A Scene from My Nonexistent Movie Script
So picture this:
It's a movie - my movie, tentatively titled Drowsy Crown just because I like those words together, and in a kitchen scene, artists
of different kinds are all going about their breakfast routines. Here's what I
have figured out so far: There's a girl with long, wavy brown
hair wearing blue skinny jeans and standing to the left, trying to get the guy in
the middle of the room to remember that the white bins in the garage are meant
for separating plastic and paper recyclables. She doesn’t have time to clean up after her roommates this
week, because she has a test from Professor Lauren, her most challenging instructor. He's taking a break after working through the
night on a play he's very cryptic about, what with his being a secret
perfectionist, a "you can’t read it 'til it's finished" guy who’d be
halfway through a burrito, find himself struck by an idea and forget to finish
eating.
In the back right of the room (stage left) is a guy in a
bathrobe, tube socks slouching around his ankles, a necklace hiding underneath
the collar of his shirt. He has very short hair and is listening to the recyclables
conversation, amused, tilting his chair back periodically, eating a bowl of
cereal. He doesn't live in this house. His presence will be fleeting and
carefully staged on the part of the director so that the audience can better
see the shape of this artists' group. I'm afraid to call them a collective at
this stage, but the friendships in this gaggle have to make sense. I don't want
them to be ragtag. They don't need each other, they choose each other to lean on.
And I've decided that the
bathrobe guy is Sam Pink.
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