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    Tesla: Power and Light Screenplay
    Tesla: Power and Light Screenplay
    Tesla: Power and Light Screenplay
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    Tesla: Power and Light Screenplay

    By Richard Martini

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    A screenplay about the epic story of titans who shaped the 21st century; Nikola Tesla, Thomas Edison, Mark Twain, J.P. Morgan, Anne Morgan. Tesla's battles with Edison, with Morgan are legendary, his battles with OCD and credit for his inventions are as well. One of the least famous and most important figures in US History, the story has never been told about his accomplishments, and how his inventions have shaped our world, our planet, and our future. Every single day we use one of his patents, from wireless technology to radio waves. How can it be that this man's story has never been told properly on the big screen? It's a bigger than life story that caught my eye back in the 1980's - and has haunted me ever since. There are many screenplays and books and projects about Tesla, but for some reason none of them have ever been filmed. I present my own humble version of it here, in print, for the first time.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherRichard Martini
    Release dateAug 22, 2013
    ISBN9781301829279
    Tesla: Power and Light Screenplay
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    Richard Martini

    Writer/Director/Author Richard is an award winning filmmaker, who has written and/or directed 8 theatrical features, and a number of documentaries. His first book, "Flipside: A Tourist's Guide on How to Navigate the Afterlife" went to #1 twice  in all its genres. The documentary (Flipside: A Journey Into the Afterlife) is available online and at Gaia. His books "It's a Wonderful Afterlife" expand the research into the afterlife, "Hacking the Afterlife" he interviews mediums and explores "interviewing people no longer on the planet." "Architecture of the Afterlife" interviews people without hynpsis who say the same things about the afterlife. Jennifer Shaffer is a world renowned medium intiuitive who works with law enforecemnt agencies on missing person cases. Luana Anders is our "guide on the flipside" who acted in over 300 movies and tv shows. Over five years, Richard conducted filmed interviews with Jennifer (Luana assisting) as he interviewed friends and strangers no longer on the planet. As Gary Schwartz PhD put it after reading "Flipside" "Inspiring, well written and entertaining. The kind of book where once you have read it, you will no longer be able to see the world in the same way again."

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      Tesla - Richard Martini

      TESLA: POWER AND LIGHT SCREENPLAY

      By Richard Martini

      SMASHWORDS EDITION

      ISBN: 9781301829279

      Copyright 2013 Richard Martini All Rights Reserved

      Cover Photo: Courtesy NASA/JPL-Caltech

      Homina Publishing

      PO Box 248

      Santa Monica, CA 90406

      HominaPublishing.com

      TESLA

      POWER & LIGHT

      WRITTEN BY

      Richard Martini

      AUTHOR'S NOTE:

      It was in the late 1980's when I'd finished my second film Limit Up that a friend captivated me with the story of Nikola Tesla. I ran the idea by my then agent, who said Don't bother; every major studio already has a Tesla project locked in.

      I've always taken statements like this as a challenge. I began writing my own version anyway, honed it over the years, my agent submitted it to the major network that was making a series of films on American Heroes. Ultimately despite positive feedback, the decision was rendered by the studio they didn't consider Tesla an American hero.

      I thought that was amusing. Here was the man who once held more patents than anyone - including Edison - had worked for Edison, had changed the face of the planet through his inventions in radio, in x-rays, in wireless technology, in electricity - in fact there's not a device we don't use every single day - including turning on a light switch or reading from an ebook - that doesn't draw on his inventions. Any device you can imagine, from smart phones to computer technology, owes a debt of gratitude to this man - and yet, the history books, the film lexicon - continues to ignore his contributions.

      Someone once said to me, It's hard to root for a guy who dies poor and penniless. History is littered with heroes who did just that, from Mozart to a fellow who was crucified for his beliefs. But I digress.

      I hold little illusion that my humble foray into telling his story would alter that detail. Certainly I can see how telling this story with today's advanced computer graphics would be an amazing tale - but at the heart of it, it's a basic story about a labor of love; a man who did not get credit for all the hard work that he'd done to change the planet. At its core, I felt that was a story worth sharing.

      Tesla was an eccentric to say the least; he had a case of sever OCD, his life was dictated by it - but it was also part of the way his brain worked; he frequently worked in the dark because he could see in the dark. If the gas lamps in his beloved Delmonico's restaurant went out, he could relight them using his fingers - somehow he retained an electric charge at all times. He was considered the Wizard of Lightning and was the first person to harness it. Mark Twain was a close friend and wrote for the New York Post; the last known letter Tesla wrote included cash that he wanted to send to his friend Mark - however Samuel Clemens had died some years prior but the delivery boy had no clue.

      Ann Morgan was an amazing person - daughter of one of the richest people on the planet, she was openly bisexual, smoked cigarettes in public, and walked the picket line in New York in favor of the women who were laboring under terrible conditions in the shirt waist factories. (The shirt waist fire in NYC is one of history’s greatest tragedies, but few are aware of Ann Morgan walking the picket lines to prevent hired thugs from beating the picketing women.)

      J.P. Morgan was one of the wealthiest men ever. His Chase Bank is still in existence, and his control over many instruments of money is still in effect. But he also sponsored the future - by hiring Thomas Edison, and then, after much cajoling, hiring Tesla to work on the future. Morgan wanted to be the first to send a telegraph - and history records that it was Marconi who did so. (Tesla still holds the patent; the law ruled in his favor, but by the time it did so, he was dead.) With Westinghouse's help, Tesla successfully made AC the prevailing electricity, but Morgan's response was to buy up Westinghouse, and use Edison to create a monopoly - why we still pay our bills to the man whose name doesn't belong on the utility.

      Finally, much has been written about Tesla's free energy motor - which Morgan famously dismissed as it would mean he'd have to give away electricity for free. The fires that destroyed Tesla's lab in NY and Colorado were suspiciously set - but we'll never know if Tesla's free energy motor works, as long as the patent office doesn't grant one for it. Be that as it may, I visited Edison's lab in Florida, and there's plaque dedicated to Tesla - even though Edison famously turned down the Nobel prize because it was reportedly a joint prize to him and Tesla - Edison still gave part of his lab so Tesla could continue his work. The world turns in funny ways.

      As Tesla is quoted as saying the present is theirs, the future, for which I really worked for, is mine. And with that in mind, here is my humble version of Tesla's story.

      FADE IN:

      EXT. MANHATTAN - NIGHT

      A thundering flash of heat lightning lights up the summer sky. MARIO LANZA sings Pagliacci from a scratchy 78 record as the city lights twinkle, the Chrysler building dominating the BLACK AND WHITE skyline. The CAMERA moves across the New York rooftops.

      SUPERIMPOSE: NEW YORK CITY 1943

      ABOVE TIMES SQUARE

      The electric newsprint races across the electric panel, declaring ALLIES LAND IN ANZIO... ROOSEVELT MEETS WITH CHURCHILL IN CASABLANCA...

      EXT. AN OLD FLOPHOUSE - NIGHT

      The CAMERA comes to a rest near a windowsill. Doves flutter back and forth an open, dimly lit window. Mario Lanza's SINGING can be heard inside the apartment.

      INT. MANHATTAN FLOPHOUSE - NIGHT

      A delivery boy stands at attention outside a door and adjusts his cap. He knocks on the door as a cat wails and an argument drifts down the dusty, poorly lit hallway.

      INSIDE THE ROOM - IN THE DARK - NIKOLA TESLA

      is watching his beloved pigeons and a white dove flap outside of his window. Lightning reveals he's an old man. He gets up to answer the door.

      AT THE DOOR

      Tesla is old, gray, tired; he opens the door to look down at the boy.

      BOY

      Mr. Tesla? You had a delivery sir?

      TESLA

      Hmm? Oh. Yes. Come in.

      The kid hesitates to come into the pitch black room. Tesla looks back at him.

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