Please read Prometheus Bound (pp. 6-32 in Levi Lind's Ten Greek Plays in Contemporary Translation or online here or here).Suppose you were writing a commercial promoting a production of Prometheus Bound as a "must see" kind of show. Choose some "sound bites" from the play itself to use in your commercial. Be prepared to work with other students in class to create a full version of your commercial.
Laura McCowan
ReplyDeleteThe screen would grow black and the voice of Hephaiatos, "This is your reward for helping Man" pg. 7
Then it would go to Prometheus pg 28 " "The curse of Kronos his father will come true."
Some flashes of pictures
then it would go the last 3 lines would be played together, Pg. 23 Chorus "Speak, tell it all.", pg. 21 Prometheus, "All that you wish to know I will tell you clearly." The last line, Pg. 18 Prometheus "When you heard have heard my tale out, you will wonder more.
I hope this is what you wanted.
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ReplyDelete"yes and i pitied when i saw him the earthborn dweller in the cilician caves, the terrible monster, the hundred-headed one, laid low by force, furious typhon, who tok his stand aginst he whole of heven, and hissed out horror from his grisley jaws"
the whole time the camera would be zooming in on this cave showing the monster
"his eyes he flashed grim-visaged gleam of fire, bent to destroy by force the tyranny of zeus"
they would be facing each other looking really pissed off and musuclar dudes on roids,
"but the unsleeping bolt of zeus came down on him, the precipitous thunder-stone breathing otu fire, and knocked the proud words out of him, and the boasting, struck through the very heard he became mere dust and ashes"
basically be a really sweet action scene of the movie with cool martial arts stuff and explosions and basically just BA-ness going on.
Terry Kenny
ReplyDeleteI read the play as a mixture of drama and comedy. I would use "It is a light thing for those who take their stand outside the place where evil is to give advice to one who feels the evil". That would get someones attention.
The exchange between Prometheus and Hermes is very funny.Prometheus:Yet time as time grows old, instructs in everything.
Hermes:Though you do not yet know how to behave wisely.
Prometheus: If I did, I would not have spoken to you, you lakey.
Too funny.
Ok, so. Think low-budget action movie with a corny narrator.
ReplyDelete(A savage scene in the mountains)
"Now we have come to the plain at the end of the earth,the Scythian tract, and an untrodden wilderness. And you, Hephaistos, must turn your mind to the orders the father gave you, -- to discipline and pin down this outlaw here upon the loft ragged rocks"
Now to Prometheus speaking to Okeanos:
"Think not that I am silent because of arrogance or stubbornness. No, it is thought consumes my mind when I look upon myself insulted as I am."
And next to his conversation with Io:
Io: "A child of mine will free you from your pain?"
Prometheus: "Third in descent after ten generations more."
To Hermes threats:
"And now Zeus's winged hound, the blood-red eagle, greedily will tear into great rags the flesh of your body, coming, although not asked to dinner every day."
And lastly, fading to black:
"Let it raise my body high and in whirlwind of strong compusion, hurl it down into Hell! Zues cannot any way put me to death"
Jack Black could be Prometheus? ...
David Ellsworth
ReplyDeleteThere would be a close up of a burning fire, then a quick cut to Prometheus being chained up to the mountain by a reluctant Hephaistos. Dramatic music would be playing and accompanied with flashes of thunder and lightening. To a cut of primitive man living a pitiful animalistic existance. Another cut to Prometheus and then Man has fire and learning. Then a narrator will begin to speak while Prometheus' punishment begins, "One God foresaw his suffering and still chose to come to man's aid. Cursed by the Gods his tale is just beginning. Comming this fall Prometheus."
I think that you should have Prometheus chained to the mountain looking all depressed and miserable. Then have some flapping wings sound effects coming and have Prometheus freaking out. Once he finds out who it is have him start telling his story and before he can actually say anything have the screen go black and have the title prometheus bound coming soon to theaters near you
ReplyDeletelast comment was jon evenson
ReplyDeleteBrian Johnson
ReplyDeleteI think the opening sound bit should be "I am nailing you down to this rock where...the flower of your flesh will shrivel..."
The next set of sound bites should come from Hephaistos and Power when they are nailing him down.
The final sound bit would be Prometheus saying "I shall escape my shameful bondage and my pain"
In a World with: "No change, no pause, no hope!"
ReplyDeleteCommercial opens with this line, the guy with the super deep voice comes on and draws the audience in.
A line from Prometheus on how he feels:
"Obscurely through my brain, like shadows dim,
Sweep awful thoughts, rapid and thick. I feel Faint, like one mingled in entwining love;
Yet 't is not pleasure." A flash of him breathing heavily, in some sort of distress.
Prometheus begging Mother Earth, to release him from his burdens, his curses: "Mother, let not aught Of that which may be evil pass again My lips, or those of aught resembling me. Phantasm of Jupiter, arise, appear!" The man with the deep voice again: A man curse to the mountains, for he has crossed the gods, and he has no escape! And cut.
Zach Anderson
I see a beginning cut to Hephaistos and Power chaining him to the rock. Then cut to the chorus saying, "Is there laid down no ending place for your ordeal?" with Prometheus responding, "No end at all." You then show the shadow of wings to get to the end.
ReplyDeleteKevin Nakajima
id start with a black screan where you can hear some movement then a moment of quiet before a flash of fire with people surounding it.
ReplyDeletefade into sound > "u stopeped mortals from seeign their fate in advanced"
cut to scene of prometheus chained
> "i settled unseeing hopes to dwell among them."
> "and after that i gave them the gift of fire."
overlapping voice: dont miss out on this special one week event. staring huge jackman as prometheus.
(cut to scean of prometheus) "and now the dictator of teh gods, after receiving all this benefit from me, has paid me back with bitter wrong that you behold"
overlapping voice " and helena bonham carter as io
(cut to sceen of io) what then do i gain from living? why did i not at once throw myself headlong from this rugged rock, and so, dashed to the earth, i might from all these pains of mine have won my freedom. it is better to die once then suffer wretchedly throughout ones life"
overlap voice: a perfomance you wont want to miss.
tickets on sale now.
-allison rademacher
This is a very intense play that deals with characters who have been wronged and are very angry with the leader of the gods, Zeus. So I am thinking that for a commercial, there needs to be some very strong sound bites that portray the feeling of the main characters. First there should be a line from Power that tells the ordeal that Prometheus will be going through. The line will be "Now the unfeeling tooth of a spike of adamant! Use all your strength and nail it right through his breast!"
ReplyDeleteNext there needs to be a line from Prometheus showing his despair. This line will be, "I wish he had hurled me under the earth, lower than Hades, keeper of corpses, into the limitless gulf of Tartaros."
The next sound bite should show Prometheus anger towards Zeus, "And now the dictator of gods, after recieving all this benefit from me, has paid me back with bitter wrong that you behold."
Finally, the last sound bite will tell of Io's future struggles, "You will rach the roving Scythians...They are armed with long range bows. Do not go near them."
All of these together will hopefully get the audience very intrigued and excited about the Prometheus movie.
Annie Merkel
ReplyDeleteProbably the easiest choice for a commerical for Prometheus Bound is the nailing down of Prometheus to the rock.
It would start with the image of Power saying (if power is a person), "In your powerful strength strike, strike with the hammer! Nail him to the rocks!" And the show Prometheus being nailed to the rock by Hephaistos.
I think this image would be enough to grab an audience's attention.
Start with HEPHAISTOS and POWER chaining PROMETHEUS with POWER screaming "Nail him to the rocks!" Just then HEPHAISTOS'S hammer slams into the pin, and then quickly to a black screen. Picture of POWER standing over PROMETHEUS emerges. POWER says "The gods who called you 'Forethought' gave you a false name." Then cut to a picture of PROMETHEUS sitting alone on the cliff chained to a rock. Flash quick images of CHORUS, OKEANUS, IO, and HERMES just arriving to visit PROMETHEUS; then blinding white. Emerge image of OKEANUS greating PROMETHEUS and saying, "Now tell me how you wish me to help you. You will never be able to say that you have a friend truer than I am." Cut to a close-up, profile view of PROMETHEUS'S lower face, and end with PROMETHEUS starting to smirk before fading black.
ReplyDeleteDoran Stucky
(A 5 second flash of the opening savage scene with Prometheus bound in the mountains)...
ReplyDeleteWords in white w/ a black background: From the directors of Lord of the Rings, based on the writings of Aeschylus
(A five second flash of the chorus of daughters with wings)...
Words white w/ black background: A dynamic drama coming to CineMax theaters
(A 3 second flash of Prometheus giving fire to mankind)...
Words white w/ black background: Comes the tale of a man who stood against tyranny
(A 3 second flash of Okeanos flying on a winged monster)...
Words white w/ black background: And faces the consequences...
(Now a series of quick flashes of the hundred-headed monster, of Hephaistos, of the Gorgons,of Hermes coming to Prometheus, of Io, of Themis, and of Zeus and his sharp-beaked raging hounds)...
(And then lastly, have Prometheus bound to the rock slowly sink out of sight in to a black screen, then have thunder rumble and then have the title slowly appear in white letters "Prometheus Bound" and then fade it out)
Peter Ryman
ReplyDeleteThat last one on OCTOBER 19, 2009 7:57 PM is mine :)
Ruth Wilson
ReplyDeleteThis is totaly an action flick. It would be hard to not make it a 'poor Prometheus' show and I think it would have to be one movie with both Prometheus Bound and Prometheus Unbound in the same one.
Vin Diesel would be Prometheus because hes the only actor currently with a neato narrating voice, Morgan Freeman being too old to be an action hero and Sean Connory being retired and also too old. For the Part of Zeus, I think Rusell Crow would be good because he is old enough to be imposing, young enough to be attractive (hey- Zeus does have a reputation for seduction.) and is a good enough actor to be able to pull of the modern version of a tyrant without going over board.
The trailer would start with a sceen of Atlas lifting the earth with a look of despair and anguish upon his face, Zeus looking sternly at him w/o pitty and Prometheus' voice saying
"I feel the weight
Of Atlas' woes, my brother in the west
Shouldering the pillar that props heaven and earth,..."
A few seconds of black screen and then a sceen of Typhon lying half in a storm-tossed sea, clearly dying, looking up at the stormclouds that house Zeus, with the same look on his face as he had in the Atlas sceen and the naration
"I saw and pitied-a terrific shape...
Resistless Typhon who withstood the Gods,...
[While flashed the fearsome lightening from the relms of Zeus]
Which shattered him and all his towering hopes
Dashed into ruin; smitten through the breast,
His strength as smoking cinder, lightning-charred.
And now a heap, a helpless, sprawling hulk,
He lies stretched out beside the narrow seas,
Pounded and crushed deep under Etna's roots."
Then a before sceen of primitive humans, quick shots of their life w/o fire, short and brutal.
Immidiatly following, shots of their life after, people beginging to build cities and their centers of learning with Prometheus telling of how he changed their lives in accordance to his speach with the chorus.
The whole thing would end with Prometheus saying "I know the heart of Zeus is hard, that he hath tied
Justice to his side;
But he shall be full gentle thus assuaged;
And, the implacable wrath wherewith he raged
Smoothed quite away, nor he nor I
Be loth to seal a bond of peace and amity."
Or rather a more modern version of that speach. I hate couplet verses. They're so... cheesey.
Oh, the lines are mostly dirrect quotes from the version of the play that I read, but the one in [] brackets was my own interpretation of that interpretation, which, I'll admit, doesn't nessicarily match with what Aeschylus really wrote.
I would start out with a dark and desolate area with lightning flashing around, then a narrator would speak the first two lines of the play, "Now we have come to the plain at the end of the earth, the Scythian tract, and un untrodden wilderness." It would then show Power and Hephaistus binding Prometheus to rock and power would say line 9 of the play "he must pay the price of such a sin to the gods..." After this it would come to Okeanos speaking with Prometheus and Okeanos would say "I am sure and confident that Zeus would give this gift to me, to free you
ReplyDeletefrom your sufferenings." Then it would follow with the exchange between Prometheus and Okeanos in lines 86-89 Prometheus: That is an error for which I shall have the blame. Okeanos: Your words are plainly sending
me back home again. Prometheus: Yes, in case your pity for me should bring you hatred. It will then end with the words of Hermes: "...he
will feast upon and gnaw your liver black. And do not look for any end to pains like these..."
John Rawerts
Sam Merkel
ReplyDeleteI went with when Prometheus was nailed to a rock by Zeus. Than someone would appear from thin air and help Prometheus and heal his wounds and aches and pains by using a special ointment. Prometheus would than be all better and it would seem that nothing ever happened to him because of the special ointment that he applied to his wounds.