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Showing posts with label relationship. Show all posts
Showing posts with label relationship. Show all posts

Wednesday, February 25, 2015

TOM WRITES HIS FIRST MOVIE: Exposition.

Ok back to it. So for all of the none of you that actually read this here's what I am doing.

I am writing my first movie.

Brief Synopsis:
  
'Douglas wakes up one morning confronted by his girlfriend accusing him of tearing apart and molesting her favorite dolls. She thinks he did it, he thinks she did it. WTF?'

Here's everything so far:

http://tcqscripts.blogspot.ca/2014/12/i-am-not-weirdo.html 


INT - GRANT'S LIVING ROOM

Douglas wakes up on Grant's couch. His head is pounding, his eyes are bloodshot, he's disheveled, hungover. It hurts to move. Douglas fumbled around at the coffee table in front of him, it's littered with garbage. He finds a half empty bottle of water and downs it, he managed to get to a sitting position. He sits, holding his head and breathing heavily for a minute before trying to stand up. Douglas struggles to his feet.

Standing up now Douglas can see out the window into the front yard, his truck is parked right in the middle of Grant's front lawn. Grant's garden doesn't look so good.


DOUGLAS
Shit.

GRANT
Yeah shit.

Douglas turns to see Grant, he's carrying a cup of coffee.

GRANT
Drink some fucking coffee. Idiot. 

DOUGLAS
I am sorry.

GRANT
What the fuck were you doing driving last night?

DOUGLAS
I don't know. 

GRANT
DRINK!

Douglas drinks his coffee, his takes a seat. 

GRANT
What happened?

DOUGLAS
I went home. I went to Abby. I got arrested, they told me she got attacked last night. They think it's me. She has a broken eye socket.

GRANT
The..........seriously?

DOUGLAS
She didn't see her attacker. 

GRANT
It's hard to see imaginary people.

DOUGLAS
How would she even do that? Break her own eye socket?

GRANT
She punched herself.

DOUGLAS
Hard enough to break the socket?

GRANT
Maybe she hit herself with something, or she threw herself into a wall. 

DOUGLAS
She hits herself in the face with like...a rock, then she gets back in bed and waits for someone to find her? Why?

GRANT
I don't know. 

DOUGLAS
Are we really thinking she's that far gone?

GRANT
...I don't know.


 Douglas's leg bounces with nervous anxiety. 

DOUGLAS
I talked to her. 

GRANT
Really? When?

DOUGLAS
I called her from the bar. She said I was a mistake.
 Bryce is with her.

GRANT
Well...She's his problem now.

DOUGLAS
FUCK YOU!

GRANT
I am sorry dude. I know this sucks, in fact this is honestly the shittiest thing I've ever heard but seriously, I don't want you going back to her. 

DOUGLAS
FUCK YOU! We were laying in bed together only a couple days ago. I was planning to marry her. You think I can just turn that off and say "Ah fuck it, let Bryce have her. She's crazy"? You think I can let this go? She BROKE her fucking EYE!

Grant has no response.

CONT'D

Monday, February 16, 2015

TOM WRITES HIS FIRST MOVIE: Go back and fix crap.

So I finally read over what I have so far, I feel like I am missing a scene. I need something to help build up this tension that's set to boil over between my couple.

Hence, today's page. I'll sandwich it in somewhere near the beginning.



INT - KITCHEN

A pot boils on the stove.

DOUGLAS
Ok, throw them in.

Abby is holding two large lobsters.

ABBY
I am having second thoughts.

Douglas laughs.

DOUGLAS
I knew this was going to happen. I told you in the store. I knew you'd bond with them by the time we got home.

ABBY
Arrrrgggg...I really want lobster too.

Abby looks at the two lobsters, all tied up and at her mercy. 

ABBY
Uggg...why did I name them?

DOUGLAS
Why don't you give them to me and leave the room.

ABBY
Nooooo. I know what you're going to do with them.

DOUGLAS
I am going to cook them. That's why we bought them Abby, you were so excited in the store.

ABBY
I knowwwwwww...I am being weird. 

DOUGLAS
Can I have them?

ABBY
No.

Douglas's body language registers frustration but on him face is a big smile. He can't get mad at that.

DOUGLAS
You know we can't keep two pet lobsters, right? They would just die anyway Abby.

ABBY
Why can't we just let them go? We can take them to the lake.

DOUGLAS
Abbbbbbbyyyyyyy...this is adorable but I really don't want to do that. This was my dinner too, I was excited.

ABBY
 But think about how mean that is. Peter and Pepper will thank us, we can save them. It'll be like a Disney movie. The first half of the movie will be about how they got caught and forced to survive in that aquarium at the restaurant. Watching their friends being chosen and then eaten in front of them. 

DOUGLAS
This is dark.

ABBY
Yeah! And then it gets really dark when a young couple comes into the restaurant and chooses both of them. At least they get to die together; they think.

DOUGLAS
Jeez.

ABBY
But then at the last minute the couple looks at them and see's how in love they are and how scared, so they decide to let them go. They give them a  new life in a beautiful lake with lots of food. All because they had a last minute change of heart.

DOUGLAS
I am not sold. Do you even know for sure they they're a boy and girl?

Abby doesn't.

ABBY
(unconvincingly)
Yes.

DOUGLAS
Abby you're cute. But I want to eat these guys.

ABBY
Oh come on. You love animals as much as I do.

DOUGLAS
Yeah?

ABBY
And I don't see you being able to eat Petey and Pepper, now that...

Douglas takes them away from Abby and puts them right into the boiling pot in one cold motion.

DOUGLAS
Wanna bet?

Abby is shocked. She can't believe that Douglas could be that callous. 

The pot screams.

INT - THE KITCHEN TABLE

Douglas as Abby sit across from each other at the table, not speaking. Douglas is enjoying his lobster, Abby hasn't touched hers.

Cont'd...