As I’m dusting off the old drawing boards and reels for Ashleigh’s Vengeance, I thought I’d do a quick edit on the test shoot from 2008.
There are plenty of imperfections to go around, but the clip should serve as a good reference point for the upcoming trailer and the next draft of Ash.
Harris has been a steadfast motivator these past couple of months, keeping me on my toes…
Enjoy!
-Iliad
P.S. Towards the end, see if you can hear Jeff’s voice in the back seat of the car!
As you all me may know, for several years now I have been working on the Missing Commandment project, with the Ashleigh’s Vengeance trilogy and the Matrix Mission being aspects of this larger project. My intention in these projects is to challenge the God of Abraham and Sarah.
Some of the arguments in my case against this deity are to call him to task on:
1. His jealous demand on Abraham to sacrifice his son Isaac
2. His callous acquiescence in the sacrifice of Job’s children
3. His cowardly offering of his one and only son to rectify his failure in his own misbegotten creation, humankind. A true father would have stepped forward and accepted his own failure rather than sacrifice his son on a morbid instrument of torture, the cross.
4. The list goes on!
The danger:
While Abraham’s God may be flawed, his existence or lack thereof does not negate the existence of sublime mystery beyond the heretofore structure of our individual and collective cognitive faculties.
This is where folks like Obama fail. While Barack Obama’s erratic and contradictory speeches echo some of the principles dear to my heart, and while he may be oddly and sporadically aligned with some of my mission objectives, at least partially, nevertheless, I cannot discount the fact that he tragically falls short and fails to seize on the opportunity before him.
My contention is that Mr. Obama is an unwitting puppet and is grossly beguiled by his own silver tongue and loquacious rhetoric to know how tragic a character he is.
His stance against the Christian God has obfuscated his character and radicalized his principles to where he has swung to an absurd and contradictory farce on the other end of the pendulum. Ironically though, this pendulum swings all over the place when it comes to Obama’s position, so now it’s somewhere in the middle!
Anyhow, neither do the reactionary Atheists nor the crumbling institutions of the Theists understand the sanctity and the sublime meaning of the mystery that is the conception and the objective of life as a fundamental paradigm. It is high time we evolved!
