posted 7 years ago
If I had a really lot of time on my hands, I'd love to shoot a trailer for the Paperclip disaster movie!
Robert is standing in his office near Large Hadron Collider in CERN. Some complicated machine is seen in the background, a quiet hum is heard.
Robert is carefully bending a paperclip. He sticks the paperclip into a hole in the wall, turns around for a calendar, but when he turns back, the paperclip is nowhere to be seen.
Suzanne (enters the door): "Oh my God!". They look at each other in horror.
A small hole appears in the floor. The hum of the LHC is slowly dying. Robert and Suzanne rush to the stairs, running to the floor beneath. They inspect the ceilings and floors in the entire building. The hole is a little bit bigger on every level.
Eventually they run into an underground garage. As they step in, a Cadillac is being crushed from the inside, all by itself, into smaller and smaller metal ball, until it disappears in a bright flash. As the flash washes out, a large hole is seen in the concrete.
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Outside of the LHC. A side of the LHC building is torn open, blue light glows in the inside and sparks run from snapped wiring. Some people kneel around, puking.
In the foreground there is a big hole in the ground. Air is rushing into the hole at gale speed, dragging furniture, trees and animals inside. A person disappears in the hole, screaming heartbreakingly.
Joe Patterson (Bruce Willis) stands a few feet from the hole, wearing a helmet and overalls, leaning against the wind. He yells something, but we don't hear him due to the wind. The camera angle shifts to reveal a new stadium being built nearby. Joe organizes three trucks, which pull a giant cupola, originally the roof for the new stadium, over the screaming hole. Joe drives the inner truck, which goes too close to the hole. The truck is sucked in, but Joe jumps out of the cabin and pulls the cable by bare hands. As the cupola slowly covers the hole, the gale dies off.
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Professor Clemens (Tom Hanks) is standing in a laboratory. Every flip chart and every monitor in the room contains a drawing of a bent paperclip. On the monitors, there are animations showing the paper clip being crushed into a single pixel. Professor Clemens pensively stares at the pixel. Professor Clemens pensively stares at the magnifying glass in his hand.
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Major earthquake hits New York. Major tsunami hits New York. An asteroid hits New York. An ice age comes to New York and covers it with ice.
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Earthquake is shaking the cupola. Cracks are appearing on the segments. Joe stands nearby and is in the process of wearing a space suit. A massive steel chain is fastened to the space suit. Joe enters an airlock into the cupola and starts welding additional beams there, leaning against the chain. A new wave of earthquake hits and the acetylene burner falls down the hole.
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Professor Clemens hand a magnifying glass to Joe in the airlock. Inside the cupola, Joe hangs himself on the steel chain attached to a crane and is slowly lowered down the hole, till he disappears in the dark.
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