last updated: 25 January 2025
How many movies are in book 3/1, shaping?
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Jack has his first shoot for his new movie A table full of strangers in book 3/1. He is on set and in a scene. His movies The Idiot, The Lover and The Invention of Evil are mentioned, and he remembers a movie where the director refocused from gender differences to differences in talents, plus he thinks about some details of the movie he shot in the previous summer Breaking the Cycle.
Both the Invention of Evil and Breaking the Cycle are part of book 2/1, travelling.
In the Halloween chapter, Alice outlines the story for a movie she would like to see happen: Making Berlin.
None of these movies have been shot, yet, and only exist as rough outlines. If you are intrigued, get in touch: contact@charlie-alice-raya.org
On top of that The Lord of the Rings gets a mention, like in all books so far.
To answer the question: There are seven invented movies in book 3/1, shaping, and one obligatory nod to the Lord of the Rings.
Two real TV series also get a nod: Breaking Bad and Doctor Who.
Topic highlights in book 3/1
- towns – a case for towns with a purpose
- buildings – a case for imagination
- humans – a case for empowerment
- nature – a case for coexisting
- teams – a case for cooperative clashes
- international teams – a case for anchors
- friendship – a case for being friends
- politics – a case for rethinking and reshaping pretty much everything
- businesses – a case for rethinking the global economy, business practises and testing new business models
- tourism – a case for rethinking tourism
- love – a case of missed conversations
- gender – a case for the beauty of diversity
- gender – a case for bridging divides
- gender – a case to find ways out of domestic violence
- film making – a case of busting sexism and racism
- theatre – a case for waking up
- Halloween – the best monster ever
- towns – a case for composing & shaping towns
- the world – a case for taking action for our future
- the others – a case for curiosity
- shaping – a case for developing ideas together and indulging in the thinking processes
- crafts – a case for using our own minds, our own hands, our own power to create
- crafts – a case for unearthing creativity
Animals in book 3/1, shaping
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Animals in book 3/1, shaping
A horse, ants, bees, ducks; monsters at Halloween, including a firebird, one of those multi-headed monsters, an octopus, basilisks, a lion, a frog, a butterfly; also an eagle or potentially two, plus more horses and seahorses.
Caller’s countries in chapter 4, 15 October
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Tam Zhu, Yunnan province, China, politician, Netherlands, doctor, Papua New Guinea, influencer Singapore, magnate Azerbaijan, Sydney, businessman, artist, Lagos, Nigeria, consultant, Argentina, journalist Aotearoa New Zealand, MP, Bristol, lobbyist, philanthropist, Portugal, Japan, town planner, French businessman, I’ll scream, sell a dream, Canada, activists group, US senator Sherlyn Shepherd, Prince Al-Masudi, Otaon, businesswoman, South Africa, business tycoon, UK, Newcastle, MP, complaint, Seattle, US, Prince Harun, life, Sweden, faking it, Berlin, anonymous billionaire, conservative & carbon capture, Greece, Earl, Kent, Ireland, Lebanon, Chile, Turkey, Indonesia, Poland, Bulgaria, Scotland, Glasgow, Panama, Greenland, Monte Carlo, Estonia, Mongolia, Democratic Republic of the Congo and more unnamed locations.
buy & pre-order
book 3, shaping
Buy & pre-order all three parts of book 3, shaping, and receive your copy of the e-books on the days of the publications, chapter by chapter & as complete files. The first chapter was published on 12 December, the final chapters will be published in February.
Book 3/1, shaping, arrivals & shaping, centres around shaping the plans for the town while here and there inner and public conflicts emerge.
Book 3/2, shaping, entanglements & silences, dives deeper into the personal struggles of some of the main characters.
Book 3/3, shaping, where do we go from here & decisions, deals with a multitude of crises, personal and for the town project. Defiance and an unexpected ally eventually win the day – sort of.
