It's been a while since we've posted but that doesn't mean we haven't had any good ideas for movies.
For example here is a good idea that I had and was so excited about I started writing it already. This is rough and is riddled with spelling and grammatical errors but it will give you a general idea.
In the pages that follow this sample Matthew keeps trying to kill himself and Nathan keeps stopping him so eventually Matthew has to kill Nathan in order to kill himself. I especially like this idea because it has a good message that you shouldn't convince other people to kill themselves cause then they might kill you too.
Showing posts with label suicide. Show all posts
Showing posts with label suicide. Show all posts
Thursday, August 21, 2008
Thursday, January 17, 2008
Oscar
I am calling this Oscar because 1. that is the name of the main character, but also 2. it is such a good idea that I would probably win an Oscar for it when I am done writing it. Here it goes:
So there is this troubled teen, Oscar, from a small town who just doesn't fit in with the small town way of life and he longs to escape to the city, but he is still a Junior in high school. Because he feels so trapped, and because the people of the town treat him poorly because of his differences he decides that he is going to kill himself. The problem is that he can't figure out what way he is going to do it because he wants his suicide to be special. His Mom can tell that not being able to decide how to kill himself really bothers Oscar so she puts an ad in the local paper offering $1,000 to whoever can come up with the idea for committing suicide that Oscar chooses to use.
At first there is a lot of competition within the community because everyone wants to win the money, but because Oscar still can't decide which way he wants to do it nobody wins the money. Then, unexpectedly, the town really comes together and rallies around Oscar to help him figure out how to kill himself.
Oscar feels the love and support of the whole town. And the community really bonds together because of their common goal. So Oscar gains an appreciation for his small town and decides that he doesn't want to kill himself after all.
I'm open to suggestions on the ending, but I was thinking it would be ironic and also very poignant if after he decided not to kill himself he was running to his mother's work to tell her the good news and he got hit by a car and died. The other possibility that I also really like is that when he tells everyone that he has decided not to kill himself, they are all really disappointed because his death was bringing them all together and also because they did all that work for nothing, so now everyone hates him again including his mom, so he just sticks a shotgun in his mouth and pulls the trigger. The end.
So there is this troubled teen, Oscar, from a small town who just doesn't fit in with the small town way of life and he longs to escape to the city, but he is still a Junior in high school. Because he feels so trapped, and because the people of the town treat him poorly because of his differences he decides that he is going to kill himself. The problem is that he can't figure out what way he is going to do it because he wants his suicide to be special. His Mom can tell that not being able to decide how to kill himself really bothers Oscar so she puts an ad in the local paper offering $1,000 to whoever can come up with the idea for committing suicide that Oscar chooses to use.
At first there is a lot of competition within the community because everyone wants to win the money, but because Oscar still can't decide which way he wants to do it nobody wins the money. Then, unexpectedly, the town really comes together and rallies around Oscar to help him figure out how to kill himself.
Oscar feels the love and support of the whole town. And the community really bonds together because of their common goal. So Oscar gains an appreciation for his small town and decides that he doesn't want to kill himself after all.
I'm open to suggestions on the ending, but I was thinking it would be ironic and also very poignant if after he decided not to kill himself he was running to his mother's work to tell her the good news and he got hit by a car and died. The other possibility that I also really like is that when he tells everyone that he has decided not to kill himself, they are all really disappointed because his death was bringing them all together and also because they did all that work for nothing, so now everyone hates him again including his mom, so he just sticks a shotgun in his mouth and pulls the trigger. The end.
The Bridges of Mendocino County
When we were driving through Northern California (me and griffin), I told him about how I wondered how these people ended up here--living off of highway 1, facing the ocean, in the middle of nowhere, no neighbors for miles... just near this bridge. And I said... "Well, there was probably like this guy and he wanted to commit suicide and he was like 'But if I'm going to go, and I'm only going to go once, I'm going to go with style,' and so he set out to find the prettiest bridge in the world to jump off of, and he started driving up Highway 1 and there was this one bridge and it was GORGEOUS and he almost jumped off it but then he was like 'Well, wait this is just the first bridge, let me check out what else there is,' so he kept going and he was like 'Oh MAN THHHIIISSS is the bridge,' but he saw another one off in the distance and wanted to check it out... and he loved all the bridges, they were all so beautiful... they were all so beautiful that he couldn't decide which one he wanted to jump off of... this puzzled him to no end, since he couldn't decide, he didn't jump off one, and just lived there.... lived right where he came to die, and that's how these people got here..." to which griffin said "The tragedy is that we can only commit suicide once." which I thought was a very funny thing to say...
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