Well in other news, I’ve begun to write a screenplay about the summer George Harrison traveled to the US. Trying to get kickstarter funding started but it hasn’t been approved yet. I just want to be able to write this without major stress of life eating at me all day. But I know life is tough for everyone currently. Wish me luck.
The summer of 63 was a calm before the storm, a dawn before great transformation across the US. Soon the world would experience the passing of JFK, an event which left the collective heartbroken and suffocated in a dark heaviness of grief. When young George Harrison traveled to the US to visit his sister Louise, the band he belonged to had already cemented a significant amount fame in the UK, but the small town of Benton, Illinois had no idea of such things. Upon his arrival, he was a veritable nobody, and no one suspected the tousle-haired boy with handsome dark looks would cause a storm only a few months into the future. But some things are undeniable: electricity was in the air. Folks say you can smell a tornado coming, perhaps the same can be said about magic. By the time George returned to Liverpool, he'd left the small town of Benton adrift with a new era of hope. Everyone he touched remembered the boy abroad.
He too, in his mystic contemplation which would blossom within the walls of Indian transcendentalism, saw Benton with the eyes of introspection and a firm inner knowing of self. He saw the rift of civil rights and a society divided and the experience left him wanting to know why.
A BOY ABROAD is a screenplay about change on many levels: societal, personal and universal.
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