Death of Innocence
Title Page:https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B8E-5fFmh26hSlloNWhTaXpSR2tmdjFway1NdHR1YWxYYzRF/view?usp=sharing
Script:
Artist Statement:
Our story is similar to Satrapi’s “The Veil” in that it is about a child who is affected by a great national crisis and doesn’t understand. Some of us were very young on September 11, 2001, and like Jimmy, we didn’t understand what was going on; what everyone was so panicked about. We didn’t understand why what was happening to the buildings on TV could affect our parents so emotionally. We were soon forced to discover the sad reality that sometimes exists in the world: that there are bad people who will stop at nothing to carry out their evil intentions. It is these experiences that inspired this story. It is interesting to explore mature concepts like violence or death through the eyes of a child who has had no experience with them and has yet to even think about them.
James Cameron’s Titanic is another work of historical fiction that tells a similar story. Cameron decided to tell the story of the sinking of the Titanic through the eyes of a fictional romance. It also was a very intense natural crisis that many people had to go through. Cameron utilized a very traumatizing historical event and produced a story that we can either relate to, or even just admire. He portrayed a way of telling this story through the perspective of a young couple. So when we decided to create a story around the Kennedy assassination, we chose the perspective of a small family. We wanted to provide a vision of how an ordinary family would be affected by such a world wide crisis.
Sometimes we forget that the stories of people who lived through major historical events can be so much more personal than any news source or article we may come across. These sources tend to overlook the feelings that the average citizen felt as it was happening, and instead focus on facts and statistics. This is why it is often more interesting to focus on an average person or family when writing a historical story than the historical figures themselves, because you get that “first-hand” kind of feeling.
And of course, we tried to make our representation of the assassination as true to life as possible, and made sure to get all the little details correct. For instance, according to the site “Dealey Plaza Earwitnesses” (http://mcadams.posc.mu.edu/shots.htm) the majority of witnesses heard three shots fired, and as seen in “Fifty-one Witnesses: The Grassy Knoll” (http://spot.acorn.net/jfkplace/09/fp.back_issues/12th_Issue/51_wits.html) some thought the first shot sounded like a firecracker or a “cannon at a football game” (http://spot.acorn.net/jfkplace/09/fp.back_issues/12th_Issue/51_wits.html), The National Archives site (http://www.archives.gov/research/jfk/warren-commission-report/chapter-5.html#chronology) states that Lee Harvey Oswald wasn’t formally arraigned for President Kennedy’s murder until 1:30 in the morning the next day, leading to the father’s line about them not knowing who did it yet. It is small facts like this that influenced various lines and details in the script.
Olivia Taylor, Taylor Davis
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