Not sure what exactly this would be. It’s just a concept I came up with the other day; sort of a world in which a story could take place.
The idea is that we would have a main character who is searching for someone or something that they really need to go on with there life. Whatever it is they are searching for it leads them in an unexpected way to the ACLU.
As the story continues as our main character’s journey takes them deeper and deeper into the inner workings of the ACLU. In this world the ACLU is a sort of Byzantine labyrinth of secret dealing, bizarre squabbling factions and strange rituals.
The reason why I want to use the ACLU for this, as apposed to say the Free Masons is that it’s so ridiculous and unexpected. They are such a well respected and pristine group among the artistic liberal world that suggesting anything clandestine or dark going on with them is almost sacrilegious.
I also really like the idea of taking an organization that exists in reality and making up a totally fictitious version of them; much like the version of the FBI that David Lynch created in the world of Twin Peaks.
The idea came to me while watching Nick Broomfield’s documentary Kurt & Courtney. At one point he goes to an ACLU dinner in L.A. where Courtney Love is speaking. The ludicrousness of her speech and the idea of her of all people speaking at an ACLU dinner made me wonder if it was something idiosyncratic of the LA branch. Then I started imagining all the other branches rolling there eyes. Then I started wondering what quarks other locations would have.
Anyways it’s just an idea, a starting point, if it sparks anyone’s imagination feel free to straight up steal if for part of something else or contact me and maybe we could brainstorm together.
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