Here is the story...
A girl is walking her dog on a lonely beach.
She stops to sit and watch her dog play on the shore.
She writes something in the sand.
Gets up and leaves with her dog.
A girl is walking her dog on a lonely beach.
She stops to sit and watch her dog play on the shore.
She writes something in the sand.
Gets up and leaves with her dog.
An hour later a man around the same age as the girl, is walking his dog on that same lonely beach.
He stops and notices what the girl has written. He responds in the sand.
He stops and notices what the girl has written. He responds in the sand.
The next day the girl returns and notices the response to her message in the sand. She responds, and so a bizarre correspondence proceeds until....
My question to you is..
-what did the girl write in the sand originally?
-what was his response?
-what is the result of these correspondences?
Below is a clip from the song (and a small video I made for my birthday this year) as well as the lyrics.
Keep your fingers
Pressed against your lips
Just pretend that
We never kissed
Take these pictures
Down from where they stand
No one will notice
The change to our plans
Side swept
I've fallen for you
Fallen so hard that I
Can't make do
I hope we love someday soon
But right now I can't see this through
I wanted this more than I could know
Now I have it I have to let it go
I don't know me but it takes time
To know yourself when not
In this bind
Side swept
I've fallen for you
Fallen so hard that I
Can't make do
I hope we love someday soon
But right now I can't see this through
I can't love you
If I can't agree
So let's just skip the cliches
And set us free.
Side swept
I've fallen for you
Fallen so hard that I
Can't make do
I hope we love someday soon
But right now I can't see this through
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Here's an idea. We don't see what they write. Just the act of writing and a hint of a letter or two but the messages are unknown.
ReplyDeletethey go back and forth a few times,
then you cut to them meeting at some bizarre place like a roller coaster or a cirque du soleil show.
sort of Amelie style.
After a conversation, have her write in the sand a location and time to meet. then after she leaves have waves/weather/children playing, etc erase the where. Then have her waiting for him and him searching for her. She feels he doesn't want her and he is in a panic trying to find her. After the time passes he decides to wait at the beach until she comes back. She doesn't show up, he waits and waits. then gives up, but leaves a message explaining what happened, just in case she returns. Days later she returns and see's his message. as she is writing a message to him, he returns to the beach, as he has done daily and see's her writing a him a message in the sand. As he walks over to her she notices him coming towards her, wondering if fate is finally bring them face to face. She starts walking to him and the meet. The End
ReplyDeleteI like the idea that the audience never knows. It's just a McGuffin.
ReplyDeleteIdea 1.
The words keep getting washed away. Each time, they discover better and better ways to communicate - with rocks, signals, etc, that slowly evolve into a meeting > handshake > passed notes across a table, morse code, and finally actual spoken words - maybe "Hello" is the final thing we hear or see mouthed on fade to black.
Idea 2.
Something involving iconic quotes from characters in unrelated classic films, which put together tell a story. The kicker is a shared love of cinema, and of course, the requisite date at a rep theatre.
Idea 3.
The lines are more cliche. "My name is Minnie. I don't know you, but I long for you." Kind of stuff. Goes back and forth, the romance developing. Finally, a meeting, some awkward moment where the guy moves in for a kiss, but she shakes her head and smiles, and points down - it's her dog, she was trying to set up her dog with his dog the whole time - she was 'translating'. He laughs and shakes his head, while the dogs play happily. AWWWWW.
Love these ideas. Definitely an Amelie theme going on here..!
ReplyDeleteI'm thinking a less happy ending... like the song entails. Maybe they finally meet and then she pepper sprays him in the face and runs away? Or do like an AFHV moment and just as they meet a kid throws a football and it hits the guy in the crotch *BOING* and the end? haha. I kid, I kid.
i'm compiling all these ideas. !
Oh good, I'm glad you said less happy ending. I would honestly not ditch the pepper spray ending entirely.
ReplyDeleteMaybe a bit obvious, but if she keeps writing 'It's over' and it washes away... trying to break up but not being able to do it, the guy trying to make amends, misunderstanding... not in the budget, but a plane with a trailing 'ad' that says 'it's over', and she points up and says "Do you get it now??" ha ha ha
or, easier to do - all signs point to the fact that it's over - literally. Get Jason to SFX all the signs to say 'It's over', but the guy just doesn't get it!! What a dolt!! I'm trying to break up with you AAARGH!
...and at the end they finally meet.. and she shoots him. boom. takes his dog and runs!
ReplyDeleteHA HAHA - yea... to the tune of Steve Miller Band:
ReplyDelete"ooooh - take the doggy and run... ooo yea!"
or... or... they meet and he turns out to be a wealthy man from saudi arabia and kidnaps her to be one of 50 concubines?
ReplyDeleteOR.. or... okay... at the end they meet and he turns into Decepticon from Transformers or he turns into Betty White.