I'd put Holst's "The Planets" to film in a silent movie featuring a storyline that goes along with the different movements (minus the boring elements of 2001: a S.O.)

I've thought about this since I was in college. Basically, it would involve the rise and fall of a civilization somewhere in the Universe. Maybe our own.

The "Mars" scene could be truly epic in scope and scale. Basically, the horror of war captured as well as it ever could be. The "Venus" scene would retain vestiges of that past, but offer up a resolution and a civilization that finds a way to move on and grow beyond that horror. "Mercury" feels somewhat pastoral -- might involve a silent flirty romance between the co-stars... something care-free. "Jupiter" always struck me as an ode to exploration -- a bit pompous at first, but then with a certain gravity and nobility in the middle section. So, you might have your scene featuring the civilization's rush to the heavens. "Saturn" is the point of the film -- basically the civilization has flowered, is immense, and is now beginning to die, however it might try to fight that entropy and the inevitable. So, a choice has to be made. What is the point? To simply extinguish or is there something that can be left for the future. Or perhaps it's a coming to terms with death (embracing it). Uranus sounds like perversion put to music. I'd have to think about this one some more to figure out how it fits in. Finally, Neptune is all about mystery. Perhaps that's where we're left just before the closing credits -- the civilization ascending into "something else" entirely. Being absorbed back into the universe as the universe continues to beget life and through the life-death process, figure itself out. I dunno.

So, half the point is the music. The other half is creating something to inspire folks and cause them to look at our tiny planet in a slighty different way.

Kooky, I know. lol Thanks for putting up with the eccentricity... I've just never written this anywhere that I can remember. I'm sure it's not original either, as MANY people love Holst's music.

Starring Jessic Alba, btw, as the alien sex-goddess. Should fill the theaters. lol

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