The Lion’s PawPrints

Here are some of the best scenes in Suleiman The Lion. Please bear in mind that this story is not really for kids below 13 as I pretty much focused on adults for this movie (and the fact that I can’t write kiddie stuff, my brain is kind of “too advanced” for it) :

Mushroom Cloud

A full blooded action scene. Suleiman-Angel vs A wildebeest with an obesity problem. Gives a new meaning to the phrase “I need to catch a meal”.

Operation Doggie Drop

Boris goes one-on-one with Linea. No props, no weapons, just bare paws, lots of guts, smart lines and the laws of gravity.

Puppet Doggie

A comedic pseudo-sadistic scene. Watch what lion’s do when they get “artistic” and decide to treat dogs the same way that kids treat Lego blocks.

Rocket Launcher

Self-explanatory. Two rabbits and a “Mega Dog-Killing Device”.

A Cat’s Breakfast

What does a female cheetah do when she gets the chance to have a tete-a-tete alone with a young hot blooded male Rottweiler in the kitchen by accident or otherwise? Expect it to be  a satisfying experience plus a crash course in how to speak Russian.

Terminator

Three dogs, two rabbits and a fire hose. Who says a dog can’t fly?

Fire In The Hole

Once again, the rabbits in action. When faced with 42 dogs, play in the face of danger. This is one of the best scenes in the whole story.

Anyhow, these are some of the best scenes. I’m still pushing. Trust me people, this is gonna be one hell of a story = )

Suleiman The Lion : The Tiger Trail may just be a movie script but a lot went into the making of the script even though it might not even be obvious.

The research into what has might be very well on it’s way to the craziest, funniest dog-massacre story ever was quite intensive. I had to watch several movies to get some examples, plus oogle (trust me, it’s a while lot more  more difficult and torturous than it sounds) at around 800- 1000 pictures of big cats during various things (except, which I must explicitly say : SEX ) and even got myself a kiddie book on the big cats.

The end result? Suleiman, ShahJahan, Sanya, Angel, Li, Wong and the Lioness (whose name I won’t reveal for now). And don’t forget the super intelligent Russian rabbit Boris, the cutesey and playful female rabbit Chisa and the owl, Ghost.

Writing the story isn’t as easy as you might think. There were many funny scenes which were unusable because it was out of sync with the character for example this line :

Dog (progressively faster), dog, dog, dog, dog, DOG MEANS RUN! GO!!!!

Imagine Boris saying this line while he and Chisa are momentarily stunned frozen when they notice a single Rottweiler at the end of the corridor. While it might make a very funny line, it would actually be totally out of step with Boris’ character. Boris is written as an intelligent rabbit who is cool under pressure. Although Boris does have the habit of getting carried away and subsequently landing into trouble, this script line would in no way be in line with Boris’ character as it indicates panic.

Even though there is the “BADIDEADOGSRUN!!” line which does show a degree of panic, that situation is different as Boris and Chisa are being chased by something like 80-100 dogs. And besides, Boris is known for acts of bravery like throwing the rock at ShahJahan or the Fire In The Hole scene where he tricks and then subsequently annihilates Igor and the 40 dogs with a hand grenade (which Boris calls a “Dog-killing device”).

This story also has reference -directly or indirectly- to many other media. But with the exception of maybe one or two instances, I’ve tried to keep them sort of subtle. The story all-in-all has references to The Terminator, the Bee Gees, Pinky And The Brain, Stargate, A Dog’s Breakfast and The Lion King.

Anyway, here are some more interesting lines from the story :

Game over doggie, you die.

Oh crap, I think we have run into them during chow time.

Don’t mess with a leopard darling, you’ll never know what you’ll get back.

Hey, you wanna up your kill rate or not?

Doesn’t this ever get boring for you? You dogs are pretty easy to kill.

Strawberry rabbit *giggles* (Don’t ask, this line is not as cute as it sounds =p)

And oh, did I ever mentioned that a dog gets killed by a toilet? = )

Okay now, I’m somewhat back.  = )

I know I’ve talked about that story (Suleiman The Lion : The Tiger Trail) I’ve been writing but ever notice that I’ve never really talked much about the dogs despite there being about 500 of them? Well, other than the fact that they have a zero kill rate and a 100% fatality rate.

Well, out of convinience, only 5 dogs have been named in the story. Four German Shepards and one Rottweiler. Here are a brief intro to them :

Aphophis (German Shepard) : The leader/commander of all the dogs, Aphophis gets to command all the dogs at will but he himself not afraid of wading into the battle.

Ra (Rottweiler) : The second in command. Basically a coolie/peon of Aphophis. He’s damn strong but still he isn’t immune to rocket launchers. = )

Igor (German Shephard) : A dog who leads a pack of 40 dogs who stumbles into Boris and Chisa after they accidentally detonate first hand grenade. Despite his leadership position, he is extremely stupid and the (only) scene in which he appears in (before he gets “Game Over”-ed that is) is the extremely funny Fire In The Hole Scene.

Adria & Linea (German Shephards, both female) : Two sisters, Adria and Linea (who like Apophis and Ra take their names from Stargate characters) are hunteress dogs who take on hunting the rabbits. Fearless and ruthless, Adria finally gets killed by a pasu bunga while Linea will later get disassembled by Suleiman.

Okay, now those are the dogs and now for something else. You know, one of the advantages of dragging the story writing on and on and on is that I finally managed to get a story that’s so wild that it’s really really too crazy to describe at once.

How wild? Well, in the story you’ll find things like hand grenades, fire hoses, rocket launches, nuclear warheads, gunpowder, a piano and so many other things.  As diverse as they all are,  they somehow come together as a story. Okay, I’ll give you an teaser : How does a dog accidentally commit kill himself with a piano? (Tip : No, the piano doesn’t fall onto the dog like it usually happens in other stories)

Some of the best lines in the entire story comes from Boris. With lines like :

“Which one are you again? You two bitches look alike to me!”

“Brains, never really a big thing for you huh?”

but Boris doesn’t always hog the best lines, Sanya also has some pretty cool scenes including a slightly naughty scene where she rubs side on Suleiman’s side while saying to ShahJahan “Handsome’s not the only one, I’m hungry too”.

All in all,  I myself can’t wait to finish the damn thing. It’s actually all in my head so unless I can imprint what’s in my head on paper, it’s going to take a bit more.