JLO Posted May 24, 2010 Posted May 24, 2010 Im writing a screenplay for a screenwriting class im taking and its for a short film 10-15minutes long. The premise is that theres a greedy businessman that wants a Ralph Wilson-like owner to sell his small market team so the businessman can move it to a bigger market. The team owner turns down the offer and will be getting on a plane later that day to sign a lease extension with the city that will keep them there. The businessman knows that the owner has a bad heart and is in failing health so he gets 2 of his goons to try to literally scare the owner to death instead of outright killing him. What Im looking for is 3 different ways that the goons try to induce a heart attack on the owner. Any and all serious input will be appreciated.
JLO Posted May 24, 2010 Author Posted May 24, 2010 Bang some pots together behind his head. i was thinking of one of those air horns
/dev/null Posted May 24, 2010 Posted May 24, 2010 The goons send the old owner a link to the Pixy Dude
Jim in Anchorage Posted May 24, 2010 Posted May 24, 2010 Im writing a screenplay for a screenwriting class im taking and its for a short film 10-15minutes long. The premise is that theres a greedy businessman that wants a Ralph Wilson-like owner to sell his small market team so the businessman can move it to a bigger market. The team owner turns down the offer and will be getting on a plane later that day to sign a lease extension with the city that will keep them there. The businessman knows that the owner has a bad heart and is in failing health so he gets 2 of his goons to try to literally scare the owner to death instead of outright killing him. What Im looking for is 3 different ways that the goons try to induce a heart attack on the owner. Any and all serious input will be appreciated. You would have to set this up with flashbacks to the owners deceased mother and how she always said he was a accident and why can't he be more like his older brother. The goons do a Hollywood quality makeup job and remake some one as a exact twin of his mother, right down to her favorite dress and the mole on her chin. When he gets out of the car at the airport, his "mom" runs up and screams "See Ralph, I always said you where a bad boy. A bad, bad boy" Some worms coming out of her mouth would add to the effect,if your budget allows. How do the Goons know all these details? I dunno you're the screenwriter
/dev/null Posted May 24, 2010 Posted May 24, 2010 Or you could go for the M Night Shumalumalumalumalumalumaluman style and have the old owner realize...he's already dead He actually died 20 years ago when he had a heart attack from the joy of watching Norwoods kick sail thru the uprights in Super Bowl XXV and has since been in purgatory
dib Posted May 24, 2010 Posted May 24, 2010 The goons are the pilot and co-pilot of the corporate jet. Fake an air emergency and/or drastic loss of altitude as if the jet was going to crash.
ieatcrayonz Posted May 24, 2010 Posted May 24, 2010 The goons are the pilot and co-pilot of the corporate jet. Fake an air emergency and/or drastic loss of altitude as if the jet was going to crash. Or they could just land the plane safely.......in Canada.
dib Posted May 24, 2010 Posted May 24, 2010 or they could crashland on a mysterious island with polar bears and fog monsters and wander, aimless, and plotless for 6 years and be declared legally dead.
JLO Posted May 24, 2010 Author Posted May 24, 2010 This: Death by '57 Chevy Good call, I had thought of that early on, substituting his limo for the Chevy
The Tomcat Posted May 24, 2010 Posted May 24, 2010 Maybe a nice sex scene and he dies while banging a hooker. Hmm...could show he has an evil side to him and loves hookers, the new buyer blackmails him. He goes deeper into the sex scene and dies after a drug cocktail?
/dev/null Posted May 24, 2010 Posted May 24, 2010 The owner meets his family for dinner at a diner. He sits in the middle of the restaurant and watches people come and go. There's a bell everytime the door opens. First his wife shows up Then his son shows up and some suspicious looking guy in a Members Only jacket shows up at the same time His daughter is trying to parallel park The suspicious man gets up and heads toward the bathroom and the film cuts to black in mid scene
theesir Posted May 24, 2010 Posted May 24, 2010 Or you could go for the M Night Shumalumalumalumalumalumaluman style and have the old owner realize...he's already dead He actually died 20 years ago when he had a heart attack from the joy of watching Norwoods kick sail thru the uprights in Super Bowl XXV and has since been in purgatory I like this.
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