when one thinks of the future of film
and television
one doesn't often think
a studio such as Marimont
would have a bevy of
the "mad scientists"
living dorm style in 18 apartment complexes in Century City
even 15 years ago the closest one would get to an actual scientist in the studio  might be in the optics lab
but all this began changed in the 1990's
when word whispered down the silicon valley that not only was intraneural interface in the air
it was already here


Marimont ,Paramount and Fox all faced the  same problems concerning the  legalities of this new technology as  Dome and Proxy and had to do it's initial experiments with the device on the down low


 Eli Levin  had already  written a working script of the first Intraneural Interface interactive "movie".it was something he and David Mamet had tinkered with between golf holes.

.written ,like the Old Testament to shake some sense into this morally reprehensible generation of self seeking godless miscreants.
Eli never felt that movies were purely about entertainment and abhorred the  old saying that if Hollywood wanted to send a message they should send it Western union" .But the idea that something as powerful as the motion picture  and now intraneural's infinite possibilities beyond sight and sound should be wasted on "fun" made him think of his father....... and his father's  of the old Fear of God with a lightning bolt style of instilling.....all but missing from today's society.

Nobody could know about this "new form of "entertainment"
but It really did no good whatsoever transmitting stories and morality tales into the minds of rats or Guinea pigs.
Marimont needed people but they couldn't very well do a casting call

"the homeless , prostitutes maybe ,drug addicts?"The scientists suggested to Eli.

It's a fantasy project ,he told Mamet as he drove  along Sepulveda towards the Valley,They were returning early from a washed out golf game.He could tell"the lab coats"wanted him to be the first of the studios to go "Body Snatching', the first to "play Frankenstein".No,no,He'd stick to the simulations and the headsets ..something to keep his hope alive that Movies could be what they were meant to be.Tools for guidence and self betterment.He would keep his doings with  intraneural  interface as  a party trick he'd bring along to Bat Mitzvah's and Wedding aniverseries.He couldn't even tell his wife they had found a way to embed receptors so that no headset was needed.It was some complicated gel suspension Dr Crouse had demonstrated involving nano mite sized plasma something or other that could be absorbed below the hairline.All very James Bond crazy .or would sound that crazy  if he hadnt seen it possible  on the computer screen  in sound stage 7..

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"watch yourself you old cunts!"Drew shouted to the greying men in the Lexus
Drew wasnt from LA
he walked.
where he came from the cars actually stopped if a person was walking across the street.
here he had to weave in between the cars to get to the other side
like he was in that old video game
Frogger
little did he know he soon would be

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