Christopher Ruiz - Week 5 HW

The Story of the Youth Who Went Forth to Learn What Fear Was Intro

The camera pans from late afternoon sky down to the top of a large, old brick wall. The boy climbs over from the other side. A couple kids run up to the wall, relieved and surprised that he came back; they were all very scared for him. They say that they can’t believe he actually did the dare. The kid’s father runs up, yells at the kid to come back down, and he climbs down the giant wall with impressive ease. The father reprimands the kid for climbing the wall; he’s told the kid countless times that it’s dangerous outside the walls, and he’s forbidden to leave them. The father tells the boy that he must stop taking these risks and learn to careful with his life. The father calms down after a bit, and mentions that he wishes the boy would fear danger, for his own sake. The boy sadly mutters that he wished he’d feel any fear at all before heading back to his house. The father begins to follow the boy, and attempt to comfort him, but holds back. He thinks for a moment, and instead heads into town. The father enters a potion shop, and decides to spend a considerable amount of money on a single potion, against his better judgment. The viewer cannot yet tell what the potion is for. The father returns home in the evening, looks towards his son’s room, where he has already gone to bed, sighs, and goes to bed.

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VISUAL STORYTELLING STORY BEATS

-Youth is introduced: Boy lives with his father and brother, he lived a normal life, but he does not feel fear, and it occasionally gets him into trouble. He wants to know fear.

-Boy accidentally kills his father, who was trying to scare him in a fake attack. He is immediately exiled from the village.

-Boy explores the wilds for two years, learning to fend for himself. He grows lonely and sad. He feels guilt for killing his father. He does not feel fear.

-Boy tries to befriend animals but they do not trust his fearlessness. He decides he must find fear no matter what.

-Boy returns to the village and is met by the elder. He wants to return but the elder will not allow him to until he has found fear. The elder tells the boy of his mother and his birth, and directs him to the ancient dungeon near the village.

-Boy sets out to the dungeon, finds it, and enters it. He faces several trials and many creatures through the dungeon, it hasn’t been entered by humans in a hundred years.

-Boy reaches the end of the dungeon. At the end is a large empty room with a chest in the center. Upon opening it, a dark gaseous form erupts from the box and takes on a loose silhouette resembling the boy himself (Fear).

-Boy fights Fear and overpowers him, upon defeat Fear is absorbed into the boy; he has overcome his

fear and accepted it.

-Boy returns to the village with the box and is accepted in.