Nervosa, Penelope, and December Quandary
Yep, I right (Edit: I must've been high to confuse write and right, my God) novels too. Nervosa is a satire on music, the obsession with it, and it's connection with love, life, and loss. It's a pretty serious work, I guess. And it's more or less done. I think this one will stay at a relatively short novella length. I just can't see myself expanding on it.
Penelope is a screenplay I'm still working on about a girl whose presence kills people around her accidentally. This gruesome dark comedy introduces a few new styles I've never used, such as direct humor, shock humor, and cult humor. It's a pretty good story, too.
December Quandary follows several collegiates and their relationships with each other, including an unstable med student, a love struck writer, an ill tempered exgirlfriend, and petty thieves who get themselves wound up. Another good story. Just needs tweaking.
Ideas for the Week Part Trois
I’ve just finished a fine-ass, patented, partly revised screenplay of “Dead Lives in Stipe Valley”, a story which follows a girl through the pains of being the beacon of bad luck in her town, resulting in a higher mortality rate, hatred, and general not-coolness.
The cool part is, none of it’s characters are based on anyone in my real life, which is something I’ve done before and regretted. Not that anything dramatic happened, but trying to fit a person you know into a character is a little demeaning when you think about it.
Anyway, other ideas I have on the table include a rare-record (as in, music medium) heist of an elitist bastard by his old high school buddies. I started on a screenplay like this years ago, but it never came to fruition. Now it may after Dead Lives is done.
Lastly, some kind of war epic set in the days of the French Revolution, but in an alternate history. I usually hate films that do that, because it misleads the public, but it sounds so fun to write, I might have to do some misleading.
Ideas for the Week Part Deux
Ugh, I’m so dry. But my recent spiel into childhood surrealism through Pete and Pete has made me think about starting on either a comic script or a *shudder* TV script. Who knows? I do want to do something casual, but…feeling like the home I should’ve had. I hate the city. I need suburbia.
Two other ideas…50′s noir with classic literature based monsters…and that shakespearean thing I talked about…well, I may be going Les Miz-style on that.
Technically, it’s Sunday. But I’m still Saturday oriented.
Ideas for the Week Part Un
Every Saturday, I’ll try to think up at least three ideas, so as not to lose my skills. I usually end up doing these things very late at night, but this seems to at least give me some running time to get into a nice groove.
First off, Zombies are cool. Are they overdone? Not if done properly, which is what I’m going to try and do. I figure political satire is wasted on zombie flicks already thanks to Mr. Romero, so maybe I’ll try doing a really tragic zombie flick which will basically just make people nicer after watching it. Something about corruption and greed. I don’t think special effects would be big. Just make up. Blood would be a bit to the minimum. I’m gonna do a pretty thorough rewrite of a script I already had mostly done of a zombie movie. But it employed too many generic styles, so I waited until I got some good ideas to improve it.
Second, I’ve always wanted to do a romantic comedy with a setting in the vein of Shakespearean times, with lots of death. Death back then was the equivalent of being canonized now….and being canonized then is like winning Bingo at a Catholic school fundraiser. It’s always the bitch who ends up petitioning to close the basketball courts to discourage blacks from congregating….but I digress. Ever since reading through Much Ado About Nothing and to a lesser extent, Romeo and Juliet, I’ve wanted to do something classy. Maybe not as structured, but classy. I envy Sofia Coppola’s new fling with Marie Antoinette, as I’ve always “loved” her character in history, and Coppola has a tendency to add a very dry and sardonic feel to her works.
Lastly, I want to do some kind of crazy surrealistic experience, akin to Roald Dahl’s works, Matilda and Charlie and the Chocolate Factory. Something silly, maybe even intended for kids. I really needed movies like that when I was little.
So there it is.
