Wars of All Kinds

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Wars of All Kinds - wAsted (2008)
(uses projection)

Concept: 1950s video propaganda-like comedic montage of all the different types 
  of wars in history. The narrator speaks to "Jimmy" and tries to recruit him.

Tech: Film projection.

Notes: Kid watching TV, TV projected behind him on screen for us to see. (Eliot 
  watching this? chain of spectatorship: audience > eliot > kid > projection).

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Hello there little Jimmy! Do you want to be part of one of the greatest human 
  traditions of all? No, not religion. Or drinking. Or sex. It's war! War, 
  Jimmy! The armed conflict between two hostile groups of people! War has been 
  part of our history since... well, since before there even was a concept of 
  History. War has been around since before writing! And ever since we started 
  writing, the books are filled with Wars of All Shapes and Sizes.

There are small wars
        and big wars

There are trade wars
           race wars
          class wars
           land wars
            oil wars
           drug wars
           gang wars
and even wars over whose god is more peaceful!

some wars were cold
Some wars were hot
Some wars were remembered and retold
Some wars were sadly forgot

Some wars were quite bloody
Some wars were bloodless.
Some wars built nations up
Some wars tore them apart.

There have been
Wars fought over all Earth!
Wars fought over an acre.
Wars fought with pride
Wars fought by proxy

 
Wars fought for Revolution!
Wars fought for subjugation.
Though more often than not, 
those two tend to be the same.

Jimmy, there have been so many wars!
Why, there were countless province wars
hundreds of nation wars
few continent wars
two world wars
and even six star wars
though we all agree the last three, should have never happened. 
Or was it the first three?

And while on the subject of numbers, there was 
the 6 Days War
the 7 Weeks War
the 7 Years War
the 9 Years War
the 30 Years War
and even the 100 Years War, which really took 116 years, but historians are not 
  mathematicians.

There were wars that make sense
       and wars that confused everyone involved.
           wars that gave direction to broken nations,
       and wars that set people running around in circles for months on end.

Or in the case of England and France, 116 years
until a 16 year old girl steps out of the woodwork
to lead a fantastic campaign ending with pyrotechnics
as she burned alive at the stake for being divinely inspired, or a witch. 

Who knows Jimmy, maybe some day you too will be part of this fantastic 
  tradition! But don't worry, it's not hard! Chances are, Little Jimmy, that 
  somewhere, around the world, there is a war  being fought right now! Isn't 
  that just great?

But we must take care of war, Jimmy.
If we're not careful, excessive war could end all wars to come!

[a blinding flash, nuclear explosion projected. Fog rolls in. Scene change]