory of the Divine Romance between Jesus Christ and His Church.
Logline:
The Prince of Learsi must direct Paigue’s love and loyalty to himself, redeeming her from her rebellion to his romance, else she will perish by the curse forever.
Brief Synopsis:
Lord Joshua, who is the all-powerful Prince of Learsi (in particular, he has the ability to speak things into reality: a power called parlance), is the loving King of Learsi, a land set in both the physical world (the third dimension) and the spiritual world (the seventh dimension). Between the third and seventh dimensions lies the mist: a kind of interworld between the temporal things which are seen and the eternal things which are not seen. Although Lord Joshua is the all-loving ruler of Learsi, Learsi has not had direct contact with him for 400 years. During this time, the land has been conquered by a foreign Invasion secretly assisted by certain of the land's own rulers and led by the nefarious First Rebel: Natas (though he is not always visible in the third dimension). Since then, life has greatly changed for the people of Learsi. Only a few stay loyal to the Prince (the loyalists). Now, the new rulers (or sovereigns) of Learsi are trying to establish and strengthen their control over her, as they also hope to do with the rest of the world. To do this, they must purge Learsi from her elders (the old rulers of Learsi). Samuel Lampart was one of these elders. At the beginning of the story, he passes away, and his family (made up of three daughters in/around their twenties) are naturally grieved: with both their father and their mother dead, who will watch over them? Rachel and Elizabeth, the two eldest daughters, stay loyal to the Prince. Paigue, however, (she’s the youngest) becomes confederate with the Rebellion. Because of this, the curse is upon her. This is how it works: every time someone breaks one of the King's Laws, he or she loses some of his or her humanity. Gradually, this individual would turn from a human into a beast, and with this transformation comes destructive and suicidal tendencies. Eventually, this individual would die and go to the pit: a place where this individual would lose all of his or her humanity and would fully become a beast left with no recourse but complete, yet incessantly inflaming, pain and suffering, burning and brokenness, and wailing and gnashing of teeth. This is the fate of Paigue. However, Lord Joshua, the Prince, loves Paigue. He doesn't want her to suffer in this horrible manner. So what he does is that he comes to Learsi to set everything right and to turn Paigue's heart and her loyalty back to the King. Beloved (Part 1) details Paigue's journey as she turns from being a rebel to being a loyalist. Beloved (Part 2) details the following romance between Lord Joshua and Paigue Lampart, showing how Lord Joshua breaks the curse and seals Paigue's (et. al.) freedom with his very blood. The complete script for Beloved (Part 1) is 121 pages, and the complete script for Beloved (Part 2) is 107 pages. In the scripts are names of musical works: these may serve as the basis for a kind of soundtrack for the script. This is an allegory.
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