Abstract:
The questions tackled in this film script deal with those concerning representation and how
fragile the barriers between reality and an act really are. In this thesis I wrote four scenes of a
dystopian film and analyzed the fallout of a film-icon obsessed world. The script follows main
character and actor, Gunner, who runs away from a Hollywood he no longer understands in
2090. Leaving could mean freedom, but the risk is that he dies at the hands of a disillusioned
population who are incapable of viewing celebrities as people. At the same time, he runs from a
cult-like troupe of actors who are ensuring his safety in a compound hidden from the rest of
America. Inspired by Jean Baudrillard’s Simulacra and Simulation, I continue his postmodern
comments on representation and how meaning is steadily being dissolved from the human spirit.
