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Need Help from History/War Buffs for Screenplay

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  1. Pupkin Pupkin is offline

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    Oct 4th, 2010 (10/4/2010 7:24am)

    Hey, I'm the writer of the "+EV" comic you may have read years ago and then forgot about! I'm currently writing a screenplay based on another comic of mine, which has been optioned by a production company, and I need a little help. Could you please tell me some examples throughout history of communities/countries who ignored imminent danger until it was too late? Has to be a situation where they knew the threat was very real, but for whatever reason (religious maybe?) turned a blind eye to it, not wanting to believe it or thinking they'd be saved somehow. Ideally it would be something that might be in current high school (or lower) history books. And it doesn't need to be war -- could be a plague or some other killer. Thank you.
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    Oct 4th, 2010 (10/4/2010 7:27am) in reply to Pupkin

    United States prior to 9/11
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    Oct 4th, 2010 (10/4/2010 7:28am) in reply to BadAllergies

    Rome and Attila the Hun. Iirc they paid him tribute until he got so powerful that it was inevitable he conquered them.
    Edited By: heynow21 Oct 4th, 2010 at 07:30 AM
     
  4. CamelFan.420 CamelFan.420 is offline

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    Oct 4th, 2010 (10/4/2010 7:31am) in reply to heynow21

    Japan and the nuke
  5. miamifunks miamifunks is offline

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    Oct 4th, 2010 (10/4/2010 7:32am) in reply to CamelFan.420

    Hitler taking over Europe in WWII. The Civil War.
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    Oct 4th, 2010 (10/4/2010 9:02am) in reply to miamifunks

    hitler/obama
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  7. Autolobotomist Autolobotomist is offline playing air is my style? so what

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    Oct 4th, 2010 (10/4/2010 9:12am) in reply to scarface_79

     
    Originally Posted by scarface_79 View Post

    hitler/obama

    the separation by a mere slash makes this post absurdly lol. wp.
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    Oct 4th, 2010 (10/4/2010 1:25pm) in reply to Autolobotomist

    Easter Island.

    They used every tree on the island without replanting until they died off because, well, there weren't any fucking trees on the island. Make some more statues, dumbasses.
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    Oct 4th, 2010 (10/4/2010 1:34pm) in reply to cdmalgee

    The Netherlands just before WW2. The Netherlands was neutral in WW1 and therefore did not take part in it. So when Hitler was on the rise and started to invade countries, the Dutch government insisted that The Netherlands was neutral and that the Germans would not attack. Therefore it failed to properly train and arm the soldiers and it rejected offers from the United Kingdom of sending British troops to The Netherlands. Even as the German airplanes flew over Holland, the Dutch government assumed they were on the way to England and the first report of German soldiers crossing the borders was dismissed.
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    Oct 4th, 2010 (10/4/2010 6:24pm) in reply to aad

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    Oct 4th, 2010 (10/4/2010 7:18pm) in reply to R_U_Nuts

    I thought people in Chatsworth only write screenplays for porn.

    Founding fathers made several statements regarding the dangers of banking systems.

    "I sincerely believe ... that banking establishments are more dangerous than standing armies, and that the principle of spending money to be paid by posterity under the name of funding is but swindling futurity on a large scale." -- Thomas Jefferson to John Taylor, 1816.

    "Give me control over a nation's currency and I care not who makes its laws." -- Baron M.A. Rothschild (1744 - 1812)
    Edited By: Z-Fresh Oct 4th, 2010 at 07:18 PM
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    Oct 4th, 2010 (10/4/2010 7:22pm) in reply to Z-Fresh

    If it doesn't need to be war related then the Dutch Tulip Mania is a good one also.
     
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    Oct 4th, 2010 (10/4/2010 7:22pm) in reply to heynow21

    Any sort of indian tribe from north america
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    Oct 4th, 2010 (10/4/2010 7:31pm) in reply to tommpat2000

    Not sure of the veracity, but Sparta and the Carnea is pretty well established leading to the events of 300.

    Battle of Marathon. (may be the opposite of what you are looking for)

    Exodus.

    Noah.

    Illiad - > various religious/omens/egos/tantrums that fuck things up for boh sides; characters
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    Oct 4th, 2010 (10/4/2010 7:47pm) in reply to Lenny

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    Oct 4th, 2010 (10/4/2010 7:49pm) in reply to Lenny

    Masada ?
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    Oct 4th, 2010 (10/4/2010 8:08pm) in reply to whaler55

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    Oct 4th, 2010 (10/4/2010 8:16pm) in reply to clwhat

    Thanks to all. Still searching for the best example.

    More info: The movie's called "Last Blood" and it's about vampires protecting the last surviving humans on Earth from zombies so they can live off their blood. The main character is a school teacher who has kept her small town sane in the months after the outbreak by continuing classes and keeping the children in the dark about the zombies (through lies and a convenient blackout at the start of the plague). She tells the kids that there was a massive solar flare that knocked out the power worldwide and made it too dangerous to go outside (radiation). When we first meet her, after a few months of this, she's starting to lose her mind, almost believing her own lies.

    The reason for my post is that I'm writing the first scene at the school now, her introduction, and we need to see her teaching briefly -- before an adult walking in the hall says the word "zombie" a little too loudly and she freaks out at him. I'm thinking it would be best if she's teaching something that relates to their current situation in some way, something that gives her pause, makes her question what she's doing. Could maybe begin with a student asking why some group of people did what they did, why they ignored the danger, and she gives some sort of answer, then a kid asks what happened to them, and she (and we hopefully) know that it turned out very badly for them (preferably with all of them dying), and while she's lost in thought about that, we hear the guy in the hall. Something like that.

    (The graphic novel sucks, by the way, for those of you who have read it or are interested in reading it. Screenplay will be a ton better, very different.)
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    Oct 5th, 2010 (10/5/2010 10:36am) in reply to Pupkin

    Edited By: chatterbox09 Oct 5th, 2010 at 02:19 PM
    Reason: nothing to see here, this video = inside joke with OP
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