I'm currently working on writing this screenplay:
An 84 year old woman gives birth to a monster in a nursing home. The owner/operator of a funeral home is the first to view the remains of the massacre. He profits from the deaths the monster creates giving him a vested interest in the preservation of the monster. A late nursing home orderly and the grandson of the monster's mommy arrive on the scene next and eventually decide they need to hunt and kill the monster. The funeral home owner overhears this conversation and vows to stop them from destroying the monster. The theme of things being discarded as they've been used up should be heavily portrayed. Arrant wastefulness of material items should be juxtaposed to the human tendency to cling tightly to lives that have become useless. When the ambulance gets a flat tire they have to push it off a cliff. Half smoked cigarettes are put out in ash trays. When guns run out of bullets they are thrown to the ground. Half eaten burgers are thrown out. Animals with missing or broken limbs are put to sleep. Chewing gum is spit out in amazement. Someone buys a newspaper, reads one paragraph, and then promptly throws it in the trash can. People disassociate themselves with the meaningless materials in their lives but choose to cling tightly to the meaningless aspects of their lives. A man has forever wanted to be a writer but he never writes. He uses his writing aspirations as an excuse to deny pursuit of other more reasonable ambitions. A man is dating a woman who he is very unhappy with, but he clings to her, stongly refusing to let go of her. The human genome is loaded with junk sequences. People stay at the same crummy job their entire lives refusing to aspire to something more meaningful, but they always make sure the trash goes out on time. The funeral home director puts the bodies in large trashbags to carry them to the funeral home. Food spoils. Soda goes flat. Beer gets warm. Fruit becomes ripe but then rots if it isn't eaten. There is a specific amount of time alotted to all things in which they are useful and afterwards they enter a period of useless existence before surrendering to becoming fuel for useful things. When things become useless they are buried, sold, given away, burned, thrown out, spit out, passed as waste, shot, left for dead, sunk, crumpled up, turned off, shut down, demolished, renovated, dismantled, disbanned, etc. Possible titles: Nursing Home Massacre, Golden Years, The Twilight Years, Don't Kill My Grandma!, The Good, the Bad, and the Elderly,
Thursday, July 3, 2008
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