Sunday, April 12, 2009

Notes from my Ongoing Movie Script.




-Currently a Romantic Comedy about a Gangster (Ricky) who tries to escape the Mob life and open an ice cream store on the moon or something.

-Ricky spends the second act stuck in a door frame after being challenged to walk through it while wearing every trench coat he owns.

-On their first date, Ricky tries to impress his date with the numerous luxuries and conveniences of a well-connected Gangster's life. This starts with him being let into the back doors of popular clubs and ends with him clipping out coupons in front of her and saving
shocking amounts of money over the course of a month.

-Ricky learns that he can elude the eavesdropping Feds by limiting inter-Gang communication to a Southern dialect of Morse Code, which sounds like someone playing the Jew's Harp.

-Ricky gets breakfast with a man he is meant to assassinate. After going to the bathroom and deciding not to pick up the gun and go through with the kill, he continues to be bombarded with other hidden weapons. An old acquaintance spots him and, with a wink, offers his business card, which is taped to the handle of an antique shotgun. The waitress, with a wink, brings his western omelet, which is just a loaded revolver folded into scrambled eggs.

-When Ricky sits by the bedside of his sickly Godfather, the suspicious old man grabs Ricky, and, wriggling his fingers says "This is a loyalty-to-the-family sucker. And it's starving!"

-Ricky suffers a lengthy emotional crisis when he suspects that his mustache is in fact a black plastic comb.

-The film ends with Ricky's former Godfather hobbling through a national organic chain grocery store. The camera stops on an eggplant shaped unmistakably like Ricky, then fades to black.