I just plotted a hard edged
action suspenser tv series
where all the supporting
actors are riven, riveting,
interlocking and breaking
in waves and clashing catch,
in patterns wholly real, yet,
it's a God's eye view, only
ADHD so, you only piece
the puzzle box narrative together
as it goes. You sense the main links
and trends generously, easy - plain
enough like life. Heavy business
and light going on. Point is.
The theme of the show is
there's this guy.
Because the CIA and local law
enforcers, plus the medical
emergency responders,
art students and the ad dep't
of the vitamin company - look -
the cool neighborhood bar people
cross paths and cozy up in?
It's
just
life, right?
Tons of stuff like that!
So there's all this real grit
set to explode into any moment!
Menace is sudden! Like life, and -
this guy
every time something
horrible, because
of a completely different
random asshole
(or assholess) is about
to happen, or is actually
happening - you
know
how it is when
shit goes down
in those shows.
This fucking
GUY comes in!
You'd about forgotten
about him by then - it's
like he's from another
plot! From the corridor
or door or
rushing
in a physically normal
way from between two ferns -
and he's badass.
Thwack! Knee shot
in the chest!
Pirouette elbow shot!
Two hardest
human striking surfaces
on earth!
Sudden 5-hit combo!
Uppercut!
Uppercut! Body blow!
Body blow!
This guy, nondescript
as all hell - white,
burly but mousy
- great chin, strong
eyebrows, but - good
fluffy flop-shag of hair
(NO male pattern baldness,
gene-test the auditionees if you
have to it has to look real. You
sorry. Parentheses close) never
at any point get a real
or good look at the guy.
Not unless you cheat freeze
-frame. The camerawork, oh
man it's smooth swift pan and
balletic shift enough. Not crazy
cam cut-cuts you can't even see
what's up or who just hit who. No.
Completely natural and believable
camerawork, but
this guy
just walks right in and on
through. Knocking clowns down
and out like popcorn fireworks
boom thwack crunch and - poof!
The casually dressed avenger is
KA-GONE.
Thing is, the whole show
could
conceivably
be done entirely
without
that guy.
He never shows
up
past or before crisis-point,
he takes out
the trash like some
carefree maniac on zen
meditation mode
and he's
that gone.
Whoever he is, he
appears to have no
overlap, intersect or
relation to any other
cast member of these
characters. He just
shows
up.
Like mixed-martial arts
bro ex machina all casual,
barely interrupting the ongoing
plot arcs,
brutally
ending
the threat-point,
and
that's his whole deal.
He's like the real hero
you never find out about because
- where the hell? How did be - !
Shit.
The name of the show
would be Badass J. Doe.
Or some similar hook.
Jack Slip. No that's weak.
Jack Nil.
Nonesuch Joe.
TOUGH GUY SWEET! The antibullybully? No,
that's...that's a different world, different character.
Superhero b.s. Skip it: it would be a damn-ass
refreshing change from the kind of bullshit
"hero" arc bullshit we seen now.
It needs it. We do. The time does.
Anyway.
Be pretty cool to have a guy like
that around! Right? Come on.
Brut Cause. Casual Force.
Interloper II: Real chronicles of a true community hero.
That'd be the movie version. I figure, do the series season
one, season two, season three - then with interest running
hot and continuous, ditch tv and jump straight to the sequel.
We'd announce,
"The entire series
is now officially
retroconsidered as
the first movie, Part 1
of a planned Who Knows?
This coming feature is officially
the second movie. Any questions?
Get it straight if so! Don't call
it a show no' mo' oh kay?
First movie, 66 hours, second shot
- coming up - probably less. We're
getting it down, folks."
I've pretty much got it
all
worked out to an nth.
Apart from who the hell
is that guy? The
Interloper.
Coming later on
to cinema, but first?
Let's do some shows?
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