Saturday, May 12, 2007

Boy meets girl

There's the old story about the writer who wakes up in the middle of the night with an incredible idea for a story so he gets out of bed and jots the story down.When he looks at the note in the morning it says, "boy meets girl."

Last night I had this dream and I thought, wow, that's an incredible story. That's a "relationship film" I'd like to direct. So I woke up and wrote it down--

In the prelude we see that this woman wanted to become a nun. But she became a doctor. Then there's a guy with a son. And the life he leads is a routine everyday life. Then his son stars in a series of commercials with a girl. And it's the doctor's girl. And the two kids are together all the time. So the guy and the doctor are always together too. Then one day the mom-doctor says 'would you like to join our photo club?" And she's very cool about it, but he finds it's a club in which member exchange nude photos of themselves. And the guy and the doctor start an affair. Then one day, the club--basically everyone in the doctor's office--finds all their photos missing. So they put up a notice. Let's trade says the notice. Give us back the photos and you can have [don't remember...]. The way we'll know if you accept this deal is if you pick up this item from the floor.

So the day comes and we see a hand pick up the item from the floor. And we see that it's the woman doctor. "I'm sorry I dragged you into this," she tells the guy. She wants to end the affair and this is her way of letting everyone know she wants to change her life. She took the photos. And we see her returning to the convent but we're not sure exactly what she's decided to do. And in this film, everything is subtext. All the characters are very cool and on the surface, impassive.

2 comments:

Anonymous said...

sound of music meets parent trap meets blue velvet meets simmering nuanced yakuza movie with lots of saxophone. let's get a star attached to this baby and run with it!

admin said...

Yes fine, but where do the spaceships come in?