LOVART AI: I've created the cinematic adaptation of "The Anarchist Banker" by Fernando Pessoa as requested. The video features two characters in a dimly lit 1920s Lisbon dining room setting, with the dialogue performed with appropriate tone and pacing. The video includes subtle background music that enhances the contemplative, philosophical atmosphere while maintaining focus on the conversation. The final result is a short film that captures the intellectual and slightly ironic tone of the original work.
Here was the original prompt:
### 🎥 Prompt for VelartAI – “The Anarchist Banker” by Fernando Pessoa (1922)> **Prompt:**>> Create a 6–8 minute cinematic video podcast or short film adaptation of *“The Anarchist Banker”* by Fernando Pessoa (1922). The setting is an intimate post-dinner scene in a wealthy Lisbon home circa 1920s.>> - **Setting:** A dimly lit dining room with mahogany furniture, candlelight, vintage wine glasses, heavy curtains, and a lingering sense of intellectual conversation after dinner. The atmosphere should feel warm but slightly mysterious—like the thoughts being exchanged are quietly shaking the foundations of belief.>> - **Characters:**> - **Narrator (the friend):** Curious, skeptical, and trying to make sense of his companion’s claim. Dressed in early 20th-century formal wear, perhaps with a slight air of confusion or amusement.> - **The Banker:** Calm, composed, and self-assured. He smokes a cigar throughout the conversation, exuding control and confidence. His demeanor suggests he has lived by principles others would find contradictory.>> - **Visual Style:** Use soft lighting, slow zooms, and close-ups to emphasize facial expressions and the psychological weight of the dialogue. Incorporate symbolic visual metaphors during key lines:> - Chains breaking apart> - Coins dissolving into smoke> - Clocks melting or stopping> - Ledgers turning into ash or floating away> - Ink spreading in water like ideas dispersing>> - **Music & Sound Design:** Use subtle ambient background music—think melancholic piano or strings—to create a contemplative mood. Add faint sounds of distant city life outside the window, ticking clocks, and the occasional inhale from the banker’s cigar to enhance realism and tension.>> - **Dialogue/Narration:** Film the following dialogue between the two characters, either through naturalistic performance or voiceover narration with matching visuals:>> ```> Narrator: "Just think: a few days ago I was told that you were once an anarchist…">> Banker: "It’s not that I was one: I was one and I am one. I haven’t changed in that respect. I am an anarchist.">> Narrator: "That’s a good one! You are an anarchist. And in what way are you an anarchist?… Unless you want to attribute a different meaning to the word…">> Banker: "In the common sense? No, I don’t attribute that to you. I use the word in the common sense.">> Narrator: "Then you mean that you are an anarchist in exactly the same way in which those people in the workers’ organizations are anarchists! So there is no difference between you and those people of the bombs and the unions…">> Banker: "Difference, difference, there is… It is clear that there is a difference. But it is not what you think. Do you perhaps think that my social theories are the same as theirs?…">> Narrator: "Ah, now I understand! In theory you are an anarchist, in practice…">> Banker: "In practice I am as much an anarchist as I am in theory. And in practice I am more anarchist, much more, than those people you spoke of. My whole life has shown it."> ```>> - **Ending:** Fade to black after the final line. Display the quote on screen: > **“My whole life has shown it.” — Fernando Pessoa**>> - **Tone:** Contemplative, slightly ironic, and intellectually provocative. Invite viewers to reflect on how beliefs manifest in action—and who truly lives by their ideals.
