The Flash
Part 1
We start in the year
1963 in a black and white flashback sequence, in this sequence we see Barry
Allen’s numerous saves as the scarlet speedster from bank robberies to natural
disasters, maybe these can be portrayed like front page articles shooting out
from the screen however as the sequence comes to an end we get one or two more
come up ten years later about the disappearance of the Flash and the Government
concerned about his true agenda.We then get a dark screen and then the word ‘The Flash’ along
with the logo. (The
idea for this is to introduce Barry Allen’s version of the Flash to the
audience and gives a clear indication of how awesome this man really is).
We now are at a
university with an older Barry Allen seen teaching a classroom of students and
given a lecture on physics, as he continues his eyes wonder to his large
audience and notices an empty seat and by his face expression he knows exactly
who it is.
We then cut to our
first real scenes of Central City in a sort of downtown part of the city, cars
are packed on every road and all the drivers are suffering from road rage with
constant beeping and yelling, then the cause of the problem is seen, a
motorcycle carrying two passengers darting right and left between the traffic
going so fast that it would be safe to say was breaking any speed limit, We
then see that the person riding the motorcycle is a young woman, and on the
back part screaming part laughing is our hero to the movie Wally West, the
scene goes back and forth between Barry Allen giving his lecture and Wally on
the motorcycle.
(This part
should be very fun and very exciting to watch; maybe a song playing in the
background when the motorcycle is racing between the traffic and maybe even a
moment when the cycle takes off on a lowered ramp attached to a truck, a song like
‘Want You Bad’ from offspring just to give it that fun energy.)
As the song comes to an
end we see the motorcycle pull up outside the university and Wally jumping of
the back and running straight to the classroom, just as he is rushing through
the halls he notices a girl who walks by and quickly reaches into his pocket
and pulls out a small sheet of paper with his phone number telling the girl
that it’s for her, he then steals a quick kiss and continues and ‘that’s for
me’, laughing he runs again through the corridors leaving the girl bewildered
but smiling, he then bursts through the classroom door yelling ‘I’m not late’
only to be greeted by a room full of (something) clearly not only is he late
his also in the wrong classroom.
The next scene sees
Wally walking in the right classroom however the room is now empty with only
Barry left tidying his desk.
When Barry notices
Wally he stops what his doing and just stares at him with a look of slight
disappointment.
WW: ‘I know what you’re
gonna say uncle Barry but I swear this time I really did try getting here on
time’.
BA Then why weren’t you
Wally, this is the ninth time this semester, if you were any other student I
wouldn’t think twice about failing you.
WW:’ Come on uncle
Barry you and me both know that I’m way ahead of most of the other guys I’ve
had you drumming your quantum theories in my head since I was two, so what if I
don’t show for a few lessons, im only missing what I already know’.
BA:’ That’s not the
point Wally, as part of my class you have a responsibility to show up like
everyone else, by not showing up you show no respect for me and worse you give
others the message that you think your better than them’.
Wally quickly replies
jokingly ‘and theyed be sooo right’.
Barry goes to leave ‘No
Wally, you’ve got it in your head that you’re so ahead of everyone here, then
how come you were the last person through my doors’ and with that Barry leaves
Wally in the classroom alone.
We then get the first
appearance of our villain of the movie, as Wally sulks out of the room he
crosses paths with another of the universities professors Eobard Thawne but
most of the students name him Professor Zoom, nothing is said as they both seem
to be deep in thought.
The next scene is in
the late evening at the Allan residence with Barry Allan locked away in his
basement speaking into a recorder and turning page after page of notes and
formulas scattered all across the room.
‘It’s coming I know it,
all these years trying to regain what I lost finally I am now in the final stages to becoming the speedster once
more, the night of the accident so long ago I used to believe was pure chance,
but after these past years trying to replicate that same accident I have come
to believe that the odds of that occurrence far exceed even a billion to one,
what if it wasn’t chance what if it was destiny or fate or whatever you want to
call it, but what if I was chosen to be the Flash what if what happened that
day was always meant to happen, and because of that I know it’s my
responsibility to become him once again’.
In the dark basement
Barry continues to race through all his notes.
‘Every chemical, every
formula from that night I have managed to sneak into my lab at the university
and are ready to be set up exactly like
they were the night I first experienced the Speed force, all that remains is
for the abnormal lightning storm started it off, and after years of waiting my
readings show one to occur in three days, however the only problem is the storm
will last a matter of seconds and once it passes it may never happen again.
Everything must be perfect and precise’.
(Now this little scene
after is one of my favourites that I have come up with, very simple but a least
in my mind awesome, during this basement scene there’s a little background
music being played, it’s called the toy cupboard however after the first minute
the tune suddenly changes into a more exciting beat which is perfect for how
this scene ends.)
Barry then sees an old
newspaper with himself as the Flash on the front page that must have been
somehow mixed up in his notes he stops talking for a second and just stares at
the picture holding it up in admiration for who he once was.
‘I know the time is
coming now that the world will need him once again and if I fail who then could
possibly take up the role’.
As soon as the scene
ends we go in quick succession to Wally partying with his friends at one of
Central City’s biggest nightclubs, the music is loud and vibrant and its clear
Wally is having an amazing time dancing and drinking.
As the night goes on
Wally overhears his friends talking about missing class tomorrow and pulling an
all-nighter, but then Wally does something incredibly rare in his nature and
remembers what his uncle was telling him earlier about responsibility and
impression, he tells his friends his going home and at first thought he was
joking, but he was serious, tomorrow he was going to prove his uncle wrong.
The next day Wally
wakes to the sound of his alarm in his apartment and just before going back to
sleep jolts himself out of bed rushes through his clothes and jolts out the
door, even though he had woke up late he could still just get there on time if
only he could get a lift, but with the streets packed and the roads busy he
knew there was no way so without thinking he just starts running, as fast as he
can he knows at this point he would be late for class once again, he knows that
his uncle will give him another speech expressing his disappointment but he
didn’t care, he didn’t want to give up that was easy, he wanted to be there
today, for just one reason, because he knew Barry wanted him there.
When Wally finally
reaches the university he feels like he’s about to collapse his out of breath
and very sweaty, but also he’s full of pride he got here, by himself for the
right reasons all he had to do was walk in on his uncles class which must only
be about halfway through, I can still show I’ve made an effort he thinks to
himself.
As he walks towards the
corridors and approaches the classroom door he notices a sign informing
everyone that class is closed for the day.
‘Oh hell no uncle
Barry’ moans a knackered Wally and with that opens the door and walks into the
empty room, he looks around and by the looks of things no one has set foot in
there all day, suddenly he hears someone coming and see someone about to walk
through the door, Wally quickly ducks behind one of the stretched lab tables
wanting to remain hidden until he found out who it was.
In his head he thought
it could only be his uncle but as he peered over the table’s top he saw that it
wasn’t Barry at all but instead Professor Thawne, remaining hidden he watches
as Thawne searches behind Barry’s desk through his cupboards and pretty much
everywhere else constantly muttering to himself ‘where are they I know it’s you
Allan I know it and I know what you’re planning, now where have you hidden
them’.
When it’s clear that
whatever Thawne wants isn’t in the room he sneaks out leaving Wally to come out
from where he was hiding only to then hear ‘WALLY!!!!’
Wally screams at the
surprise and looks across to see Barry walking through one of the backroom
doors on the higher decks, ‘relax Wally it’s me’
‘I know’ reply’s Wally jokingly
‘that’s why I screamed’
A slight smile spreads
across Barry face
BA: ‘What are you doing
here Wally, class is closed today I must have left ten messages on your machine
last night telling you’.
WW: ‘Ah yeah well the
thing is I was out last night’.
BA: ‘Of course you
were’ he said with a with a sarcastic tone
WW: ‘But I went home
earlier then I had too because I wanted to be here on time for once’.
Barry smiles
BA: ‘Well like I said
im doing no classes today I have a lot to do and I can’t have any distractions’
suddenly the mood changes.
WW: ‘Yup sure I hear
you loud and clear uncle you don’t want any distractions and of course that’s
what I am right.
Barry realising what he
said quickly replies ‘Wally I didn’t mean …..’ but before he could say anything
else Wally was gone. As Barry walks towards his desk he notices that someone
has been moving it all around, knowing that it wasn’t his nephew he looked up
realising that someone else was onto what he was planning and that tonight he
would have to be extra careful.
As the night quickly
approached Barry is seen setting up his custom made lab inside his classroom
with certain chemicals and types of potions spread throughout the room and
constantly being mixed by the scientist, he then started going through all his
notes checking that everything was in the right place and at the right angle
etc. so that when the storm hits everything will be precise, Barry then sets up
four long vertical steel rods and places them at certain points in the room so
that when the storm hits the power would be conducted where he needs it to be.
With all the
preparation in place Barry then goes to his laptop and checks the storms
condition and to his shock it was mere minutes away, as Barry readies himself
to risk his life to once again possess the speed force he stands in the
epicentre of the room and closes his eyes ready for what is to come, there was
just one problem, he wasn’t alone.
His concentration was
interrupted by a familiar voice, It was Professor Thawne.
ET: ‘I knew it was you,
for years there was so many times where my thoughts were uncertain but of
course it you’.
Barry looks up at him
unsure of what he means.
BA: ‘ Thawne what are
you doing here ‘.
He laughs
ET: ’You know there
were many questions asked when the Flash disappeared so long ago’.
Thawne walked closer
towards him and Barry realised that this man knew about his past.
ET:’ Like where has he
gone, what’s happened to him, will he ever return, why did he lose all his
powers but after all those questions no one asked the one that mattered most,
the question I have been searching for ever since your disappearance and the
reason as to why I followed you here to work where you work’.
Thawne is standing
right in front of Barry now
ET: ‘Would you like me
to tell you what that question was’.
Barry just stares at
him and quickly glances at the laptop monitor to check when the storm is due to
hit.
Thawne whispers in his
ear ‘how did the Flash ever come to be’.
And with that Barry
realises what Thawne is talking about and what he’s been after, and goes to
swing for Thorne, the professor quickly dodges the attack and pushes Barry to
the ground and whilst laughing runs out the door with Barry getting up and
running after him in hot pursuit, whilst this is all going on however another
figure walks into the room completely unaware of what had just happened there,
its Wally.
‘Uncle Barry’ he
shouted.
‘I just wanted to say
sorry for earlier, and whatever you’ve got going on I want to help’.
Wally then notices the
set up lab in the room, the steel conductors, the floor covered in wires, every
table desk and shelf holding jars of bubbling chemicals.
‘Saying of which what
have you got going on’ Wally says in confusion.
(Now this is the moment
where everything changes, the scenes keep switching between Wally walking to
the epicentre where Barry was standing before, and then to Barry and Thawne
fighting throughout the university and finally the fight is taken outside in
the pouring night rain, I also think that the song/theme ‘the toy cupboard’
could be playing in the background once again to give it a more dramatic
effect, after all what’s about to happen next has have a big build up, with the
scenes keep switching Wally remains standing in the epicentre till suddenly a
crack of thunder can be heard and the vertical steel conductors suddenly start
powering lighting up the wires that surrounded him and causing all the jars of
chemicals to explode showering Wally with its contents.
Back outside Barry and
Thorne continue to fight and exchange comments of who deserves the power more,
until they both realise that the storm is already happening and that both of
them are about to miss out what they want forever, suddenly their fight seemed
now meaningless and both of them raced back towards the school trying to best
the other to be the first one there, little did they know that they were both
too late, as the storm raged on and grew stronger Wally began fearing for his
safety but for some reason knew that he shouldn’t move, he knew somehow no matter
how scary it was that he needed to stay right where he was.
Suddenly the full force
of the storm is unleashed and a huge lightning bolt hits Wally completely
blinding the room with light, as Barry runs through the classroom door he hears
the scream but as the light fades the room is empty, he then looks behind him
looking for Thawne but he was gone too properly escaped during the storm.
Barry looked on at his
classroom, his experiment had failed, the storm had come and gone, and by his
findings it would never return, never again would he become the Flash, but
there was something that he did not know, for the ‘accident’ that gave Barry
Allan his power so long ago was destiny and was always meant to happen, but now
destiny called for someone new to become the Scarlet Speedster and that destiny
belonged now to Wally.
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