Write a story for one of the following movie titles.Or write a blurb that might go on the back of a book or DVD with that title.
Or write a review that you might post at Amazon.
(They are all real movie names by the way.)
- Abraxos: Guardian of the Universe
- Acla's Descent into Floristella
- Across the Moon
- Adventure of the Action Hunters
- Bullwhip Griffin
- Hairbreadth Harry
- Tartu
An Amazon review of Acla’s Descent into Floristella
ReplyDeleteThis is a long overdue prequel to Acla’s Ascent from Floristella. In fact after viewing this highly superior work, one wonders why the first or, if you’re counting in order, the second in the series, was ever made first.
If you haven’t seen Acla’s Ascent from Floristella, consider yourself lucky. Acla’s Ascent is about Acla’s life after her Descent into Floristella. And nothing much happens. She returns to her mundane life and that’s pretty much it. It *seems* pointless.
Ah, but Acla’s Descent is another story entirely! Fortunately.
Acla is a young foolish wood elf, a type all too common in our world, who leaves her forest to “descend” into Floristella. While the name Floristella seems like a fitting name for the abode of a wood elf — as she believes when she steps on the bus — it turns out to be the epitome of hell.
Our first hint of that are the bright flowers painted on the side of the bus that arrives at the stop at the corner of her woods. They are colors never seen in nature. Acla is dazzled — we might even say blinded — by the colors.
The second hint is that the bus stop in Floristella is positioned outside a flower shop. Acla’s eyes are wide as the bus pulls up and the first thing she does is rush to the clusters of flowers only to find they’re craftily done fakes, made of material, paper and … PLASTIC!
Acla is not yet ready to accept that Floristella is not the land of her dreams. She is drawn by heady scents to the next store. If only smell-o-vision were perfected and we could experience what she experiences! The scents assault her and she finds they come from wax candles. Not a single flower in sight!
It only gets worse from there. I won’t spoil what happens later but it is a fitting, necessary prequel to Acla’s Ascent from Floristella, without which Acla’s Ascent has little meaning.
Joyce