My Crazy Movie Ideas

Short film I want to shoot right away.

1. Scottsdale Superficial

Sort of like Legally Blonde, without the deep meaning. First scene Breanna drives up to Nordstrom, is familiar with valet, blows him kisses while handing him keys.

In store, she's trying to decide between two different shoes. The clerk says why not take both, she says that's genius, that's why I love Nordstrom.

She meets a serious looking guy with some friends, it's Jake from Ohio. He starts to talk about Somalia, Breanna interrupts and says, wait is that a new store in the mall? Wait wait, I'm sorry, it's where you're from in Ohio?

Breanna doesn't drink anything alcoholic, working out for her trip to Acapulco.

Driving from the get-together, she runs a stop sign and runs over a Mexican man, dirty from working all day as a laborer.

First reaction is to see if her car is alright, "he's so dirty, did it get on my car?"

Man seems alright, dazed, but he gets up and walks away. Breanna gives him one of her business cards.

Breanna visited at her office by police officers. They explain the man died. She thinks it's a joke of her coworkers, Amy, you bitch, this is not funny, my god where did you find these actors. When she realizes they're not kidding, she asks, did I kill him? Police explain there's no way to tie her to the death, and that the man was illegal. They just wanted to get some facts, a sister who is legal is making a stink about it. Cracks a joke, guess they can't read the street signs. Breanna interjects, I ran the stop sign. Police explain why she doesn't want to repeat that.

Breanna gets a call from mans daughter, Lucia. "Are you the woman who killed my father? My mother wanted me to invite you to the funeral, she says she forgives you and god will give you grace." 

Breanna goes, sees all of Juan's children, his wife hugs her. Last shot, Breanna staring at the camera, acapella song as credits roll. I want this all within 15 minutes.

2. Arizona, is the treatment I sent already.
Description and Plot Synopsis of Arizona

3. 21*

Follow the 21 medal of honor recipients of the 442nd and the 22nd who should have received one. Pretty easy one, requires researching the official records, want to interview the recipients and members of the 442nd. Gave my card to Coach Kajikawa's daughter, joined the Japanese Americans Citizens League as a lifetime member.

The most decorated combat regiment in the history of the US dating back to the Revolutionary War, first combat regiment commanded by an Asian American, Korean American Young-oak Kim. Outside of the Army had to do laundry to make a living because nobody would hire him. In the Army, commanded the most decorated combat regiment in the history of the US. When the brass asked him if it was okay for him to command Japanese, he said they're American, we're fighting a common enemy, I have no problem with these young men.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/442nd

4. Hirise Living

Set in a high rise condo in Phoenix, hotshot game developer finds himself playing a live version of his own hit game when a fan turns the hero's live upside down, turns personal when his friends are killed by the serial killer stalking the main character.

5. The Original

It's 2012, London Olympics, Garett Clive a competitor in the decathalon is considered the most perfect human ever born. He endorses Gendeavor, a Company selling genetic enhancements to parents using Garett's dna as the reference blueprint. Garett feels something is wrong with the genetic manipulation, takes his family and others who feel the same way and disappears from society.

20 generations later, people are at physical perfections, through genetic manipulation. However, people start exhibiting strange behavior. A physicist theorizes that the lack of normally occurring flaws in the DNA of humans provides not vessel for human souls, a quest starts for a search for the Original, descendants of Garret Clives who never participated in the genetic manipulation. However, two pre-eminent political entities battle each other, in a race for supremacy.

6. Jury Consultant

Romantic comedy, maybe Catherine Zeta-Jones. Deidra Jammer is no nonsense shark. Within 15 minutes with a jury, she can tell you with 93% certainty what a company's likely liability from the results of a jury trial. All is fine, until she meets a juror she can't get out of her mind. She rediscovers ideals she thought were long buried, and choose her ethics, love, or her career.

7. HeLa Gene

African American woman, Henrietta Lane contributed unknowingly to medical science, a gift that made modern DNA research possible. In the 1940s, cells were harvested from her tumor, those genes now if linked end to end would total over 350 million feet, would wrap around the world three times.

The genes won't die.

This movie is along the lines of the DaVinci code, and Illuminati type of organization is seeking to capture a method of harnessing the immortality of the HeLa gene for a human. The thought that a super-human who'd live through the ages aggregating wisdom and knowledge, a la Highlander. But absolute power corrupts absolutely. Bill Gates and Steve Jobs types, among the Illuminati group, a political activist recruits a recalcitrant ex-cop, down on his luck, lost family type, seeing Ashton Kutcher in the role, I think he was underestimated in Butterfly Effect.

8. Never Going Back to Brooklyn

Guy, on a business trip to New York, gets invited to meet some friends in Brooklyn. Ends-up in the AM, mugged, mugger takes pants, shoes, camera. Has to return home, makes a police report, police officer starts threatening a false report felony charge.

Narrative to follow a Kafkaesque maneuver through bureaucracy, and the unraveling of the evening leading-up to the mugging. Parallel stories, unraveling out of sequence.