Playing Annie - a New Story Outline
PLAYING ANNIE
The Synopsis
Written by Alex Pierre and Annie Tazbaz
When at the tender age of 13, she is offered by Mario - a kid from the boy’s school right next to her bus stop – to leave Beyrouth and Lebanon for the promised land of Hollywood, Annie understands that she better beware of men!Annie is now 20, and in Lebanon, she must get married, sooner than later. She is set to marry Henry, a military official who already cheats on her and decides to cancel the marriage 1 day before the ceremony, leaving him humiliated . She is then thrown into the arms of another contender, the son of the chief of the country’s secret services. She refuses and finds a man of her liking, a young rebelious student who she marries in chaos, the day the " 100 day-war " bomardments begin.
Six years later, settled down in her Montreal suburban life – with husband, 2 kids, cars, pool and central vacuum cleaner – she falls head over heels for Ian, a Scottish businessman, brilliant and vibrant, who just arrived in Montreal in order to re-energize his own struggling marriage.
Torn apart between her life as a dedicated wife and the passion she feels for Ian, she sinks nose first into a depression. One day, she is found dead. Out of her physical reality, Annie discovers what is beyond death – total goodness, absolute love, and life. She decides to go back to Annie and continue her present life experience.
Hence, she returns to her physical experience, transformed. She is not afraid of anything. Life is no more no less than a Divine Comedy. She is just determined to be true to herself.Knowing now that thoughts and matter are all forms of energy, she discovers an outlet for her new passion for life : Carnavals. One day, at a Trinidad Carnaval, she gets acquainted with a black Trinidadian family who initiates her to intense dances that power up her energies to extreme hights, modifying her perception of reality in pure ecstacy, aided by the intense music of " Steel Drums ".
Annie decides that she wants to make the Carnaval known to the world, she gives herself a mission, and she is determined to do whatever it takes to see it come true : make a documentary about Trinidad’s Carnaval, a celebration of life and freedom.
The following year, Annie goes back to Trinidad with a camera, to film the Carnaval, and show how her Trinidadian friends transform themselves for the event. But on the first day, she believes she saw Ian, her Scottish Lover in Montreal. She goes searching for him, and she does indeed find him, in a perillious situation, running away from a mad man who attracted him into a trap. Annie discovers that the mad man is no one else than Henry, the military man who felf humiliated in front of the world when she refused to marry him 7 years earlier. He used Ian to get Annie.
Not afraid of anything, Annie takes upon herself to save Ian and herself from the raging Henry and his goons. She manages to disappear with him in the black neighboorhood, where friends help them escape. Hidden in a pick-up carrying steel drum and musicians, they cross town and manage to gain the ocean, where they find a boat.
Feeling safe and relieved after the perillous chase on the island, Ian asks Annie to once and for all follow him to Holland, and start a new life. But Henry gets on the boat, with his big guys, and tries to rape her. Ian is beaten to death. Annie remembers her near death experience and tells Henry, her raper, that she never will die, even he tries to kill her. A gust of wind suddenly violently pushes the sailboat to one side, and all the men fall in the water. She grabs Ian’s body and he manages to get back on the boat. The other men are left in the water as the sail boat speeds away.
In the morning, Ian wakes up, Annie is gone, so is the small boat.She is boarding an airplane, bare feet, bound for Montreal, a winter coat over her carnaval outfit. Annie has learned to follow her heart, and not answer to what people expect from her. She is not afraid of playing Annie, anymore.
A Story by Alex Pierre and Annie Tazbaz - 2005 all rights reserved"Playing Annie" is a work of fiction. Any resemblance with individuals or a person is purely coincidental.
The Synopsis
Written by Alex Pierre and Annie Tazbaz
When at the tender age of 13, she is offered by Mario - a kid from the boy’s school right next to her bus stop – to leave Beyrouth and Lebanon for the promised land of Hollywood, Annie understands that she better beware of men!Annie is now 20, and in Lebanon, she must get married, sooner than later. She is set to marry Henry, a military official who already cheats on her and decides to cancel the marriage 1 day before the ceremony, leaving him humiliated . She is then thrown into the arms of another contender, the son of the chief of the country’s secret services. She refuses and finds a man of her liking, a young rebelious student who she marries in chaos, the day the " 100 day-war " bomardments begin.
Six years later, settled down in her Montreal suburban life – with husband, 2 kids, cars, pool and central vacuum cleaner – she falls head over heels for Ian, a Scottish businessman, brilliant and vibrant, who just arrived in Montreal in order to re-energize his own struggling marriage.
Torn apart between her life as a dedicated wife and the passion she feels for Ian, she sinks nose first into a depression. One day, she is found dead. Out of her physical reality, Annie discovers what is beyond death – total goodness, absolute love, and life. She decides to go back to Annie and continue her present life experience.
Hence, she returns to her physical experience, transformed. She is not afraid of anything. Life is no more no less than a Divine Comedy. She is just determined to be true to herself.Knowing now that thoughts and matter are all forms of energy, she discovers an outlet for her new passion for life : Carnavals. One day, at a Trinidad Carnaval, she gets acquainted with a black Trinidadian family who initiates her to intense dances that power up her energies to extreme hights, modifying her perception of reality in pure ecstacy, aided by the intense music of " Steel Drums ".
Annie decides that she wants to make the Carnaval known to the world, she gives herself a mission, and she is determined to do whatever it takes to see it come true : make a documentary about Trinidad’s Carnaval, a celebration of life and freedom.
The following year, Annie goes back to Trinidad with a camera, to film the Carnaval, and show how her Trinidadian friends transform themselves for the event. But on the first day, she believes she saw Ian, her Scottish Lover in Montreal. She goes searching for him, and she does indeed find him, in a perillious situation, running away from a mad man who attracted him into a trap. Annie discovers that the mad man is no one else than Henry, the military man who felf humiliated in front of the world when she refused to marry him 7 years earlier. He used Ian to get Annie.
Not afraid of anything, Annie takes upon herself to save Ian and herself from the raging Henry and his goons. She manages to disappear with him in the black neighboorhood, where friends help them escape. Hidden in a pick-up carrying steel drum and musicians, they cross town and manage to gain the ocean, where they find a boat.
Feeling safe and relieved after the perillous chase on the island, Ian asks Annie to once and for all follow him to Holland, and start a new life. But Henry gets on the boat, with his big guys, and tries to rape her. Ian is beaten to death. Annie remembers her near death experience and tells Henry, her raper, that she never will die, even he tries to kill her. A gust of wind suddenly violently pushes the sailboat to one side, and all the men fall in the water. She grabs Ian’s body and he manages to get back on the boat. The other men are left in the water as the sail boat speeds away.
In the morning, Ian wakes up, Annie is gone, so is the small boat.She is boarding an airplane, bare feet, bound for Montreal, a winter coat over her carnaval outfit. Annie has learned to follow her heart, and not answer to what people expect from her. She is not afraid of playing Annie, anymore.
A Story by Alex Pierre and Annie Tazbaz - 2005 all rights reserved"Playing Annie" is a work of fiction. Any resemblance with individuals or a person is purely coincidental.
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