strong man final

8/14/2019 Strong Man Final

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Opening Page; Splash

A large 3 ring circus tent is seen, a crowd gathers outside.

Page 2

Panel 1

A heated debate is raging between the members of the traveling circus. The debate is

mainly between a clown and the ringmaster.

Angry Clown (Medium Shot)- Look, we need to pull out right NOW! The radio said that

thingis heading this way.

Panel 2

Ringmaster (Medium Shot)- I say we stay and we see how it shakes out.

Panel 3Angry Clown (Close Up)- Shakes out? Shakes out? Theres a giant killer robot heading

this way and you wanna see how it SHAKES OUT? ARE YOU INSANE?

Panel 4

Ringmaster (Close Up)- What else can we do? We would never get packed up in time.

You wanna just abandon the circus?

Panel 5

(Wide Shot) A voice comes from off panel, the two men turn their heads towards itssource.

Elena- Dere is other way.

Panel 6

An old woman is sitting down in a chair in the shade rocking and smoking a pipe. She isthe circus gypsy fortune teller. She only stares ahead as she speaks, not even looking at

the men. The angle is pointing down towards her.

Elena- Atlas can stop it.


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Page 3

Panel 1

Extreme Close Up on the clown leaning his head back and laughing.

Angry Clown - ATLAS?

Panel 2

Medium shot. The clown is leaning down, pointing a finger in the old womans face,

while the ring master is standing beside her over her right shoulder. She still hasnt

looked up.

Angry Clown- What can that old man do? He cant even help pitch a tent anymore, hes

useless!

Panel 3

Extreme Close Up on Elena who has snatched the clowns pointed finger and stares up athim with a frightening intensity.

Elena- He is NOT useless.

Panel 5

Extreme Close Up of Clown. Sweat drips down his forehead and youre not sure if he is

frightened or in pain as Elena clutches his hand. He remains silent.

Panel 4

Medium Shot on Elena looking around, releases the clowns hand.

Elena- Where is Atlas? Someone bring him to me!

Panel 5

Wide Shot of the crowd forming a semi circle around Elena who is in the center. A voice

comes from behind them off panel from the left.

Atlas- Im here.

Panel 6Wide shot of the crowd parting to show an old, tired looking man in loose fitting attire of

a strong man. His voice is weak, sad and defeated which is to be shown in the shape of

the word balloon and the lettering.

Atlas- I am here.


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Panel 10

The remade, stouter and younger Atlas lands before Elena who is visibly worn down bythe exercise of power.


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Page 5

Panel 1

Atlas is startled to see Elena visibly fatigued

Atlas- Elena!

Panel 2Atlas has rushed over and caught Elena as she falls to the floor.

Elena- I am fine, I am fine

Panel 3

Elena looks up at him in contemplation

Panel 4Elena unwraps the shawl about her head by just pulling down with her right hand. This

shot is profile.

Elena- Here, you must have a proper cape..

Panel 5Andrei takes a knee in front of Elena so that she can tie her shawl about his shoulders.

After she ties the shawl off on his tunic

Elena- You must look the part

Panel 6Her hand, palm up lingers under his chin for a moment,

Panel 7Elena gazes at him teary eyed, she knows that this is the last time she will see Andrei, and

so she is saying her goodbye to him. She doesnt want to keep him from saving the day,

so she keeps it to herself.

Panel 8

Same shot as Panel 6 only the hand cups the left (Andreis Left) cheek as he gazes down

at her, almost, almostteary eyed.

Panel 9

Same as Panel 7

Elena- Now go my strong man.


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Page 6

Panel 1

Extreme Wide Shot of a city street with various people and military equipment circa the

1930s is set up, its a thin panel and it runs across the page. Equipment and men aresilhouetted close to the lens. Two soldiers are standing next to an Adam Strange like

character.

Panel 2Wide Shot of the three men.

Private- So you really think you can take this thing down Professor?

Sergeant- Of course he can, hes the worlds greatest scientific adventurer.Professor- Indeed I can Private. With my trusty Ray Blaster and Rocket Pack (both

patents pending), I will bring down this mechanical menace and save our fair city.

Panel 3

Atlas comes flying in skipping towards then in an effort to stop from the right side of the

panel across.

Panel 4

Comes to a rest in front of the men, similar to panel 2, though Atlas is now in the midst ofthem, sweating, leaning down his back to the viewer.

Sergeant- A flying man? What the Hell are you supposed to be?

Panel 5

Atlas stands up defiantly like in a stage show.

Atlas- I am Atlas! I am here to save day!

Panel 6Sarge on the left, Professor on the right and the private in the middle who is looking

concerned towards the older soldier.

Sergeant- Great, a flying Pollack, well youre too late, the Professor here is getting set to

blast off and zap that machine to pieces.

Panel 7

Professor- That is indeed correct, I am nearly ready to fight this mechanized maniac.

Though if you would like to be of some service, you can stay and help with the clean up.

Just try and stay out of my way for the next few minutes.


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Page 7

Panel 1Across the whole top of the page. Close Up on the Professor looking upwards in a

dramatic fashion with everyone else in the background close behind over his right

shoulder.

Private- Here it comes!

Panel 2

An extremely wide shot that takes up the rest of the page. The robot is massive, it towers

over the buildings which are all about six stories tall. The very bottom of the panel show

the silhouettes of the 4 men on the street.


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Page 8

Panel 1

Same as the first panel from the previous page.

Sergeant- Wouldja look at the size of that thing

Professor- Thats my cue. Wish me luck boys!

Panel 2

Sergeant- Godspeed Professor.

Panels 2, 3, 4 and 5 are all the same framing, the only one who changes in it is the

Professor and the eyes of the other three men in the frame. In two hes blasting off and

you only see his legs and the jet pack exhaust. Panel 3 you hear a hit of some kind and

everyone winces a little as their necks are craned. Panel 4, the Professor has fallen backdown to the ground smoking and everyone is looking down at the body. Panel 5, the

private turns his head to Atlas.

Panel 5

Private- Looks like youre up.


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Page 9

Panel 1

Medium shot of Atlas to the left side of the panel facing away from the robot whose foot

is visible in the distance over his left shoulder (right side of panel). He is looking at thesoldiers, sort of waiting for well wishes, finding none.

Panel 2

Same framing as the above, but Atlas has turned and is walking away.

Panel 3Wide shot sort of looking up showing Atlas confidently strolling towards the robot. In the

background you see the soldiers tending to the smoking body of the Professor.

Panel 4Worms eye view of Atlas yelling up to the robot. All you see is Atlas head in the bottom

left corner of the panel. The rest is taken up by an extremely forced perspective lookingup at the robot.

Atlas- ROBOT! ROBOT PREPARE TO MEET DOOM!

Panel 5

The Sergeant is bent over the body of the prof. which you barely see because it is

obscured by the privates shoulder, who is standing in the foreground of the shot. Thesoldiers face almost looks embarrassed but mainly is concern.

Panel 6Medium shot of the robot stopping. Birds are flying above its head. It is silent.

Panel 7Same shot as 5 a bird lands on its head.

Panel 8

Same shot as 5 and 6. The robot suddenly makes a series of noises startling the bird off ofit.


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Page 10

Panel 1

Wide profile shot of Atlas looking up

Atlas- Hmmm

Panel 2Same shot as above but the robots foot has come SLAMMING down onto Atlas.

Panel 3

Close up of the sergeant.Sergeant- Goddamit!

Panel 4

Close up of the private.

Private- Somethingsomethings happening.

Panel 5

Angle is looking straight down onto the robots foot. Theres a loud bang repeatedly

heard.

Panel 6

Close up of the robot. Perhaps there is a question mark by its head.

Panel 7

Wide shot of the robot with one leg kicked up into the air, trying to balance itself.

Panel 8

Wide shot looking down at Atlas standing in a shallow crater the shape of the robotsfoot. Hes glaring up at the robot visibly pissed, covered in dirt and breathing heavily.

Atlas- HuffHuff.


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Page 11

Panel 1

Medium shot that spans the top of the page. The sergeant is standing next to the private.

Sergeant- Wow.

Panel 2

Atlas stands in the crater, wide shot like a stand off in a spaghetti western, hes standing

to the left side of the panel.

Panel 3

The robot mirrors atlas stance.

Panel 4Robot reaches down and grabs a car.

Panel 5

Robot tosses the car

Panel 6Across the page, very wide shot. Atlas just catches the car as if someone just tossed a set

of keys at him.


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Page 12

Panel 1

Close up of atlas, maybe with a smirk

Panel 2

Profile shot of atlas rearing back with the car like hes like hes getting ready to toss a

shot put.

Panel 3

Wide shot of the robot getting pegged in the left knee by the car, motion lines following it

to its destination. The robot is already lurching on to the knee.

Note: up to this point the two have been more or less sizing each other up. From here on

out, the action moves very quickly.

Panel 4

Close up of atlas bum rushing the robot, very Akira like, motion lines and no backgroundat all

Panel 5

Extreme close up of the robot looking up with its head tilted forward acknowledgingatlas.

Panel 6Wide shot of the robot leaning back at its hips, angle to the camera, with arms straight

out as its fists rocket out of its arms at atlas.

Panel 7

Profile shot thats a bit wide. The left fist has missed atlas and is behind him in its

trajectory moving in a straight line. The right fist has already hit him once the camera ison atlas. You see the impact lines around his left eye and he is lurched back, as the fist is

seen rocketing off in a spiral trajectory above him moving towards the top of the panel.

Panel 8Very small panel, half the size of one of the above panel of an extreme close up of the

robots pincher hands have slid up and audibly clicked into place.

Panel 9

Same sized panel as above, extreme close up of very old school gattling gun popping out

of its fore arms and instead of the hand crank, a belt is attached to facilitate the rapid fire.

Panel 10

Also a small panel. An extreme close up of atlass face, predominantly focusing on the

space between his fore head and nose


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Page 13

Panel 1Wide overhead shot of atlas running towards the robot with a trail of bullets behind him

Panel 2Wide shot of atlas from behind with the bullets popping and looming in front of him is

the robot waist down creating almost an arch way between its legs to which atlas is

running

Panel 3

Wide shot of the robot, mainly waist up with a little bit of knee. It has rotated 180 degrees

on its hips with motion lines conveying the movement in the sweep of the arms. Its

searching for atlas.

Panel 4Wide shot of an empty street.

Panel 5

Medium shot of robot about shoulder up. Atlas is seen hovering over its right shoulder(left part of the panel)

Panel 6Close up of the robot over the shoulder. The robot appears in the left side of the panel and

is peeking over his right shoulder as he becomes vaguely aware that atlas is behind him.


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Page 14

Insert existing page of robot fight with minor detail tweaks

Panel 1Robot getting punched

Panel 2

Atlas floats in the air

Panel 3

Robot blasts energy at Atlas

Panel 4

Atlas gets hit with energy rays.

Panel 5

Atlas falls.


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Page 15

Panel 1

Interior shot of an old school apartment, with hard wood floors. Wide shot of wall (on theright side of panel) kind of at an angle

Panel 2

Same as above only now Atlas has crashed through the wall and is sliding across the

floor, leaving a trail of blood and debris behind him.

Panel 3

Close up of atlas who occupies the right third of the panel. He is on his side, surrounded

by debris. His body is smoking and he can barely keep his eyes open as he begins toblack out.

Panel 4Wide shot of a quiet meadow is seen with two figures sitting side by side, profiles to the

camera.

Panel 5

Closer shot, but wide enough that both figures are seen. The man , who is furthest away

from the camera is clearly atlas as a young man, very similar to how he appears reborn.

The other is a beautiful young girl with the SAME shawl Elena tied off on atlas tunic.This is the young fortune teller. He just dwarfs her. He holds her tiny hand in his right one

as if hes about to kiss it but he is just looking down at it. All of his weight rests on his

left arm which is rigid and he is leaning in such a way that he is almost leaning over thegirl.

Panel 6Close up of the woman, profile to the camera looking off into the distance.

Elena- (translated from Polish) No matter what we may find in America Andrei, I will

always feel safe with you, my strong man.


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Panel 7

Similar camera distance to above and close up, however Atlas is NOW kissing the hand

tenderly, he has brought her hand up to his lips without really changing how he waspositioned in panel 4.

Atlas- It is you whogive me the strength. I am nothing without you. You will always bemy world.

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Panel 1

Similar to Panel 3 of the previous page, but a little closer, you can barely see Atlas eyeflittering open.

Panel 2

Wide shot of a mother clutching her son against a far wall. The woman is mortified and

the boy looks more curious than frightened.

Panel 3

Close up of the boy

Boy- Are you okay mister?

Panel 4

A little wider of Atlas, now up on an elbow, visibly wincing from the pain of sitting up,head tilted down as if he was throwing his shoulder into it just to lean up off of the

floor.

Atlas- Yes.

Panel 5

Profile shot of Atlas who is now sitting up. He occupies the right third of the panel, his

head is tilted down, ever so slightly towards the mother. I tiny drop of blood is aboutready to fall from his lips. His shoulder dips to his left side and he stares slightly

sideways and down, not quite at the mother, not quite at the floor.


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Page 17

Panel 1

A wide shot straight on of the mother and son. Both are in the right third of the panel. ABOOM in the left third is seen. When the camera finds the two of them, the mother

is flinching, eyes closed, and clutching the boys shirt above his shoulders. His eyes arewide and stunned, almost like hes frozen in place.

Panel 2

Close Upshot of Atlas, still profile, head tilted down but now looking over at the motherthrough a left black eye, and a face with numerous cuts and bruises. He looks genuinely

concerned but also vexed.

Panel 3

Same framing as Panel 6 on previous page, only now Atlas is looking up, with his brows

furrowed like he has steeled himself.

Panel 4

Wide Shot of Atlas up on one knee, trying to lift himself up, his knees are wobbling.

Panel 5

Medium shot. Atlas legs have given out and hes on his hands and knees wincing in pain.

Panel 6

Close up from the front looking at Atlas whos on the left third of the panel, the edge kindof cutting some of his arm off. The little boy has run over to try and help. Hes looking

down at Atlas, one hand is across his shoulder, while the other one is barely grasping

Atlas bicep.Boy- Come on, you gotta get up.


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Page 18

Panel 1

Wide shot. Atlas is kind of standing now, though not very straight, with his left hand on

the boys shoulder. The little boy is still there holding onto him.

Panel 2Close up straight on of the mother, almost devoid of emotion.

Mother- Can you beat it?

Panel 3Wide shot of Atlas in the room profile, looking out of the hole in the wall into the street.

Random noises are heard in the distance.

Panel 4

Medium shot of Atlas. Hes looking up now, his chest puffed up, arms back and his head

held high, his brows furrowed and his nostrils flared.Atlas- I can beat it. I will keep you safe

Panel 5Wide shot of the hole in the wall, straight on. Atlas has leapt over the edge and you see

about half of him, a ways out from the edge as he descends. His little cape flapping

behind him in the air.

Panel 6

Wide shot of the mother against the wall, her hand is straight out to her body reaching for

her son. He is several feet in front of her and is backing up towards her, so he still facesthe camera but is to the camera, left side leading. His hand reaches back blindly as he

stares intently past the camera and towards the hole off camera.


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Page 19

Panel 1

Extreme close up on atlas. His head is tilted down and his brows are furrowed. Hes ready

and hes pissed, this is it. This man has had enough, he has to live up to Elena.

Note: If youve seen The Good, The Bad, and The Ugly youll recognize the shots Imabout to describe. This is straight spaghetti western stand off thats about to happen. I

almost want to have a note right here to but on a particular song to accompany the reader

with whats about to go down.

Panel 3

The camera is placed directly on the ground. In the left third of the panel you see Atlas

foot and up to about his calf. In the right third of the panel you see the robot in forcedperspective, essentially making it appear as if the robot is smaller than it really is. This

serves to show atlas finally viewing this thing not as a large unconquerable foe, but as

something he can meet on more than just an equal level.

Panel 4

Mirror image of the above. Only now atlas is appears as the same size as the robot had inthe previous panel.

Panel 5

Close up of atlas left fist clenched held back from his body so that it almost ends up inthe right third of the panel. You see the curve of his back and down to maybe mid thigh.

There is an audible crack sound effect drawn in.

Panel 6

Mirror of above only the robots pincer snaps audibly shut.

Panel 7

EXTREME Close up of Atlas left eye looking side ways at the robot, his head tilted

down. The bottom of his brow is seen and even though you dont see all of it, its obvious


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that its such an extreme look of intensity that if you were to trace the brows line to

completion, that hed almost have a Mr Spock brow going on.

Panel 8

Mirror of the above though more straight on than atlas. The shudders in the eyes of the

robot have narrowed.

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Panel 1

Wide shot the width of the page, of Atlas as he leans forward and roars. I see it very JackKirby like. Hes so far over that youre almost looking at the tops of his shoulders, his

hands like claws. The look on his face is INTENSE, like every muscle is being used tofacilitate the roar.

Panel 2

Wide shot of the robot about waist up, who faces the left side of the panel. Its lurchingback due to atlas who has shot over to it like a bullet. Atlas has a grip on its left arm and

is literally beginning to tear it off with the momentum he generated.

Panel 3

Close up of struts and welds in the robots arm breaking.

Panel 4

Wide shot, panel the width of the page. Robot is in the left side falling towards that edge

of the panel, trailing bolts and debris from its arm which has been ripped off. On the rightside is atlas, who is moving to his respective side of the page due to the momentum of

having broken the arm free.

Panel 5Wide shot of Atlas floating in air, with the arm in both hands like a baseball bat, like he

was gonna swing it left handed. The hand is positioned kind of like C-3POs arm in a new

hope when it gets knocked off by the sand people and Luke is carrying it; arm kind ofbent, hand dangling at the wrist.

Panel 6Shoulder up shot of the robot with its head lurching forward, loose jaw dangling from

having just been hit in the back of the head with its own detached arm. The motion lines

show the path, the impact, and then up to where hand and fore arm are found by the

viewer in the right corner of the panel.


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Page 21

Panel 1

Close up on the robots neck as it bends over parallel with the ground. Atlas lands on itsneck which is an accordion like connector like robby the robots arms (this shot in turn

becomes a wide shot of atlas who is rather small compared to the size of this thing)

Panel 2

Wide shot of atlas who is trying to separate the head by pushing down with his legs, and

pushing up with his arms. He is faced towards the camera. The left side of the panel is thetop of the robots head angling down to where atlas left hand is and you are essentially

looking down atlas body.

Panel 3

Close up of atlas head as its down in this intense concentration of effort and strength.

Sweat is pouring out, veins are popping and his teeth are visible and clenched just abovethe line of his shoulders.

Panel 4Close up of the accordion material ripping, and pop sounds are heard. This panel is tiny

and thin.

Panel 5Close up of atlas face now, almost looking up from below him now as he leans his head

back and you can see the all of the details of his immense neck muscles straining. He is

heard groaning.

Panel 6

Close up of a wider rip, the panel growing in size relative to more damage having beendone.


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Page 22

Panel 1

Really wide shot, takes up about the top half of the page. The robots head flys towards

the left side of the panel, and atlas hovers in the air as if he had just leapt forward due tothe sudden lack of resistance from the head having broken loose. You see the robot from

about chest up.

Panel 2Atlas lands on his knees and hands, visibly exhausted and sweat dripping off of his chin.

The robots body clangs to the ground behind him taking up most of the background.

Panel 3

Camera is low on the ground with atlas as the two soldiers are there to help him up.

Panel 4

They prop him up his arms around there shoulders, each man on either side of him. they

strain to keep him up due to how heavy he is. Atlas head hangs down, kind of like aboxer at the end of an intense bout. The sergeant holds his chin and turns his head

towards him.

Sergeant- KID! Kid you alright?


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Panel 1Close up of atlas as he suddenly comes to and he has the look of someone who has just

remembered something.

Panel 2

Wide shot of the street camera looking up at atlas as he shoots straight up into the sky.

The soldiers lean back like men in a storm, bracing them selves against a strong wind.Theyre caps have blown off my the rush of air atlas created when he lifted off.

Panel 3Wide shot of a gypsy caravan. There are a great many people gathered outside of it.

Panel 4Edge of the caravan is on the right side of the page, atlas lands about the middle third, his

motion line of his decent comes across from the top of the left third. He lands in the

middle of the crowd. Hes already talking as he lands.

Atlas- Elena, where is Elena?

Panel 5Close ups on s few faces, shoulders up. The faces are sad, the angry clown is one of them.

The door of the caravan is shut behind them over their shoulders.

Panel 6

Medium shot of atlas, shoulders up, he is beginning to look concerned as he pushes his

way through them to the door.

Atlas- What? What has happened?


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Page 24

Panel 1

Wide shot, profile of atlas on the platform at the back of the caravan. The door is openedto the camera and dust is pouring out from the inside.

Panel 2

Wide shot through the caravan. At the very back along the wall the dust is seen to be

emanating from a bunk.

Panel 3

Medium shot of atlas, waist up, camera looking up at him. There is a look of horror on

his face, his right hand extended out in front of him like he is reaching for something. Helooks on the verge of tears. He looks across the panel and the camera is at a 45 degree

angle to him.

Panel 4

Close up of the bunk, a little dust still blows out of a pile of clothes which atlas (and the

viewer) recognize to be the clothes that Elena was wearing at the beginning of the story.

Panel 5

Close up of Atlas still looking up. He understands now, the tears are beginning to run

down his cheek, same angle as panel 3.

Panel 6

Wide shot, sort of profile, more prone. The edge of the bunk is basically the bottom edgeof the panel. Atlas is on the left third. He clutches the clothes and is sobbing now, tears

are dripping. He realizes she is gone.


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Page 25

The entire page is a wide shot of atlas on his knees in front of the bunk from behind

sobbing while clutching the shawl Elena had given him for a cape. It comes around hisright side and under his right arm. His head is down and you barely see the top of the

right hand clutching the cape against his cheek.

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