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hahahaha I could totally see Belly as Ethan Suplee. Very good recreation of a very funny storyline in a spectacular flick. Of course you had to put your own little 4CW twist on it...dare I say Belly went on some Donald Trump-esque soliloquies during this one haha! Well done here man. I hope to see Belly get into the ring again soon.
Cheers for the review Fish ? What can i say.. Its nearly Easter, and when i think of the Easter Bunny, my mind goes to this film so i knew i had to incorporate it somehow into a toleplay and just to make sure i got it right, i forced myself to rewatch the film haha
But i guess only time will tell if Belly is to return, he seems to be contemplating it ?
Walking backwards down a narrow corridor, In her right hand, holding up a small hand held camera facing back on her self, and a microphone in her left hand it is non other than Eden Scarlett. She talks directly into the camera in between glancing over her shoulder to make sure she avoids bumping into anything.
Eden: “Hello to you, the 4CW Stratosphere.. I am Eden Scarlet and I am bringing to you, my new 4W-Tube program where I attempt to use my knowledge of 4CW and bring you all a look at the things you are not meant to see. Although I am not “Officially” Eden says with inverted commas a member of the 4CW team anymore, I still have some pull with security and get some backstage access. Today I am using this access not to interview Rhys after his triumphant win or Bally Hoo on his surprising win over 4CW legend Senecca, but instead I am here searching for a man I have had the fortune, or misfortune of interviewing many times over the years, and I have heard a rumour he is somewhere here backstage. The man I am on about is of course Chris Marks, or more commonly known as Belly… I had been at the arrival door most of the night and got my interviews with all of tonight’s winners and losers – which you can catch on my 4W-Tube channel – but this rumour was just too good not to investigate further…”
Narrowly avoiding walking into some stacked crates, Eden turns around, continuing down the corridor, turning the corner a couple of times until she stops and then glances back over the path she has just walked and her attention is immediately drawn to a plain door with no signs or markings on it, nothing to make this door stand out, except for the fact it is slightly a-jar and from the darkness behind it, a faint glow can be seen and it is this flickering light that has caught Eden’s eye and triggered her journalistic senses. She looks back at the camera in her hand and raises her eyebrows before back tracking slowly and slowly reaches out with a clenched fist, Knocking on the door. There is no answer to the knock so sh nervously reaches out and knocks a little harder, this time the knock is hard enough to move the door open further.
Eden: “Hello, Mr Marks...???”
There is no response from inside the room and as she slowly opens the door further, she notices that the light she could see from the crack in the door is emanating from a television in the corner of the room, flickering in the darkness
Eden: “Chris, its Eden Scarlet”
Opening the door further, Eden reaches round and flicks on the light switch, giving herself a slight shock as she does, as standing directly in front of her only a couple of feet away stands Chris Marks
Belly: “Hello friend, don’t be alarmed... Can you see it... Can you the see what the image is??”
Eden: “Erm... what do you mean, image? I can’t see the television from here??”
Chris Marks turns his head to face Eden and a slight smirk appears on his face as he then shakes his head and turns to look back towards the wall.
Belly: “I don’t mean on the screen, look, on the wall, can you see what it is yet?”
Eden looks around behind the door and sees a blurry pixelated picture on the wall and after staring at it for a couple of seconds she shakes her head and responds...
Eden: “Its just a grey picture, what am I supposed to see? The Easter Bunny?”
Belly: “Don’t worry, not everyone can see what is there.. Some people cannot see beyond what is directly in front of them no matter how long or hard they may stare into the abyss, their minds will only let them see what they want to see... Some people may call that delusional...”
Eden: “You call other people delusional, yet it is you whom has turned back up here in 4CW despite not officially being signed to the company, is that not delusional in itself, hiding away in a dark room in the depths of the arena”
Chris Marks turns away from the picture and looks at Eden with the smirk still on his face, staring straight into her eyes... The smirk slowly disappears from his face yet his stare remains until Eden breaks the eye contact, shying her face away from Belly’s gaze
Belly: “I am no more delusional my dear friend than anyone else that walks these halls, blissfully walking around with the blinkers firmly in place, acting like they are a group of mall rats refusing to leave somewhere they are no longer wanted nor needed. I am not here hiding away as you so elegantly put it Ms Scarlet, but like any true protagonist, you never make any decisions and never make your potential moves until you have surveyed the entire landscape and know the enemy better than they know themselves. Then and only then Ms Scarlett, it would be time to – how did you phrase it – it would be then time to move out of the dark depths and, well.. Check Mate”
Eden: “So your saying you are here tonight deciding whether you or not to return to 4CW? Is that a Eden Scarlet exclusive?”
Belly just turns his head and stares at Eden Scarlet before smirking and then turning his head back to the painting on the wall.
Eden: “Can I take your silence as a confirmation Mr Marks? You want to say something?”
Belly: “Yes Ms Scarlet, I do want to say something, in fact there are a million things of which I could say, but I cant express myself monosyllabically enough for you to understand them all. So without being able to confirm your so called exclusive, all I will say Ms Scarlet is that before one enters the Belly of the beast, you must first look into the eyes of the beast and know what kind of man that person is. This branding is familiar to myself and the world yet the brand of 4CW alone does not mean that it is the same beast that it once was, for this beast has a new master in charge and it is this beast that one must learn to know before any decision can be made”
Eden look at Belly with a confused look on her face, but trying to let his words confuse her, she fires back with another question...
Eden: “You are referring to Max Clay? The new General manager and the man who brought back 4CW?”
Belly raises his arm to cut Eden off mid sentence as he turns away, leaving her trying to work out what he had said and why he has cut her off....
Eden: “So let me get this right Belly.. you are hiding in the dark depths of the arena as you basically decide whether you want to return or…”
Chris Marks once again cuts Eden off mid sentence...
Belly: “Ms Scarlet, you see things in such black and white terms and yet the world is so much more grey than it is ever Black or White… I thought you may have been different than all the other sheep wandering these corridors, I thought you had learned from the years of discussions with you and I.. Yet you still do not understand the path of which I walk, and you still ask the wrong questions…
The question is not one of What will I decide, but instead the question you should be asking is why did you decide that’ and only when you ask the correct questions and stop seeing the world with such straight lines and look beyond the blur, only when you do all of this Ms Scarlet, you will begin to see the beast for what it really is.”
Chris Marks turns his back once again on Eden, leaving her to accept that she was going to get nothing more out of him but just as she is about to leave the room, Chris Marks looks over his shoulder back at Ms Scarlet and leaves her with a parting comment...
Belly: “Its a Schooner”
Eden: “Pardon?”
Belly: “The Picture, Its a Schooner... You know.. A Sailboat...
OH, and The Easter Bunny doesn’t exist, surely even your parents explained that one??”
Just before Eden can reply the lights in the room turn out, turning the room into near darkness yet again... Eden takes the hint and closes the door behind before giving a confused look straight into the camera.