Berta Grouter’s car slowly creeps into the drive way of her country home, the big white house with the green trim. She climbs out of the car. The dirt crunches under her feet as she steps down onto the ground.
***
“GO! GO! GO!” yells the general over the sound of the cannon shells. Wilhelm Grouter loads his rifle and sticks his head out of the trench just enough to see his target. He fires. His body jolts from the kick of the gun. The French soldier that he shot in the side crumples to the ground.
***
Berta grabs her bag of fresh lettuce, carrots, asparagus, and tomatoes out of the back seat of the car. She then starts towards the house. She stops to grab her mail out of the mail box.
***
BOOM!!!
Pieces of shrapnel fly in every direction from the grenade that was thrown into the trench. Blood splatters on Wilhelm’s uniform as a piece of shrapnel hits a fellow soldier in the chest.
“Oh my god!” exclaims Wilhelm.
***
“Oh my god!” says Betra as she reads the envelope before her. It reads: 1919 mulberry street Germany, Moscow. (The big white house with the green trim) Return address: German base camp. Unit number 28971 West France. She opens the envelope with swift accuracy careful not to tear the precious paper inside.
Dear Betra,
I hope all is well. I am doing fine… well as fine as I can be. How are you? How is Dad? Please tell him I said hello and that I love him. People are saying that this war will change warfare forever. We are fighting in trenches, boy are they grizzly environments.
All we have to eat is tea and dog biscuits. We get meat once a week if we are lucky. The trench is always filled with water. Dead decomposing bodies floating there next to you while you try to eat…and sleep. The smell is unbearable.
I am surrounded by death. Yesterday…or maybe it was today. I really don’t have a sense of time anymore. My vision is cloudy. I have seen too much blood. But anyway I shot and killed a French soldier. He didn’t look a day over 18. His whole life ahead of him and I gunned him down…
“Trench Foot” is a big problem here. When you get it your feet swell two or three times there normal size. You could shoot your foot and you wouldn’t even feel it. If your feet aren’t amputated then that is when the real pain comes…dead rotting flesh. I am fortunate and have not gotten it yet.
Some crazy son of a gun the other day went up and over the top of the trench when the French were firing at us. He went past the barbed wire and into no mans land. He died pretty quick…
There are rats everywhere. To them it is an all you can eat buffet of human meat. There is also a big problem with lice. I shaved my head but that didn’t help. Whenever I lay down they crawl all over me and bite my head.
Even though I am in this horrible place I don’t want you worrying about me. I will be fine. I always am. I can’t wait to hold you in my arms once more and continue loving you like I did. I will make it back alive. That much I promise you.
With love,
Wilhelm Grouter
p.s. I put a picture of me that someone took inside the envelope. This way even though I have been gone for so long you won’t remember what I look like…I love you Berta always and forever.
Sarah’s eyes begin to extract her cold tears. They tumble down her face. She is happy that she heard from him, but sad because she wants to be held again. By him, and him alone.
***
“This is it…” thought Wilhelm. I’m about to enter no mans land. William loads his rifle and his pistol and then grabs some grenades. Him and hundreds of men leap up over the top and charge screaming at the top of there lungs as they charge towards the enemy. There is a load bang and a flash of red mist. The next thing Wilhelm knows he is on his knees crying in pain and then flat on his stomach. His face mashed into the mud.
“NO! it cant end this way!” thinks Wilhelm. “I have to make it home!”
Wilhelm gently falls asleep and doesn’t wake up… he is gone.
Monday, April 26, 2010
Ideas, Ideas, Ideas...
1) Takes place in the near future (2015-2023).
Main character is a 30-40 year old guy who doesn't trust anything that's high-tech, or any robots, or anything like that. Kind of like the guy from I, Robot. Let's say the main character's name is Bob. Bob works at a place that manufactures software/hardware and robots, which is a reason for him to hate his job. He is slowly getting more and more depressed, but the one thing he loves more than anything in his life is his daughter (could easily be played by Dakota Fanning). One day after having a fight with his wife (about the non-trusting high tech stuff) he kills himself and his daughter; he didn't want to be in Heaven (or purgatory, or whatever) alone, you know. After he kills himself, it's kind of like what Dreams May Come just kind of shows what the afterlife might be like and stuff. It's a fantasy world where he can be with his daughter alone and no outside influences can poison her little mind. They are having a fair amount of fun, while back home, he is in a coma. His wife re-marries and after four years, he is rudely taken away from his daughter (he wakes up). During his coma, there could be a flash-back of his life two months before he killed himself, what led him to suicide, and whatnot. When he wakes up, he finds out there is a chip that the police wanted his company to make. They plant it inside 1-2 family members of the family to monitor the rest of the family, as a kind of way to go down on domestic disturbances and stuff. He comes to home to see his teenage son and his (ex)wife chipped. The thing is, they still have enough personality to fool the average man. After a week or so of the company of the new chipped residents, he begins to get really suspicious. After this, it turns into a conspiracy-type movie (I love those) and the government is hiding everything, and by now, he is wishing that he still worked at the place that manufactured the chip so he could find out what's going on.
TWIST ENDING = He gets chipped.
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2) Tommy Vega is one who escaped the clutches of the a notorious Italian Mafia, but not before swindling the kingpin out of hundreds of thousands of dollars. About 10 years later Tommy settles down in Las Angeles. He has a steady job, a wife (Clare), a daughter (Kayla). But most of all, Tommy prides himself off a 1969 Pontiac GTO.
But one day Tommy's daughter doesn't come home. For what reason was expressed in a chilling voice mail: "Tommy... you know who this is. You know the rules and what I want, you know what I'm after. That was a very stupid mistake you made Tommy. You're a very stupid person to swindle me like that. I want every cent back. I want you to bring to me. You've got 120 hours. That’s 5 days. If you're not here, expect Kayla to be dead, and then I'll come after Clare. And then I'll come for you Tommy. See you in New York."
Clare comes home to see her wooden floor torn up, and Tommy sitting on the couch with a duffle bag and tape. "We've got to go Clare. Kayla is missing. I know where she is."
Clare is swept up into a whirl wind of emotions before finding herself sitting in the passenger seat of the GTO. "What’s going on Tommy?"
"10 years ago I was a key part of a dangerous criminal ring. I dropped out officially, but I also took money that wasn't mine. It wasn't big enough for the kingpin to see, but obviously I was wrong. Clare is in New York, my old stomping grounds and the mafia's main land. The money is in the back in the duffle bag. I have this tape with explicit instructions."
Tommy puts the tape in.
"You should know the rules, but in case you don't... You cannot contact police or any authority. You cannot use the trains or airplanes. The Kingpin is furious. 5 days isn't much time. Keeping an average speed of 110mph should get you here in time. Do what you want Tommy. Sorry this has happened to you."
It was a different more sincere voice than what was on the voice mail.
As Tommy and Clare blast there way down to New York, they run into numerous factors. Police, weather and rival gang members who know Tommy's face by heart. It will be a long, tedious road to safe Kayla, but its one Tommy is willing to make.
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3) Dreams can be recorded and recovered from the past. A young archeologist discovers a prehistoric civilization while a psychic dreams the end of the world.
A tale of environmental and technological intrigue featuring global warming, dream recording, tsunamis, a “Final Days” suicide cult, rescue, romance, and two strong female leads. Set in two time periods 15,000 years apart.
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4) After having her heart broken, a woman discovers a new pharmaceutical that promises to chemically cure heartache. It works. But at what cost?
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5) Two teenage girls dealing with abuse, support each other in their individual battles to overcome the trauma and the realities of their damaged worlds.
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6) The Mournful Assassin: The cold war's greatest double agent\assassin comes out of retirement to exact revenge when a stupid drug war claims the life of his beloved grandson.
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7) Eddie Marks is a mentally challenged man who is terrified of the dark since a car accident he endured when he was 5 years old and his sister KAREN was 10. Eddie's parents were killed in the accident and he and Karen survived 3 days and 2 nights in a ravine. The 2 nights spent in the ravine attribute to Eddie's crippling fear. When Eddie is diagnosed with a disease that causes blindness, his sister Karen works tirelessly to help her brother before he would be cast forever into the darkness which he fears.
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8) "William Froste" A thirty-nine year old psychologically damaged mortician, still haunted by memories of a mentally and physically abusive childhood. Finally content with his lonely, quiet life and modest career, the arrival of wealthy and obnoxious neighbors force him out of his comfort zone and into a world of altercations and conflict. As his neuroses manifests, he begins misguidedly plotting the murders of his neighbors, all the while, remaining twistedly unaware of the evil his own psyche has breathed into life.
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9) A chemosensory expert learns to live in the moment as his own senses awaken through physical, emotional, and paranormal experiences.
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10) Ethan Thomas is a modern day highwayman robbing people on the vast open roads of Nevada. Unfortunately he robs the wrong two men and ends up stealing a car shooting one of the men in the process. In the trunk of the car is a young girl tied up named Dakota. It turns out she’s the victim of a kidnapping and was being taken to a safe house.
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Main character is a 30-40 year old guy who doesn't trust anything that's high-tech, or any robots, or anything like that. Kind of like the guy from I, Robot. Let's say the main character's name is Bob. Bob works at a place that manufactures software/hardware and robots, which is a reason for him to hate his job. He is slowly getting more and more depressed, but the one thing he loves more than anything in his life is his daughter (could easily be played by Dakota Fanning). One day after having a fight with his wife (about the non-trusting high tech stuff) he kills himself and his daughter; he didn't want to be in Heaven (or purgatory, or whatever) alone, you know. After he kills himself, it's kind of like what Dreams May Come just kind of shows what the afterlife might be like and stuff. It's a fantasy world where he can be with his daughter alone and no outside influences can poison her little mind. They are having a fair amount of fun, while back home, he is in a coma. His wife re-marries and after four years, he is rudely taken away from his daughter (he wakes up). During his coma, there could be a flash-back of his life two months before he killed himself, what led him to suicide, and whatnot. When he wakes up, he finds out there is a chip that the police wanted his company to make. They plant it inside 1-2 family members of the family to monitor the rest of the family, as a kind of way to go down on domestic disturbances and stuff. He comes to home to see his teenage son and his (ex)wife chipped. The thing is, they still have enough personality to fool the average man. After a week or so of the company of the new chipped residents, he begins to get really suspicious. After this, it turns into a conspiracy-type movie (I love those) and the government is hiding everything, and by now, he is wishing that he still worked at the place that manufactured the chip so he could find out what's going on.
TWIST ENDING = He gets chipped.
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2) Tommy Vega is one who escaped the clutches of the a notorious Italian Mafia, but not before swindling the kingpin out of hundreds of thousands of dollars. About 10 years later Tommy settles down in Las Angeles. He has a steady job, a wife (Clare), a daughter (Kayla). But most of all, Tommy prides himself off a 1969 Pontiac GTO.
But one day Tommy's daughter doesn't come home. For what reason was expressed in a chilling voice mail: "Tommy... you know who this is. You know the rules and what I want, you know what I'm after. That was a very stupid mistake you made Tommy. You're a very stupid person to swindle me like that. I want every cent back. I want you to bring to me. You've got 120 hours. That’s 5 days. If you're not here, expect Kayla to be dead, and then I'll come after Clare. And then I'll come for you Tommy. See you in New York."
Clare comes home to see her wooden floor torn up, and Tommy sitting on the couch with a duffle bag and tape. "We've got to go Clare. Kayla is missing. I know where she is."
Clare is swept up into a whirl wind of emotions before finding herself sitting in the passenger seat of the GTO. "What’s going on Tommy?"
"10 years ago I was a key part of a dangerous criminal ring. I dropped out officially, but I also took money that wasn't mine. It wasn't big enough for the kingpin to see, but obviously I was wrong. Clare is in New York, my old stomping grounds and the mafia's main land. The money is in the back in the duffle bag. I have this tape with explicit instructions."
Tommy puts the tape in.
"You should know the rules, but in case you don't... You cannot contact police or any authority. You cannot use the trains or airplanes. The Kingpin is furious. 5 days isn't much time. Keeping an average speed of 110mph should get you here in time. Do what you want Tommy. Sorry this has happened to you."
It was a different more sincere voice than what was on the voice mail.
As Tommy and Clare blast there way down to New York, they run into numerous factors. Police, weather and rival gang members who know Tommy's face by heart. It will be a long, tedious road to safe Kayla, but its one Tommy is willing to make.
*************************************************************
3) Dreams can be recorded and recovered from the past. A young archeologist discovers a prehistoric civilization while a psychic dreams the end of the world.
A tale of environmental and technological intrigue featuring global warming, dream recording, tsunamis, a “Final Days” suicide cult, rescue, romance, and two strong female leads. Set in two time periods 15,000 years apart.
******************************************************************
4) After having her heart broken, a woman discovers a new pharmaceutical that promises to chemically cure heartache. It works. But at what cost?
******************************************************************
5) Two teenage girls dealing with abuse, support each other in their individual battles to overcome the trauma and the realities of their damaged worlds.
***********************************************************************
6) The Mournful Assassin: The cold war's greatest double agent\assassin comes out of retirement to exact revenge when a stupid drug war claims the life of his beloved grandson.
************************************************************************
7) Eddie Marks is a mentally challenged man who is terrified of the dark since a car accident he endured when he was 5 years old and his sister KAREN was 10. Eddie's parents were killed in the accident and he and Karen survived 3 days and 2 nights in a ravine. The 2 nights spent in the ravine attribute to Eddie's crippling fear. When Eddie is diagnosed with a disease that causes blindness, his sister Karen works tirelessly to help her brother before he would be cast forever into the darkness which he fears.
******************************************************************
8) "William Froste" A thirty-nine year old psychologically damaged mortician, still haunted by memories of a mentally and physically abusive childhood. Finally content with his lonely, quiet life and modest career, the arrival of wealthy and obnoxious neighbors force him out of his comfort zone and into a world of altercations and conflict. As his neuroses manifests, he begins misguidedly plotting the murders of his neighbors, all the while, remaining twistedly unaware of the evil his own psyche has breathed into life.
************************************************************************
9) A chemosensory expert learns to live in the moment as his own senses awaken through physical, emotional, and paranormal experiences.
************************************************************************
10) Ethan Thomas is a modern day highwayman robbing people on the vast open roads of Nevada. Unfortunately he robs the wrong two men and ends up stealing a car shooting one of the men in the process. In the trunk of the car is a young girl tied up named Dakota. It turns out she’s the victim of a kidnapping and was being taken to a safe house.
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