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Topic 3: My life on film?
Jan. 9th, 2006 08:41 pmCast the Lifetime movie based on your life and tell us about it. You can give us a brief synopsis of the major plot points, tell us about the dramatic climax, or even write a scene from it. Remember this is only based loosely on the real events of your life so take as many liberties as you want with it.
Frankly, I was tempted to delegate the answer to this one to Marshall as well. So far, I have successfully avoided watching Lifetime movies. Even certain facilities I spent less than voluntary time at were blessedly free of them. (I must make a note to suggest them as part of the new interrogation programm, of course.) But Marshall would undoubtedly inflict another Star Wars reference on my, and one does not wish to descend to the ridiculous quite on such a frequet basis.
Now, I very much doubt my life would qualify as movie material; I am more suitable playing a crucial cameo in someone elses’s life. My favourite role would be as the mentor of a beautiful young woman who traps me with my last spell, but I doubt the tale of Merlin and Nimue needs a modern recast. In any case, that was not exactly the question, was it? Ah, well. Something directed by Bill Condon, I think, with a flashback structure, starring Ian MacKellan as myself and... Patrick Stewart as Jack Bristow. The present-day action would take place in a prison cell, during the hours before the sentence of yours truly. Various flashbacks would inform the audience about our past as young stockbrokers, my decision to leave the bank we originally had ended up at for various reasons, and the foundation of a new bank, where I, now in a leading position, would hire Jack. Professional dissatisfaction as the cause of our change of employment does not make entertaining scenes, so the liberties taken would undoubtedly involve, say, the death of a beloved person in my life, or some alluring femme fatale imployed by a rival bank who uses Jack to learn of certain crucial deals the original bank had planned, thus costing him his job. Let us face it, no good tale is complete without sex and death.
Now, one crucial gimmik to the success of this movie would be the fact neither of us wears a prison uniform, so the audience cannot be sure who actually is in jail, awaiting his sentence, and who is the visitor. The first guess would be Jack, due to his indiscretion with the beautiful femme fatale. The second guess would be me, due to the fact the bank I head uses increasingly dangerous deals to stay ahead of the competition, while Jack would turn out to have stayed in the secret employ of our original bank all along. The third guess would be both of us, given that the flashbacks would reveal the original bank has a tendency to drop its employees anyway, even if they are loyal.
The climax? The reveal that we actually aren’t in a prison at all. That, too was a flashback. The last memory of the one of us which survives the... heart attack which follows the revelation of the sentence. As to the identity of the survivor... well, that would be telling, and I do despite people who start a story knowing its ending, don’t you? Having spent my life in pursuit of the unknown, I have no intention of simplifying this habit for a fictional film.
Frankly, I was tempted to delegate the answer to this one to Marshall as well. So far, I have successfully avoided watching Lifetime movies. Even certain facilities I spent less than voluntary time at were blessedly free of them. (I must make a note to suggest them as part of the new interrogation programm, of course.) But Marshall would undoubtedly inflict another Star Wars reference on my, and one does not wish to descend to the ridiculous quite on such a frequet basis.
Now, I very much doubt my life would qualify as movie material; I am more suitable playing a crucial cameo in someone elses’s life. My favourite role would be as the mentor of a beautiful young woman who traps me with my last spell, but I doubt the tale of Merlin and Nimue needs a modern recast. In any case, that was not exactly the question, was it? Ah, well. Something directed by Bill Condon, I think, with a flashback structure, starring Ian MacKellan as myself and... Patrick Stewart as Jack Bristow. The present-day action would take place in a prison cell, during the hours before the sentence of yours truly. Various flashbacks would inform the audience about our past as young stockbrokers, my decision to leave the bank we originally had ended up at for various reasons, and the foundation of a new bank, where I, now in a leading position, would hire Jack. Professional dissatisfaction as the cause of our change of employment does not make entertaining scenes, so the liberties taken would undoubtedly involve, say, the death of a beloved person in my life, or some alluring femme fatale imployed by a rival bank who uses Jack to learn of certain crucial deals the original bank had planned, thus costing him his job. Let us face it, no good tale is complete without sex and death.
Now, one crucial gimmik to the success of this movie would be the fact neither of us wears a prison uniform, so the audience cannot be sure who actually is in jail, awaiting his sentence, and who is the visitor. The first guess would be Jack, due to his indiscretion with the beautiful femme fatale. The second guess would be me, due to the fact the bank I head uses increasingly dangerous deals to stay ahead of the competition, while Jack would turn out to have stayed in the secret employ of our original bank all along. The third guess would be both of us, given that the flashbacks would reveal the original bank has a tendency to drop its employees anyway, even if they are loyal.
The climax? The reveal that we actually aren’t in a prison at all. That, too was a flashback. The last memory of the one of us which survives the... heart attack which follows the revelation of the sentence. As to the identity of the survivor... well, that would be telling, and I do despite people who start a story knowing its ending, don’t you? Having spent my life in pursuit of the unknown, I have no intention of simplifying this habit for a fictional film.
