Title: Theseus; Matador Mother Genre: Sci-Fi, Mystery, Horror Format: Feature Logline: After being absent for years while pursuing a film career, a terminally ill mother transfers her consciousness into a body eerily resembling her young daughter
- Transferring one’s consciousness is now scientifically possible. A man must contend with the post procedure stigma.
- Mind uploading https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mind_uploading#See_also
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ship_of_Theseus
- https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/TheseusShipParadox
- After being absent for years while pursuing a film career, a terminally ill mother transfers her consciousness into a body eerily resembling her young daughter
- The identical twin of her daughter she kept alive for this procedure, died at birth?
- Identical twins separated from each other share eerily similarities
- Identical twins can feel each others pain, read each others minds, have premonitions regards the other
- Mother’s return triggers the daughter into killing
- The daughter is an architect or conservator restoring a building/piece of art to exact detail of the original
- 2 sisters, one was a clone raised for a body backup
- Incestuous relationship with daughters boyfriend
- Demolished Man - murder has not been committed in 70 years
Mother is coming to stay to recover post operation Mother stares into her reflection in the pavilion’s pool.
- Monster in the House
- Superhero
- Whydunit
- Maternal Horror
- Melodrama
- Mind Uploading
- Murder
- Magic realism
- Blur the lines between fantasy and reality
- Ship of Theseus
- Minotaur
- Yotsuya Kaidan
- Vampiric
- Vampyros
Call back to something a character does in the first act later in the story (Now Voyager, lighting two cigarettes) Trains are in every good film
Dive into the backlash of this type of procedure Cyberpunks, bio-engineered humans hypocrisy
Design of labyrinth - paleolithic Venus / minotaur women (cave of forgotten dreams) https://www.ancient-origins.net/ancient-places-africa/lost-labyrinth-ancient-egypt-part-1-002033
Egyptian motifs to represent the procedure, continued existence of the corporeal body i.e. embalming
The mind transfer takes place in a sarcophagus like contraption, presided over by high priests
A capillary hint of red
Dialogue: “You invent, create , build something to make life better for humans in the future. That’s why we’re living at the point that we are now, because people before thought and lived and made things and we build upon that.”
Shot List, Storyboard