Wednesday, February 21, 2007

Orphaned

A teenage girl just lost her parents. They were hit by a drunk driver on their way home from a night out celebrating their wedding anni9versary. She was home schooled and very close with her parents. They lived on a farm and she lived a slightly sheltered life. Now taken away from her home, and losing the family she ever really knew Rae Lynn is forced into a foster home, living in a house, full of orphaned children going to an inner city school. Everything she ever knew was gone in an instant. The first problems arose due to the attitude of the other children in the house hold. They are all from the city and have the attitude that comes with it. Conflicting ways of opinion and different ways of life starts fights. They quickly learned that Rae-Lynn can hold her own n a fight and this is the first thing that opens their eyes about her. They begin to watch her and learn from her and soon create a bond that they can respect that is stronger than anything they have ever known. Rae-Lynn and Cole begin to have feelings for each other and soon become inseparable. Not too long after, the agency finds a home for Cole which is hard to find for someone at his age. Through this Cole realizes how strongly he feels for Rae Lynn but since he is only sixteen he has no choice. They devise a plan to run away together. Rae-Lynn and Cole leave school and take a bus to Rae Lynn’s old house on the farm which is now abandoned but still has belongings from when her and her parents lived there. They begin sifting through things and Rae Lynn starts talking about the past and opening up to Cole. He then begins opening up to her and talking about his past. They shortly after begin kissing and just as it starts to get intense, they hear a car pull up. It’s the police the orphanage sent because they assumed that’s where they would’ve gone. This makes them push for the adoption of Cole. The family was nice but they lived in a suburb half an hour away from the city and neither of them had a car so they only communication they had were through phone calls time to time and the emails they sent through the computers at school. Rae Lynn becomes depressed because the only person that made her happy si9nce she lost her parents was now gone. Her grades begin to fail and the other children in the house notice a change in her. Time goes by and the phone calls fade and so do the emails. Rae Lynn is now 18 and living in an apartment with Cassie one of the girls from the foster home. She is working at a restaurant in the city and going to college. Since losing Cole she became closed off to the world. When her roommate would have people over Rae Lynn would stay in her room and study. One night at work she gets a table and while walking up to it realizes it’s Cole, with another girl. Her heart drops and she quickly asks someone else to take the table. She runs into Cole while walking out of the kitchen; he was walking out of the bathroom. They bump right into each other and lock eyes. They stand there staring at each other without saying a thing. Finally Rae Lynn says hi and they both laugh. He tells her how he’s on a blind date and can’t stand the girl so he’s going to the bathroom to break the uncomfortable silence. They both say how nice it is to see each other and exchange numbers. They soon begin dating again without bringing up the past. Before you know it, they are moving in together and everything seems to be going well. Until the day comes, when Cole tells her he has to move because of work and he can’t pass it up. Yet again, he has to leave Rae Lynn and breaks her heart all over again. After he moves, she finds herself falling in to the same slum that she was in before he left; She finally decides that she is not going to lose him again, packs up her things, and shows up at his door holding her bags.

Rae Lynn: 16 year old girl, she as raised as an only child and she lived on a farm and didn’t have any friends or family her age. She and her parents were very close; they would put on old records and dance together after long days of working on the farm. They had two horses one of them was hers and was named Covy who she named after an old man who ran a store in town. He was the only person other than her parents that she talked to. He passed away when she was 13 and shortly after was when her parents brought her home the horse. On days when she finished her work early, her and Coy would right out into the woods and she would sit on a large rock next to the reek and read. She had a bad habit of biting her nails all the time. Her hair was very long and she loved to play with it, braiding it and twirling it all the time. But the only thing she rally looked forward to was dancing with her parents at night. They would teach her the waltz and the tango. Her parents are very smart and taught her more than she would’ve ever learned going to a public school. Although at times it was lonely she still loved the solitude of the farm and spending time with her parents. They were genuinely happy and always had fun together. They died when she was 15.

Cole: His father was never around, his mother did a lot of drugs and his father was just someone she fooled around with. They never had a relationship but Cole knew who he was and when Cole would see him his father would treat Cole like just some random kid. His mother never worked and she collected money from the state for Cole to eat but most of the money went to her drug habit. He was with his mother when she was pulled over and the car was searched. They found drug paraphernalia and the police arrested her and took Cole away. His mother never tried to get him back when she got out of jail and he was in an out of different foster homes since he was 7 years old.

Cassie: She was a year older than Rae LYNN her mother and father were not married but were always together. She was the oldest of 3 children. They didn’t really care about their children, they never made them go to school, they didn’t give them rules or curfews. Her parents sold drugs and always had people in and out of the house. When Cassie was 15 years old, she began dating a 20 year old who would come to the house for drugs. The police were watching the house and also watching Cassie and her boyfriend when they left the house. One day when her boyfriend showed up at the house to buy drugs and pick up Cassie the police raided the house arresting her parents and her brother and sister. Her parents went to jail and are currently still incarcerated. She doesn’t do any hard drugs but she does smoke weed and likes to party a lot, She doesn’t have very much self respect and when she moved in with Rae Lynn, to pay the bills she works in a strip club.

Wednesday, January 24, 2007

My loglines



Gone Sailing- Two best friends on vacation get drunk while sailing, and lose track of where they are. Lost and without knowledge of how to sail the boat they get lost and end up on Captain Morgan's Island Paradise






Crate- A man in China looses his pasport and all other forms of identification. Has to fin da way home. Going through many different problems that arise he finally find a way to ge home. with illegal immigrants in a crate on a trading ship bound for the U.S. Follows the 3 month long trip of him and others.







Jack goes to Vegas-Jack, a homeless man who finds a 20$ bill on the ground eats a chinese food restuarant. His fortune cookie reads. "Follow the lights and you will win" He thinks about it then assumes it means to go to Vegas. So Jack goes to the local bowling alley where he regularly bothers the employers and tells him his plans. It follows him on his way to vegas, and what happens there.






Rumor's- follows al the gossip and drama that goes on behind the scenes in a restaurant. The love triangles, the arguements, and the friendships.









Number 8- The winning can of Budweiser wins you front row in Dale's pit to watch the race. Unknowingly Colleen wins an dgets to meet her dream man Dale. After making a fool of herself in front of him, she is down about the way things turned out. Until later that night when she runs back into him and they begin to get to know eachother

Loglines


The Crow-A man brutally murdered comes back to life as an undead avenger of his and is fiancee'es murder.







Running Scared-After a drug-op gone bad, Joey Gazlle is put in charge of disposing the gun that shot a dirty cop







Moulin Rouge-A poet falls for a beautiful courtesan whom a jealous duke covets in this stylish musical, with music drawn from familiar 20th century sources







The Notebook- The movie focuses onan old man reading a story to an nold woman in a nursing home. The story he reads is their life.







Pirates of the Caribbean The curse of the black pearl-Blacksmith Will Turner teams up with eccentric pirate "Captain" Jack Sparrow to sace his love, the governor's daughter, from Jack's former pirate allies, who are now undead.

Wednesday, January 17, 2007

Bruce Almighty script vs film



The script written for Bruce Almighty varies differs greatly from the actual movie. I think this has to do with the fact that Jim Carey is a comedian and tends to ad lip, and the script that I found was onyl a draft.
The first difference was the very begining. In the script the opening scene shows people, and Buce doing things, in the movie it is black screan with different credits while Bruce and Ally are talking. A lot of the dialog is differnt to , they took things out, and of course Jim Carey added something in. In the scriptit also says that there are two short twins and their mother, but in the movie there was one tall man and his mother. Then in the dialog and in the action, the brother is picking his nose while they are filming the news report, an dJim Carey adds in "good thing we're wearing these(pointing at his hair net) becuse we wouldnt want any loose hairs falling into the BUGAR!!" and then after that they cut to finishing the reoport. He asks the mther instead of the brother why they decided to make the record for buffalo's largest cookie. She first says it is because the health department found a rat pelet in in a cookie, and shut them down, so they cleaned up and mad ea big cookie to bring in business, then they cut to him asking the question again, and she answers " So the children of the neighborhood would be happy." This dialog was totally left out of the script, it replaces the conversation from one brother about the other. Then also during the celebration within the news report, they also added Bruce (Jim Carey) running witha pitcher of milk pouring into the cups of children who ar elined up holding out their cups. Then at the end of the report they say that Bruce's hair net falls off and everyone laughs, but his hair net was already off during his closing words.

The next scene takes place in his apartment with his girlfriend Grace (Jennifer Aniston) The difference first starts off in the dialog when grace brings up the hair net falling off, it was replaced with different conversation about the the report. He also added in "Not Good" which he would say in a funyn voice randomly. The instead of her talking about pictures, she actually tells him about how she doesnt want to watch the report again. Then when they do start talking about the photo album, she is yelling at him about how its their life, but no nevermind mine as well just pay someone to organize the pictures from their life. Then Bruce grabs a picture from when they went up north an she was obviously naked, In the script is was a picture from a wedding. Then in the script they start joking about the hair net, as they kiss and go to the bedroom, snd keep talking about the pictures, but in the movie they are wrestling over the naked picture then it cuts to the next scene.

In the script it is showing the dream that Bruce is having then the alarm clock buzzing, but in the film it cuts right to when the alarm clock is buzzing.
While gettin gready for work, in the script it says that Bruce is buttoning up his shirt while watching television, but in the actual movie, he is putting on his watch. Then while he is in the mirror talking to himself about his signature sin off, and starts talking like Walter Cronkite, saying and thats the way the cookie crumbles, in it Jim ccarey adds in "And that the way uh huh uh huh I like t, uh huh uh huh". After that he notices the dog peeing, both in the script and in the movie he runs though the house, but only in the script the dog pees on someone.


Next is the scene of Brucce and Grace on their way to work. The difference is tht in teh script Grace talks about a car that drives by, and puts prayer beads on th erearview mirror. The talk about the car is totally taken out, and the prayer beads dont come into play until she gets out of the car, then turns back and hands them to Bruce. The next difference doesnt come until after the dialog about the blood drive, it is when he is in traffic, the only difference is the dialog. In the actual movie he says "this isn't happening to me. not during sweeps week" he repeats himself and throws a fit in the car making it shake. He then says what is in the script saying this is my luck. The rest of the dialog in the script isnt in the movie. In the script he turns to the shoulder and is making fun of the people he is passing by. Then both in the movie and on the script he pulls into the parking lot quickly and rushes out of his car.He doesn't however knock over the trashcan. Also, in the script he only looks at the sign the homeless man is holding, and in the movie he reads it out loud and says something to the man.
The whole scence on page ten wasnt in the movie.

That would be the first ten pages of Bruce Almighty. The largest differnce was dialog, and as I said earlier it is mostly due to ad lip, its very noticeable when you compare teh film to the script

The Notebook






I love the movie the notebook, I cant say that it is my favorite movie, but it is up there. Its a beautiful story about two people who fall in love and spend an amazing summer together, but the girls parents did not aprove of their relationship and forced them apart. Years went by and they still longed for eachother, but went their seperate ways. Throughout the years the girl found a new man whom she fell in love with, but the boy practically obsessed over her, and built a house for her that he promised her the summer they were together. When the house mde the newspaper she went to see him, and of course they fell back in love and got back together. The story is being told by the boy who is now and old man, telling ti to the girl who has dimensia now as an old woman. I love it becasue its a love story, a heartbreaking one at that. they arent perfect but theyre in love. All girls can relate to love, and the heartache that happens in this movie. the way it goes from the present, to the past with the mans voice narrating it, to the past, then again to the present