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 Ron says that LCMR student
Robert Post has “an amazing screenplay” and already has equity actors lined up
to play the necessary parts. He’ll be ready to start filming soon. The message
of his film? “Everyone’s the same in a dehumanizing corporate work place.” Time
travel is also involved. The person keeps going back in time to change what’s
happened in the past but the person can’t change it.
Rollet says if he were to
“pitch it,” he would liken the script to a modern day “Waiting for Godot” meets
Charlie Chaplin. Rollet points out that the final script is nothing like the one
Bob started out with. The final version is an evolution of revision after
revision. “One day it was completed with a revision that worked.” Emphasis, we
might add, on the work part.
And that’s all I’m
sayin’. See you in November Bob.
Luke Anderson has,
according to Rollet “one of the best screenplays we’ve ever had. He worked on it
week by week” and apparently it too has no resemblance to his initial
screenplay. The story takes place in a suburban home and is about two brothers
playing a video game called I think “Die,Die.” I don’t want to ask questions
because Luke is about to start reading the dialogue and it’ll ruin the mood.
Anyway, an electrical storm hits with lightening and all the things that come
with the “bump in the night” scary stuff. One of the brothers gets stuck in
another reality and that’s all I’m sayin’. OK?
Matt Carino comes up to
bat with a “semi-storyboard of random pictures” of animated characters inspired
by the Merrie Melodies cartoons. Now the Merrie Melodies were
designed to showcase songs from Warner Bros' vast music library. The title of
each cartoon was also the title of the song featured in it. In Matt’s film a
real character walks into an animated scene. “Each scene is bucolic but every
time he (the hero) leaves the scene something gets messed up.” In one scene, for
example, rats end up taking over the hot dog cart. Hey! Before you start
wincing, just remember who the most famous rat of all is. Just a clue, his
initials are MM.
Meanwhile back in the
bucolic land of ‘toons, each scene is played to music which Matt has written. “I
put the soundtrack down first, frame by frame but the script still needs to be
written.”
Rollet reminds everyone
that for the first time ever an animated film received an Oscar nomination this
year. The Incredibles received a nomination in the Best Original
Screenplay category.
Will Revok is writing a
horror movie script along the lines of the movie Bogeyman. “It follows
all the tradition,” he promises, “It’s fast-paced, suspenseful and does not have
a happy ending. Next meeting I’ll have a better summary.”
 David Iaconangelo has
revised a screenplay he is ready to read for the group. Iaconangelo presented a
film last year at the festival called Amaleta, a 13-minute documentary
about the life of a West Cape May woman. So, David is an old hand at filmmaking
and his script shows a more traditional storyline about a group of construction
workers about to go on strike who are not averse to ripping their bosses off
once in a while. The dilemma centers around one particular character and whether
or not he will betray his friends. The dialogue reads smoothly. Rollet points
out that the characters are more differentiated in their dialogue than they were
in previous scripts and the group gives him quite a few helpful tips as well as
encouragement.
And that’s all I’m
sayin.’
Except to say this – It’s exciting to see such young talent being nurtured. We
are, after all, a small town. Year-round population under 5,000 and yet, the
arts flourish in Cape May because we have people who live here who care enough
to put themselves out.
And, ah, that’s all I’m
sayin’.
Look for these and other
films to come your way in November.
-Susan
Tischler
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There
are certain rules for writing screenplays and then there are no rules.”
I
listen as each student
“pitches” his idea. The one girl – 8th grader Kelli Barron – is new
to the group and hasn’t had time to come up with an idea. 
storyline he came up. We
don’t