The Reaving of Isabelle
I am 25% finished with "THE REAVING OF ISABLELLE" which is adapted from the original script for "RAPE IS A CIRCLE" - a movie that I had to rewrite after I fired a cast member on the second day of filming. Rather than re-cast and re-shoot, I decided to test my emergency writing skills. Movies sometimes have to be re-written because of actor death or other termination, so this was an opportunity to exercise creative problem solving. I had filmed out of sequence, so that helped me see what could be salvaged and reworked into a new story. The movie is the result of me writing for 7 hours with no sleep and then filming the next afternoon.
The original script was to be re-filmed when I could raise the funds for it, but other projects kept emerging with funding easily raised, and over the years there was much more censorship imposed. All of the victories of the past were overturned by superstitious and ignorant people.
The book is a more psychological experience because there is more of a chance to understand the characters.
It's still maddening that anything can appear in a book no matter how graphic, yet if you dare to depict it in a movie then you are shunned and exiled. Homer's "Odyssey" is madatory reading for high school students if they want to get into better colleges, but the book describes the losers of battle getting their genitals cut off to emasculate them. Shakespeare's "Titus Andronicus" has a woman raped, and then she is mutilated so that she cannot name her attackers (technically, she can still communicate, but the play wasn't meant to be a forensics story, ha ha). The list goes on.
So yes, this is a vile story, but there are reasons for all behavior, and it is for the reader to decide and to judge. If someone killed your loved ones, would you change your attitude after you understand why it was done?
Your rational side might not agree with your emotional side. But you will experience quite a ride.
The original script was to be re-filmed when I could raise the funds for it, but other projects kept emerging with funding easily raised, and over the years there was much more censorship imposed. All of the victories of the past were overturned by superstitious and ignorant people.
The book is a more psychological experience because there is more of a chance to understand the characters.
It's still maddening that anything can appear in a book no matter how graphic, yet if you dare to depict it in a movie then you are shunned and exiled. Homer's "Odyssey" is madatory reading for high school students if they want to get into better colleges, but the book describes the losers of battle getting their genitals cut off to emasculate them. Shakespeare's "Titus Andronicus" has a woman raped, and then she is mutilated so that she cannot name her attackers (technically, she can still communicate, but the play wasn't meant to be a forensics story, ha ha). The list goes on.
So yes, this is a vile story, but there are reasons for all behavior, and it is for the reader to decide and to judge. If someone killed your loved ones, would you change your attitude after you understand why it was done?
Your rational side might not agree with your emotional side. But you will experience quite a ride.
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