Narrator:
Intro montage of characters and their works
Narrator: In 2010 I was commissioned to work on an observational documentary presenting the lives and works of the two indie filmmakers Jeffory Culcher and Marchy Cullock, known internationally as The C&C Picture Show.
SEQUENCE NEWS REPORT
Read by news anchor
SCENE 1
Ten years previous
Micheal Bell:
Along with their pilot the two controversial film makers Martin Cullock and Jeffory Culcher of the C&C Cinema Club are missing presumed dead after their light aircraft crashed near Tavistock this evening. The three men were last seen on the airstrip at Exeter Airport boarding a KC-100 four seater airplane intending to head west to Cornwall. The sight is described now via our on scene correspondent Isabelle Lawrence.
The correspondent talks via phone to the studio anchor.
I’m standing here outside of the cordoned line looking at the wreckage of what was once Martin Cullock’s privately owned aircraft. The scattered fires only recently put out are still smouldering over the broken debris. One stander by told me that he was awoken by the sound of a loud bang, when rousing to look out of his window he saw the orange glow of the fireball over the tree line. Rescue services arrived rapidly but the passengers were nowhere to be found. Fearing the worst the scene was closed for investigation.
Micheal Bell:
Isabelle is there any response from ground control in the area?
Isabelle Lawrence:
As of yet no response Micheal, this could mean radio contact was perhaps impossible. But as the search for the aeroplanes black box commences at first light we presume answers will be revealed some time later this morning.
Micheal Bell:
Thankyou Isabelle
SCENE 2
Narrator:
Thomas’s Eulogy was as sincere and remarkable an explanation of their legacy as any eleven year old will ever write. Or any his elders could even comprehend.
Funeral in church. Eulogy read by Jeffery Culchure’s nephew Thomas Newsan. Attending are family and friends who sit quietly sobbing with solemn faces. The odd smile of remembrance flitting between them and then fading away. Two pictures of the deceased stand on easels at the front of the church.
Thomas Cullock:
When the death of my uncle and my best friend was announced, we as a family where struck by the simultaneous exposure of the cruel nature of mortality. An exposure that revealed within all of us the dwelling of an indiscriminate expiry, that reminds us of the beauty and fragility of human life. When I got off of the surreal phone call, the truth dawning coyly upon me. Denial welling up in my stomach .I stopped what I was doing and sat rigid staring into the abyss of a blue-y reminiscence as if a filter had been placed before my eyes. I saw them both looking at me, and saw our last meeting. We were sat in the garden listening to happy music.
"Make Love" by Daft Punk starts playing and we see a blue-y cone view distorted vision of their last meeting. (P.O.V)
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(This is a reminder for me to put this bit at the end of the film possibly quite probably though)
I sat and enjoyed the dream with them for some time, whilst something intriguing occurred to me, those few moments were as perfect an ending as the last supper. As if they were cultivated by god himself to permit only the memory of our fiesta of contentedness when remembering our dear friends. This joyful composure stayed with me as they left, and recurs in me when I remember them. So as of now, and forever more, we are lucky enough to be able to tell their story, for one another, and for our posterity, and most of all for them.
Thomas descends the pulpit steps slowly and walks down the aisle exiting the church. Once reaching the threshold his eyes widen as he sees two unknown characters walking down the hill away in the distance. He smiles and the screen goes black.
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Through Thomas’s eyes we see Martin and Jeff smiling and laughing. They then go to leave.
Jeff:
See you later Tommy boy. You know I’ve written a part for you in our next film, it’s called "Completely reckless".*
You know me well
Yeah we are looking to forward to working with you.
They wink and smile and wave and then depart
SCENE 3
Narrator:
Their story began in 2005 when the two boys graduated at the ……………….film institute. Establishing themselves soon after as independent filmmakers they worked quietly below radar creating music videos for up and coming DJ’s and bands. Short films distributed online which cultivated a small following. Networking successfully throughout the industry they managed to create a source of knowledge and technical ability to create their very own production unit called the Cullock & Culchure Cinema Club.
Mock Celeb1:
Their first film, "Crumpet wings", was talked about. It held some reverence within the small indie cinema crowd and in a few obscure film festivals it won some awards, which was quiet astonishing for something so low budget to have such effect. So you could see that it was special, what they had.
Mock Celeb2:
In a rather fantastically elaborate fashion they managed to completely evade the eye of the media. They often used specific actors to actually stand in for them at movie premiers, changing their production names and job titles. It was even speculated that they would also use these actors via some sort of earpiece or some such device, whilst actually on set, perhaps posing as sound technicians or runners, which created a fantastic confusion that enabled them to remain visually anonymous to the world. It was a spectacularly elusive method that allowed them to retain their personal identities. And we may never actually know conclusively who they were, or what screenplays or films they actually wrote and made. This knowledge is said to be the exclusive property of the family and friends.
Mock Celeb 3:
This aversion to the public eye created an amazing void, a void that was filled by endless human assumption.
Assumption is the mother of all fuck ups video plays
One of the more off the wall theories is that they never even existed and where in fact the mind child of Burnhaust Estebaum. As we know Burnhaust is a ruse full convolute who specializes in trickery and psychological dissolution of one’s mind. He of course denies this. Other theorists say that they died soon after creating "Good Dogs All Eat", and that their names and works where stolen by their jealous producers.
Mock Celeb 1:
Obviously people have claimed sightings of them since their death, and some have even come forward presenting themselves to be them.
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