Blog Post #8 Roots Script

SCENE 1:

(Adviser and dictator are sitting within an office room, dictator is sitting while the adviser is standing)

Adviser: My Excellency, I have heard news that a man is questioning the validity of our regime.

Dictator: What is his name?

Adviser: They address him as the enlightened man.

Dictator: Enlightened man, eh? We’ll see if he’s enlightened when he’s constrained within the bars. Let’s see if he will be enlightened enough to break from his constraints I want you to arrest this man and execute him tomorrow.

Adviser: Yes, your excellency. Sir, does he frighten you?

Dictator: How dare you ask me that question. He exercises no rigor on me. This enlightened man will not correct me.

SCENE 2:

(Enlightened man is confronted by a guard)

Enlightened Man: Did the dictator send you out to arrest me? Why are you conforming to his ideologies? How are you able to manage the rigors of the taxes that he imposes on us?

Guard: These questions are the reasons leading to your arrest.

Enlightened Man: I ask these questions without fright that’s why I am enlightened.

SCENE 3:

(Dictator is walking outside with his adviser)

Dictator: Should I see this enlightened man in order to answer his questions?

Adviser: My excellency, the man has made his mistake by questioning authority, I believe that you do not have a need to answer his questions

Dictator: It is not for the sake answering, but for the sake of clarification. I want to correct this enlightened man’s ideologies in front of my whole nation.

Adviser: How will the whole nation know?

Dictator: I am going to televise this debate without any restrictions. Adviser, arrange for my accommodations in order to meet this enlightened man.

SCENE 4:

(Dictator is sitting with the enlightened man)

Dictator: How dare you question my regime?

Enlightened man: Well my questions simply illustrate the rigors of everyday life for the citizens of your stringent rule.

Dictator: My dear friend, have you heard of the theory of natural selection.

Enlightened man: You have restricted all sources of information, so how would I know?

Dictator: It means that nature chooses the fittest, and I am the fittest; therefore, I have absolute power to rule you and this society.

Enlightened Man: That is simply ridiculous, nature simply see’s you as frightened and vulnerable

Dictator: How dare you!

Enlightened man: Do you mind if we can go outside into natural scenery

SCENE 5:

(Enlightened Man and Dictator stand in front of a tree)

Enlightened Man: I believe that human nature is represented as leaves, therefore we are all leaves including me and you

Dicatator: Show me the biggest one.

Enlightened man: They are all the same size, nature did not chooses one leaf to dominate the rest, therefore no leaf has the right to create a regime.

Dictator: Guard’s I want him constrained in his cell

SCENE 6:

(Adviser and Enlightened man are within a cell)

Adviser: You have corrected my visions about this regime, please take this key and escape this prison before your execution tomorrow morning.

Enlightened Man: I will leave now and come back to save you all from these restrictions and lead you to a more free society

Adviser: I hope the future will hold so