Independent Film Company embarks on Historical Romance Film.
Kansas City, MO - Heroes of the First Wave Pictures LLC, a veteran-owned startup Independent film production company, announced that it will begin pre-production on a Historical Romance/Action/Adventure film.
The original screenplay, A Ridiculous Notion, is starting pre-production and is slated to start production this Summer. A Ridiculous Notion is an heartwarming adventure, that was not buried in the violence of the American Civil War and slavery. The film is entitled, A Ridiculous Notion. Notion is both a belief, and our heroine's name.
The social conditions of the times made romance one of the most challenging of all slave experiences. This wonderful love story was alive in slave letters, filled with love stories and the pages of historic documents. The movie unfolds when a young African American couple becomes romantically involved. When the weight of slavery bears more heavily upon their deep and enduring love. These two lovers refuse to allow their lives to be completely consumed by the laws and attitudes of their times. Their struggle for love transforms their emotional journey into a bloody fight for freedom.
Inspired by true events, our loving couple is caught in the violence of an escalating guerrilla war, between an extreme antislavery element and slaveholders in Missouri. Armed bands of Kansas abolitionists sweep across the border into Missouri and liberate slaves. With the promise of freedom and education as a means of bettering themselves, they head to Kansas.
Our hero and heroine, possess a common thread, that of a warrior rather than a soldier. They embrace the extreme–like measures of the radical abolitionist raiders. Initially President Lincoln refuses to raise a large black army on political grounds. So our hero joins a Union Militia and becomes well-versed in guerrilla warfare.
Instead of focusing on the deep emotion and inevitable unease slavery can bring. It's a mistake to think that most white people in the South had slaves. They didn't. Enslaved blacks and their white sympathizers planned secret flight strategies and escape routes for runaways to make their way to freedom.
The historical setting assists in describing the importance of their persistence to rise as leaders, to increase their chances of ever being enslaved again. Notion embraces education and takes a equally devastating path as her husband.
Realizing it was impossible to escape from this heartless world. When South Carolina raises two Black infantry regiments, the charming young couple debuts the future of warfare in South Carolina. They bring their brand of irregular warfare, practiced in Kansas and Missouri to the South.
Headquartered in a lavish Southern plantation mansion, a small elite group of African American men and women maintain romantic relationships in the beauty of the majestic "Old South".
But this grand mansion is used as a base to wage a secret war across the woods throughout the South. The ladies are members of a network of spies gathering intelligence behind enemy lines. No scheme was too wild for them to consider! The men are valuable scouts who lead secret expeditions to conduct acts of harassment and sabotage behind in enemy territory.
These unsung heroes give us an uplifting glimpse of the future. The unique nature of their missions, adapted from the historical accounts of several actual events, would meet the modern definition and criteria of successful Special Operations missions. Their strategy will play a pivotal role in the prosecution and ultimate conclusion of the Civil War.
A Ridiculous Notion is entertaining and enlightening. There are many scenes of warmth and caring, that makes this film more accessible to more people. An inspirational love story, set in a society on it's way to being destroyed by the American Civil War. That has the potential to provoke thoughtful discussion.