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Jamie Goes To Hollywood 4 by jamie flam I have an idea for a movie that will be both exciting and special at the same time. I think I will call it Making It In The Working World, because it is all about a Midwestern boy moving to the big city to get a job in the world of corporate financing. What's exciting about it is that the main character, who I would like to be played by Ashton Kutcher, is from a small town, and has learned to live a small town sort of life. He farms, and has conservative and simple ideals. For example, he thinks stealing is wrong, and he loves his mom (whom he calls "Mama") very dearly. You can only imagine how overwhelmed Ashton's character (Grady) is when he gets out of the taxi and steps into the Big Apple (New York City) for the first time. In many ways, he must feel like a "fish out of water" (helpless, scared, confused). But we'll get back to that later. The movie begins with an inspirational song playing as Grady is waking up in his simple farm home, in his simple farm bedroom. You might think that a farm bedroom would have hay and stuff in it, but it's pretty much a normal bedroom in a normal house. The main difference is that there is a farm on the grounds with crops and barns and animals and roosters and goats and stuff like that. I will make sure there will be a sweeping landscape shot to show the movie-goer just where Grady is from. Anyways, Grady rises from his bed and looks at himself in the mirror and then looks at his plane ticket for his flight that day. Then he looks out his window. This might be the perfect time to work in that landscape shot I mentioned earlier, the plane ticket to New York kinda juxtaposing his Midwestern farm life or something. Yeah, that'll be how it goes. Grady kinda smiles at this point too, to signify that he is really excited about his new life, and then when he looks at the landscape he kinda gives a more solemn look, as if he is also a bit scared and has a few reservations about leaving his small town life and Mama. But then he smiles again and does a little head shake thingy that says, "I am ready for this," or something like that. After this, he goes about your typical morning time activities (showering, brushing teeth, packing) as the opening music really starts getting going. Here's how the song will go: Born in the heartland, America God bless the U.S.A. With only a small town boy's ideals, Just be a good person and always pray You're used to a simple way of livin'... Pickin' berries and shuckin' corn. You just gotta start believin' And you will be reborn!!! Chorus: It's All About Making It... Making It In the Working World... Working World It's All About Making It... Making It In the Working World... Working World At this point there is a guitar solo in the song, which goes on a little too long, but it's ok because we will need some time for dialogue between Grady and his Mama and Papa at the breakfast table. Here is that dialogue: Mama: You got a big day ahead of you, son. Grady: I know, I can barely eat I'm so excited! Mama: Come on, eat your complete breakfast. Grady: (pauses) Mama, Papa, I'm gonna miss you deeply. Mama: Oh, GRADY!!! (mama embraces Grady) Mama embraces Grady at this point because that's when he leaves with his Papa, who gives him a ride to the airport. As they get in the car the music turns up again, just in time for the chorus: It's All About Making It... Making It In the Working World... Working World It's All About Making It... Making It In the Working World... Working World At this point we see Grady peering out of the passenger side window smiling nostalgically while looking at mills and silos and other weird farmland type stuff. Then the music comes down again for another guitar solo, and Papa starts talking to his son: Papa: Son, I want you to know I love you deeply, even though my conservative Midwestern ways make me hold it in sometimes, in the form of beating you. Grady: I know, Papa. I know so well. I will probably beat my sons and daughters one day as a result of my upbringing. Or maybe I will be extra touchy with them, to the point of weird, as a result of my adolescent beatings. Who knows really? Papa: Haha, yes. (pats son on back) Grady: I love you dad. I am thinking that those lines will eventually be changed. At least made a bit more subtle. In any case, at this point the movie cuts to shots of Grady in the airplane, overwhelmed, and then to him getting out of the taxi in the big city, still overwhelmed. All the while the music is still playing, and open credits are going. I am thinking that as Grady is in the taxi, there are shots of him looking out the windows, and he sees "crazy" city stuff like people with tattoos and ear piercings and mohawks, and then shots of him shaking his head like "What have I got myself into?!?!?," but in a playful way that also says, "I am open to new and exciting experiences." Finally he gets out of the taxi near the address of his new apartment, which is in a shitty part of town. He looks at the piece of paper with his new address and looks around. He can't find the apartment, and becomes overwhelmed. Finally he asks someone on the street for help, and they try to steal his stuff, and he is overwhelmed again. Like a "fish out of water." Here's the conversation, word for word: Ted: Hey there my main man, looks like you could use some help! Grady: I can't find my new apartment. Ted: You are new to town aren't ya? Grady: Yeah. Ted: Where are you from?? Grady: A small, conservative Midwestern town. Ted: MAN! You will be eaten alive here! Grady: I'm excited and confused. Ted: Kind of like a "fish out of water". Grady: You could say that. Ted: Well, good news... your apartment is right here! Grady: Yeah? That keeps going until they forge a friendship. Which is important, because Grady needs friends. You see, he is a small-town Midwestern boy who has just come to the big city and is inexperienced in "city livin'." If you have been reading this from the beginning, you know what I am talking about. If you haven't, I suggest you read from the beginning. So Grady and Ted become friends, and then Grady starts his job at Alliance Corporate Financing (ACF), where he remains overwhelmed by everything, and does well, but he wants to move up higher within the company. In a strange twist he finds out that the CEO has died and no one knows, and he slyly slips into the CEO's place and starts making lots of money and then he falls in love with the receptionist, who was going out with the vice president (Connor), who catches on to Grady and wants to get him fired but can't prove that the CEO died, and that Grady, fresh out of college, has slyly slipped into the CEO's place, and then Connor one day finds Grady slipping into a new suit in the elevator because for some reason he has to change outfits all the time to keep up his charade and Connor takes a picture and blackmails Grady. The final scene is at the company picnic. Grady is giving a speech to the employees of Alliance Corporate Financing about the progress of the company, and out of nowhere Connor comes up and steals the microphone. Connor: Ladies and gentleman, the man here before you is a FRAUD!! He is nothing more than a conservative Midwestern boy with small town ideals who finagled his way into the CEO position when the CEO died! He must be fired! The crowd is confused and scared, much like "fishes out of water." Then Grady grabs the microphone. Grady: People of ACF. What Connor says is true. (gasp from audience). I am a small-town Midwestern boy with small-town ideals. I grew up planting seeds, playing 'shoot the barrels n' piggies', and square dancin'. But today I am wiping sweat from my brow as I wiped sweat from my brow on the farm: in a hard-working fashion. I may not have any experience in corporate financing, or even know what the term "corporate financing" really means. But I was taught to love first, think second. To be the best I could be, and that Jews literally have horns sticking out of their heads. These are truths as I know them. And I want them to be the truths of Alliance Corporate Financing. Also, I love the receptionist and we engage in sexual activities in the main conference room. And the utility closet. Thank you. Everyone is still pretty stunned at this point but then they start clapping and cheering, because they know that despite his lies, age, lack of experience, and deceptive nature Grady will lead them to a brighter future. And then somehow the VP Connor is sitting in the water dunk booth that was rented for the picnic and a kid throws a ball at the target and misses and Connor laughs but then for some reason it falls anyways and he is covered in water and everyone laughs at him. Then there is a quick cut to Grady and he is giving a thumbs up to the crowd, and he looks at his girlfriend and then says "This one's for YOU Mama and Papa! THIS ONE'S FOR YOU! I've MADE IT, in the WORKING WORLD!!!" And then it freezes and the movie is over. It will cost around 9 bucks to get into this movie. More if you want popcorn or a drink or some shit. Check out my other great ideas! Leonard: The Boy Who Paid To Be Cool Pinstripe Surprise! Teen Transformation Comedy |
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