More theme notes on idu Puppet show 6 episodes

 

1a Discover Personality –

Theme – be real, be yourself as long as there is full consideration for others – meaning your behaviors and actions are not causing harm or interfering with others

 

Possible story lines or elements:

 

People are always assuming different personalities at different times in their life. They act and pretend differently when they are with their friends, workers, lovers, families, attracting opposite sex etc.

And also their personality evolved over time thru new career path, new lover, how their new lover personality is affecting theirs etc.

And sometimes one is confused in terms of who they really are since they are forced to  change personality a few times a day, dealing with different people. Much like a multiple personality disorder.

 

The moral of the story is be yourself, be real and go with the flow, have fun  and don’t worry too much as long as one is clear with who he is and that he is not causing discomfort or harm to others.

 

 Possible elements could be Goober forever experimenting new personalities that fit him since he is adventurous and always trying new things but forever procrastinating and committing to any decisions.

 Or Scot, being a type A himself(similar to Cartman in Spark), is always testing the limits of his aggressiveness to try to gain competitive edge or advantage over others.

Or Roxy trying to balance her strong masculine work image and soft, feminine dating image

Or Mica trying to balance her zen hippie principles with cruel realities of life that forbids her from being zen, nice.

Or Gene trying to emulate the  personality he wants to be  thru his  wise  advice to others but always failing due to his flaws of complacency, drink problems or lack of time management etc

 

Another  element you could add is how to deal with people with bad personality that interferes with ones privacy or harm others with no consideration.

  Could be Mica trying to deal with Scot. Or Goober trying to avoid Roxy bossiness.

 

       Other elements:

 Too much of a perfectionist or  organized  vs careless, complacent, overly optimistic Too spontaneous vs never commiting to anything, as in Scot vs Goober

Overly helpful that it becomes annoying, too overbearing as in Mica

Overly positive, too optimistic  vs overy paranoid, cautious, controlling, always preparing beyond expectation as in Scot versus Roxy

 

MD – necessity of enough pride for personal confidence for achievement/empowerment versus excessive pride that evolved into negative arrogance, excessive ego.  This could be easily applied to Scot.

 

Celebrity:  hip hop star Kayne West?

 

Note : What u scripted is quite gd, except maybe we should substitute Basquait and Warhol, Harding to better known celebrities.

 

 

  1b. talents, strengths and weaknesses- .

Theme – Know yourself- know  where your strength lies and take advantage of it.

Admit your weakness and know your  pitfalls. Have the courage to ask for help to complement your weakness. Position your life towards your strength to achieve success.

 

MD issue- Importance and priorities of life, the battle of (fame, power, money) versus (love of all kinds) versus (personal growth/empowerment/going after passions) versus (zen, totally content, complacent, lazy, whatever comes, whatever goes).

Idu believes that the generous helping others personality, regardless of his strengths or weakness, is the most important in bringing true happiness.

 

Possible Storyline and elements:

 

This script should  explore the MD issue fully. There are usually 4 types of people in life.  We should explore the strengths and weaknesses of each type.

The type A, Olympian-athlete type, Scot and Roxy – in fame, money and power

The hippie, world peace, love, helping others,  Mica and Gene

The Einstein, Goober, always  experimenting new things for personal growth/passion

And the zen maniac, content with anything or sick of everything, like the monks in monastery.

 

We want to highlight the Mica, Gene types that constantly serves and help others, always trying to better the world types that regardless of their weaknesses and consequences, they will  be most happy and fulfilled. Overly Loving, generous, helping as qualities, these qualities are  never weaknesses.

 

 

 

Celebrity: someone who hates to lose, a perfectionist, Tiger Woods?

 

 

c. life purpose

 

Theme : Stay true to your life purpose and try to connect everything u do in life to it.

Idu version in  purpose of life is really idu slogan – empower yourself, empower others, love everyone.

 

Possible storyline and elements-

 an expansion of the 4 stereotypes  on the script in 1b. Talents S&W.

Except this time, it is broader in terms of which purpose in life constitutes true happiness.

Explore in depth

  1. Fame, money and power- is it vain and illusory? Or quite empowering if one uses the above for good causes
  2. Love- all kinds of loves – soulmate, friends, family, everyone. What is the argument of each as life purpose? Too narrow for happiness? Too broad ?
  3. personal growth/empowerment/going after passions – too self centered as purpose? Lack of consideration for other things like love and relationships

d.  zen, totally content, complacent, lazy, whatever comes, whatever goes – people who just want a peaceful life and avoid all pains and conflicts at all cost. A false kind of peace as purpose?!

 

Obviously we want to highlight b. and c. – someone who empower himself constantly and help others with his forever growing new talents, loving everyone thru helping.

 

 

MD32 – Understanding true nature of zen- which is achieving peace within oneself by overcoming without effort. Getting used to facing difficulties and challenges and overcoming them by doing, repetition and strong will. Zen is  not avoiding problems, challenges, wrongly accepting what is as natural evolution, hiding in the forest to be one with nature and avoid modern conflicts.

Thus the importance of empowerment- learning, doing, growing.

 

 

Celebrity: monks who lives in forest to be one with nature and achieve peace to avoid modern conflicts. Or Buddha who thinks all sufferings are part of natural evolution and should not do anything about it. This crosses with MD number 3.

 

Comments on your current script – Like I said in a previous email, there should be some event that forces the puppets to examine their lives and state their life purpose.

Like fear of getting married or losing their freedom that will  interfere their life, or changing jobs or having an argument with a bartender while being drunk or witnessing an incident or a life changing event like getting an illness etc

 

 

 

2 Improve –

 

Theme : By constantly learning, reading and DOING, one constantly improves all aspects of the mind that helps problem solving, creative planning, winning friends easily, strong management of time, money and relationships and rapid achievement of goals in life.

 

 

Storyline and elements:

 

Goober is reading a text book on mind improvement but is impatient in applying its techniques. Instead of practice makes perfect, he taught he could just apply the knowledge without experience and he constantly bump into blunders.

 

And every time he thought he is near perfect as he finished his textbook, he encounter more humorous blunder which cause him to realize to constantly improve toward perfection – a never ending process of both learning and doing, not either.

 

 

 

MD issue 3 – constantly striving for perfection, constantly improving, recognizing that the responsibility to strive for perfection equates true freedom and free will as it creates true security. Eliminating complacency, procrastination  and the wrong notion that imperfection as a result of natural evolution. Being meticulous, preparing beyond expectation, swift planning and execution, having the courage and foresight to ask for 3rd party help swiftly to intervene in a politically stuck system are all part of perfection. 

All these ties in with most aspects of mind improving – constantly improve your intellect, creativity, knowledge, mental state and power, to communicate effectively and work productively  in teams .

 

Celebrity: Paris Hilton trying to perfect her image by truly perfecting herself after her prison term. Not just a dumb blonde image to a responsible matured business woman.

 

Comment : your current script is a little too simple, maybe a little bit more complex like trying to dive or skydive by reading a book rather than thru practicing.

 

 

2b. Body

Theme : How taking care of ones body, looking good  creates balance, clear thinking, a relaxed  spirit and boost confidence.

 

Storyline/Elements:

We should take advantage of this theme to appeal to the stay young forever, anti-aging  crowd.

Yes the vitamins, eating healthy, good exercise helps. But helping others lift your spirit and scientifically  keeps you looking young and beautiful.

 

Maybe Roxy is trying everything to look gd and beautiful thru gym, eating right but fails. In contrast Mica appears real glowing and pretty without even trying due to her generous and helpful nature.

 

MD : None. But here is a new one. All the vegetarians think eating animals is wrong.

Could debate if fish and shrimps(some vegetarians eat them) constitute a civilized intelligent life. What about insects like bees and ants? What about any living organisms like a man’s sperm in regard to stem cell research and abortion? Where do we draw the line of what is a life and whats not? Should we have consideration for all life form ? what about the bad ones like crocodiles and  poison snakes?Do those have voting rights too?

 

Celebrity: Tyra Banks investigating to stay and look young forever – so much so that she wants to be Oprah-  because Oprah is all about scientifically staying young by helping others. ( read my Youth/sexy  article on George Clooney)

 

Comment: your  current script is a little filmsy, playful. Need more substance.

 

2c Spirit

Theme:

 

Storyline/elements

 

Scot has problem being nice, generous and giving. Only when he goes to parties with friends and get drunk does he becomes nice, loving and giving and he feels great !When normal again, Scot is confused why that is the case.

 

MD 30 : power of humor, music, dance and drinks, having fun – acting selflessly under the influence versus acting out of ego

 

Celebrity: Donald Trump  - always a egomaniac until he is drunk for the first time– he don’t drink as reported in the media.

 

3.Find that Passion that Fits you. – your personality, s&w, purpose.

3a. Work

3b. Play

All 3 of the above have no MDs.

 

4a Job Success

Theme:

Storyline/elements

MD :none

Celebrity

 

4b. Entrepreneur Success

Theme:

Storyline/elements

MD39:  Responsibility, ethics and consideration as an artist or business person in the media for using shock value, creating controversies. Role of an artist includes living up to ones talent versus using cheap shots in violence, sex., controversies.

Celebrity: Madonna?? Lindsey Lohan for portraying  underage sex?

 

4c – Network and Collaborate

Theme

Storyline/elements

MD 38 : understanding anything is possible , even under impossible circumstances. Power of teamwork, collaboration,  political will by collaborating consensus. Imagination, focus, determination

Celebrity:

 

5a Mentor

Theme –

Storyline/elements

MD: none

 

5b. Charity

Theme

Storyline/elements

MD 4A – Should pride and ego allows begging and pleading for help? Should a head of a nation or a king plead for help to save his citizens and lose pride?

Celebrity : Mother Theresa – known to beg for food in India to solve hunger.

 

5c Collaborate to Help

Theme

Storyline/elements

MD 4B- Compromise, meeting half way versus ego, structure, rules. When is it ok to compromise? Love and compassion? When collaborating to help?

Issue of pride and ego over love &compassion, and consideration for all.

Celebrity:

 

 

6a Everyone

Theme

Storyline/elements

MD 2 : the importance of loving everyone – could one love everyone more than his soulmate?

Celebrity :  Superman, Spiderman

 

6b. Co-workers

Theme

Storyline.elements

Md1 and MD 36 :

MD1:  Speaking up with courage versus being complacent, or going along with obviously wrong/complacent consensus or being excessively compromising to maintain peaceful relationships. The courage to do whats right, being responsible  and fixing the problems, going against consensus.

 

Respect, tolerance, openesss to differences doesn’t mean not speaking up against what is obviously wrong

 

MD36: loyalty or faithfulness vs doing what is right, correcting what is obviously wrong . Example include Boss-Worker, Parent-child, friend-friend relationships etc.

 

 

Celebrity:

 

6c. Friends

Theme

Storyline/elements

MD25 :   forgiving too easily  vs accountability,rules, and structure

 Necessity of positive anger on an environment of complacency

 

MD 26 neg criticism vs positive criticism, being open to criticism for growth

If one would to criticize, one should do it with a helping attitude, not any other negative attitude such as mocking.

 

 Celebrity:

 

6d.Family

Theme

Storyline/elements

MD35 honesty,  being genuine and real vs lying out of consideration

 

MD37 Value of being Tactful, subtle,  slightly ambiguous versus overly direct, overly embarrassing

Celebrity

 

6e. Soulmate

Theme

Storyline/elements

MD : None But tie this one to an email I sent u wks ago regarding what is a true soulmate.

 

 

 

 

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