Tuesday, June 30, 2009

Movie Idea "President Caesar"

Genre: Political Drama (or an accidental satire)
Plot: A secret Republican committee seeks to destroy the re-election for reformist Democratic President by using illegal resources and tactics such as document fraud, phone tapping, blackmail etc. Once destroyed politically the President is missing and the Vice President makes a martyr out of him giving his party even greater power to the shock of the Republicans
Characters:
President Michael Leonardo Kahn-Democratic president who is destroyed by a false note to start a war with Israel (Julius Caesar)
Vice President Max Little-Democratic vp who immortalized Pres. Kahn (Marc Anthony)
Representative Nigel Cavett-Missourian Republican (Cassius)
Senator John Brooks-Arizonian Republican (Brutus)
Scene Sequence:
1) Televised speech to the nation about his new tax reform plan with Congress beside him while Nigel talks to John between breaks about growing power being handed over to the Democratic Party
2) Nigel and John discuss matters in a secret caucus persuading John that although there are no grounds for impeachment President Kahn needs to be impeached before he abuses his power
3) Nigel schemes with conspirators save for John on how to take down the President
4) The scheme is formally announced to John Brooks getting his approval secretly taped
5) The conspirators record phone conversations between the President and the Tobacco Lobby and find nothing incriminating
6) False documentation of President Kahn adding his name to a list of Klansmen in the Portland Oregon district
7) Proof of its fraud is found out as Klansmen denounce any connection with him
8) A Washington madam claims to have the President as a client
9) Scandal falls apart as the story lacks consistency
10) John's wife tries to console him assuming he's worried about his own re-election while John nearly confesses everything to her
11) John goes to withdraw from the conspiracy only to find out he cannot
12) The group's final effort is a forged document of the President saying he wants to wage war on Israel to keep good ties with the oil industry
13) The document is linked to Israeli ambassadors who notify the prime minister
14) Pres Kahn tries damage control by taking Air Force One to Israel to speak to the prime minister
15) News reports Air Force One is missing
16) Vice President addresses mourning nation taking the President's place in his absence
17) Distressed by the turn of events each conspirator pays homage to the President as a cover up
18) Conspirators worry John Brooks won't cooperate and seek him out
19) Sen John Brooks is abducted and threaten with exposure from the tape
20) Worried speculation increases as John keeps tight lipped and recluse
21) In a studio the congressmen alter the voices on the tape except John Brooks
22) John Brooks resigns from the race
23) Nigel talks to John privately finds out John knew about the tapes by then and doesn't care just wants to distance himself from the whole situation
24) Knowing it is inevitable he drops out too
25) John Brooks blows the whistle on the conspiracy to the American public (the false note of war not the airplane missing which is till a mystery)
26) The next day John and Nigel are killed in a cover up as Pres. Kahn returns from his African hiding resort as planned and plays along with the theory of his abduction by Muslim terrorists

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