Mother’s Prototype: Window Display
Visualising DeMille’s version of the golden calf episode
Scenography (Sc.)
The daily 'Mother’s Prototype' scenarios revisit the Son’s first experience in the Café
Initially, he visits the Mother in her Café (small, intimate)
Incrementally, this transforms into his Café (a workshop venue)
Your Master of Scenarios is the facilitator
Here, he performs the “Induction” song
As Technicolour and VistaVision flow into your body
Music: “How many nightmares”
Master of Scenarios:
(singing)
How many nightmares would you like tonight?
How many nightmares would you like tonight?
Four means three
Three means two
Two means one myth, two myth, real myth, true myth
Four means three
Three means two
Two means one myth, two myth, real myth, true myth
How many nightmares
How many nightmares
How many nightmares would you like tonight?
Sc.
You appear on a city street in front of a department store
We see an animatronic window display
Like an elaborate Christmas vignette
Families with small children are enjoying this
The scene cycles through moments of DeMille’s Golden Calf episode:
[1] People dancing around the golden calf
[2] Moses appears carrying the stone tablets
[3] Moses shatters the tablets
[4] Lightning and thunder – the ground shakes and opens
[5] The transgressors and the calf fall into the abyss
The moving sculpture is cyclical, endlessly repeating
The children who are watching sing an accompanying nursery rhyme
Music: "Window Display"
Musically reminiscent of “Ring Around the Rosie”
Children:
(chanting)
Moses on the mountain
Two tablets of stone
Live by the law or die by the law
We all fall –
Cecil B. DeMille
Changed it in the film
From act of men
To act of god
We all fall –
Smash go the tablets
Crack go their heads
Crash go the tablets
Smash go their –
Who is on the Lord’s side?
Sons of Levi – rise!
With sword on thigh
From gate to gate
We all fall –
Sc.
David Lynch and Stanley Kubrick are sitting at a café table
They are watching the vignette
Lynch is amused while Kubrick looks bored
Lynch:
I wonder how much that would cost to build, for real?
I’d like to see some estimates
Kubrick:
(Looks around the café)
David, we don’t need to build things anymore
