So far today I have fully designed and implemented the layout for this blog, ready for me to start posting. I intend to post in it every day, whenever possible, editing it throughout the day if necessary to cover additional things I might do after college hours. Over the past couple of days I have decided on fixing my film's background and subject on the ancient Aztecs, so I've been researching a variety of information, focussing predominantly on mythology and religion at the moment. Also, yesterday I came up with a loose plot summary that I will tweak according to how my characters develop and how my research on story writing and plot elements effects the direction I feel I should be taking.
Currently, my ideas are like so:
Tezcatlipoca (Jaguar God, the Smoking Mirror, force of chaos and destruction)
Quetzalcoatl (Feathered Serpent God, force of benevolence)
Love interest (Warrior chieftain/Tlacocohcalcatl)
Plot: Princess wants to be a warrior, but is bound to marry an older man or chieftain. Her male friend, about the same age as her, wants to marry her but is turned down repeatedly. Finally he decides to go to Tezcatlipoca's temple to steal his Smoking Mirror as a gift for her, to show how much he loves her and so that she can see the future in the mirror, that they are meant to be together. This awakens Tez who, believing the boy to be a sacrifice, is awakened. He is offended by the 'poor sacrifice' (sacrifices to him are usually young men that live in luxury for a year, taking many wives and eating rich foods, and then stripped of it all before him in a lavish ceremony, not one lonesome, greedy boy) and, in his anger, kills the boy, destroys the village and everyone within it.
The Princess, however, had followed after the boy to try to stop him and so escapes Tez's wrath. She finds the boy dead and the mirror gone, so returns to her village to find it destroyed. Suitably upset, she tries to fight Tez who runs off into the jungle. She follows after, swearing to kill him. A montage follows, encapsulating a couple of years, where the Princess follows Tez who destroys village after village, with brief skirmishes with her.
Eventually she resigns herself to the fact that, as a mortal, she cannot kill a God. So she seeks out the temple of Quetzalcoatl to try to awaken him, hoping that as Tez's duality and twin, he might calm him. At the temple's village she meets her love interest, who protects her against the hatred of the masses for having 'released' Tez. They fall in love, but she still goes to the temple and sacrifices all of her belongings, praying for Quetzal to return balance to the world. Quetzal awakens and he and Tez fight incessantly, destroying the village in the process. Her lover tells her that she was reckless, that the two will fight forever until the world is destroyed. She finally realizes that, in order to restore balance, she has to sacrifice herself as the last survivor of the original massacre. Tez won't be satisfied until his original intention is complete. So she and her lover go back to Tez's temple and he sacrifices her to him, which calms the two gods who then return to their temples. Her lover goes on to build a temple for Itzpapalotl in her memory, as he believes that she was the mortal embodiment of the warrior goddess.
I also printed off the images for my research into Bolt and Wall-e (from the 'art of' books), The Dark Crystal, Charles Avery and some historical Aztec artwork.
WHAT I WILL DO TOMORROW:
Tomorrow I will stick in the images I printed as my research and annotate them accordingly. I will also watch The Road to El Dorado, an animated film which meshes together both Mayan and Aztec traits, and make notes on it to go in my sketch book and to be posted here.
Tomorrow I will stick in the images I printed as my research and annotate them accordingly. I will also watch The Road to El Dorado, an animated film which meshes together both Mayan and Aztec traits, and make notes on it to go in my sketch book and to be posted here.
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