An Amazing Epiphany

Work has been so fucking busy that I haven’t been able to what I consider Real work. I guess I am earning a pay check. Anyway, on Wednesday I was only able to get to page 13 of the re-write and page 15 of the printed out draft. Yesterday I didn’t get to write a thing cause work was so busy, from work I went right to dinner with an old friend, and then went to a screenwriting class I’m auditing that didn’t get out until 9:30pm, of which at the end of the day I was exhausted. Hopefully I’ll be able to get some writing done today. I ordered a lap top on Tuesday. It’s just a dell piece of crap, cost me 500, but I think it will be great so that I can write and work on the script from anywhere. That’s really why I got it, to be able to write and work online anywhere.

So I had a dream last night and I think I’m going to turn it into a bad movie some day. I had a dream I was skiing a sniper on the slopes started taking people out. It’ll be Die Hard meeting Phone Booth. It’ll be awesome. A total Michael bay bad action movie. Anyway, the dream really surprised me because it was so vivid. I can remember it perfectly. I was in the shower this morning working out some of the plot points for this terrible movie when I started to think about Freshmen (which I’m thinking of changing the title by the way). I started trying to find a way to strengthen the terrorist plot story of the film and I had an epiphany. Yesterday I was talking with my friend about the screen play, he’s got a lot of experience writing for film so he helps me out here and there. So he asked me what the central conflict of the film was and I had to think about it for a bit. I wasn’t sure. Then it dawned on me that the conflict between Brandon and Officer Ashton is the key conflict in the film. It’s what sets all the other events in motion and ultimately what wraps everything up at the end. This realization will really help me strengthen the screenplay. So while I was in the shower this morning I was trying to think of ways I can hammer in Officer Ashton’s assumption. I kept searching for events and things I remembered from freshmen year, to stay true to the “based on true events”. Then it hit me like a ton of bricks! The Flag! The fucking Flag! Why hadn’t I thought of it before?! It’s perfect. Absolutely perfect. Freshmen year Brandon was always ordering things online. One day he gets this package. He opens it up all excited and wont tell us what it is till he can show us. He opens it to reveal a red cloth. He shakes it out and holds up for us to see a full size authentic Soviet Union Flag. He’s so weird. He ordered it online, still has it today actually, hanging in his room. Well in the dorm he hung it right up. In the screenplay I think I’m going to have him get a Flag from a Middle Eastern country and hang it in the room. When the cops come looking for Colin, they’ll find it. Just another puzzle piece in a crazy night. I’m really excited to write the scene. I’m going to have to revisit the first few pages of the screenplay to establish it. Then I’ll write the scene when I get to it. Ooooo I’m excited. Haha!