OUR FIRST STORY ENTRY!

this from donald wood:

'THE BOOK OF HARVEY'

The year is 3045. The earth is a nuclear wasteland. Humankind is on the brink of extinction after decades of war. The origins of the conflict have been lost on the remaining few, however instinct tells them it all has something to do with a poker game played millenia beforehand. Legend has it that a saviour with a birthmark shaped like a royal flush (hearts) will end the wars once and for all.

That saviour is Harvey. Harvey, son of Cy-ril LongBottom and Bea GrassSkirt, lived in a small hole on the edge of Mt. Tall. He was a kind soul, never exposed to the harsh reality of his dead and angry world. One day he decided that he needed to travel outside of his safe hole, and visited the wise shamaan in the valley of ghosts. Together they discovered Harvey's birthmark. The Shamaan told Harvey the legend of the man with the flush mark, and from that point on they both knew what must be done. With the shamaan's knowledge and Harvey's keen interior designing skills, they built a deloreon to travel back in time with. The hope was to go back far enough to discover the origin of the war.

The Delorian first took Harvey backwards to 2002, where he became starting LB for the Oakland Raiders. After a poor start to the football season, he was traded to the Golden State Warriors. The transition was difficult since the Warriors were a basketball team and the Raiders had played football, and also Harvey could play neither.

With the delorian in 5th gear, Harvey escaped from the sub-.500 season and landed in 1000AD. Actually, he drove right through the villiage square of a Viking city. In the process he ran over the King. The villagers were upset. Harvey offered sandwiches as a make-up gift. The villagers were happy. But Harvey had no fixings. The villagers were upset. They were as hungry as a small elephant. He was chased by an angry mob in protest, but escaped posing as an old man with a limp. The limp was very well acted. This aggression and petty anger on the part of the Viking mob was new to Harvey...it was alien
to him.

In the process of escaping, Harvey noticed one woman at the edge of the alien mob: sophia the red. Her beauty blinded Harvey and he ran into a wooden post. Darkness.

Harvey next wakes up in the infirmary. It was crowded with other men who had run into posts after being blinded by sophia's beauty. It was decided that the village should stop putting up so many wooden posts, especially in the middle of streets and escape routes.

This drew the ire of the wooden post makers in the village. They formed another alien mob and ran wild through the streets. To counter, the remaining villagers set a trap for the post makers. Harvey was the central figure in the plan. He was to gather wood for post making until the post people took notice and made him a part of their mob. This took some time, and never actually worked. It was a waste of 4 hours.

Eventually the post makers were trapped as a group beside a wall. From a top the parapets, Harvey grabbed a flaming arrow and bow, but the bow was also on fire, so he chose a spear instead. It was at this moment that he saw the beautiful sophia, down on the ground amongst the post maker mob. She was a post maker!

It was time for Harvey to chose: love or war. He chose love. Perhaps this was his destiny: to make the peace by marrying on of the enemy. He threw down his spear and started toward sophia when out of nowhere a stone hit him on the head. He fell and fell for what seemed like hours, the drop was decieving. He was only seconds away from piercing himself on a sharpened
wooden post when the delorian flew underhim and saved his life! Auto pilot, screamed Harvey...autopilot! With a flash he was gone.

Harvey awoke inside a small barn. He was on a pile of hay. The delorian was parked at the back. Harvey must have collapsed from exhaustion...but where was he? And when? How was he supposed to save the world now?

Harvey slowly looked to his left at a group huddled in the corner. Jim Cavezeil, a 38 year old man, was in the corner being held by Mary, his mother. Behind them was Joseph, his father, and 3 wise-men carrying gift. He looked to the right and the clock on the manger wall read midnight, December25th, 0 AD.

38-year-old Jim Cavezeil, playing a newborn baby jesus (using "the method"), lifted his small arm and pointed to Harvey. He spoke 4 words that would change Harvey forever: "I WANT THAT BEARD". Suddenly the 3 wise men pulled out ninja stars and shotguns. Harvey turned to the camera and winked slyly. A new adventure was about to begin.



DO YOU HAVE A STORY? SCROLL DOWN THE PAGE TO READ THE EVENTS OF HARVEY'S LIFE IN THE ADVENTURE MOVIE 'OUTLANDER', AND SEE IF YOU CAN MAKE SENSE OF IT.

Harvey, hero? or just another viking?

you think you know the story of this character? write in with your plot stories. we can choose a winner, and give them a prize, which is something i found on the set!

drop your responses in the comment boxes.

warning: plot spoiler

harvey dies.

yes. it's true. filming has wrapped, and the entire last week was nothing but 'dead body poses' for Harvey.

for those of you who are trying to piece together the life of this character, i wish i had more to give you. Harvey was drenched in blood, so i cannot say for certain that he died in peace. but he had all his pieces still attached. that is saying much more than the dozens of 'rubber and hair' remains of others.

'keep moving, we're still rolling'

who is the star?

In the last post we left Harvey as he was laying behind Jim Caviezel in a stable clinging to life.



That scene ends, and we cut to find Harvey in a field with dozens of other villagers ‘gathering wood’, and ‘making himself look busy’. There is an unquestionable repetitive nature to this activity since each, and every time he completes his pile, he must ‘reset’ and do the whole thing all over- always ‘locking it down’, ‘rolling sound’, and starting on ‘action’.

This is moment is in the past since there is considerable effort on the parts of Kainin (Jim Caviezel), and ‘the guy who had nothing’ (Jack Huston) to build a trap for the alien monster.



While carrying a log on his shoulder, and walking a ‘slippery banana’, Harvey catches the eye of a beautiful red haired villager (Sophia Myles). Harvey was really only looking at her, and he was told by a viking friend that talking to the 'stars' was frowned upon.

But, the sun was out, the air was warm, and the three pairs of long underwares Harvey had on seemed heat him down below without the thoughts of the red haired villager.



Later that day, the scene jumped to night, and Harvey is standing amidst two torches some thirty feet in the air on the ‘parapets’. He is wearing a helmet adorned by silver chainmail. He is holding a flaming arrow, and he is aiming down into the trap. A command is given, which makes him jump back to the first time havey can remember. A voice yells: ‘The morween’ (alien monster) runs into the trap’, and the gate thunders shut. Harvey pulls back ready to fire, and remembers a moment when he was on the ground holding a spear, then another moment when he was lying dead on the ground, and then an instance when he was running as an old man with a limp from sheild hall. Could these all be the same moment in time? how is it possible?



It is at this moment that I must stop you the reader, to ask you to consider what is happening. Is there still a missing piece to harvey's puzzle?



Time seems to be no friend of ours in piecing together this story.

The next scene we cut to the alien is running around the village. There is ‘mass chaos’, ‘everybody is running about’, and some characters are ‘looking for their lost children.’ Harvey is given a ‘route’ to run. With broadsword and shield in hand he takes of running through the village- First to the armory, then to the church, and over to the tannery where he meets up with another villager to ‘run in a team’ across the open square to the well. Although he is uncertain what he is running from, harvey is told, 'it will look great in post'.



At the instant Harvey takes of with his partner Kainin and the little boy are running down the same square. There is a collision. Bodies go flying and land in the mud covered ground. Harvey is instantly aware that this was not supposed to happen. People rush in from all direction to provide help. but it's not to harvey's friend who is lying in the mud. it is for kanin. after harvey is told kahin is also one of these 'stars'. harvey wished he was one too.



This week there is a call for ‘an aerial shot’. Let’s hope it can gives us some perspective on the current situation.

The TAO Of The Vikings

Every life has a back story.



The term Viking commonly denotes the ship-borne explorers, traders, and warriors of the Norsemen who originated in Scandinavia and raided the coasts of the British Isles, France and other parts of Europe from the late 8th century to the 11th century.

Famed for their navigation ability and long ships, Vikings are also widely believed to have been early explorers of North America, with putative expeditions to present-day Canada taking place as early as the 10th century.

Etymologists assign the earliest use of the word to Anglo-Frankish writers, who referred to "víkingr" as one who set about to raid and pillage.



The most detailed accounts which we possess of the Viking Age are the Icelandic sagas. Some of these deal with the deeds of powerful rulers, such as the kings of Norway or the earls of Orkney. Others deal with the 'ordinary people' of Iceland, although the central characters even then tend to come from the ruling class. Often the sagas describe events in great detail, including what was said by those involved.



Historians in the nineteenth century accepted the sagas as more or less accurate accounts, except where they clearly strayed into mythology and fantasy. The graphic accounts of the sagas played a large part in the creation of the 'Viking' myth. More recently, historians have looked at the sagas more critically, and for a period in the late twentieth century, many historians wouldn't accept that the sagas had any historical value at all.

Today, most historians would accept that the sagas are not reliable, and that some saga material is clearly not factual, or reflects a much later society rather than the Viking Age. However, this does not mean that the sagas have no value at all. Sometimes the broad outline of events in the sagas is supported by other sources. In other words, we can use sagas to study history, but we have to be very careful when we do.



The famous 'berserks', whose name suggests they wore bearskins, may have fought in groups, and believed that Odin, the god of war, gave them both protection and superhuman powers so they had no need of armour. They would work themselves into a battle frenzy so intense it is said they bit on the edges of their shields, and could even ignore the pain of wounds.

The end probably came about as a result of tired Vikings who had become citizens of many places in Europe. They had become Christians back in their homelands, kings had evolved and were instituting taxes, and the economy had become such that you could get along much better as a trader rather than as a raider. The force of Viking onslaughts had caused European kingdoms to become centralized and focused. They had basically gotten their act together, learning how to defend themselves and to gain by trading and negotiating with the Vikings rather than just trying to fight them.



The Vikings are often portrayed as illiterate, uncultured barbarians who evinced more interest in plunder than in poetry. In fact, the Vikings left behind a great number of documents in stone, wood and metal, all written in the enigmatic symbols known as runes.

Want to get inside Harvey's head. Try writing your name in Runes!

http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/vikings/runes.html

You Connect The Dots

Think you can piece together the life of Harvey the Viking?

Well, post your story in the comment boxes. We find out more about Harvey each time he is called to set, so submit often!

Hold On Harvey!

Life comes with few assurances except death. Death is for certain.

The last couple of days gave Harvey the Viking a shake up that would end in a dire state of affairs. The recent adventure began with news that the king had died.

You might remember from an earlier post that Harvey was suddenly an old man running from a church. Well, as it turned out, the King (played by William Hurt) ran into that church to save his daughter. Anyhow, the monster’s beast spawn was in there.

Harvey and the rest of the villagers received the news of the King’s death with ‘gloom and much sadness’ standing on the steps of the ‘Great Hall’.

Without anyone willing to become the King- there was this one guy in really shinny amour but ‘he had nothing’- the entire village packed up on ‘a mass exodus’.

Harvey packed up all of his worldly possessions, which amounted to a barrel, a few pelts, and some straw- barrels were like iPods in those days-, and left the village.

But then the craziest thing happened. We flashed ahead or back in time- I wasn’t quite sure which- and we find Harvey being pulled suddenly into the infirmary. Blood was in his ears, neck, and all over his face. He entered ‘carried in by a woman’, and was ‘flopped down on the pile of hay’.

For several hours, and takes, he laid there-in a stable house- in pain, ‘almost about to die’.

And that is where we left him.

Perhaps Harvey will not be a hero at all. Perhaps this is how his life will end, and these events will be left fragmented for our interpretation.

All I know is that the story isn’t over. I got news that Harvey is required on the set Wednesday and Friday.

Let’s hope it’s not too late.

Starting Points

what we know:

harvey only recently returned to his village. we open when he suddenly finds himself preparing to trap an alien that looks like 'a small elephant, but only scarier'.

after the beast explodes we discover him suddenly as a dead body.

there is a flashback. in it harvey is a raider! the raiders are the enemy tribe of pilagers from across the way. not too unlike those bastard 'ie' harveys from the other side of the river. but after fleeing, 'having just had their asses kicked', our hero, harvey, transforms back into one of the warriors. certainly some shady past dealing in harvey's history.

the blast did not kill the monster, and once it escapes after the explosion there is another one attacking villagers inside the town hall. somehow harvey the corpse vanishes, 'loses the sheild and weapon', and becomes 'an old man with a limp' held up and consequently terriorized by the alien in the town hall.

at last we saw harvey we had regained his weapons, and has joined the other warriors on an attack. he retreats at one point, 'scared and ready to run home to his momma's', but we also discover him attacking, and 'running like hell'.

the coming days i hope hold more clues into the life of this viking, harvey.