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Synopsis AUTHOR / CREATOR: Dávid Kolodny-Nagy TIME: Present Day GENRES: Action, Fantasy, Comedy |
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LOCALE: Bean Town (a.k.a. Boston, MA) LOG LINE: When evil beans seek to destroy society through exploiting human vices one girl must set things right.
This is the story of the creation of a hero. Pandora, a rambunctious high school girl, is obsessed with becoming a super star rock 'n roll goddess and doesn't care who she steps on to get there. She has always been a person who goes from one disaster to the next getting into all kinds of trouble, It's not that she loves trouble, just that she is too self absorbed to pay much attention to anything beyond her hairdo. One day Pandora's life took an interesting turn when her father, the famous botanist Henry Hunt, trusted her to guard a jar of beans and a strange-looking bean sprout. "Whatever you do, do NOT open the jar," her father instructed her. Needless to say, the jar was opened, the beans escaped and pandemonium ensued. And like out of some tragic Greek myth, things got really ugly. Pandora had botched up as usual, but this time something different happened. Pandora took responsibility. Perhaps it was really just an attempt to get attention but that day Pandora swore a solemn oath that she would capture all of the beans no matter what. And then things got really weird!
THEMES: This story's primary focus is human flaws. Sins, vices, faults, shortcomings - everybody has them. Some people have more than others and the hero of this story has more than her fair share. It is ultimately peoples' ability to learn from and correct their mistakes that redeems them. Mad Beanz explores the question of what would happen to society if people could no longer control their vices. What if a gluttonous person could not stop eating? What if a lair could never tell the truth? What if a furious person could never forgive others? Each human flaw is embodied in a bean. Many consider plants to be free of vice. As such they might be the only living things in a position to pass judgment on humanity. If plants could speak, what would they say? And more importantly, what would they do? The beans in this story intend to bring about the end of human civilization. They cause destruction by heightening humanity's sins. Where they detect traces of a particular sin, they strike.
Humanity's relation to the Earth is an important theme in Mad Beanz. The environment is clearly at humanity's mercy. The conflict between technology and nature is certainly embodied in Bean Hunt through the struggle between Rich Ross, the industrialist, and Henry Hunt, the botanist. Henry Hunt hopes to help people through safeguarding and utilizing the environment. Meanwhile Rich Ross, highly allergic to most vegetation, creates creature comforts through manufacturing polluting machines and robots with complete disregard to the environment. |
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