Saturday, January 28, 2012

Refridger-Rescue

Here is an undeveloped idea that needs more:

There is a guy that is digging through the fridge looking for something to eat. He keeps opening things and they are rotten. He looks and looks but there is nothing good. He sees a Chinese food box in the way back of the fridge and stretches for it.

The next shot is a wide shot of him digging deep in the fridge. Our view of him is mostly blocked by the fridge door. He starts to pull something out and a big chubby guy wearing a white t-shirt rolls/falls/stumbles out of the fridge (think Matt Vaurs). He stands up and brushes himself off because he has a bunch of rotten stuff on him and then looks at the shocked guy who was digging for food. He smiles broadly and then gives the guy a giant hug.

CUT TO BLACK.

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WIDE We see a man standing in front of a refrigerator. He is deeply involved in rumiging through its contents. We hear the clincing and slidding of glass and styrofoam.


CU ( CHEESY INSIDE THE FRIDGE CAM) We see the face of the man looking around in the fridge from inside the fridge. He stops rumagin and looks, stares, afraid he may not find anything. he's starving. His eyes spot something and he grabs and shakes it enthusiastically but his reaction shows us that its empty.

MEDIUM OUTSIDE THE FRIDGE. He pulls out a a bag, cautiously holds it with one arm at a distance from his facefor a moment before snapping it open. From the tiny bag quickly eminates the most aweful stench he has ever smelled. It hits him in the face and he grimaces adn shakes his head stuffing the bag quickly back in the fridge.



INSIDE THE FRIDGE SHOT He searches again and then pulls out an unidentifiable square piece of food, examines it daintily, brushes something off of it, maybe picks off a hair and takes a small nibble. He chews for a moment but then violently reacts, making a squinty eyed squirmy look.

CU Milk carton. We see for a moment before flailing arms block our vision that on the side off the milk cartonn is the picture of a young bearded man labeled to be "Missing." Our characters hands quickly come to the carton and grab it.

WIDE He takes several long deep drinks off the carton. We see the missing ad clearly. He puts the carton down and breathes deeply to recover his lost breath after slaming the milk. He subltely reacts like the milk may have a funny taste but nothing violent. He looks at the date before putting it back in the fridge.

CHEESY IN THE FRIDGE SHOT He sets the milk back on the shelf and looks inside but there is clearly nothing inside worth while. He closes the door and it goes black.

WIDE the screen is black but we can make out our man sitting down at a table. His face becomes illuminated in low blue light as he awakens his computer from sleep. He turns on a lamp on the desk and opens a book removing a pencil used as a book mark.

MEDIUM CLOSE UP. He studies his book and chews his pencil. While he reads his knawing becomes heavier untill he shocks himself by crunching into his pencil. He looks at it and then stands up out of frame.

Medium from behind. It is slightly dark in the kitchen until Our Guy snaps on the kitchen lighy and opens the fridge again. From behind him we see the milk carton and miscelanious generic food containers. He begins rummaging again.

INSIDE THE FRIDGE SHOT. We see his face in a 3-degrees-under-dire look looking at various cartons quckly. He stops as he spots something in the very back corner of the fride and reaches.
His shouldfer and face go out of focus as he reaches and presses around and against the camera. We may see briefly that he has a goofy strained look on his face.

CU his hand strains to grab a white cubed chinese food carton.

WIDE WIDE from behind. He has his head fully inserted into the refirderatio sraining for the food.

ECU Ugly blurry maybe shaky shot of his face nearly pressed agains the camera lens. He jumps back in shock


Same WIDE WIDE. Out of the fridfge rollls clunklity to the floor a full sized man slightly obscured by the refridgerator door.

REAX he stares wide eyed down at the floor and a man slowly rises into frame. Food chunks are on his clothes and in his hair. Our Mans look of shock turns into a sideways looking "what the fuck?" look.

WIDE REVERSE the two men are staring aqwardly at each other. The guy that has fallen oout of the fridge is clearly the man on the milk carton. He is covered in wilted spinach, various multi colored stains and spagetti hanging from his cheek. After a beat a broad smile comes arcoss his face as he enthusiasticly wraps his arms fully around Our Guy in a hearty bear hug.

CU Our guys face has a smile come across it.

CUT TO BLACK

END



WIDE

CU looking in a strrophpome flat white box. Something unidentifiable and very dry is inside it.

ECU picking up a very brown looking banana.

5 comments:

  1. What are you trying to say? I need to reread this. Hold on.

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  2. I don't really get how the people fit into this. So maybe it needs to be more emphasized. Like, maybe the guy DOES have food in his fridge, but everytime he goes to pull something out... like strawberries... he pulls out a different person that took part in that food... like a Mexican with strawberries in his hands and a Driscoll hat on. So he kind of rescues people by pulling their food out of his fridge. And he's super hungry so even though this is cool it's kind of annoying. So after he does this several times we see him flustered and give up. He sits down and puts his head on the table. Then we see him get up and either 1. Go over to his balcony and grab a tomato he grew himself or 2. Go out to his patio and plant stuff, and water stuff, and grow stuff--elapsed time--and eat what he's grown.

    Idk. I'm thinking outloud. Hold on.

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  3. So if he pulls out a butcher maybe he could be scarey to the guy with blood all over and the butcher has a big knife in his hand. One of the people in the fridge should be scarey or have shock value. Otherwise it could be boring. Maybe I just wanna' be scared, I dunno.

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  4. I kinda wanted to keep it very simple. Did you guys see that the guy he pulls out is the guy from the milk carton?

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  5. Yep, I saw it was the guy on the milk carton. I'm not sure it works.

    I mean unless the guy is a compulsive eater and keeps going to the refrigerator and pulling out left over lasagne, and cold pizza, cake, and chocolate milk, etc. Until one time he reaches in and is grabbed and pulled inside the refrigerator, and the refrigerator rumbles and tumbles and knocks back and forth and then the door flies open and the guy falls out wearing a fat suit, but that's not simple.

    Or maybe he gets thrown out onto the floor in his underwear.That would be easier. The refrigerators revenge.

    Actually, I think I like the hands.

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