Essential Word On The Street

the word on the street Copyright © 2003, 2004 by Rob Lacey formerly titled the street bibleThis title is also available as a Zondervan ebook product. Visit www.zondervan.com/ebooks for more information.This title is also available as a Zondervan audio product. Visit www.zondervan.com/audiopages for more information.Requests for information should be addressed to:Zondervan, Grand Rapids, Michigan 49530www.zondervan.comLibrary of Congress Control Number: 2004107534ISBN 0-310-92267-4This edition printed on acid-free paper.The story on pages 489-92 is copyrighted © 2002 by Rob Lacey. Use only if author acknowledged.As of the date of publication, the websites listed in the main text of this book were fictitious. Although some of the site names used in this book have been registered, at the time the book was written there were no live sites at these addresses.The copyright holder''s permission need not be sought for public reading/performance of this material when done on an amateur basis. For permission to read/perform this material on a professional basis please contact Rob Lacey, Mail Box No. 238, 61 Wellfield Road, Roath, Cardiff, CF24 3DG, Wales, UK, or visit www.roblacey.com for more information.All recording, radio, television and film rights are reserved.All rights reserved. No part of this publication may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system, or transmitted in any form or by any means - electronic, mechanical, photocopy, recording, or any other - except for brief quotations in printed reviews, without the prior permission of the publisher.Interior design by Beth ShagenePrinted in the United States of America04 05 06 07 08 09 10 /.DC/ 10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1The Big PictureTo work, to grab the attention, you need a story that impacts the audience. What about a film to launch the movement? Clearly, you''d need a genuine hero. Someone everyone will empathize with. Someone noble but common. Safe but dangerous. Pure but streetwise. Gentle but confrontational. Someone with supernatural powers used only for the benefit of the community.Then you''d need a "baddie". An enemy force. Something all-enveloping, ruthless, sinister. Ideally this battle should have a back-story centuries old, only now coming to a climax. Maybe you''d kick off with an exciting opening sequence of genuine horror. Why not open the film with shocking scenes of babies being murdered and one family, babe in arms, racing from the infanticide?Having established the scale and intent of the opposition, you''d show the hero growing to confront this evil and discover his mission, to save the planet from this insidious, all-consuming power. A small group of followers would supply different viewpoints through which you''d see him begin to fulfil this mission. They''d work well to draw out the principles of his radical thinking. They''d also provide humour and light relief with their mess-ups.The danger facing the hero would gradually build as he confronts the authorities, who are the prime suspects in a conspiracy theory of the control of the masses through a dominating worldview and an elaborate political system ensuring the subservience of the people. Timehonoured blockbuster stuff.Eventually, inevitably, it''d build towards confrontation and the tragic betrayal of the hero by one of his own crew. Rifle-fire scenes propelling you through his false trial and execution at the hands of the corrupt authorities. Slow up to show his heroism prevailing right to the end with his harrowing call for his executioners to be forgiven for what they''re doing. The crowds would turn against him and the hero would die an unheroic death. Long pause. The shell-shocked cinema audience would rustle their bags and make to move - but the credits would refuse to run.It can''t stop there. There has to be a reversal, a twist. Something that changes the worst thing that could happen into the best thing possible. You''d need to have a visual mechanism, maybe 3D film footage, to give an insight into the sLacey, Rob is the author of 'Essential Word On The Street ', published 2004 under ISBN 9780310922681 and ISBN 0310922682.