(urban street 10:00pm with a homeless man sleeping on a bus stop bench. Cop car comes and parks at the bus stop. Cop walk out and goes to homeless man)
Cop: (waking him up) All right now wake up now you're under arrest.
Vagrant: What? What for?
Cop: (threateningly) Do I have to remind you that you have the right to remain silent fella?
Vagrant: Habeas Corpus
Cop: (shocked, embarrassed) Oh Damn this one's read up on the Constitution. Well you're under arrest for loitering
Vagrant: I'm not loitering I'm homeless.
Cop: So you're still loitering
Vagrant: Well I have to sleep somewhere?
Cop: Well decent, law-biding, economically viable citizens need to use this space.
Vagrant: Where are they? The bus doesn't come until 7:15 in the morning. Do you see a bus coming (looks around) nope no bus (shocked) but there's a cop car parked in it's place.
Cop: (noticing brown paper bag under the bench) Aha you're under arrest for being drunk in public
Vagrant: I demand a breathalyser test.
Cop: (surprised) I don't have one on me. So stand up on one leg and count to ten. (Vagrant stands on his left leg, while the cop grabs the brown paper sack. The vagrant tries to grab it from the cop but falls down) All right that proves it you're under arrest
Vagrant: So what's in the sack?
Cop: The evidence apparently.
Vagrant: I'll waive my right to a warrant if you just reach in and let me see what's in it.
Cop: (reaches in) Okay fine it's (pulls out Aquafina bottle) Zima disguised as Aquafina.
Vagrant: Do you really think any court in the land will believe that?
Cop: That doesn't matter, what does is now the police department has someone to prosecute in place of all the murderers and rapists we can't seem to catch. Hey if you confess to some of those we can save some court money and go light on your sentencing.
Vagrant: But you were already going to send me to court for public drunkenness?
Cop: Public intoxication, besides that would have been for show, a criminal confession gets more press.
Vagrant: Fine I did it all what are the murder and rape charges at least I'll have a decent place to sleep, I haven't had one since they closed the homeless shelter to put up a Starbucks
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Thursday, January 22, 2009
Movie Idea- Strange Bed Fellows
Genre: Romantic Comedy (a Pygmalion by accident)
Characters:
John Palin- Rochester paralegal student moves to Brooklyn for his first job and lives alone for the first time away from his traditional family suburb values
Tera Moore- homeless reforming prostitute who takes offer to live with John Palin to keep him company
Matt Palin- casually indifferent father of John
Mindy Palin- disapproving and over disciplinarian mother of John
Plot: John Palin from Rochester, New York freshly graduated from a community college takes a paralegal job in Brooklyn at the firm of Chapman, Cleese & Jones doing mostly pro bono work defending impoverished defendants. After moving into New York City he walks through Manhattan's Central Park finding a female drifter (and unbeknown to him reforming prostitute) Tera Moore and offers to take her out to dinner and while out offers a place for her to stay (a spare room in his Brooklyn apartment). Out of desperation and the need of a new surrounding she takes the offer to live with him. After some time of living with John her gratitude and respect turn into love and guilt. She gets the need to provide for herself so she can move out and not feel guilty taking advantage of this one nice guy drives her back into prostitution. She gets arrested and receives to her embarrassment John Palin as part of her legal defense and gets her off the charges afterward he is willing to make things honorable by marrying her which she accepts he gets her off the charge.
Scene 1) John's graduation party from college and announces his job offer in Brooklyn
Scene 2) Various family members warn about city dangers and his tendency to trust too many people
Scene 3) His move from Rochester to Brooklyn
Scene 4) Finding a new routine now that he is alone in a new environment disrupting his previous patterns
Scene 5) Arriving at the firm learning the unwritten laws of how to act in front of different workers at the law firm
Scene 6) After work takes a walk in Central Park and meets Tera Moore and takes her out
Scene 7) John and Tera eat a fancy but cheap dinner with Tera talking about her childhood and John offers her a place to stay
Scene 8) After waking up in John's spare room she finds he made her breakfast in bed
Scene 9) First case defending a homeless beggar in a loitering case
Scene 10) First pay check and an office party
Scene 11) John Palin goes to a mall to buy dresses and intimate gifts for Tera to wear to the office party
Scene 12) Tera receives these gifts feeling bad that this man she hardly knows is the first person ever to buy her a gift
Scene 13) John and Tera go to the party as dates
Scene 14) John gives Tera an expensive necklace
Scene 15) John hears his parents Matt and Mindy are going to come over
Scene 16) Tera starts making friends with other office wives and apartment neighbors
Scene 17) Tera's friends help give her a new make over
Scene 18) John wins his first case of the beggar loitering
Scene 19) Parents come by and disapprove of Tera living with him
Scene 20) Tera looks for a job to move out on her own unbeknown to John, to make peace in his family
Scene 21) Tera just falls back into prostitution in secret saving up money to live in another apartment
Scene 22) Looking for a new home alone
Scene 23) John takes Tera out on a second date
Scene 24) Resenting a gift John gets her she ends the date early and go back to the apartment
Scene 25) Back at the apartment tries to figure out what went wrong at dinner
Scene 26) John finds out about her apartment search the next morning when he finds an apartment guide and feels betrayed and deceived
Scene 27) John confronts her and she says she can't live with someone so nice because she doesn't trust nice people because of someone particular in her past was a manipulative charmer
Scene 28) John has a bad day and a bad attitude at work
Scene 29) An awkward night home, very little conversation
Scene 30) Tera alone at night working gets arrested
Scene 31) John wakes up alone and depressed
Scene 32) John finds out at work he is to defend Tera Moore
Scene 33) At the interview with her legal team Tera tells John all the parts of her life that she left out from the time she ran away from home at 17
Scene 34) Court scene with an early dismissal getting the charges dropped
Scene 35) John proposes to her and offers a job as his secretary so she wouldn't feel guilty living with him
Scene 36) A wedding and happily ever after
Characters:
John Palin- Rochester paralegal student moves to Brooklyn for his first job and lives alone for the first time away from his traditional family suburb values
Tera Moore- homeless reforming prostitute who takes offer to live with John Palin to keep him company
Matt Palin- casually indifferent father of John
Mindy Palin- disapproving and over disciplinarian mother of John
Plot: John Palin from Rochester, New York freshly graduated from a community college takes a paralegal job in Brooklyn at the firm of Chapman, Cleese & Jones doing mostly pro bono work defending impoverished defendants. After moving into New York City he walks through Manhattan's Central Park finding a female drifter (and unbeknown to him reforming prostitute) Tera Moore and offers to take her out to dinner and while out offers a place for her to stay (a spare room in his Brooklyn apartment). Out of desperation and the need of a new surrounding she takes the offer to live with him. After some time of living with John her gratitude and respect turn into love and guilt. She gets the need to provide for herself so she can move out and not feel guilty taking advantage of this one nice guy drives her back into prostitution. She gets arrested and receives to her embarrassment John Palin as part of her legal defense and gets her off the charges afterward he is willing to make things honorable by marrying her which she accepts he gets her off the charge.
Scene 1) John's graduation party from college and announces his job offer in Brooklyn
Scene 2) Various family members warn about city dangers and his tendency to trust too many people
Scene 3) His move from Rochester to Brooklyn
Scene 4) Finding a new routine now that he is alone in a new environment disrupting his previous patterns
Scene 5) Arriving at the firm learning the unwritten laws of how to act in front of different workers at the law firm
Scene 6) After work takes a walk in Central Park and meets Tera Moore and takes her out
Scene 7) John and Tera eat a fancy but cheap dinner with Tera talking about her childhood and John offers her a place to stay
Scene 8) After waking up in John's spare room she finds he made her breakfast in bed
Scene 9) First case defending a homeless beggar in a loitering case
Scene 10) First pay check and an office party
Scene 11) John Palin goes to a mall to buy dresses and intimate gifts for Tera to wear to the office party
Scene 12) Tera receives these gifts feeling bad that this man she hardly knows is the first person ever to buy her a gift
Scene 13) John and Tera go to the party as dates
Scene 14) John gives Tera an expensive necklace
Scene 15) John hears his parents Matt and Mindy are going to come over
Scene 16) Tera starts making friends with other office wives and apartment neighbors
Scene 17) Tera's friends help give her a new make over
Scene 18) John wins his first case of the beggar loitering
Scene 19) Parents come by and disapprove of Tera living with him
Scene 20) Tera looks for a job to move out on her own unbeknown to John, to make peace in his family
Scene 21) Tera just falls back into prostitution in secret saving up money to live in another apartment
Scene 22) Looking for a new home alone
Scene 23) John takes Tera out on a second date
Scene 24) Resenting a gift John gets her she ends the date early and go back to the apartment
Scene 25) Back at the apartment tries to figure out what went wrong at dinner
Scene 26) John finds out about her apartment search the next morning when he finds an apartment guide and feels betrayed and deceived
Scene 27) John confronts her and she says she can't live with someone so nice because she doesn't trust nice people because of someone particular in her past was a manipulative charmer
Scene 28) John has a bad day and a bad attitude at work
Scene 29) An awkward night home, very little conversation
Scene 30) Tera alone at night working gets arrested
Scene 31) John wakes up alone and depressed
Scene 32) John finds out at work he is to defend Tera Moore
Scene 33) At the interview with her legal team Tera tells John all the parts of her life that she left out from the time she ran away from home at 17
Scene 34) Court scene with an early dismissal getting the charges dropped
Scene 35) John proposes to her and offers a job as his secretary so she wouldn't feel guilty living with him
Scene 36) A wedding and happily ever after
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