"Lisa!" Called the woman.
"Yes mom?" Said Lisa.
Lisa lives with her mother ever since her father divorced, she tries to cope with watching films when the person she loved has left the household. She has turned eighteen, but she felt depressed regardless. Her mother tries to cheer her up, by taking her to the mall or to a movie store.
"Lisa, I'm going to work at the grocery store. You be a good girl and watch over the house while I'm gone, and be sure to lock the doors." Her mom said.
"I promise, I'll lock the door. I'll also watch some movies" Lisa said.
Her mother planted a kiss on her forehead before leaving, and she locked the door when her mother left the house. Afterwards, she browsed through the film's that she had collected. Unfortunately, she had watched all of them, she does not want to re watch. She walked to the closet beneath the stairs, and opened it. Inside has a broom, cleaning supplies, and rubber gloves (it's because her mother used to work as a cleaning lady over at the hotel before getting fired). However, she noticed a box at the back, so she moved the cleaning supplies and picked the box up. The box is a little torn but it looked recent, and it was labeled "my stuff" written in the same penmanship as her father's. She wondered if her father left this box for her to find, and perhaps, look into. When she opened it, it has a VHS tape and some stuff that belonged to her father.
"This must be dad's favorite movie, by the looks of it" she said.
She pulled the VHS tape out of the box, it's cover is rather worn and the picture is faded, but she can make out what appeared to be a castle and some stars. The lettering is faded, but it is still legible for her to read. Apparently, the title of the movie is called "The Land of the starry night" and it has an image of what looked like few characters standing before the castle. At the back of the cover, she can barely read on what it's about. She, however, saw scenes of the film:
Scene 1. A princess (Who looked like a plastic toy) was on her knees crying as she was imprisoned in a dungeon.
Scene 2. Group of weird looking characters with a king at the back, judging by the expressions on their faces, they're basically villains.
Scene 3. A young boy armed with a sword.
The rest of the scenes on the back of the cover is so faded that she couldn't make out the images. Judging by the art style, it resembled a 1960s animated film from Japan. It reminded her of the two films she had watched on the internet: the little Prince and the eight headed dragon, and Gulliver travels beyond the moon. Those two films were made in the 60s, in which she believed that the land of the starry night film came out in the 60s before being made into the VHS tape.
She then took the VHS tape to the tv to insert it into the VHS player to watch the movie, and when she does it, the tv screen changed to static. Then it changed into a grainy vortex of Technicolor red, yellow, and blue. She thought that this is the intro for the film, but it kept on going.
"This VHS tape must be so old that it keeps looping" she thought to herself.
When she placed her hand into the screen of the tv, the glass disappeared, and she was pulled into the tv. She screamed in fear as she was pulled through the swirling vortex of Technicolor, before everything turned black. When she woke up, she's in a forest with a river nearby. She got up to examine her surrounding, then she realized that she's in the movie.
"Why am I in the film!?" She panicked.
She walked over to the river, and she saw a girl that looked almost like her in place of her reflection. The girl in place of her reflection was drawn in the same artstyle as the film, and she is wearing a yellowish green dress with an apron (in the similar pattern as Alice from Alice in wonderland). When she looked down, she freaked out that the girl in her reflection is actually her. She was transformed to match with the film's setting and art style, without an explanation.
"Stay calm, Lisa. This must be a dream or a hallucination, but it can't be that, can it?" She tried to reassure herself, but the dirt she felt and bird song in the trees all felt real.
She heard singing coming from the distance from within the forest, so she followed to the source. It felt weird as she walked wearing black shoes, not to mention that she is wearing stockings. The more she walked, the song gotten more clearer to the point that she can hear the lyrics. Then she saw a man chopping down the tree, in which its where the song is coming from.
"O' I'm choppin' down the tree/ to make firewood.
Chop, chop, chop!
This life is free/ free to sell the carpenter's their wood.
To make a living/ is what we woodcutters dooo!" Sang the woodcutter.
"Such a nice song" she remarked, but she immediately stopped herself.
"Oi! Who goes there!?" Asked the woodcutter.
She sighed before showing herself to him, in which his expression changed to confusion.
"Oh! What's a dame like yourself doing here out in the wilderness?" Asked the woodcutter.
"You wouldn't believe me if I told you, and I'm lost" she replied.
"Well... why don't you go into my hut? I'll be there shortly as soon as I'm done chopping one tree down" he asked while scratching his chin.
Then he pointed to the left direction, where the smoke is coming from. He tells her that she can follow the smoke, in which it is where his hut is located.
Authors note: this is the start of Lisa's journey, in which she'll meet some bizarre characters. Not only that, but this is based on the trope called trapped in tv land. It's a trope where the characters got sucked into a tv show and/or film, in which they have to find a way back home.
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Trapped in the film
FantasyLisa, aged eighteen, has found a box at the back of the closet. When she opens it, it contains an old VHS tape of an old animated film from the 60s called "The Land of the starry night". According to the tape, it was made by a company whose name was...
