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title: the man

The idea I want to explore in my film is freedom. Specifically, I hope to explore how freedom must be obtained from a personal desire. The main focus of my film is to explore the development of autonomous government and how it must come from within. I want to compare the independence movement in the U.S. with those in Vietnam, Korea, Iran, and elsewhere. I am going to splice film clips from the United States independence movement with those of more modern independence movements. With each clip I want to establish a parallel, such as the U.S. mobilizing troops switching to a clip of Vietnamese troops, but the main goal will be to show that the more modern independence movements have all been puppet governments set up from the outside. The clips will speed up and become shorter in duration as the film goes on so as to establish an atmosphere of panic. Finally, the last scene will show the success of the U.S. troops in establishing their democracy coupled with the failures of the puppet governments set up by the U.S. in the other nations. This will conclude with a giant oil spill, symbolizing the mess that has been created because of this intervention. I want to get student and perhaps teacher voiceovers throughout the film to gather comments on the lack of a solution to the damage that has been done. I also will perhaps dub in some music interludes from freedom tunes, and I want to include the song 99 red balloons.