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As I sit outside here at Swork Coffee, hoping those black clouds just keep moving on by without drenching me, I’m thinking of some new screenplay ideas. Supposedly there are no new ideas, just new twists on ideas… and I’m feeling lazy, so I’m trying to combine some of the great movies that have come out lately…
My new movie is about a sweet teenage girl who gets pregnant and while pondering her situation, she finds a suitcase full of money at the scene of a drug deal gone bad. It’s all told from her point of view holding her camcorder and there’s a monster taking over her town. She suffers the pains of growing up, feeling rejected, being chased by assassins, and she befriends an odd barber from Fleet Street who burns CDs and shows her old horror movies. She gets him to get rid of the monster by trying to give the creature a shave. Hmmm, still not enough… she needs to turn into a cannibal somewhere there too and grow fangs. Juno always drinks those blue slushees, so we’ll have her drill for oil too and watch her veins pop out when she yells like Daniel Day Lewis and we’ll call it “Let there Be Slushee.” “Cloverfield” got its title from the writer giving it a working title of a nearby street. I guess I’ll call my screenplay “
Well, even though that’s going a bit far, I think movies that combine lots of different elements can be really interesting. Not a bunch of plot lines, but just a nice story with a blend of comedy, drama, passion, irony, and where it’s trying to say something without hitting you over the head. Since life around us isn’t one style – it’s funny, stressful, tense, boring, etc. etc., it seems like our movies should reflect that too... right?
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