Tammuz
12-20-2016, 01:32 PM
These are scenes from a SF-Fantasy-screenplay which I presented to a Hollywood producer (´Conviction´ with H. Swank) some years ago. He had expressed interest after having read a synopsis. Unfortunately, he didn´t accept it. The main reason may have been the very high VFX costs required. By the way, about 50,000 screenplays are circulating in Los Angeles every day. The script has been grammatically proofread by a US female student. The scenes show a paranormal duel between a brainchip-stimulated CIA astral agent (Liao, a Japanese girl) and an Indian female mutant (Manisha).
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FANTASTIC LANDSCAPE #1 - ASTRAL DIMENSION
A skull dropping on the ground -- sparkling as if consisting of jewels -- female legs approaching the skull -- a hand picking it up --
It´s Liao studying the find.
LIAO
That´s me... but I live.
Then -- the CRACK of a WHIP -- the skull splits into two halves -- Liao SCREAMS, pulling her hand back -- looks around --
Some meters away, Manisha stands swinging a whip -- she is shielded by an Asiatic armor glittering and richly decorated -- only her head is unprotected --
With an angry smile, she drops the whip and unsheathes a sword --
MANISHA
Nobody will foil my plan.
LIAO
I was just working on that.
MANISHA
Big words for someone who´d still be tripping over the catwalk without Boston.
Swinging her sword above her head she pounces on Liao -- within a split second she stands in front of her -- lashes out with her weapon --
Blade CRASHES against blade, emitting sparks -- Liao has blocked the hit with her own sword -- all of a sudden, she wears armor as well -- like Manisha without a helmet --
Their blades crossed, they stand face to face --
LIAO
Through Boston I realized my true desire.
The Indian pushes Liao´s blade aside -- Liao jumps back --
MANISHA
What about that desire? Tell me as long as your head is on your shoulders.
LIAO
I want to realize the light of truth. He often told me about that.
Raising her sword Manisha LAUGHS --
MANISHA
That´s just a pipe-dream. Now stop blocking my light.
Again she attacks Liao --
Again Liao blocks her blow -- she swings her sword behind her head, HITTING with the flat of the blade the left side of Manisha´s head --
Manisha sways moving back --
MANISHA (CONT'D)
Damnit, you´re talented.
LIAO
Thanks a lot. Ask Boston about my most special talents --
Again Manisha pounces on her opponent, SCREAMING --
This time she fakes a straight hit against Liao´s face but gives way to her block, causing Liao to stagger from her own swing --
Manisha whirls around clockwise, with a full turn -- her blade HITS Liao, cutting into her neck --
Blood splashes --
SAFE HOUSE OF THE CIA IN COLOMBO - INT./NIGHT
Liao breathing fitfully. Behind her lids her eyes are moving.
AGENT
What does that mean?
TANGO
Stress.
FANTASTIC LANDSCAPE #1 - ASTRAL DIMENSION
Grasping her neck with her left hand and painfully GROANING, Liao reels back -- her right hand still clenching the sword --
Blood pours down her -- the carotid is cut -- on the ground, around her feet, the streams of blood begin to pool --
The pool of blood increases -- until it fills the frame --
ROOM - ASTRAL DIMENSION
We PULL BACK from the seething red surface --
It´s now the wound below Boston´s neck just after Wade´s bullet penetrated the flesh --
SLOW MOTION
We see the scene in Shanghai showing Boston being shot by Wade -- the ghostly FIGURES moving agonizingly slowly are called Boston #1, Liao #1 etc.
Liao #1 is SCREAMING eerily -- Boston #1 sinks down grabbing his neck --
However, another Boston keeps standing --
END SLOW MOTION
It´s the astral Boston living in the present -- he wears a white gown, looking grave, without the red wound --
Liao #1 bends over Boston #1 with his dead eyes -- from her, the present astral Liao rises --
She looks up to Boston -- he gives her his hand -- the other figures seem frozen --
LIAO
Finally I found you. From the moment of your death I was filled with this desire.
Boston smiles --
BOSTON
You found me in a different world. In a world much more true.
He embraces her -- she closes her eyes --
LIAO´S POV
She sees the naked bodies of both of them, embracing each other and multiplied in the form of a living kaleidoscopic pattern -- dozens, then hundreds of bodies, united in the eternal cosmic dance of love --
END POV
Her eyes open --
LIAO
I will never lose you. Now I know.
She gently breaks away from Boston -- touches his cheek -- it feels fleshy --
LIAO (CONT'D)
Why did you fool me and the others? Why did you work for the Rajan sect?
BOSTON
The terrestrial world is a world of struggle. I thought Rajan went about this the best way. A struggle leading mankind away form materialism to inner freedom, to the light. However, after my death, when my memory of my life came back, I realized that Rajan´s means can´t be justified.
Again he takes the hand of Liao -- their environment vanishes --
Liao finds herself in a --
FANTASTIC LANDSCAPE #2 - ASTRAL DIMENSION
Mighty colorful trees reaching the sky - the light both soft and gleaming -- the clouds are beautiful ornaments flowing into one another --
Everything is interwoven with a universal and live pattern --
CELESTIAL MUSIC fills the world --
Hand by hand Liao and Boston walk through the landscape --
BOSTON
We are the light. In addition, we are the forms living in the light and living through the light.
Liao looks around, enraptured --
BOSTON (CONT'D)
Manisha wants to kill you.
She is startled -- Heaven and hell! -- had almost forgotten her resolute opponent --
DISSOLVE TO:
FANTASTIC LANDSCAPE #1 - ASTRAL DIMENSION
Liao findes herself on her knees and soaked with blood --
Manisha steps closer raising her weapon in order to perform the decisive blow --
MANISHA
Have a nice trip. Give my regards to the light.
SLOW MOTION
Manisha´s blade moves down on Liao´s neck --
SPACE - ASTRAL DIMENSION
A THUNDER GODDESS, red and crow-headed, floats in space, holding the corpse of a CHILD -- giving terrible SCREAMS echoing like THUNDER --
As the stars darken, the Goddess´ eyes start glowing -- her head shines from inside -- also the child´s corpse is lighted from inside --
LIAO (V.O.)
Light. I -- am -- light...
FANTASTIC LANDSCAPE #1 - ASTRAL DIMENSION
Liao rolls out from under Manisha´s stroke -- the blade CRASHES against the stony ground --
Manisha looks dumbfounded --
Some meters away from her, Liao stands, her hair blowing about, in an armor even more splendid than before -- and belligerently holding two swords in her hands -- her neck is intact now --
LIAO
You only just missed, at least.
MANISHA
You´re starting to annoy me.
With virtuosity, Liao makes her swords rotate --
LIAO
Where is your Shiva? I´d like to take on him in case you´re tired.
MANISHA
You really don´t know who you´re talking to.
Fast like lightning she hurls her weapon at her opponent -- the blade races towards Liao´s head --
SLOW MOTION
The blade approaches Liao -- she smiles -- bends her head aside -- the sword slowly sails past her face --
She seizes the blade with her teeth --
END SLOW MOTION
The sword is sticking between Liao´s teeth -- Manisha looks full of hate -- with a movement of her head Liao throws up the sword --
SLOW MOTION
Manisha´s sword is rotating an arm´s length over Liao´s head --
Liao takes a big swing with the sword in her right hand -- the blade HITS the end of the hilt of Manisha´s sword just as its point aims at Manisha --
END SLOW MOTION
The sword rushes toward Manisha -- she can only just move her head to the side -- the blade scrapes her cheek, leaving a bloody cut --
An immense rage shoots through her mind, transmitting the black vibes to a mighty DEMON --
SPACE - ASTRAL DIMENSION
It´s DHARMARAJA, the God of the Dead --
-- a green-shining MONSTER that fills the world, spanning over every sun and every planet -- it is permanently changing its form -- tiger, predator, spider, octopus, snake --
-- a CACOPHONY of painful SCREAMING VOICES -- Then -- CRIES of a CROW -- a FLASH -- we enter a --
FOGGY LANDSCAPE - ASTRAL DIMENSION -- grey wafts of mist everywhere, revealing in the
distance dark cypresses rising up -- again a crow gives a CRY --
Manisha walks along, looking around --
MANISHA
Boston? Where are you? I feel you are here.
BOSTON (O.S.)
Lust and hate -- these are not good advisers.
All of a sudden, he walks beside her --
MANISHA (gently)
Boston! Darling! It´s a bad moment now.
Boston stops --
BOSTON There is no time. There are no moments. Your mind is a broken mirror reflecting just an illusion instead of truth.
MANISHA (indignant)
It´s a bad moment for giving a sermon, too.
BOSTON
In the Kamaloka, a lot of things became clear to me. All forms are empty. Emptiness consists of forms. That´s the Nirvana. That´s what we are to realize.
MANISHA
I know that Buddhist stuff. I consider it nonsense. Unfortunately I haven´t got any time for debates. I´ve got to finish your bloody Chinese...
She approaches Boston, wanting to kiss him -- he smiles and vanishes in the fog just before she can touch his lips --
MANISHA (CONT'D)
Death has changed you, bastard.
DEMONS (O.S.)
Kill! Kill! Kill! --
A FLASH --
FANTASTIC LANDSCAPE #1 - ASTRAL DIMENSION
Back on the battlefield --
Green-skinned FEMALE DEMONS, emanations of the God of
the Dead, are floating around Manisha --
DEMONS
Kill! Kill! Kill!
The cut in Manisha´s cheek has disappeared --
DEMONS (CONT'D)
Kill! Kill! Kill!
Liao is confused -- stares at Manisha -- the demons whirling around the Indian try to spur her on --
DEMONS (CONT'D)
Kill! Kill! Kill!
Manisha´s appearance turns into an pure astral body glowing like fire, without armor and weapons -- then
A DEMONIC GRIMACE, exuding a sulphurous yellow breath, emerges just in front of Liao´s face -- she is scared, SCREAMS --
Standing in her armor, she DROPS her weapons and grabs her neck with both hands -- her eyes widen -- she gaspes for breath --
STRATOSPHERE - ASTRAL DIMENSION
Liao hallucinates -- she hangs two hundred kilometers over a planet covered with active volcanos -- she falls down into a tremendous crater -- plunges into bubbling magma -- sinking deeper and deeper --
Her flesh and muscles melt off her skeleton -- her mouth opens, but her screaming remains MUTE --
SPACE - ASTRAL DIMENSION
-- stars and stellar fogs all around --
Dragging Liao in a stranglehold, Manisha races through space -- her victim seems lifeless -- the demons fluttering around them, SCREAMING again:
DEMONS
Kill! Kill! Kill!
Removing her right hand from Liao´s neck, Manisha stretches her arm, splaying her fingers --
A sword comes out of nowhere -- the Indian seizes it --
DEMONS (O.S.) (CONT'D)
Kill! Kill! Kill!
Manisha takes a big swing with her sword -- the blade cuts Liao´s head off her shoulders -- it flies away --
SLOW MOTION
The head rotates in the beautiful backlit of stellar fogs -- the eyes are widened -- are dead --
END SLOW MOTION
Again the crow-headed Thunder Goddess appears -- giving awful SCREAMS echoed by THUNDER -- as the thunder fades away,
White light fills the frame -- after a while, Boston emerges from it, first shadowy, then clearly outlined --
Liao´s decapitated head floats in front of him -- still with dead eyes --
BOSTON
Your soul is pure. Rid yourself of the illusory forms. I know you can.
Then --
FANTASTIC LANDSCAPE #1 - ASTRAL DIMENSION
Manisha is holding her blade as in the moment when she decapitated Liao --
MANISHA
Dang it! I´m beginning to get testy.
Liao, in front of her, is intact again -- and shrugging spitefully –
LIAO
Sorry, but I still need my ***.
Manisha SCREAMS, slices one of Liao´s arms off the shoulder --
The arm whirls around -- it stretches, the fingers splayed -- then it flicks back, being re-joined to the shoulder --
Now Manisha goes full blast, her furious blows rain down on Liao --
Hands, forearms, thighs, again the head -- each part cut off immediately re-attaches to Liao´s body --
Finally Manisha divides her opponent by a vertical blow from top to bottom --
The halves drift rotating in space --
MANISHA
Oh yeah, the disunity of modern man.
That was bound to happen.
However, Liao´s halves start changing their color -- one shines red, the other yellow --
Their form changes, too -- the missing halves are growing out of the cuts -- now there are TWO LIAOS -- a red and a yellow one --
Out of their palms, swords are growing, the same color as the bodies --
Manisha seems uncertain --
RED LIAO
One should always look at things from different viewpoints.
YELLOW LIAO
I can only agree with me.
Swinging their swords the Liaos dash toward Manisha -- in no time her blade is blown away -- then, her arms, legs and head fly away --
Red Liao rushes toward the head whirling around -- divides it with a vertical blow by her right sword -- hesitates -- then cuts the halves into four pieces with a horizontal blow by the left sword --
RED LIAO
I don´t like doing things half-way.
They look at each other --
YELLOW LIAO
This is not the end.
RED LIAO
Our bodies are almost immortal.
YELLOW LIAO
Almost...
The fragments of Manisha´s astral body start flickering -- a grid of rays connects them -- a re-uniting energy begins to weld the pieces together --
Finally Manisha has regained her complete shape --
MANISHA
Now I know...
RED LIAO
What do you know?
MANISHA
The reason why you seem to be as strong as I am. You are part of this
symbiotic field. You gain power from Khaysang´s energy and my energy as well.
YELLOW LIAO
So we can´t destroy each other?
MANISHA
Oh yeah, I can. I´m not a simple ****ing astral agent like you, just energized by a tiny bio chip. I have a higher source of power. I am divine. I am rooted in Shakti, the one and only Goddess.
She extends her arms sideways -- starts SINGING a MANTRA:
MANISHA (CONT'D) Adi Shakti namo... Shakti Shakti
dhanyavad... Adi Shakti namo... Shakti Shakti dhanyavad...
The colors around them change with every word, forming bizarre ornaments and patterns -- the Liaos are staring at this spectacle --
Then the Indian stretches her arms toward the Liaos, splaying her fingers -- a force field in the form of a whirlpool of flashing colors develops around both Liaos, speeding up its rotation and contracting bit by bit --
-- the Liaos, seized by the field, whirl helplessly around -- a few times they collide, assuming a unique shape but then immediately break up again -- eventually they melt together, ONE Liao now -- floating dazedly, her mind turned upside down --
MANISHA (CONT'D)
There is no sense in cutting you into a thousand pieces. I must look for your weakest point. I´ll find it in the Akasha Chronicle.
She looks at her opponent -- pushes up her level of concentration by focusing on Liao´s face and mentally speaking her name --
MANISHA (CONT'D) (mental voice)
Wei Liao... Wei Liao...
Manisha enters the AKASHA CHRONICLE -- drifting through an ocean of images, VOICES and SOUNDS -- finally arriving at her aim --
(...)
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FANTASTIC LANDSCAPE #1 - ASTRAL DIMENSION
A skull dropping on the ground -- sparkling as if consisting of jewels -- female legs approaching the skull -- a hand picking it up --
It´s Liao studying the find.
LIAO
That´s me... but I live.
Then -- the CRACK of a WHIP -- the skull splits into two halves -- Liao SCREAMS, pulling her hand back -- looks around --
Some meters away, Manisha stands swinging a whip -- she is shielded by an Asiatic armor glittering and richly decorated -- only her head is unprotected --
With an angry smile, she drops the whip and unsheathes a sword --
MANISHA
Nobody will foil my plan.
LIAO
I was just working on that.
MANISHA
Big words for someone who´d still be tripping over the catwalk without Boston.
Swinging her sword above her head she pounces on Liao -- within a split second she stands in front of her -- lashes out with her weapon --
Blade CRASHES against blade, emitting sparks -- Liao has blocked the hit with her own sword -- all of a sudden, she wears armor as well -- like Manisha without a helmet --
Their blades crossed, they stand face to face --
LIAO
Through Boston I realized my true desire.
The Indian pushes Liao´s blade aside -- Liao jumps back --
MANISHA
What about that desire? Tell me as long as your head is on your shoulders.
LIAO
I want to realize the light of truth. He often told me about that.
Raising her sword Manisha LAUGHS --
MANISHA
That´s just a pipe-dream. Now stop blocking my light.
Again she attacks Liao --
Again Liao blocks her blow -- she swings her sword behind her head, HITTING with the flat of the blade the left side of Manisha´s head --
Manisha sways moving back --
MANISHA (CONT'D)
Damnit, you´re talented.
LIAO
Thanks a lot. Ask Boston about my most special talents --
Again Manisha pounces on her opponent, SCREAMING --
This time she fakes a straight hit against Liao´s face but gives way to her block, causing Liao to stagger from her own swing --
Manisha whirls around clockwise, with a full turn -- her blade HITS Liao, cutting into her neck --
Blood splashes --
SAFE HOUSE OF THE CIA IN COLOMBO - INT./NIGHT
Liao breathing fitfully. Behind her lids her eyes are moving.
AGENT
What does that mean?
TANGO
Stress.
FANTASTIC LANDSCAPE #1 - ASTRAL DIMENSION
Grasping her neck with her left hand and painfully GROANING, Liao reels back -- her right hand still clenching the sword --
Blood pours down her -- the carotid is cut -- on the ground, around her feet, the streams of blood begin to pool --
The pool of blood increases -- until it fills the frame --
ROOM - ASTRAL DIMENSION
We PULL BACK from the seething red surface --
It´s now the wound below Boston´s neck just after Wade´s bullet penetrated the flesh --
SLOW MOTION
We see the scene in Shanghai showing Boston being shot by Wade -- the ghostly FIGURES moving agonizingly slowly are called Boston #1, Liao #1 etc.
Liao #1 is SCREAMING eerily -- Boston #1 sinks down grabbing his neck --
However, another Boston keeps standing --
END SLOW MOTION
It´s the astral Boston living in the present -- he wears a white gown, looking grave, without the red wound --
Liao #1 bends over Boston #1 with his dead eyes -- from her, the present astral Liao rises --
She looks up to Boston -- he gives her his hand -- the other figures seem frozen --
LIAO
Finally I found you. From the moment of your death I was filled with this desire.
Boston smiles --
BOSTON
You found me in a different world. In a world much more true.
He embraces her -- she closes her eyes --
LIAO´S POV
She sees the naked bodies of both of them, embracing each other and multiplied in the form of a living kaleidoscopic pattern -- dozens, then hundreds of bodies, united in the eternal cosmic dance of love --
END POV
Her eyes open --
LIAO
I will never lose you. Now I know.
She gently breaks away from Boston -- touches his cheek -- it feels fleshy --
LIAO (CONT'D)
Why did you fool me and the others? Why did you work for the Rajan sect?
BOSTON
The terrestrial world is a world of struggle. I thought Rajan went about this the best way. A struggle leading mankind away form materialism to inner freedom, to the light. However, after my death, when my memory of my life came back, I realized that Rajan´s means can´t be justified.
Again he takes the hand of Liao -- their environment vanishes --
Liao finds herself in a --
FANTASTIC LANDSCAPE #2 - ASTRAL DIMENSION
Mighty colorful trees reaching the sky - the light both soft and gleaming -- the clouds are beautiful ornaments flowing into one another --
Everything is interwoven with a universal and live pattern --
CELESTIAL MUSIC fills the world --
Hand by hand Liao and Boston walk through the landscape --
BOSTON
We are the light. In addition, we are the forms living in the light and living through the light.
Liao looks around, enraptured --
BOSTON (CONT'D)
Manisha wants to kill you.
She is startled -- Heaven and hell! -- had almost forgotten her resolute opponent --
DISSOLVE TO:
FANTASTIC LANDSCAPE #1 - ASTRAL DIMENSION
Liao findes herself on her knees and soaked with blood --
Manisha steps closer raising her weapon in order to perform the decisive blow --
MANISHA
Have a nice trip. Give my regards to the light.
SLOW MOTION
Manisha´s blade moves down on Liao´s neck --
SPACE - ASTRAL DIMENSION
A THUNDER GODDESS, red and crow-headed, floats in space, holding the corpse of a CHILD -- giving terrible SCREAMS echoing like THUNDER --
As the stars darken, the Goddess´ eyes start glowing -- her head shines from inside -- also the child´s corpse is lighted from inside --
LIAO (V.O.)
Light. I -- am -- light...
FANTASTIC LANDSCAPE #1 - ASTRAL DIMENSION
Liao rolls out from under Manisha´s stroke -- the blade CRASHES against the stony ground --
Manisha looks dumbfounded --
Some meters away from her, Liao stands, her hair blowing about, in an armor even more splendid than before -- and belligerently holding two swords in her hands -- her neck is intact now --
LIAO
You only just missed, at least.
MANISHA
You´re starting to annoy me.
With virtuosity, Liao makes her swords rotate --
LIAO
Where is your Shiva? I´d like to take on him in case you´re tired.
MANISHA
You really don´t know who you´re talking to.
Fast like lightning she hurls her weapon at her opponent -- the blade races towards Liao´s head --
SLOW MOTION
The blade approaches Liao -- she smiles -- bends her head aside -- the sword slowly sails past her face --
She seizes the blade with her teeth --
END SLOW MOTION
The sword is sticking between Liao´s teeth -- Manisha looks full of hate -- with a movement of her head Liao throws up the sword --
SLOW MOTION
Manisha´s sword is rotating an arm´s length over Liao´s head --
Liao takes a big swing with the sword in her right hand -- the blade HITS the end of the hilt of Manisha´s sword just as its point aims at Manisha --
END SLOW MOTION
The sword rushes toward Manisha -- she can only just move her head to the side -- the blade scrapes her cheek, leaving a bloody cut --
An immense rage shoots through her mind, transmitting the black vibes to a mighty DEMON --
SPACE - ASTRAL DIMENSION
It´s DHARMARAJA, the God of the Dead --
-- a green-shining MONSTER that fills the world, spanning over every sun and every planet -- it is permanently changing its form -- tiger, predator, spider, octopus, snake --
-- a CACOPHONY of painful SCREAMING VOICES -- Then -- CRIES of a CROW -- a FLASH -- we enter a --
FOGGY LANDSCAPE - ASTRAL DIMENSION -- grey wafts of mist everywhere, revealing in the
distance dark cypresses rising up -- again a crow gives a CRY --
Manisha walks along, looking around --
MANISHA
Boston? Where are you? I feel you are here.
BOSTON (O.S.)
Lust and hate -- these are not good advisers.
All of a sudden, he walks beside her --
MANISHA (gently)
Boston! Darling! It´s a bad moment now.
Boston stops --
BOSTON There is no time. There are no moments. Your mind is a broken mirror reflecting just an illusion instead of truth.
MANISHA (indignant)
It´s a bad moment for giving a sermon, too.
BOSTON
In the Kamaloka, a lot of things became clear to me. All forms are empty. Emptiness consists of forms. That´s the Nirvana. That´s what we are to realize.
MANISHA
I know that Buddhist stuff. I consider it nonsense. Unfortunately I haven´t got any time for debates. I´ve got to finish your bloody Chinese...
She approaches Boston, wanting to kiss him -- he smiles and vanishes in the fog just before she can touch his lips --
MANISHA (CONT'D)
Death has changed you, bastard.
DEMONS (O.S.)
Kill! Kill! Kill! --
A FLASH --
FANTASTIC LANDSCAPE #1 - ASTRAL DIMENSION
Back on the battlefield --
Green-skinned FEMALE DEMONS, emanations of the God of
the Dead, are floating around Manisha --
DEMONS
Kill! Kill! Kill!
The cut in Manisha´s cheek has disappeared --
DEMONS (CONT'D)
Kill! Kill! Kill!
Liao is confused -- stares at Manisha -- the demons whirling around the Indian try to spur her on --
DEMONS (CONT'D)
Kill! Kill! Kill!
Manisha´s appearance turns into an pure astral body glowing like fire, without armor and weapons -- then
A DEMONIC GRIMACE, exuding a sulphurous yellow breath, emerges just in front of Liao´s face -- she is scared, SCREAMS --
Standing in her armor, she DROPS her weapons and grabs her neck with both hands -- her eyes widen -- she gaspes for breath --
STRATOSPHERE - ASTRAL DIMENSION
Liao hallucinates -- she hangs two hundred kilometers over a planet covered with active volcanos -- she falls down into a tremendous crater -- plunges into bubbling magma -- sinking deeper and deeper --
Her flesh and muscles melt off her skeleton -- her mouth opens, but her screaming remains MUTE --
SPACE - ASTRAL DIMENSION
-- stars and stellar fogs all around --
Dragging Liao in a stranglehold, Manisha races through space -- her victim seems lifeless -- the demons fluttering around them, SCREAMING again:
DEMONS
Kill! Kill! Kill!
Removing her right hand from Liao´s neck, Manisha stretches her arm, splaying her fingers --
A sword comes out of nowhere -- the Indian seizes it --
DEMONS (O.S.) (CONT'D)
Kill! Kill! Kill!
Manisha takes a big swing with her sword -- the blade cuts Liao´s head off her shoulders -- it flies away --
SLOW MOTION
The head rotates in the beautiful backlit of stellar fogs -- the eyes are widened -- are dead --
END SLOW MOTION
Again the crow-headed Thunder Goddess appears -- giving awful SCREAMS echoed by THUNDER -- as the thunder fades away,
White light fills the frame -- after a while, Boston emerges from it, first shadowy, then clearly outlined --
Liao´s decapitated head floats in front of him -- still with dead eyes --
BOSTON
Your soul is pure. Rid yourself of the illusory forms. I know you can.
Then --
FANTASTIC LANDSCAPE #1 - ASTRAL DIMENSION
Manisha is holding her blade as in the moment when she decapitated Liao --
MANISHA
Dang it! I´m beginning to get testy.
Liao, in front of her, is intact again -- and shrugging spitefully –
LIAO
Sorry, but I still need my ***.
Manisha SCREAMS, slices one of Liao´s arms off the shoulder --
The arm whirls around -- it stretches, the fingers splayed -- then it flicks back, being re-joined to the shoulder --
Now Manisha goes full blast, her furious blows rain down on Liao --
Hands, forearms, thighs, again the head -- each part cut off immediately re-attaches to Liao´s body --
Finally Manisha divides her opponent by a vertical blow from top to bottom --
The halves drift rotating in space --
MANISHA
Oh yeah, the disunity of modern man.
That was bound to happen.
However, Liao´s halves start changing their color -- one shines red, the other yellow --
Their form changes, too -- the missing halves are growing out of the cuts -- now there are TWO LIAOS -- a red and a yellow one --
Out of their palms, swords are growing, the same color as the bodies --
Manisha seems uncertain --
RED LIAO
One should always look at things from different viewpoints.
YELLOW LIAO
I can only agree with me.
Swinging their swords the Liaos dash toward Manisha -- in no time her blade is blown away -- then, her arms, legs and head fly away --
Red Liao rushes toward the head whirling around -- divides it with a vertical blow by her right sword -- hesitates -- then cuts the halves into four pieces with a horizontal blow by the left sword --
RED LIAO
I don´t like doing things half-way.
They look at each other --
YELLOW LIAO
This is not the end.
RED LIAO
Our bodies are almost immortal.
YELLOW LIAO
Almost...
The fragments of Manisha´s astral body start flickering -- a grid of rays connects them -- a re-uniting energy begins to weld the pieces together --
Finally Manisha has regained her complete shape --
MANISHA
Now I know...
RED LIAO
What do you know?
MANISHA
The reason why you seem to be as strong as I am. You are part of this
symbiotic field. You gain power from Khaysang´s energy and my energy as well.
YELLOW LIAO
So we can´t destroy each other?
MANISHA
Oh yeah, I can. I´m not a simple ****ing astral agent like you, just energized by a tiny bio chip. I have a higher source of power. I am divine. I am rooted in Shakti, the one and only Goddess.
She extends her arms sideways -- starts SINGING a MANTRA:
MANISHA (CONT'D) Adi Shakti namo... Shakti Shakti
dhanyavad... Adi Shakti namo... Shakti Shakti dhanyavad...
The colors around them change with every word, forming bizarre ornaments and patterns -- the Liaos are staring at this spectacle --
Then the Indian stretches her arms toward the Liaos, splaying her fingers -- a force field in the form of a whirlpool of flashing colors develops around both Liaos, speeding up its rotation and contracting bit by bit --
-- the Liaos, seized by the field, whirl helplessly around -- a few times they collide, assuming a unique shape but then immediately break up again -- eventually they melt together, ONE Liao now -- floating dazedly, her mind turned upside down --
MANISHA (CONT'D)
There is no sense in cutting you into a thousand pieces. I must look for your weakest point. I´ll find it in the Akasha Chronicle.
She looks at her opponent -- pushes up her level of concentration by focusing on Liao´s face and mentally speaking her name --
MANISHA (CONT'D) (mental voice)
Wei Liao... Wei Liao...
Manisha enters the AKASHA CHRONICLE -- drifting through an ocean of images, VOICES and SOUNDS -- finally arriving at her aim --
(...)