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Scene 9R  The vortex, down

Storyboard

The whole scene in order, 3 frames across 2 shots, read left to right like a silent film. This is the scene. Everything below it is the breakdown: the sheets, the frame and the shots opened one at a time. Click any frame to open the shot it belongs to.

9R.19R-1-VORTEX-DOWN-v1
9R.29R-2-KEY-FALLS-PLACEHOLDER
9R.29R-2-FALLING-v1
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Shots

2 shots. One picture stands for each shot. Click it to open the shot and see every key frame in it, and to ask for a breakdown or a change.

shot 9R.12 key framesproposal

THE UP VORTEX TURNED 180 DEGREES. A stand in, not a drawing. It is here so the shape of the film can be seen end to end while the real descent is made. Rotating a spiral does reverse the sense of the turn, which is why it holds at all, but the cloud still thins toward what is now the bottom and it will read as upside down once anybody looks twice.

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shot 9R.22 key framesaccepted

APPROVED BY BABA 3.9.2026. The rising frame turned over. A vertical flip is physically correct rather than a shortcut: his head now points at the throat below and his clothes stream upward, which is what a head first descent looks like. Same boy, same cloud, opposite direction, and the two passages match exactly because it is the same vortex. Layers flip with it.

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