DANGERLION

1. The Dude from The Big Lebowski. The dude as a character is brilliantly oblivious and at peace with everything that's going on around him. I'll have to watch again to make sure I'm right on this but it seems like the only time he gets shaken is when he's pissed at Walter. Everything else he's confronted with from blow jobs for 1k to nihilists, jackie treehorn, all of it. Da Jesus. He's calm and has some subtle but hilarious thing to say. He's always repeating something he learns or hears earlier as well. I think often characters go through some hardship or thought changing experience that ultimately changes them, and the dude stays the same the whole way.

2. Alex DeLarge from A Clockwork Orange. He starts off as a playful criminal but he has depth and you have to appreciate his aggressively happy-go-lucky nature. He endures what the govt. thinks will change him and stop him from being a criminal, and in the end he's still himself. Whether or not he'll continue to act at the level he had previous to his treatment we don't know, but we do know that he's still the same guy from the beginning of the movie after all is said and done.

I guess so far I like these characters because they stay true to themselves through life's variance and they're funny/witty as well.

3. This is definitely left field but Thayer Mangeris from Teenage Dirtbag. I identify with the character as a sort of outcast in school with a crush on someone seemingly unattainable. He opens himself up, leaves himself vulnerable, in the hope that his love interest can admit that she loves him as well, but she never can, and well, if you haven't seen it, you should :) It's low budget, the sound and supporting cast is like B-Horror bad, but the movie is stronger than most blockbusters. I don't want to run spoilers so I'm done but yeah, I identify w/the character and being able to relate makes me bond with the movie to a point, it makes it easier for me to sink into it and take the journey with him kinda like bastian reading the neverending story in the school attic or w/e.

F-Box kind of reminds me of BioDome so if we're going that route we'd definitely want to eliminate or stay away from similarities to a point. Or have the F-Box itself have minimal time.

Idea: Maybe there's more than one F-Box, people are segregated somehow, and they all stop working. Only a handful of various escape and survive, so instead of being a brother/sister, maybe there's a group like in The Beniker Gang or Stand By Me.

I feel like if there's a cruel world for them to get stuck in, we should learn more about why they're in the box to begin with. Is it like Hunger Games where they're stuck in districts? Or is the world uninhabited and could be anything?

Maybe they're raised in the F-Boxes like cattle for the rich to feed on and use for various things (medical procedures if it's set in a time that those are necessary?)

We care because a lot of us can relate, either to having freedom/s restricted, to fear of and the inevitability of death, or just feeling stuck or lost with little comfort of what's to come.

It may be good to have it set in the future, but not too distant. I don't know if it works as a matrix/computer type situation, maybe the bodies are being cultivated for the brains of would-be immortals! ;o maybe F-Box and Consciousness get rolled into one! haha.

Just rambling, more rambling in the near future.

Who made the F-Box and why? Or who put the brother and sister in it?
I kind of see it like that Jim Carrey movie where he lived his whole life on a tv set. Can't think of the name.

Here are a few that spring to mind, not sure if they are my absolute favourites or not.

1. Ethan Edwards from The Searchers. This is about the only time John Wayne ever played a real character and provides an interesting and ambibuous character. Is the motivation for his obession with finding Debbie because he is a biggot or as is hinted that he might be her father?

2. Dean Keaton from The Usual Suspects. Particularly on your first viewing of the film you get the feeling that Keaton is a guy helplessly trying to escape the dark side of his nature but is slowly pulled back in.

3. Frank in Once Upon a Time in the West. How can you beat an entrance for a bad guy where the first thing he does is massacre a family? It also helps that Henry Fonda is cast against type for the part.

For the theme, I like: you can't avoid reality forever, or what goes around comes around (like the Fbox people are the Eloi and the cruel world is the world of the morlocks)

Going into the F-Box would be interesting - someone slowly noticing that their football team all ways wins, card hits every time rather than just one time.

Sort of like the original version of the matrix that didn't hold because humans wouldn't accept it.

Could be really interesting themes on pleasure and pain and the existence of evil.

Check out this unrelated but cool short film when you get a chance: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r4yBXIhB36g&feature=youtu.be

Some thoughts/ideas I had re: F-box:

--is it a prison, or is it a place people want to go to/live in?
--what if a virtual utopia became the best way for the government to control the people? how did they do this and why?
--what if it was a place you could only get to after you die? (combine idea w/ consciousness, so when you die you can "upload" into the utopia)
--what if the story is set in the super near future, like 2014 or 2015. what events could unfold (esp. political) over the next cpl years that could result in rapid, radical societal change?
--here's an idea: what if later this year the government tried to shut down the Internet? what if they failed, what if they succeeded? what if OWS escalated into a revolution? what would the US government do to continue existing and perpetuating war? what if Obama was put on trial by the American people for crimes against humanity, and what if that event precipitated a massive, authoritarian clamping down on freedoms?
--what if F-box was drugs? pumped in via the water supplies, or delivered to your door every morning. then one day they stopped coming.
--what if F-box was the future of Facebook?

http://www.nickbostrom.com/

http://io9.com/5799396/youre-living-in-a-computer-simulation-and-math-proves-it

@MayContainNuts will check out that short film next week, hotel Internet is awful for video atm