Bogdan Ciutac
Mrs. Maley
English 5, period 3
November 18, 2003

Bogdan Ciutac
2311 E Union Hills #101
Phoenix, AZ, 85024
602-493-1242
November 18, 2003

100 Universal Plaza
Bungalow 477
Universal City, CA, 91608
818-733-7000

Dear Mr. Spielberg,

My name is Bogdan Ciutac, and I am a professional screen writer. I wrote many screen adaptations: “The Ambush”, “The Gladiator”, and “The Ox”. I’ve been reading many writings by Edgar Allan Poe and Washington Irving, and Poe’s “The masque of the red death” caught my attention. I think that “The masque of the red death” is going to be a fabulous movie.
During the course of a plague, Prince Prospero calls together his friends to come to his castle for fun and frolic until the danger of pestilence has passed, and a masquerade is planned. The night of the ball comes, the guests arrive in their costumes and the festivities begin.
The party is interrupted by the arrival of a guest, dressed in the garments of the grave besprinkled with the scarlet blood associated with the plague of "red death." The intruder stalks the halls until confronted by the host in (of course) the black hall. Without explanation, the host falls dead at the masquer's feet and the revelers, setting upon the intruder, find that the costume is "untenanted by any tangible form." Whereupon, the guests began to die in their tracks as they acknowledge the presence of the Red Death.
Now, that you know some about the story I think that “The masque of the red death” would make a good movie because of its setting: gothic architecture, and the disease that stroke the region. Another important aspect is the presence of the supernatural: the appearance of the masqued person, and its description.
The castle and the gothic architecture always make a nice source of imagination because of its scary sight and feeling. First, a castle makes a movie scarier and more mysterious. Therefore, Poe’s describes the castle as an “extensive and magnificent structure, the creation of