Fiction Adaptation - Channelling my Idea, Research

Upon thinking about my idea and reviewing the poem I am studying, I thought it would be a good idea to go with something completely experimental and something that I have studied before in my own time a lot. So I am covering a poem called Anthem For a Doomed Youth, by Wilfried Owen. Basically, long story short, Owen had really bad PTSD when he wrote this poem. So what I want to do is follow that logic. Owen was an intelligant man but unstable, so how can i adapt that? well, here's what I have come up with.

I studied some events that innvolve this type of person, mainly shootings and mass killings by an individual, as i said, intelligant but unstable. Exhibit number one, Andrew Berwick (Anders Brievik), I'll post some news articles that you can look at and see for yourself that these people are very intelligent and articulit in what they were doing.

This Doc on Brievik is brilliant, really captures how intelligantly insane this man was! He did it for a cause he believed in, whether or not others agreed with it.


I then looked up pretty much the one that started it all, the Columbine Massacre. I won't make this too much of a big deal, but they meticulously planned what they were going ot do and carried it out, I wa\nt this to reflect in my final film. There's lots of docs out there about columbine that I have studied, plus the overall wikipedia page on the massacre and their methodologies when killing and reasons for.

I'm not glorifying this violence and killing at all, that's why I want to cover it in my film, I think that its something that is always overlooked; the social recluse killing massess before killing himself. I plan to capture the insanity of the situation and that these people are damaged and need help.


Basically, my story will follow the story of a man (John Doe) who is meticulously planning a day of execution, with the Poem serving as his monologue. The working title will be called the monologue of insanity, cool name I think personally. I want to relate him as close to Brievik as possible, even referencing his manifesto that he wrote (2083) and the islamification of europe that he is pissed off about.

Right, heres a basic outline of what I want my script to achieve.


Him setting up a budget camcorder.

Him setting up weapons in cutaways.

Him referencing the government

Him referencing 2083

Him preparing armour, masks and what not/

Him uploading the video to the internet.

Him leaving his small apartment.