Once More With Feeling

POSTED BY: RiveR6213
UPDATED: Friday, June 30, 2006 16:24
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GENETRIX

Sunday, June 25, 2006 10:37 AM

I don't think I have any idea what's going on... But musicals! I love musicals! I'll make it up! (This song is from Oklahoma! by the way.)

River: [dancing around, in her own little world]

Out of my dreams and into your arms
I long to fly

I will come as evening comes
To woo a waiting sky

Out of my dreams and into the hush
Of falling shadows

When the mist is low
And stars are breaking through
Then out of my dreams I'll go
Into a dream with you

[Dancey dancey, exit stage right]

[Camera pan left, to Simon's infirmary where Mal is sitting in the chair, beginning to tell Simon about his horrible life...que bouncy music.]

Doctor, my eyes have seen the years
And the slow parade of fears without crying
Now I want to understand

I have done all that I could
To see the evil and the good without hiding
You must help me if you can

Doctor my eyes
Tell me what is wrong
Was I unwise
To leave them open for so long?

[jumps off the chair, grabbing a random fedora and cane that happen to be set up expressly for this purpose, whilst Simon tries desperately to hold him still to check his eyeballs]

As I have wandered through these worlds
And as each moment has unfurled
I've been waiting to awaken from these dreams

[twirly bit with cane, dancey dancey]

People go just where they will
I never noticed them until I got this feeling
That it's later than it seems

Doctor my eyes
Tell me what you see
I hear their cries
Just say if it's too late for meeeeeee...

[Simon chases Mal around in a cute, fun dancey scene]

Doctor my eyes
I cannot see the sky
Is this the price
For having learned how not to cry?

[Simon finally tackles Mal and starts to examine his eyes]

[Fade out]

RIVER6213

Sunday, June 25, 2006 11:18 AM

Glenda awakes with a start. She must have fallen sleep. She's still in the hotel Room and she dreamt about a grand song and dance that appeared to have had Mal and Simon in it doing the quick step. Was it real or is it fantasy, or a dream?

She goes to the bathroom and splashes her face with cold water. She looks in the mirror and decides that what she sees staring back at her in in the reflection is quite unpleasent...

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Where do we go from here?
This isn't where we intended to be
We had it all, you believed in me
I believed in you

Certainties disappear
What do we do for our dream to survive?
How do we keep all our passions alive,
As we used to do?

Deep in my heart I'm concealing
Things that I'm longing to say
Scared to confess what I'm feeling
Frightened you'll slip away

You must love me

Why are you at my side?
How can I be any use to you now?
Give me a chance and I'll let you see how
Nothing has changed

You must love me

[Scene fades to black]

GENETRIX

Sunday, June 25, 2006 11:43 AM

Glenda leans over out of camera to splash water in her face, and Jayne, in another bathroom in another place, pops up into frame in her place. He feels his scruffy chin, and heads off out of the room, grabbing Vera on the way.

He starts walking cautiously and meaningfully, aiming Vera at random things, pretending they're Simon.

[Que music]

Dum, dum, dum, honey what have you done?
Dum, dum, dum it's the sound of my gun.
Dum, dum, dum, honey what have you done?
Dum, dum, dum it's the sound

Jaynie's got a gun
Jaynie's got a gun
His whole world's come undone
From lookin' straight at the sun
What did that gorram doctor do?
What did he put you through?
They said when Jaynie was arrested
they found Simon underneath a train
But man, he had it comin'
Now that Jaynie's got a gun
He ain't never gonna be the same.

Jaynie's got a gun
Jaynie's got a gun
His dog day's just begun
Now everybody is on the run
Tell me now it's untrue.
What did that gorram doctor do?
He jacked a little bitty baby
The man has got to be insane
They say the spell that he was under the lightning and the
thunder knew that someone had to stop the rain

[Here Jayne gets a little too loud, attracting stares from a couple passersby]

Run away, run away from the pain yeah, yeah yeah yeah
Run away run away from the pain yeah yeah
yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah
Run away, run away, run, run away

Jaynie's got a gun
Jaynie's got a gun
His dog day's just begun
Now everybody is on the run
What did that gorram doctor do?
It's Jaynie's last I.O.U.
He had to take him down easy and put a bullet in his brain
He said 'cause nobody believes me. The man was such a sleeze.

He ain't never gonna be the same.

Run away, run away from the pain yeah, yeah
yeah yeah yeah
Run away run away from the pain yeah yeah
yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah
Run away, run away, run, run away

Janie's got a gun
Janie's got a gun
Janie's got a gun
Everybody is on the run

Janie's got a gun
His dog day's just begun
Now everybody is on the run
Because Janie's got a gun
Janie's got a gun
His dog day's just begun
Now everybody is on the run
Jaynie's got a gun!

Jayne bursts out laughing, totally ignoring the people staring at him.

Meanwhile, Simon has long been hiding in his bunk, not from Vera, but from both Mal and Jayne going totally nuts. He wonders if he's going to have to treat them like River, too...

HERMAJESTY

Sunday, June 25, 2006 11:49 AM

I love once more with feeling as well. Not sure If I'm doing this right but I'll have a go.

******
Outside the town there is a small hill. RIVER, alone, wearing a simple dress, reaches the top. She stands still, just moving her head to take in the views over the town and surrounding countryside. Serenity can be seen landed near the town.

RIVER (softly) sings: Day after day,
Alone on a hill,
The girl with the foolish grin is keeping perfectly still.
(light backing music joins)But nobody wants to know her,
They can see that she's just a fool,
And she never gives an answer...

(River begins to move, in time with the music, to the other brow of the hill to watch the sunset. The camera circles her slowly, slightly above her.)
... But the fool on the hill,
Sees the sun going down (light flares on camera)
And the eyes in her head,
See the world spinning round.

(River begins to move around more freely, almost dancing)
Well on the way,
Her head in a cloud (she smiles at that idea, but then becomes sombre again.)
(More angrily) The girl of a thousand voices, talking perfectly loud.
(We cut to flashbacks of River walking through the town with nobody noticing her, while her voice still sings over the top)
But nobody ever hears her,
Or the sound she appears to make,
And she never seems to notice...

(The next chorus cuts between clips of River on the hill, and shots in the town revealing the emotions of Glenda, the troubled man, Sisterbettyx, and other characters, as seen by River)
But the fool on the hill,
Sees the sun going down.
And the eyes in her head,
See the world spinning around.

(River singing is interspersed with clips of Jayne and Mal looking suspicious or angry, and very short clips of her hand holding a knife or gun)
And nobody seems to like her,
They can tell what she wants to do.
And she never shows her feelings,

(Back to River)
But the fool on the hill,
Sees the sun going down,
And the eyes in her head,
See the world spinning round.

Voices sing: Ooooooh, Oooooooh, (River dances wildly, looking up at the sky ecstatically)
River: Round and round and round and round and... (She spins faster and faster)

(She stops, facing out over the town)
But she never listens to them,
She knows that they're the fools,
They don't like it.

(The camera starts on a close up of River, and moves backwards until she is just a tiny figure silouetted on top of the hill.)
The fool on the hill,
Sees the sun going down,
And the eyes in her head,
See the world spinning round.

(In the corner of the view, near the bottom of the hill, we can see a figure moving. Cut to middle distance: it is Simon. The music fades to nothing.)

SIMON: River? River, is that you?

******
Hope you like it. My first post ever!

HERMAJESTY

Sunday, June 25, 2006 11:58 AM

Wow, Janie's got a gun and Doctor my eyes are amazing choices. I love all your posts, this is fun :D

ZZETTA13

Sunday, June 25, 2006 12:23 PM

don't know if its quite right but heres one,

Sung to the tune of the Eagles "Hotel California"

Welcome to the space boat Serenity,
Such a lovely place,
lots of pretty faces,

Theres plenty of room on the ship Serenity,
You can come see some cows,
You can talk to Mal,

Our minds are defiantly twisted,
We've got the Mercedes Beins?
There are lots and lots of mean and ugly feds,
We don't call friends,

On the 23rd of June,
We gathered to celebrate,
Everyone had a good time,
Browncoat were saying it was great,

Welcome to the space boat Serenity,
Such a lovely place,
Hope to see your face,

Welcome to the space boat serenity,
Wear your heart out on your sleeve

You'll never want to check out anytime,
And you'll never want to leave.....

> insert hot guitar solo <

Z

RIVER6213

Sunday, June 25, 2006 12:32 PM

Still staring into the mirror, Glenda thinks back to her childhood and thinks about the first inspirational song she ever heard…the song engulfs her mind…

One, two, three, four, five, six, seven, eight. Schlemeel, schlemazel, hasenfeffer incorporated.

We’re gonna do it!
Give us any chance, we’ll take it.
Give us any rule, we’ll break it.
We’re gonna make our dreams come true.
Doin’ it our way.

Nothin’s gonna turn us back now,
Straight ahead and on the track now.
We’re gonna make our dreams come true,
Doin’ it our way.

There is nothing we won’t try,
Never heard the word impossible.
This time there’s no stopping us.
We’re gonna do it.

On your mark, get set, and go now,
Got a dream and we just know now,
We’re gonna make our dream come true.
And we’ll do it our way, yes our way.
Make all our dreams come true,
And do it our way, yes our way,
Make all our dreams come true
For me and you.

Glenda jerks away from the mirror and from the memory flood

River wants to stay awake but Glenda sleeps.

THESOMNAMBULIST

Sunday, June 25, 2006 12:49 PM

(Er so far as I understand this.... here goes:)

Within the frenzied rush of the mornings pedestrians Rufus looks on.
"Another year of all this chaos!" He thinks...
"Please no more.." It's all too much for poor Rufus, he is but a simple lad. Came to the city from the country looking for some answers but found only more puzzling questions.

So he heads back home. Has his customary shower to
wash the city filth of himself and sets his weary head down. The garish neon from the store across the road flashes the colours across his face.....

"Whatever happened to Glenda?" He thinks to himself....

(His dream song and dance number kicks in... Radioheads: NO ALARMS AND NO SURPRISES)

A heart that's full up like a landfill,
a job that slowly kills you,
bruises that won't heal.
You look so tired-unhappy,
bring down the government,
they don't, they don't speak for us.
I'll take a quiet life,
a handshake of carbon monoxide,

with no alarms and no surprises,
no alarms and no surprises,
no alarms and no surprises,
Silent silence.

This is my final fit,
my final bellyache,

with no alarms and no surprises,
no alarms and no surprises,
no alarms and no surprises please.

Such a pretty house
and such a pretty garden.

No alarms and no surprises,
no alarms and no surprises,
no alarms and no surprises please.

Rufus sleeps....

www.cirqus.com

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Sunday, June 25, 2006 7:26 PM

Walking down the street in scuffed Converse All-Stars, grime-coated and Brown-coated, Geraldo conjures up a song he feels describes the moment...(Desecration Smile, Red Hot Chili Peppers..)

All alone not by myself
Another girl bad for my health
I've seen it all thru someone else
(another girl bad for my health)

Celebrated but undisturbed
Serenaded by the terror bird
It's seldom seen but its never heard
(Serenaded by the terror bird)

Never in the wrong time or wrong place
Desecration is the smile on my face
The love I made is the shape of my space
My face, my face

Disintegrated by the rising sun
A rolling black out of oblivion
(I'm rolling black out of oblivion)

I wanna leave but I just get stuck
A broken record running low on luck
There's heavy metal coming from your truck
I'm a (broken record running low on luck)

He strums his guitar in a mid-tempo, G-D-D-G-Alternate G succession, nodding his head.

We could all go down to Malibu and make some noise
Coca Cola doesn't do the justice she enjoys
We could all come up with something new to be destroyed, we could all go down....

-------------------------------------------------

'I don't know. He seems kind of peculiar.'

'Maybe he's Canadian!'

MSG

Sunday, June 25, 2006 7:31 PM

Hmm I think Lola's song from Damn Yankees would work for Inara-
Whatever Inara wants, Inara gets, and little man little Inara wants you.

Make up your mind to have no regrets, recline yourself, resign yourself you're through.

I always get what I aim for and your heart and soul is what I came for.

Whatever Inara wants, Inara gets. You know I'm right, why even fight, you can't win.

There's no exception to the rule. I'm irrisistable you fool...give in

And yes I love once more with feeling that could be why my email is oncemorewithfeeling321@yahoo.com

I choose to rise instead of fall- U2

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