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I am at an impasse. At least I feel like I am.<\/p>\nI am at an impasse. At least I feel like I am.<\/p>\n
After I wrote those two sentences, my mind wandered. I thought I would insert the picture to show how liberal and open I am. I feel compelled to share my bliss. To let people know that harmony can be found.<\/p>\n
The picture is for a mock-up of a faux product I imagined. Something that popped into my head a few days ago. I was thinking of Maple Molly as a party pack. Something for four friends to have to sit and chill. It reminded me of my drug dealer. She’s not my drug dealer anymore. Now she’s a friend. I love it when people ask us how we met. I say, “She used to be my drug dealer.”<\/p>\n
I thought that would be an interesting exchange in a film. So I wrote an outline.<\/p>\n
Exterior cinema scene before the premier screening of a film.
\nAn interviewer asks the hero and heroine questions to build a story that leads to the question, ” How did you two meet?”
\nHe says, “She used to be my drug dealer.”
\nThey all laugh and head into the cinema.
\nScene: going through the lobby.
\nScene: getting seats and film starting.
\nDirty shot of the screen showing the film<\/p>\n
The film is the exact start of this film.
\nExterior cinema scene before the premier screening of a film.<\/p>\n
We cut\/zoom to a full clean shot<\/p>\n
An interviewer asks of the co-stars questions to build a story (same? different?) up to, “how did you two meet.” Heroine says, I can’t watch this. Scene: outside the cinema with hero and heroine<\/p>\n Patrons exit in a parade of praise. I am at an impasse. At least I feel like I am.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" I am at an impasse. At least I feel like I am. After I wrote those two sentences, my mind wandered. I thought I would insert the picture to show how liberal and open I am. I feel compelled to share my bliss. To let people know that harmony can be found. The picture is Read More …<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":26899,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[28,9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-26898","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-all","category-personal"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/andyrukes.ca\/greenroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26898","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/andyrukes.ca\/greenroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/andyrukes.ca\/greenroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/andyrukes.ca\/greenroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/andyrukes.ca\/greenroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=26898"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/andyrukes.ca\/greenroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26898\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":26913,"href":"https:\/\/andyrukes.ca\/greenroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26898\/revisions\/26913"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/andyrukes.ca\/greenroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/26899"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/andyrukes.ca\/greenroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=26898"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/andyrukes.ca\/greenroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=26898"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/andyrukes.ca\/greenroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=26898"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\nHe says, “She used to be my drug dealer.”
\nThey all laugh and head into the cinema.
\nScene: going through the lobby.
\nScene: getting seats and film starting.
\n—— This time<\/strong>
\nHero needs to go to the bathroom
\nScene: Philosophical discussion at urinal
\nScene: Re-affirming conversation with a young lady at the popcorn stand.
\nBack in the cinema he sits and watches himself leaving and going to the bathroom<\/p>\n
\nHero and Heroine exit the cinema.<\/p>\n
\nMore interviews and story building outside the cinema.
\nOff screen voice, “Cut! And moving on.
\nPull back to see a movie set … shooting the close-up of the scene we just saw.
\nRoll Credits<\/p>\n