The Walker

Another idea that randomly popped into my head. I was waiting for the skytrain and I randomly made up a scene in my head. So i added onto that scene and thouight of a great movie idea(All in a single skytrain ride.)

A young man named Devan Walker goes to an empty train station where one man awaits him. Walker asks his name thne shoots him. He then walks to a house and asks who lives there, he shoots the occupants of the house. He then goes to another house, walking a rediculously long walk through out a large city. He gets to the house and knocks on the door, no answer so he breaks in. He kills two parents then randomly gets stabbed by some kid. He wastes the rest of his ammo and misses. He chases after the kid only to fall down some stairs into a cellar. The door is locked, and the girl asks who he is, the Walker doesn't say anything, then the girl asks wky he killed her parents. Walker takes out a notebook from his backpack and reads the profile on the parents, he finds out that they are both raging alcoholics, and that they beat the kid. Walker puts away the notebook then smashes the door open. Instead of killing the girl he offers her a hand. He walks with her, she continues to pester him with questions, he finally tells her that he's going to bring her to his father.

When he gets to his father we find out he's a hitman for a bounty hunter, all of the people he killed owed money and didn't pay. Walker hides the girl outside the mob place.When Walker brings up the girl the father asks if he killed her. Walker hesitates and says he did. Then the girl pops up and The father gets men to kidnap her, Walker has a change of heart and pulls a gun and shoots three men and shoots at his father. His father shoots back and injures him. Walker escapes with the girl.

Walker gets a safe distance from the mob place and the girl(Let's name her Sarah, she's about 12) is made at him for nearly getting her kidnapped, we finally get her into the light and realized she has bruises from being beaten. Walker apoligizes and says he is going to get her a safe distance away from the city, she brings up an uncle of hers that is a a teacher, Walker says he will bring her there, but he lives a city away. Walker says he only walks, no buses, no cars, no trains. Sarah asks why she can't go alone, because she's only 12 and the mob might be after her aswell as him. Walker says he will bring her there.

Walker and her start walking and talking. Walker is quite silent but we learn more about Sarah here, she's actually happy to leave being that her parents were alcoholics and gamblers. She enjoys riding bikes, playing yahtzee, listening to electronic pop, and watching Star Wars. Walker has been raised his entire life by the mod with no mother, that's all he has to say. He still hasn't nursed the wound yet and Sarah address it. Walker goes to a friend to the mobs house named Danny. Danny is a medical guy who also sells drugs. Danny stitches it up and and takes the bullet out but he says it might be infected and Walker should seek medical help. Walker will worry about that later, Danny asks some questions and Walker tells him to tell anyone in the mob that he was never here. Walker leaves with Sarah and they start back off again.

Sarah is hungry so Walker brings her to a grocery store. Walker buys some things but Sarah doesn't want to eat food from there. So they go to Mcdonalds. Walker bought a yahtzee set at the store and Sarah teaches Walker how to play. They bond over it and after the meal they hold hands as they hike down a river to the next town. They get to gas station to a gas station so Sarah can go to the washroom. The gas station gets held up and Walker gets told to give one of the crooks his backpack. Walker shoots the crook and the guy robbing the counter in a swift emotionless motion. The shootout heightens when the guy behind the counter pulls a gun. Walker hides and reloads and Sarah gets out of the washroom. Sarah is scared and Walker gets her out of the way and escapes the building. While doing so Walker sprains his ancle.

Sarah begins to lecture him on what he did, Walker takes it all in and apoligizes. He can barely walk, but they get back to the river and hide. Sarah asks why he is like this, Walker admits that he was beaten as a child aswell, and that he was made into the man he is because of it. Walker also admits that he doesn't trust transportation, it killed his mother right infront of him. They end up sleeping over night under the bridge and playing another game of Yahtzee. Half way through the night Walker starts coughing and eventually coughs up blood. He looks at his wound and sees it's infected. He cleans it off and gets some tissue and tape and covers it.

They wake up and Sarah says she wants to walk along the road. they're only about 30 kilometers away. Walker agrees. They get on the road and start walking, but then a cop car pulls over. They threaten to arrest him, Walker is about to take out his pistol but Sarah stops him. Sarah takes out the pistol and shoots at the cop car. Walker and Sarah escape on foot into the bushes. Walker ends up falling and coughing up more blood. Walker tells Sarah to get away from all of this and get to her uncles. Sarah sees the cops coming and she accepts and takes his backpack and gun. Walker tells her tot hrow them away. Walker gets arrested and brought into the cop car. They arrest him to the cop car for what he did at the gas station. They bring him to the city he was going towards. They get to the city and a vehicle destroys the cop car and releases Walker. The guy who did it is his father. His father tells Walker that he killed Danny for helping a betrayer, and he killed the two cops so his father could kill him himself. He also mentions that he is going to go find Sarah and kill him right infront of her for doing all of this. Walker starts coughing again, he coughs up more blood and faints. His father wakes Walker up and brings him to his feet. The father brings him into the house and shows him the Uncle. The Father then shoots the uncle. He then goes to Sarah, Walker manages to unfold himself shortly before they get ready to shoot her. Walker shoots both men beside him and another guy. The father and Walker have a standoff. Walker and The Father both shoot after exchanging some words. Walker gets mortally wounded, but he releases Sarah. Walker apoligizes for this, Sarah tries to help him but he's a gonner. Walker tells him to leave before people show up. Walker apoligizes and thanks her for being the first human contact he ever managed to help. Sarah hugs him, then she takes the backpack and heads off into the sunset, walking..

so i mostly made this up as I went along. But it seems like a fun idea. I love those random anti-heros who kill people emotionless, i find it haunting(Like in The Dark Knight, History of Violence, or Leonne spaghetti Westerns.) I'll think more about this later, some feedback would be cool. And if it sounds to cliche then let me no.

Writing on my blog

So this month has been flying by, both in school and outside of school. The plan is to move back to G.P and get a fulltime job to pay off debts and such. Once November rolls around i'll head back here and do whatever I find to be a suitable occupation while I work on other things. I'm also seriously considering branching out into the indie film market. I got some ideas for easy to make flicks that I could make in G.P. While I'm there i'll get a camera and work on camera techniques and make some short films and such on my off time.

On April 1st I joined the Script Frenzy thing and started writing a script that I barely had thought out. And this weekend i felt incredibly drained and lazy. I really wanted to get this script done within the month but i have a feeling that I don't know where I'm taking it. I'm on page 40 right now and I feel that the conflict is way too light... Oh well. I'll finish it despite the fact that I don't know where it's going. The only thing I really need to focus on it is the first act which needs a major rewrite in order to add a new character and fix some believability issues that troubled me.

This is the only place that I can really let loose on my writing as far as outlines go. So I'm going to follow up my last blog post with character Bio's for the characters in my NEXT feature. Which i'll start in mid May. This next feature is going to be in the indie light hearted comedy genre. Something like Little Miss Sunshine or Nick And Nora's infinite playlist. I'm writing this one entirely for amusement and to mock the genre. But after making some character Bio's I think it has some possibilities... Here are the character Bio's and the actors I'm writing for them in mind. Obviously they would never act in it, but i like to dream :3... Oh but first. I must write the story. Shit..

The story in a few sentances-Micheal is an awkward teenager who goes to school on the 22nd of december and is told by the girl of his dreams that there's gonna be an awesome concert by one of his favorite bands palying on christmas day. And the girl of his dreams says she is going to get stupid hammered at the concert. So Micheal goes to his parents and asks and they say he must go to the big family christmas. Micheal doesn't much care for it, but he shrugs it off, stating that there will be other chances, and the Wilson brothers(They beat him up shortly after the conversation with the hot girl, simply because he was talking to her) will be there.

The family is clearly disfunctial and crazy. 4 brothers, 3 of them served time in different wars, a grandpa, and grandpas brother. The only kids belong to Micheals family. The kids are both drug addicts that later form an incest relationship(lol.) So for the first half of act 2 Micheal will try and cope with the family and there shenanigans. He will suffer the agony of playing pond hockey with his family. Having a christmas dinner accident, dealing with a war arguement, and then finally when he is about to go to sleep, he gets a text from the girl who just can't wait. He talks to his uncles wife about the whole thing, and she's pretty much lays it al out for him on what the cons and the pros are. Micheal being biased goes with the pros, gorgeous girl, might get laid, getting away from psycho family... The thing he neglects is that he needs to be with his family, even if they're disfunctional and crazy. So Christmas day Micheal opens up his gifts, and asks again if he can go to the show tonight. Micheal gets shot down. Then starts looknig at other options. his first option is his brother, he fails at that, then his mother, then one uncle that tells him to go, then one that tells him not, then finally he talks to the aunt again and he gives him the keys with the same reasonings as before(The pros and cons, reminding him again.) Micheal takes it and heads off to his concert.

Once he got to the concert he would meet with the girl and attend the show. But his family will be close behind them, (all of his family). The family gets there and crashes it pretty much. The wilson brothers are there and break up Micheal and the girl, Micheal nearly gets in a fight when the family intervenes. The grandpa and the uncle hear a comment from one of the Wilson brothers about how the war is wrong etc and they snap and kick the shit out of them. Meanwhile Micheal tries to escape the emberessment, the other uncle, the one believed to have shell shocked and can't talk. He pretty much spells it all out for Micheal about how he needs his family etc.. The entire family gets kicked out and micheal apoligizes. Micheal gets grounded, but some of the family sympathisizes.. So, the family decides to join him in going back to the concert. The Wilson brothers cower in fear and leave. Micheal goes to the girl woh is weirded out by the whole family thing at first, but they snuggle and such, nothing serious.

This was a shitty outline writing. But hey, it's a comedy. and most comedies aren't very easy to write...

INDIE AS FUCK

I wrote this in referance to a picture making fun of all the wacky indie comedies.

Ok here is my pitch for this story. Micheal(Micheal Cera) is being bullied by two brothers at his high school(Owen and Luke Wilson). He goes home to his somewhat dysfunctional family. His father(Bill Murray), his young gorgeous mom(Cameron Diaz), his prissy drug addicted sister(Kirsten Stewart) and his douchey jock big brother who is over for christmas(Robert Pattinson). He goes to his school again and hangs with his friend(Zack Galafanakis(sp?), and the girl of his dreams(Ellen Page). He tries to talk to her, but the wilson brothers kick his ass and make him eat dirt. So the next day Micheal gores on a roadtrip with his family to visit the whole family. They get there, shenanigans involving music, family issues and teenage puberty. Some of the uncles consist of Tobias, Will Arnett, William Shatner, Willem Dafoe, Jason Bateman, and The Sheen brothers who are woman seducing sex addicts. Throughout the family visit Micheal get's the encouragement from his messed up family to face the bullies and get the girl. In the third act he ends up going to a new years dance and instead of kicking the shit out of the wilson brothers, he does a really cool guitar solo that ends awkwardly. Ellen page is the only one that claps. And The Wilson brothers threaten to beat him up. But The Sheen brothers beat them up instead.... Indie As Fuck

Imrpovise.

You start out with an idea, you transform the idea in your head, the more you think about it the more ideas you get, the more ideas you get the more the story expands. You do this until you know alll the characters, the conflict between them, and what needs to be resolved in the end. Then you find a meaning to all of it. Don't bother to write any of this down, you will just throw it away. Now, after about a month of thinking, you start writing it down, scene for scene, line for line, improvising everything from what you've gathered over the ideas in your head. You lock yourself in a small room, you wait until it starts raining, you turn on some music for the tone, then you don't stop until everything works and everything is finished.

Finished Broken Home

Broken Home-Thriller, Drama

I wrote the original outline before christmas on my blog here. It was pretty weak but after a few ffp classes I made it into something interesting and dynamic. Suprisingly I stayed with the same theme and story style and archs, and throughout each rewrite of the outline I realized how malleable the plot was due to the strong chracters and sticking to the same themes and genre.

Now I just finished it today :3, I'm doing a full read through right now before sending it into Katt for the ffp class. I'm gonna post some of the crazy shit to be expected from it.

-Car accident, wife is practically dead infront of our protagonist Frank right in front of him, he can't do anything about it.
-Shelby get's punched/knocked out by the antagonis(Vincent) which starts the 2nd act.
-Mick gets a pen in his arm.
-A dog gets impaled by a broken hockey stick offscreen for barking too much.
-Heather(The youngest, 11 years old) gets beaten up by Vincent off screen while the entire family hears it and can't do a damn thing about it.
-Mick gets his ass thrown out a window during one hell of a beating.
-Frank gets stabbed and left with an Unconcious Heather in a now burning house.
-Shay gets hit, followed by Mick baseball swinging a firepoker into the side of Vincent's head. He doesn't die of course.
-Shelby saves Frank by throwing him off the roof right before the hous eis completely engulfed in flames.
-Shay nearly falls through the floor of the second level of the barn, below is an old rusted spike harrow(Evil piece of machinery with lots of spikes and such. She escapes in a Indiana Jones-esque style.
-Epic fight on third level of Barn with Mick, Shay and Vincent, Vincent nearly gets hanged but falls down onto the Harrows.

I rewrote the third act because a lot of it lacked the action essential to make a good thriller. I think the new third act works a lot better. I tried to get everything in there, focus objects, ticking clocks, progressive complications, breathing room(To a degree), and some reality to all of it.

To make a Film, Or to not make a film

I'm moving back to grande Prairie the day after I graduate. My reasoning, free rent, free food, I miss my cat, and while basking in free rent and food I can concentrate on saving money and paying off my credit card, grandpa and start on paying off my schooling. I'm praying to god that I can get a decent paying full time job within the week I get back. This means i'm gonna have to dedicate myself to searching in a city that is in a bit of a job slump... But anyways, if the job thing works out then I'll be straight working all summer. Except for Warped tour, which will be placed in md august in Edmonton. I'll probably stay 2-3 days extra to enjoy E-Town and hang out with ol Gregolas.

So anyways, once September comes I've decided to make a plan for the year of 2011. Now here is my idea
1.-Stay in Grande Prairie, Rustle some friends together and work on a feature film that I have laid out over the winter. While doing so i'll work part time and try and master the art of directing with the help of some established friends.(I'm also considering Acting in this feature idea..)
2.Move back to Vancouver and get a 1 bedroom apartment or basement suite. Work full time in an industry that I find fitting(I really wanna get into the Courier business. I would also settle for anything relating to movies.) I would be writting scripts and work on my directing abilities. Get a cat and gather a savings that will go towards a possible quest to L.A once the time and funds come together.
3. Start doing crack after failing as a writer. Manage to make a business out of crack. Sell it, make it... End up getting arrested or raped by coke dealers who claim the city as their turf.
4.Move to Banff and become a lift jockey.
5.Consider becoming a travelling graffiti artist living off gambling winnings.
6.Sell a kidney in order to merry a woman to impress her father so I could get a job at his factory...

Prime Land

Prime Land-A modern day setting placed within a classic western story.
A sadistic gambling rancher who just so happens to own a retarded amount of land on the edge of the farmland of northern canada wants the last available piece of land. Which belongs to A young man who looks way too sophisticated to be a farmer, but he is, and he owns the best known land in the district, and one of the biggest lots. The rancher offers a large sum of land for the land, one that would make most farmers cry. But the farmer says he will never sell the land. 15 years ago this farm used to be a ranch and it used to be all trees. But one day during a storm the forst started on fire. In a desperate effort to save the cattle that grazed in the forest the owner of the farm(The farmer in the rest of the story) tried to save them and also save some of his equipment. Unfortunatly he died during the fire and most of his cattle died aswell. The farmers dad left the farm to his son, who was a year away from becoming a doctor and recently became a father and a husband. The farm has been within his family for the last 150 years. Despite pressure from his wife, the farmer decided to maintain the farm. The wife stayed by his side because he loved him. But after 5 years of the farmer trying to transform the forest that burnt to the ground into a prime plot of farmland the wife became annoyed with the lifestyle and divorced him. The farmer nearly quit, but he stuck with it. This land belongs to the family and it will always belong to the family. So back to modern day. The farmer begins to find signs of sabotage to his farm. He thinks very little of it until his tractor catches on fire. He immeditly gets police involved to investigate the rancher but the rancher has no signs of involvement. The farmer knew it was him so he attacks back and releases a massive amount of cattle which causes an accident. The rancher is sued and tries to trace it back to the farmer but he made it look like the cows caused the whole escape. The farmer get's a restraining order put on the Rancher. But to do so he meets back with his wife who studied law. his wife sees what he's doing and tells him to stop. The farmer brings her to the land and again she pursaudes him to sell the land and do what he was meant to do. Even if the land has been in the family for such a long time doesn't mean it has to continue being that way. Tradition must end, and normally a fire should end it. The farmer offers to think about it. They eventually reconsile there differences and the next morning the farmer goes to sign the papers to hand over the farm but on the way the Rancher plotted to destroy the land, which iis actually revealed by one of the cronnies of the rancher to be the second time he has done this(He started the fire which killed the father.) The cronnie denies doing it. so the rancher does it himself. The farmer sees this and doesn't bother to try and save the farm, instead he runs with his wife. They get away, the farm is destroyed. The cronnie rats out the rancher. And the Farmer moves away...