Help me with this scene from a movie script I'm writing

Message Bookmarked
Bookmark Removed

It's an indie style buddy coming of age movie and I'm pitching it to the young adult market. It's called: The Adventures of Shruggy and Mumbles.

Shruggy + girlfriend and Mumbles standing outside an old looking brick building covered in graffiti, probably in the Washington Square area of Manhattan. Shruggy's girlfriend looks like she was designed by the marketing department of Urban Outfitters.

Big dumb jock walks up to Shruggy.

Jock: Hey pussy, mind if I make out wiht your girlfriend here?

Shruggy [shrugging and grimmacing sheepishly, digging his hands into the kangarro pocket of his hooded sweatshirt]: Well I don... well .. hey what .. I don't ... I mean ... what? wha ... I mean who does that I mean hey ...

Jock makes out with Shruggy's girlfirend and shruggy gesticulates wildly.

Mumbles [some dorky fat kid with curly hair and one of those stupid hats, you know the kind I'm talkin g about, you totally do]: oh shit dude i'll get oyur medicine!

Jock begins to fuck the girlfriend, the first time she has ever been penetrated by a real man. the cold, clamy, indecisive hands of Shruggy an ascetic punishment, self-flagellation, because she blames herself for her parents divorce. to think, all the love Shruggy thought he had in the world, all of it was through the hatred others had for themselves. But, think for a minute, couldn't this be a scene from -your- life that you are watching?

burt_stanton, Monday, 22 September 2008 01:19 (seventeen years ago)

a+++

Mohammed Butt (max), Monday, 22 September 2008 01:23 (seventeen years ago)

i know ive said this before burt_stanton but right now you are def comeback poster - q4 2008

Mohammed Butt (max), Monday, 22 September 2008 01:24 (seventeen years ago)

:D :D :D

J4gger Dynamic Pentangle (Just got offed), Monday, 22 September 2008 01:26 (seventeen years ago)

http://www.sciencepunk.com/v5/gallery/pyramid.jpg

update prefs (ice crӕm), Monday, 22 September 2008 01:27 (seventeen years ago)

this could only have been improved upon if presented in the form of a comic strip

J4gger Dynamic Pentangle (Just got offed), Monday, 22 September 2008 01:28 (seventeen years ago)

when one refuses to acknowledge obvious patterns he dooms himself to the ignorance of the ilx lowerarchy

update prefs (ice crӕm), Monday, 22 September 2008 01:29 (seventeen years ago)

http://www.lightparty.com/Artainment/images/CosmicMan.jpeg

recognizing the origin of such "entities" as "burt stanton" reveals the true nature of the situation

update prefs (ice crӕm), Monday, 22 September 2008 01:33 (seventeen years ago)

http://acssu.ca/Portals/0/popcorn.jpg

ian, Monday, 22 September 2008 02:10 (seventeen years ago)

This script is based on a true story.

Shit, though, you should film all hodgepodge style with a friend or two and throw it up on YouTube. I'd watch it.

Z S, Monday, 22 September 2008 02:34 (seventeen years ago)

David Lean, celebrated filmmaker born March 25, 1908

Billy Dods, Monday, 22 September 2008 02:46 (seventeen years ago)

Should be followed by about 45 seconds of porno-style penetration close-up intercut with shruggy continuing to gesticulate

Everything is Highlighted (Hurting 2), Monday, 22 September 2008 03:15 (seventeen years ago)

You need a dog to run into the room and bite someone in the ass, or nuts. After that, easy greenlight.

Eazy, Monday, 22 September 2008 03:20 (seventeen years ago)

This dog. Shruggy's sister's dog.

Eazy, Monday, 22 September 2008 03:21 (seventeen years ago)

Also, I think Jock could have earbuds, and then maybe while they're fucking he slips his earbuds into her ears

Everything is Highlighted (Hurting 2), Monday, 22 September 2008 03:24 (seventeen years ago)

just cut down on your parentheticals and ellipses and ....watch out william morris, you're in. the new diablo cody!

Vichitravirya_XI, Monday, 22 September 2008 07:32 (seventeen years ago)

fuck WM, go right to CAA

Vichitravirya_XI, Monday, 22 September 2008 07:32 (seventeen years ago)

$_$ here I come

burt_stanton, Monday, 22 September 2008 14:36 (seventeen years ago)

Call the thing Shruggy's Sister. The scene up top is the first scene of the movie, the setup. After Shruggy goes through seeing his girlfriend get screwed by this other guy, he will do anything to keep him anyway from her sister (and her dog). Boom.

Eazy, Monday, 22 September 2008 15:18 (seventeen years ago)

Keep the Jock away from Shruggy's Sister, that is. But Shruggy's Sister likes the jock, is co-chair of the prom committee with the jock, something.

Eazy, Monday, 22 September 2008 15:18 (seventeen years ago)

this sounds exactly like a porno

update prefs (ice crӕm), Monday, 22 September 2008 15:19 (seventeen years ago)

http://www.radaronline.com/from-the-magazine/MC_4a_54-Cera.jpg

burt_stanton, Monday, 22 September 2008 15:40 (seventeen years ago)

this is how vincent gallo writes movies

SHOT INTO A FAN LIKE A CHRIS ROCK ROBOT (John Justen), Monday, 22 September 2008 17:16 (seventeen years ago)

four months pass...

did you ever finish this movie burt

8====D ------ ㋡ (max), Saturday, 24 January 2009 15:19 (seventeen years ago)

does this thread measure up to this classic from the archives?

What do people think of a scene from a comedy script I've got in the works?

special guest stars mark bronson, Saturday, 24 January 2009 15:23 (seventeen years ago)

if im not mistaken this thread:that thread::american version of the office:british version of the office

8====D ------ ㋡ (max), Saturday, 24 January 2009 15:25 (seventeen years ago)

r u shruggy or mumbles http://i40.tinypic.com/mbr7tg.jpg

ice cr?m, Saturday, 24 January 2009 15:26 (seventeen years ago)

lets cast this thread using ilx posters

shruggy - burt_stanton
mumbles - captainlorax
girlfriend - roxymuzak
jock - king boy pato

8====D ------ ㋡ (max), Saturday, 24 January 2009 15:28 (seventeen years ago)

Shruggy obv

burt_stanton, Saturday, 24 January 2009 15:29 (seventeen years ago)

yah thats what i figured

ice cr?m, Saturday, 24 January 2009 15:29 (seventeen years ago)

narrator - nabisco

8====D ------ ㋡ (max), Saturday, 24 January 2009 15:30 (seventeen years ago)

jocks sidekick - jw

8====D ------ ㋡ (max), Saturday, 24 January 2009 15:30 (seventeen years ago)

shruggys lil sister - tza

8====D ------ ㋡ (max), Saturday, 24 January 2009 15:31 (seventeen years ago)

rock-n-roller - chaki

8====D ------ ㋡ (max), Saturday, 24 January 2009 15:32 (seventeen years ago)

shruggys love interest - luna

8====D ------ ㋡ (max), Saturday, 24 January 2009 15:32 (seventeen years ago)

mumbles love interest - killy

8====D ------ ㋡ (max), Saturday, 24 January 2009 15:33 (seventeen years ago)

but who gets to play the marketing dept. of urban outfitters?

Lamp, Saturday, 24 January 2009 15:38 (seventeen years ago)

you can buddy i think youve got the chops

8====D ------ ㋡ (max), Saturday, 24 January 2009 15:42 (seventeen years ago)

Lamp, this might shock you, but I wrote that part with you in mind. Up for it?

burt_stanton, Saturday, 24 January 2009 15:46 (seventeen years ago)

(and I don't really think those things about myself, it's just imitating the language of different authors to create this really strange joke effect)

burt_stanton, Saturday, 24 January 2009 15:48 (seventeen years ago)

JACK
Um, what are we laughing at?

SKYE
(frustrated)
No more games, Jack. You know why I’m here.

JACK
(laughs nervously)

SKYE
You laugh a lot, hun. I don’t remember telling any jokes.

JTS, Sunday, 25 January 2009 03:32 (seventeen years ago)

JACK
I’m too drunk.

SKYE
More like I’m too black.

JACK
No! No! You’re great, you’re really great, tonight, well what I remember of tonight was really special, and…
(sound of offscreen zip)
And yeah, they’re really special too, but I just need to be on my own tonight. You know, first time… I mean, first night and all…

SKYE
(zips up)
Fine.

SKYE gets up, and studies herself in the mirror.

JACK
I’m sorry. We probably won’t remember this anyway.
(pause)
Thank you.

SKYE
(putting coat on)
“Thank you”?! Boy, make a mental image of my face and from that, imagine what my fine ass would look like, cuz you sure as hell ain’t gonna get it now.

JTS, Sunday, 25 January 2009 03:34 (seventeen years ago)

one year passes...

me? mumbles? pbbbbt

yookeroo, Wednesday, 29 December 2010 06:31 (fifteen years ago)

not you, me

486.52 (CaptainLorax), Wednesday, 29 December 2010 06:31 (fifteen years ago)

oh

yookeroo, Wednesday, 29 December 2010 06:32 (fifteen years ago)

...

gr8080, Friday, 31 December 2010 00:46 (fifteen years ago)

wow

ilx get on my lvl (roxymuzak), Friday, 31 December 2010 00:51 (fifteen years ago)


You must be logged in to post. Please either login here, or if you are not registered, you may register here.