Opening Scene:

CHOPPER SQUADRON
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MUSIC (controls at bottom): "Prologue - Menuetto and Storm" by Franz Waxman (sped up to insect speed), from "Bride of Frankenstein"
 "How beautifully dramatic! The crudest savage exhibition of nature at her worst ..."
- Lord Byron, from the film


NOTE: This would be a 'Fantasia'-like scene -- i.e., with music 'Mickey-Moused' to camera moves and choreography -- a sort of aerial ballet.

PAN IN over the prehistoric terrain of THE HEADLANDS.
We're FLYING at high speed along a jungle river. The music is reminiscent of Wagner's
"RIDE OF THE VALKYRIES" (recalling the helicopters scene in 'Apocalypse Now')-- but this rendition (although still huge and symphonic) is dominated by buzzy, almost motor-sounding synthesizers. A helicopter-shaped SHADOW, moving rapidy along the river's surface, tracks our flight.
CUT to see a dozen or so innocent-looking GNATS frollicking happily in the sunlight,"dancing" in the air, swinging their partners happily to stately, minuet-style music (think Rocky & Bullwinkle's "FRACTURED FAIRY TALES"theme).
NOTE: This scene offers opportunities for 'new choreographies' -- i.e., dances designed for six-legged (and flying) creatures. 




ROUGH IMAGE CONCEPT)
CUT to a CLOSE-UP of a DRAGONFLY'S HEAD & WINGS, as we see him for the first time -- a monstrous, mean-looking prehistoric version, looking very much like a merging of HELICOPTER and helmeted PILOT. (MUSIC shifts back to WAGNER-ESQUE THEME)

CUT to SIDE VIEW OF THE DRAGONFLY as the camera pans slowly pans along the entire length of the body, it's colored markings suggesting the paint job and decals of a fighter plane or 'chopper'.

BACK to frontal view of the DRAGONFLY, still zipping along at high speed above the winding river. 

  
(ROUGH IMAGE CONCEPT)

FOUR MORE DRAGONFLIES APPEAR IN FRAME(two on either side of the 'leader'); then two more; we now see a virtual SQUADRON, a DOZEN of them, flying in tight formation, the Wagner-esque music building majestically.

CUT back to the frollicking GNATS (and the happy music), oblivious to the oblivion headed their way.

CLOSE IN on the LEAD DRAGONFLY.


Absurdly complex, deadly looking MANDIBLES emerge from it's mouth, unfolding (like mechanical landing gear) and flexing in readiness to grab, cut and devour.

 

 

PULL BACK as the squadron suddenly split off and fly in separate directions.

BACK to DRAGONFLY'S P.O.V., as he and his compatriots snap up a SCORE of the GNATS in quick succession, each letting out a brief scream of shock & horror (think HOMER SIMPSON'S "AHH!") just before they disapper entirely into the dragonflies' maws in an instant.
As we (the LEAD DRAGONFLY) zero in on another victim as it tries vainly to fly fast enough to evade us, a RED BLUR suddenly pops up into frame, with a "SNAP!"; then SUDDEN BLACK.
CUT TO: MEDIUM SHOT of GRODO falling back to earth, (after a raptor-like 10-foot-high leap),wings protruding from either side of his mouth, viscous GREEN GOO dripping from his jaws. (NOTE: these PREHISTORIC dragonflies are 2 FEET LONG.)
Other dragonflies are zipping by to and fro in the background; we still hear the Wagneresque music, only now it sounds like BUZZING KAZOOS.		 
 VUMP 
(as we hear GRODO crunchilly chewing) 
Do you ever stop eating, Grodo? You got a hollow tail, or what?
SLOMO walks over to GRODO.

SLOMO
Grodo, don't you ever wonder what it's all about?
GRODO
(Chewing, long pause)
CRUNCH-CRUNCH-CRUNCH...CRUNCH-CRUNCH-CRUNCH

GRODO
(finally, eyes half-lidded, in a bored tone)
...NO.

 

BELOW: Note the 'biomechanical' "Chopper" wing structure and "radio antennae".

Some truly spectacular CGI-generated "Macrophotography" will make these tiny monsters MOTHRA-sized -- and, thematically and visually, the insect world is a great contrast to the world of dinosaurs.


Our prehistoric Monster Insect should look as horrific as the macrophotography seeen on actual nature shows.

 

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