Shots 1-10: The Chase & The Trap
Shot 1
Wide tracking shot, golden hour light filtering through trees. Torm running excitedly through the forest, eyes locked on a glowing butterfly ahead of her.
Shot 2
Close-up on Torm’s face — determined, smiling, breathing hard as she leaps over a log.
Shot 3
POV butterfly cam — fluttering just out of reach, leading her deeper.
Shot 4
Medium tracking shot: Butterfly lands on sun-lit leaves. Torm slows down, approaching carefully.
Shot 5
Close-up: Butterfly’s wings slowly opening and closing on the leaf.
Shot 6
Low angle: Torm gently extends her hand, palm up, soft expression.
Shot 7
Extreme close-up: Butterfly lands delicately on Torm’s fingertip.
Shot 8
Slow motion: Butterfly suddenly flies away. Torm’s face shifts from joy to confusion.
Shot 9
Torm’s POV spinning — the world tilts as dizziness hits. Trees blur.
Shot 10
Wide shot: Torm collapses in the small clearing surrounded by old weathered tombstones.
Shots 11-20: Ivan Revealed & The Kitchen
Shot 11
Ivan steps out from behind a tree, sinister grin. Red and black patterned face paint. Butterfly (Igor) lands on his shoulder.
Shot 12
Close-up on Ivan’s face, heavy gypsy accent:
“Works every time.”
Shot 13
Medium shot: Torm unconscious, being tied tightly to a thick tree by Ivan.
Shot 14
Wide establishing shot: Ivan’s open-air cannibal kitchen — bones, strange ingredients, small table, yellow lantern.
Shot 15
Ivan sharpening a large blade with a hand rod, looking at his old skin-bound cookbook. Igor on the lantern.
Shot 16
Ivan arguing with the butterfly:
“What do you know about the world? You are so tiny, you barely in it!”
Shot 17
Ivan dramatically apologizing to Igor, then getting angry and shooing the butterfly off the cookbook:
“But if you ever eat Mama’s cookbook, Ivan will eat you.”
Shot 18
Torm slowly waking up, disoriented. She realizes she’s tied and starts struggling.
Shot 19
Torm yelling desperately: “HELP! SOMEONE HELP ME!”
Shot 20
Cut back to Ivan, completely ignoring her, talking to Igor:
“Wrong? What makes it wrong? How many fourlegged creatures do you think she has made her meal?”
Shots 21-30: The Ritual Cooking
Shot 21
Ivan at the blood lemon tree: “Let’s see… Skinny Mother, Sick Father, Ugly Daughter, Healthy Brother.” He plucks “Healthy Brother.”
Shot 22
Close-up: Squeezing the blood-red lemon juice into a bowl.
Shot 23
Ivan takes bear hairs from a skull’s chin: “Thanks Mama! Love you mama.” Pats the skull lovingly.
Shot 24
Gloved hand pulling a glowing “Electric Root” from a jar.
Shot 25
Ivan dropping the root into the bowl while arguing: “Ivan is part of nature. So anything Ivan does is natural.”
Shot 26
Ivan planting Black Rose Seeds in dirt, then using a magnifying glass to focus sunlight. A glowing black rose rapidly grows.
Shot 27
Beautiful macro shot: Ivan plucking a glowing petal from the fresh Black Rose.
Shot 28
Ivan picks up silver platter and knife, turning toward Torm with hungry intent.
Shot 29
Igor flies in front of Ivan’s face, blocking him. Ivan snaps: “You eat Ivan’s books and you have the nerve to tell Ivan what Ivan should eat!”
Shot 30
Ivan’s intense monologue: “Books come from people Ivan eat! Ivan only eat their bodies but you eat their stories… their dreams… That is real death.”
Shots 31-40: Climax & Rescue
Shot 31
Dramatic wide shot: Ivan marching toward Torm, parting a massive swarm of butterflies like a sea. Eerie music swells.
Shot 32
Torm panicking, thrashing violently against the ropes.
Shot 33
Tight close-up: Torm squeezes her eyes shut and turns her head as Ivan raises the blade to her chest.
Shot 34
Sudden violent motion: Blade stabs into Ivan from behind. Blood sprays.
Shot 35
Reveal — The Old Man standing behind Ivan, unique vial glowing around his neck.
Shot 36
Old Man walks past Ivan’s collapsing body toward Torm, blade still bloody.
Shot 37
Close-up: Ropes fall away as they’re cut. Torm opens her eyes in shock.
Shot 38
Torm looks around — the Old Man has already vanished into the forest.
Shot 39
Torm grabs her things and notices the glowing vial still clutched in Ivan’s dead hand. She takes it.
Shot 40
Wide tracking shot: Torm running desperately into the dark forest, vial around her neck, looking for the Old Man.
Shot 1
Wide tracking shot, golden hour light filtering through trees. Torm running excitedly through the forest, eyes locked on a glowing butterfly ahead of her.
Shot 2
Close-up on Torm’s face — determined, smiling, breathing hard as she leaps over a log.
Shot 3
POV butterfly cam — fluttering just out of reach, leading her deeper.
Shot 4
Medium tracking shot: Butterfly lands on sun-lit leaves. Torm slows down, approaching carefully.
Shot 5
Close-up: Butterfly’s wings slowly opening and closing on the leaf.
Shot 6
Low angle: Torm gently extends her hand, palm up, soft expression.
Shot 7
Extreme close-up: Butterfly lands delicately on Torm’s fingertip.
Shot 8
Slow motion: Butterfly suddenly flies away. Torm’s face shifts from joy to confusion.
Shot 9
Torm’s POV spinning — the world tilts as dizziness hits. Trees blur.
Shot 10
Wide shot: Torm collapses in the small clearing surrounded by old weathered tombstones.
Shots 11-20: Ivan Revealed & The Kitchen
Shot 11
Ivan steps out from behind a tree, sinister grin. Red and black patterned face paint. Butterfly (Igor) lands on his shoulder.
Shot 12
Close-up on Ivan’s face, heavy gypsy accent:
“Works every time.”
Shot 13
Medium shot: Torm unconscious, being tied tightly to a thick tree by Ivan.
Shot 14
Wide establishing shot: Ivan’s open-air cannibal kitchen — bones, strange ingredients, small table, yellow lantern.
Shot 15
Ivan sharpening a large blade with a hand rod, looking at his old skin-bound cookbook. Igor on the lantern.
Shot 16
Ivan arguing with the butterfly:
“What do you know about the world? You are so tiny, you barely in it!”
Shot 17
Ivan dramatically apologizing to Igor, then getting angry and shooing the butterfly off the cookbook:
“But if you ever eat Mama’s cookbook, Ivan will eat you.”
Shot 18
Torm slowly waking up, disoriented. She realizes she’s tied and starts struggling.
Shot 19
Torm yelling desperately: “HELP! SOMEONE HELP ME!”
Shot 20
Cut back to Ivan, completely ignoring her, talking to Igor:
“Wrong? What makes it wrong? How many fourlegged creatures do you think she has made her meal?”
Shots 21-30: The Ritual Cooking
Shot 21
Ivan at the blood lemon tree: “Let’s see… Skinny Mother, Sick Father, Ugly Daughter, Healthy Brother.” He plucks “Healthy Brother.”
Shot 22
Close-up: Squeezing the blood-red lemon juice into a bowl.
Shot 23
Ivan takes bear hairs from a skull’s chin: “Thanks Mama! Love you mama.” Pats the skull lovingly.
Shot 24
Gloved hand pulling a glowing “Electric Root” from a jar.
Shot 25
Ivan dropping the root into the bowl while arguing: “Ivan is part of nature. So anything Ivan does is natural.”
Shot 26
Ivan planting Black Rose Seeds in dirt, then using a magnifying glass to focus sunlight. A glowing black rose rapidly grows.
Shot 27
Beautiful macro shot: Ivan plucking a glowing petal from the fresh Black Rose.
Shot 28
Ivan picks up silver platter and knife, turning toward Torm with hungry intent.
Shot 29
Igor flies in front of Ivan’s face, blocking him. Ivan snaps: “You eat Ivan’s books and you have the nerve to tell Ivan what Ivan should eat!”
Shot 30
Ivan’s intense monologue: “Books come from people Ivan eat! Ivan only eat their bodies but you eat their stories… their dreams… That is real death.”
Shots 31-40: Climax & Rescue
Shot 31
Dramatic wide shot: Ivan marching toward Torm, parting a massive swarm of butterflies like a sea. Eerie music swells.
Shot 32
Torm panicking, thrashing violently against the ropes.
Shot 33
Tight close-up: Torm squeezes her eyes shut and turns her head as Ivan raises the blade to her chest.
Shot 34
Sudden violent motion: Blade stabs into Ivan from behind. Blood sprays.
Shot 35
Reveal — The Old Man standing behind Ivan, unique vial glowing around his neck.
Shot 36
Old Man walks past Ivan’s collapsing body toward Torm, blade still bloody.
Shot 37
Close-up: Ropes fall away as they’re cut. Torm opens her eyes in shock.
Shot 38
Torm looks around — the Old Man has already vanished into the forest.
Shot 39
Torm grabs her things and notices the glowing vial still clutched in Ivan’s dead hand. She takes it.
Shot 40
Wide tracking shot: Torm running desperately into the dark forest, vial around her neck, looking for the Old Man.
SHOT LIST 1-40
15. (IVAN THE EATER)
Days have gone by since Torm set out on her journey to the Great Falls. For the last few hours she has been chasing a butterfly through the woods. Her hunt is fueled by the fact that the butterfly is the same type that caused a breakthrough in her experiments. She chases it from branch to branch as it leads her through a long trail. It occasionally rests its fuzzy wings on some sun-lit leaves and then picks up again when Torm gets near. Eventually Torm catches up to it in a small area of the woods peppered with tombstones. She softly walks up to the beautiful creature and holds her hand out gently. The butterfly seems less nervous, but still cautious. It takes a few minor, timid flights but then warms up to Torm. It lands on Torm's finger but then flies away quickly. Torm's excitement soon turns to confusion then to dizziness. She passes out. A cannibal gypsy, Ivan, with a unique red and black patterned face, unhides himself and the butterfly lands on his shoulder.
IVAN THE EATER
Works every time.
He brags in a heavy gypsy accent having used the butterfly's poison to knock Torm out. Moments later, Torm is unconscious and tied to a tree while Ivan prepares ingredients at a small table in his open air kitchen. His favorite butterfly, Igor, sits on a little yellow lantern. Ivan sharpens a blade with a hand rod as he looks at his cook book and argues with the butterfly.
IVAN THE EATER
What do you know about the world? You are so tiny, you barely in it!
The butterfly flies off the lantern.
IVAN THE EATER
Oh I'm sorry, I apologize,
he says sincerely.
IVAN THE EATER
but you think you know everything just because you eat so many books.
Ivan sticks the sharpening rod into the dirt. The butterfly lands on an old skin-bound cook book. Ivan gets angry and shoos it away.
IVAN THE EATER
You are free to eat any book, notepad, or record. But if you ever eat Mama's cookbook, Ivan will eat you.
Out of view of Ivan, Torm comes out of unconsciousness. She looks around confused but quickly discovers her bad situation. She tries to get out of the ropes but can't seem to manage.
TORM
HELP! SOMEONE HELP ME!
Torm yells, but the only one around that can hear her is Ivan and he's too caught up in his insanity to notice her cries for help.
IVAN THE EATER
(to the butterfly) Wrong? What makes it wrong? How many fourlegged creatures do you think she has made her meal? It would only be wrong if she didn't taste good.
He reads the ingredients from his cook book. He sees he needs a blood lemon. He puts down his knife and goes to a small tree next to his prep table which has a family of oddly-shaped lemons growing on it.
IVAN THE EATER
Let's see: Skinny Mother, Sick Father, Ugly Daughter, Healthy Brother.
Ivan decides out loud. He picks "Healthy Brother" from the tree and returns to his prep table. Butterflies surround a plate so he swaps them away with his hand. He cuts the lemons and squeezes blood juice into a bowl. Then from the chin of a skull, he picks big, ugly bear hairs.
IVAN THE EATER
Thanks Mama! Love you mama.
he says patting the skull on its forehead. He then drops the hair into his mixing bowl. Next he puts on a special glove and picks an "Electric Root" out of a large clear jar. He continues arguing with his favorite butterfly.
IVAN THE EATER
Not natural? What's not natural? Ivan is part of nature. So anything Ivan does is natural. Ivan think Igor confused on this.
Ivan drops the root into the bowl and takes off his glove. The cook book now calls for Black Rose Petals. Ivan looks through his shelves but can't find any, so he settles on Black Rose Seeds. He continues his debate with Igor.
IVAN THE EATER
Don't blame me, Ivan didn't invent hunger. Life feeds on life. Something always has to die for something to live.
Ivan opens the bottle of Black Rose Seeds and pokes a hole into a pot full of dirt, plants a few seeds and covers them over with dirt. He takes out a special glass magnifier, and directs a beam of light from the sun into the pot with the seeds and a black, bold, glowing rose grows from the dirt.
IVAN THE EATER
Ah perfect, beautiful.
Ivan picks a petal from the Black Rose while it's still wet with its glow. The final ingredient in the cook book shows a Heart. Ivan grabs a silver platter and knife. Igor intercepts him as he turns around to harvest Torm's heart.
IVAN THE EATER
What? You think you're so much better than Ivan because all you eat is nectar and books!
Ivan pauses as if the butterfly was talking back.
IVAN THE EATER
Ahhhh!!! You are out of your mind! You eat Ivan's books and you have the nerve to tell Ivan what Ivan should eat! Books come from people Ivan eat! Ivan only eat their bodies but you eat their stories, their ideas, their dreams, the very flesh of their souls. That is real death. Ivan not so cold-hearted, but Ivan is very hungry. So out of way little butterfly, Ivan need meat.
Ivan pushes the butterfly out of his way and marches toward Torm. Ivan hears music in his mind as he parts a sea of a million flapping butterflies.
Seeing him coming, Torm panics and starts desperately moving her body trying to get out of the ropes. She freezes up and pulls her chin into her shoulder anticipating the blade as Ivan brings it close to her chest. She closes her eyes in fear and just before the blade can penetrate her chest she hears Ivan scream out in pain. In the corner of her eye she sees a bloody blade pulling out of Ivan and a unique vial around the neck of the Old Man holding the blade. He walks his blade slowly to her. She closes her eyes again in fear, but feels the ropes on her hands cut free. Torm opens her eyes and sees the Old Man is gone. She immediately sheds the ropes and gathers her things. She notices the Old Man's vial in Ivan's dead hand. She quickly puts it with her things and runs into the forest looking for him.
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Days have gone by since Torm set out on her journey to the Great Falls. For the last few hours she has been chasing a butterfly through the woods. Her hunt is fueled by the fact that the butterfly is the same type that caused a breakthrough in her experiments. She chases it from branch to branch as it leads her through a long trail. It occasionally rests its fuzzy wings on some sun-lit leaves and then picks up again when Torm gets near. Eventually Torm catches up to it in a small area of the woods peppered with tombstones. She softly walks up to the beautiful creature and holds her hand out gently. The butterfly seems less nervous, but still cautious. It takes a few minor, timid flights but then warms up to Torm. It lands on Torm's finger but then flies away quickly. Torm's excitement soon turns to confusion then to dizziness. She passes out. A cannibal gypsy, Ivan, with a unique red and black patterned face, unhides himself and the butterfly lands on his shoulder.
IVAN THE EATER
Works every time.
He brags in a heavy gypsy accent having used the butterfly's poison to knock Torm out. Moments later, Torm is unconscious and tied to a tree while Ivan prepares ingredients at a small table in his open air kitchen. His favorite butterfly, Igor, sits on a little yellow lantern. Ivan sharpens a blade with a hand rod as he looks at his cook book and argues with the butterfly.
IVAN THE EATER
What do you know about the world? You are so tiny, you barely in it!
The butterfly flies off the lantern.
IVAN THE EATER
Oh I'm sorry, I apologize,
he says sincerely.
IVAN THE EATER
but you think you know everything just because you eat so many books.
Ivan sticks the sharpening rod into the dirt. The butterfly lands on an old skin-bound cook book. Ivan gets angry and shoos it away.
IVAN THE EATER
You are free to eat any book, notepad, or record. But if you ever eat Mama's cookbook, Ivan will eat you.
Out of view of Ivan, Torm comes out of unconsciousness. She looks around confused but quickly discovers her bad situation. She tries to get out of the ropes but can't seem to manage.
TORM
HELP! SOMEONE HELP ME!
Torm yells, but the only one around that can hear her is Ivan and he's too caught up in his insanity to notice her cries for help.
IVAN THE EATER
(to the butterfly) Wrong? What makes it wrong? How many fourlegged creatures do you think she has made her meal? It would only be wrong if she didn't taste good.
He reads the ingredients from his cook book. He sees he needs a blood lemon. He puts down his knife and goes to a small tree next to his prep table which has a family of oddly-shaped lemons growing on it.
IVAN THE EATER
Let's see: Skinny Mother, Sick Father, Ugly Daughter, Healthy Brother.
Ivan decides out loud. He picks "Healthy Brother" from the tree and returns to his prep table. Butterflies surround a plate so he swaps them away with his hand. He cuts the lemons and squeezes blood juice into a bowl. Then from the chin of a skull, he picks big, ugly bear hairs.
IVAN THE EATER
Thanks Mama! Love you mama.
he says patting the skull on its forehead. He then drops the hair into his mixing bowl. Next he puts on a special glove and picks an "Electric Root" out of a large clear jar. He continues arguing with his favorite butterfly.
IVAN THE EATER
Not natural? What's not natural? Ivan is part of nature. So anything Ivan does is natural. Ivan think Igor confused on this.
Ivan drops the root into the bowl and takes off his glove. The cook book now calls for Black Rose Petals. Ivan looks through his shelves but can't find any, so he settles on Black Rose Seeds. He continues his debate with Igor.
IVAN THE EATER
Don't blame me, Ivan didn't invent hunger. Life feeds on life. Something always has to die for something to live.
Ivan opens the bottle of Black Rose Seeds and pokes a hole into a pot full of dirt, plants a few seeds and covers them over with dirt. He takes out a special glass magnifier, and directs a beam of light from the sun into the pot with the seeds and a black, bold, glowing rose grows from the dirt.
IVAN THE EATER
Ah perfect, beautiful.
Ivan picks a petal from the Black Rose while it's still wet with its glow. The final ingredient in the cook book shows a Heart. Ivan grabs a silver platter and knife. Igor intercepts him as he turns around to harvest Torm's heart.
IVAN THE EATER
What? You think you're so much better than Ivan because all you eat is nectar and books!
Ivan pauses as if the butterfly was talking back.
IVAN THE EATER
Ahhhh!!! You are out of your mind! You eat Ivan's books and you have the nerve to tell Ivan what Ivan should eat! Books come from people Ivan eat! Ivan only eat their bodies but you eat their stories, their ideas, their dreams, the very flesh of their souls. That is real death. Ivan not so cold-hearted, but Ivan is very hungry. So out of way little butterfly, Ivan need meat.
Ivan pushes the butterfly out of his way and marches toward Torm. Ivan hears music in his mind as he parts a sea of a million flapping butterflies.
Seeing him coming, Torm panics and starts desperately moving her body trying to get out of the ropes. She freezes up and pulls her chin into her shoulder anticipating the blade as Ivan brings it close to her chest. She closes her eyes in fear and just before the blade can penetrate her chest she hears Ivan scream out in pain. In the corner of her eye she sees a bloody blade pulling out of Ivan and a unique vial around the neck of the Old Man holding the blade. He walks his blade slowly to her. She closes her eyes again in fear, but feels the ropes on her hands cut free. Torm opens her eyes and sees the Old Man is gone. She immediately sheds the ropes and gathers her things. She notices the Old Man's vial in Ivan's dead hand. She quickly puts it with her things and runs into the forest looking for him.
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SCENE SUMMARY
Days into her journey, Torm gets lured through the woods by a butterfly — the same species that sparked her lab breakthrough — until she follows it into a graveyard clearing where she passes out from its poison. She wakes up tied to a tree in the open-air kitchen of Ivan the Eater, a cannibal gypsy who cheerfully argues philosophy with his pet butterfly Igor while sharpening his blade and assembling ingredients from blood lemons, bear hairs pulled from his mother's skull, electric root, and a black rose he grows on the spot with focused sunlight. When Igor tries to stop him from harvesting Torm's heart, Ivan delivers a unhinged lecture about how eating books is a greater sin than eating people — then marches toward her anyway. Just as his blade reaches her chest, a mysterious Old Man appears from nowhere, drives a blade into Ivan, and cuts Torm free before vanishing without a word. Torm sheds the ropes, grabs her things, and notices a unique vial that has fallen from the Old Man's neck into Ivan's dead hand — she takes it and runs into the forest after him.
15. IVAN THE EATER
SHOT LIST 1-35 APRX: 3:33
SHOT LIST 1-50 ( 2:11 min )
