Although almost nothing remains in the way of actual painting of the Unified Silla period (AD 668-918) except an illuminated fragment of the Avatamsaka sutra on purple paper, the artistic decoration of this fragment which is believed to have been created around AD 750 A.D. fully demonstrates the high level of accomplishment in painting of the people of this period.
fragments of fog part, we
CLOSE ON the figures face, to see...
...his eyes. They are Asian.
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EXT. SHIP CHANNEL BANK - MORNING
An island landscape. Tilt to find our boat bobbing
peacefully on placid water.
EXT. THE SUSAN MARIE - MORNING
Silhouetted against the morning sun, two figures slowly reel
in the massive net onto the rotating drum. A few salmon
slide across the gunne
landscape too deliberate to be of natural origin.
Bisecting this country like a metallic ribbon -- or a scar,
depending on your point of view -- is the 800-mile-long
Trans-Alaskan Pipeline.
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Even the immensity of the pipeline is rendered insignificant
by the vastness of the land. It goes on, and on, and on...
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DISSOLVE TO:
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A lone MAN walks along the Haul Road, a one-lane gravel
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landscaping, in the shape of parks and lakes. The castle dominates itself, an enormous pile, compounded of several genuine castles, of European origin, of varying architecture - dominates the scene, from the very peak of the mountain.
DISSOLVE:
GOLF LINKS (MINIATURE)
Past which we move. The greens are straggly and overgrown, the fairways wild with tropical weeds, the links unused and not seriousl
landscape in Hell. The cars
are stopped in rusted rows, still bumper to bumper. The skyline of
buildings beyond has been shattered by some unimaginable force like a
row of kicked-down sandcastles. Wind blows through the desolation,
keening with the sound of ten million dead souls. It scurries the ashes
into drifts, stark white in the moonlight against the charred rubble. A
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