I have this new morning routine that I think I am going to like. I get up at 5:00, take J to work, then go to the office for 6:00. I work a couple of hours before heading out for coffee. I like getting to the coffee shop a little later as I am more likely to run into people that I know. Plus, the first few hours at work are generally very productive and I can watch a movie while I work.
Lately I have been thinking more seriously about writing a short screen play. The quality of my writing is very poor, but that doesn't really matter when your writing character dialogue. I am very attracted to dark, gritty, off-beat movies with unexpected endings. This morning I watched "The Good Heart" on Netflix and I was completely blown away. This was one of the best movies I have ever seen.
I have been considering writing a movie about a middle-aged, reasonably successful man, with a tragic past, that works his way through some very difficult experiences and ultimately learns how to elicit a modicum of satisfaction from life. Armed with a new-found confidence, he finds himself exploring many new things including relationships with woman other then his wife. He ultimately turns his life upside down, giving up everything that is important to him, believing he has found his soul mate. His new found soul mate is a strong-willed, man-hating, unpredictable lesbian in her late twenties, also with a tragic past, covered in tattoos and piercings with a biting sarcasm and nasty outlook on life. She slings hash at a popular breakfast spot and plots to sleep with the man to prove to her girlfriend that she is a true lesbian (it's complicated). When the man declines her invitation for sex, (attempting to remain faithful) but offers an intimate, but platonic friendship, she agrees, hoping that she will ultimately prove her true sexual orientation to her female partner. They agree that they will be 100% honest with each other about EVERYTHING, hold nothing back, no white lies: "Yes, you look fat in that dress" kind of honesty. What follows is a roller-coaster of a relationship that ultimately results in a passion-filled, tumultuous, albeit confused sexual encounter (think "Unfaithful") in the restaurant kitchen that is interrupted by her soon-to-be ex-partner. Following, he leaves his wife, she leaves her partner and they both move to a seedy loft in the city where they attempt to make a life together. I won't tell you the ending, but remember that I don't like the audience leaving happy. Fuck them... It is my movie, not theirs...
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3 comments:
lol, You go.
Happy Thanksgiving.
I am all for it. =]
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