Garry Bardin's "Adagio": Possible Endings

Garry Bardin's "Adagio": How's It Going to End?


Leonardo Da Vinci wrote an imaginative description of nature which applies called Sadness:

"Sadness resembles the raven which, when it sees its young ones born white, departs with great grief and abandons them with sad lamentations, and does not feed them until it sees on them some few black feathers."


Here are some possible endings:

1. Description: the black messiah appears. He is torn to shreds by the crowd. The sky opens up and he ascends to Heaven. The crowd now carry signs with a black messiah. A blue messiah appears. He is surrounded by the crowd.

Possible name/classification: "People never learn."

2. Description: the gray crowd leave the black messiah alone, and he opens up a road to Hell.

Possible name/classification: "Ignore/disregard at your own peril"

3. Description: the gray crowd tear apart the black messiah, and he opens up a road to Hell into which they all fall.

Possible name/classification: "Resist at your own peril"

4. Description: the gray crowd throw away their signs of the white messiah and replace them with signs of the black messiah.

Possible name/classification: "Out with the old, in with the new"

5. Description: the gray crowd tear apart the black messiah and find he is the white messiah in disguise. When this is revealed the crowd are ashamed.

Possible name/classification: "Appearances can be deceiving"

6. Description: the gray crowd bow down to the new, black, messiah. He reveals himself to be the white messiah in disguise and shames them for following a false prophet, one who has not demonstrated any superiority over the old one (i.e. he did not open up a portal to Heaven or perform any miracles).

Possible name/classification: "Fickleness"

7. Description: after the black messiah appears, half of the gray crowd replace signs of the white messiah with signs of the black messiah. They are divided into two groups who go their separate ways.

Possible name/classification: ?

8. Description: after the black messiah appears, half of the gray crowd turn black and the other white. They are divided into two groups who begin fighting and destroy each other (tear each other to shreds), leaving no one alive.

Possible name/classification: "A house divided against itself falls"

9. Description: at the last minute the black messiah, who is threatened with destruction by the gray crowd, is saved by the white messiah who takes him up to Heaven. The gray crowd now carry signs showing the white and black messiahs together.

Possible name/classification: "The second coming"

10. Description: the gray crowd tear the black messiah to pieces and the white messiah appears and puts him back together.

Possible name/classification: "Return of the savior"

11. Description: members of the gray crowd who try to make the black messiah gray turn black themselves in the places and to the extent to which they tried to make the messiah gray.

Possible name/classification: "As you sow, so shall you reap"

12. Description: The black messiah is threatened with destruction, so the white messiah comes down and merges with it to become gray and then disappears into the gray crowd as an anonymous gray face. The crowd replace the signs with the white messiah with signs of a gray man. They meet another gray crowd who accuse them of self-worship. They respond that each is god.

Possible name/classification: "The kingdom of heaven is within you."

13. Description: The black messiah opens up a road to Hell. The white messiah comes down and fights with the black messiah, destroying him.

Possible name/classification: "Armageddon"

14. Description: threatened with being torn apart, the black messiah turns himself inside out and is all white. The gray crowd turn themselves inside out and are all white and they ascend together to Heaven.

Possible name/classification: ?

15. Description: threatened with being torn apart, the black messiah turns himself inside out and is all white. The gray crowd turn themselves inside out and each is a different color.

Possible name/classification: "To each his own."

16. Description: threatened with being torn apart, the black messiah turns himself inside out and is all white. The gray crowd turn themselves inside out and all are black. Each notices only that the others are black inside, not himself. Each points an accusing finger at the others, intimating that they have "black hearts". Then they see they too are black, feel shame, and shed tears. The tears wash away the black and turn them all white. The sky opens and they all ascend.

Possible name/classification: "Ye shall know the truth and the truth shall set you free."

17. Description: threatened with being torn apart, the black messiah turns himself inside out and is all white. The gray crowd turn themselves inside out and are all white and they ascend together to Heaven. The black messiah (now white) turns himself inside out again and descends to Hell.

Possible name/classification: "Resist not evil"


The Concept: to create a website where people can view Adagio. Allow viewers to click on the name (classification) of the ending they would like to see. Alternatively, have viewers describe in words the ending they feel most appropriate, after which the ending they have chosen is shown to them, as if by magic. (That is, the AI parser of the site would be able to recognize viewers' descriptions well enough to match them up with the corresponding endings).
The cartoon may be seen here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kWIFqYqTEhA


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