WEBVTT - Episode 3 - Who’s Zach Barff? 0:00:05.640 --> 0:00:08.600 Welcome to Get It to Dutch, a screenwriter's Journey. 0:00:08.680 --> 0:00:11.040 I'm Mark, I'm Greg, I'm Brendan, and. 0:00:10.960 --> 0:00:13.480 We are a team of Hollywood screenwriters who meet every 0:00:13.480 --> 0:00:15.680 week to read from an original screenplay that one of 0:00:15.760 --> 0:00:17.880 us has written. We give notes and rank the scripts, 0:00:17.880 --> 0:00:19.119 and at the end of the season, we're going to 0:00:19.160 --> 0:00:23.000 pitch the best script for big time Hollywood producer Dutch Huxley, 0:00:23.800 --> 0:00:24.919 who is dead. 0:00:25.079 --> 0:00:26.960 There he is finally came around. 0:00:27.040 --> 0:00:30.240 Well, you know what, truth shall shut you free. 0:00:30.320 --> 0:00:32.519 The truth will shit your pants. And the thing is, 0:00:32.760 --> 0:00:34.800 at first, when Greg told us that Dutch was dead, 0:00:34.840 --> 0:00:36.680 I didn't believe it. I was in denial. I will 0:00:36.680 --> 0:00:38.760 admit that. But now I'm happy to say that I've 0:00:38.760 --> 0:00:42.320 done my research and I am out of denial. Dutch 0:00:42.560 --> 0:00:43.720 is definitely dead. 0:00:43.840 --> 0:00:45.760 And this has nothing to do with the fact that 0:00:45.800 --> 0:00:46.960 you got Snopes checked. 0:00:47.080 --> 0:00:49.720 Well, that's true. I posted my dutches a live theory 0:00:49.800 --> 0:00:53.000 on Facebook and Snopes debunked it really quick. 0:00:53.159 --> 0:00:53.360 Yeah. 0:00:53.600 --> 0:00:56.000 But now, of course we're pivoting from trying to get 0:00:56.000 --> 0:00:59.120 our script to Dutch to trying to pitch to the 0:00:59.280 --> 0:01:03.200 air Apparent to Dutch's Empire, which is Dutch's son Duck. 0:01:03.400 --> 0:01:06.000 And just to remind everyone, Duck is my friend and 0:01:06.040 --> 0:01:08.440 my connection, and so now it seems. 0:01:08.640 --> 0:01:10.440 Yep, can you sleep on his couch? 0:01:11.120 --> 0:01:13.280 Ducks Ducks, I bet he's got a nice one. 0:01:13.360 --> 0:01:16.080 Well he has, no, he's I don't want to he's 0:01:16.120 --> 0:01:19.640 my friend. I don't want to abuse that relationship. 0:01:19.120 --> 0:01:20.440 But you want to abuse this one. 0:01:20.640 --> 0:01:23.160 It's well right now, it's the This is kind of 0:01:23.240 --> 0:01:26.360 quid pro quo, Mark, I give you screenwriting advice. You 0:01:26.440 --> 0:01:28.120 let me sleep on this piece of shit popas on 0:01:28.200 --> 0:01:29.120 or whatever this thing is. 0:01:29.440 --> 0:01:32.320 Who's giving who advice? Can we move on to new business? 0:01:32.400 --> 0:01:34.560 You know what? Duck has a sunken couch. Have you 0:01:34.560 --> 0:01:36.320 ever seen one of those? It's like a bed in 0:01:36.360 --> 0:01:36.760 the floor. 0:01:36.959 --> 0:01:39.640 Oh so cool to be rich. 0:01:41.240 --> 0:01:42.640 New business. Brendan, you go first. 0:01:43.600 --> 0:01:45.399 I'll do that part. Brendan, you go first. 0:01:45.400 --> 0:01:47.440 Well is it Greg's podcast now, because no. 0:01:47.280 --> 0:01:49.840 It's not. It's nobody's podcast. It's always been all of 0:01:49.840 --> 0:01:53.520 our podcast. Just so happens that Greg does coke with 0:01:53.760 --> 0:01:55.240 the guy that we're trying to get a script to. 0:01:55.360 --> 0:01:58.240 Don't do coke anymore. We do other stuff. It's more interesting. 0:01:58.600 --> 0:01:59.960 Oh, you're growing up. 0:02:00.960 --> 0:02:03.400 We have a new drug that we're trying. It's like coke, 0:02:03.440 --> 0:02:07.160 but it makes you interesting PEPSI huh, all right. 0:02:07.120 --> 0:02:08.400 New business, new business. 0:02:08.520 --> 0:02:13.120 Well, I guess everybody's probably buzzing about my Big Wonder audition, 0:02:13.320 --> 0:02:15.600 the remake of Small Wonder. 0:02:15.639 --> 0:02:16.840 Of course, how'd that go? 0:02:17.080 --> 0:02:20.440 Well? I felt great in the room casting reached out 0:02:20.480 --> 0:02:23.840 to my manager at A one Entertainment A Steak Sauce. No, 0:02:24.040 --> 0:02:27.000 this is it has nothing to do with the steak sauce. 0:02:27.000 --> 0:02:29.720 I don't think different department. I'm part of the B 0:02:29.800 --> 0:02:31.560 two wing of A one Entertainment. 0:02:31.919 --> 0:02:33.600 Uh, second tier talent. 0:02:33.760 --> 0:02:35.200 Yeah, I'm looking it up now. 0:02:35.240 --> 0:02:35.720 A one is. 0:02:35.760 --> 0:02:37.840 Actually it seems like they represent mostly children. 0:02:38.120 --> 0:02:40.440 Yeah, yeah, I kind of. I got in there when 0:02:40.440 --> 0:02:42.520 I was in my twenties and I still look sixteen. 0:02:42.600 --> 0:02:45.480 And you know, credit to my manager, Nan Plympton. She 0:02:45.760 --> 0:02:48.760 never let me go. I really appreciate Nan. She's works 0:02:48.840 --> 0:02:51.280 very hard for me, and she reached out to them. 0:02:51.320 --> 0:02:54.520 They said audition went great, great, they said they were 0:02:54.520 --> 0:02:55.160 big fans. 0:02:55.520 --> 0:02:57.359 Okay, and never a good sign. 0:02:57.480 --> 0:02:59.799 I haven't heard anything since. Yeah, so I made it's off. 0:03:00.360 --> 0:03:01.480 God damn fucking shit. 0:03:02.240 --> 0:03:04.480 Well you all know, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey hey, 0:03:04.520 --> 0:03:08.120 Now listen, this is just today. Who knows what's gonna happen. 0:03:08.800 --> 0:03:10.920 Big fans is what you say to somebody you don't 0:03:10.919 --> 0:03:11.480 want to work with. 0:03:11.600 --> 0:03:14.320 Yeah, that's kind of Hollywood code for thanks. But no, 0:03:15.120 --> 0:03:15.640 it's just. 0:03:15.639 --> 0:03:17.960 Insane because I had them laughing in the room, they 0:03:17.960 --> 0:03:20.680 were rolling. The little fella they had reading with me 0:03:20.919 --> 0:03:23.400 gave me no emotion, and I'm just blasting them with 0:03:23.440 --> 0:03:24.080 these lines. 0:03:24.320 --> 0:03:26.239 And I think you have say little person. 0:03:26.320 --> 0:03:29.400 Now it's just a guy who works for. Okay, this 0:03:29.440 --> 0:03:32.800 little guy who works for he's dying. But then out 0:03:32.840 --> 0:03:34.480 of nowhere, they don't have me do the third scene. 0:03:34.520 --> 0:03:37.720 I leave. I'm a little bit confused. Bus ride home, 0:03:38.000 --> 0:03:40.720 Nan text me says, reached out to them, said you 0:03:40.760 --> 0:03:43.960 did great, Big Fans, And now I'm you know, over 0:03:44.080 --> 0:03:46.160 a week and a half later, still haven't heard anything. 0:03:46.280 --> 0:03:49.000 So this town just exists to build you up and 0:03:49.040 --> 0:03:52.040 then shit in your mouth and send it down the river, 0:03:52.800 --> 0:03:54.200 said visceral image. 0:03:54.040 --> 0:03:56.440 The strange metaphor all over that way. 0:03:56.720 --> 0:03:58.440 I didn't want to be on that thing anyway. I mean, 0:03:58.520 --> 0:04:04.080 reboots are ridiculed. Hollywood has no good new ideas. It's 0:04:04.080 --> 0:04:07.200 all realized. I mean, small wonder that is the bottom 0:04:07.200 --> 0:04:07.720 of the barrel. 0:04:08.200 --> 0:04:11.160 We have some good ideas, and I want to tell 0:04:11.160 --> 0:04:13.920 you something. I'm a big fan of yours. Okay, let's 0:04:14.280 --> 0:04:17.600 do no, no, no, that's a I'm a fan. So I'm 0:04:17.640 --> 0:04:20.200 a big fan. Why don't we get into Greg's new business. 0:04:20.320 --> 0:04:22.880 And hopefully this script today will pick you up. 0:04:22.760 --> 0:04:25.360 Because this is all I got, so please. 0:04:25.400 --> 0:04:27.080 One of these is going straight to the top. 0:04:27.200 --> 0:04:31.040 I have a great new business. I actually attended Dutches's funeral. 0:04:31.200 --> 0:04:34.320 Whoa yes, How did you get into that? Well? 0:04:34.440 --> 0:04:36.400 I pretended I was with catering, and then I just 0:04:36.480 --> 0:04:39.120 kind of got in and then I ended up getting 0:04:39.200 --> 0:04:41.920 up and saying a few words. What Yeah, it was great. 0:04:42.200 --> 0:04:44.560 You you can't do that at Dutch's funeral. 0:04:44.680 --> 0:04:46.800 Well, they kind of had an open mic, so I 0:04:47.120 --> 0:04:49.520 got up there. I mean, everybody in Hollywood was there. 0:04:49.560 --> 0:04:51.920 Some of the biggest names in Hollywood. You had Amazon's 0:04:51.920 --> 0:04:58.520 Carter Diablo, you had Ricky Tusker from Warners, Wow, Warners. Yeah, 0:04:58.600 --> 0:05:02.360 you had Fanny DeLong from Peacocks, and the who's who 0:05:02.400 --> 0:05:04.720 of Hollywood was there. And I thought this could be 0:05:04.720 --> 0:05:06.640 a perfect networking type of event. 0:05:07.480 --> 0:05:09.679 And you showed up to a funeral to network. 0:05:09.720 --> 0:05:09.840 Greg. 0:05:10.160 --> 0:05:12.160 Look, guys, I'm not going to miss an opportunity to 0:05:12.160 --> 0:05:12.880 get up and pitch. 0:05:13.440 --> 0:05:14.920 Well, how did it go? It went? 0:05:15.240 --> 0:05:17.280 You pitched at the funeral. 0:05:17.360 --> 0:05:21.800 I pitched on Mike, and during your words, yeah you pitched, 0:05:22.120 --> 0:05:23.760 I segued. 0:05:24.040 --> 0:05:26.640 What did you pitch in the room at a Where 0:05:26.720 --> 0:05:27.559 was it like a church? 0:05:27.880 --> 0:05:28.960 It was at a synagogue? 0:05:29.200 --> 0:05:32.680 Jeez, Louise, I think there's that's probably illegal. 0:05:32.880 --> 0:05:36.560 I pitched cia vers FBI what that's my script? I know, 0:05:36.680 --> 0:05:38.960 but it seemed like the perfect opportunity and I you know, 0:05:39.040 --> 0:05:40.160 I've always liked that pitch. 0:05:40.360 --> 0:05:42.000 Yeah, but that's my script. 0:05:42.000 --> 0:05:44.240 This isn't the whole thing. To do this together? Mark, 0:05:44.279 --> 0:05:44.799 who cares? 0:05:44.880 --> 0:05:45.880 Right? Well, how did it go? 0:05:46.400 --> 0:05:49.240 It went great. Everybody in the room was asking questions. 0:05:49.279 --> 0:05:50.440 Hey, that's good. 0:05:50.720 --> 0:05:52.960 Uh it was. It was a feeding frenzy. 0:05:53.200 --> 0:05:55.039 They were asking questions in the funeral. 0:05:55.160 --> 0:05:55.560 Yeah. 0:05:55.600 --> 0:05:59.800 And then of course Jim mcmanahanan from Sony, is in 0:05:59.839 --> 0:06:02.480 the back and I just got mcmana handled. 0:06:02.880 --> 0:06:05.600 Yeah. Ah, this is wait. What did he do? Well? 0:06:05.640 --> 0:06:07.840 He started asking all the wrong questions. 0:06:08.640 --> 0:06:11.480 I've heard of this. They call this the mcmanahanan panic. 0:06:11.760 --> 0:06:12.480 Did you panic? 0:06:12.560 --> 0:06:13.200 I panicked? 0:06:13.279 --> 0:06:14.760 Ah? 0:06:14.800 --> 0:06:17.720 It was a nightmare. He asked me what the season 0:06:17.800 --> 0:06:19.760 three arc was and I said, it's a feature. 0:06:20.880 --> 0:06:23.000 How did the the room react? 0:06:23.200 --> 0:06:25.800 Room didn't like it? The room totally turned on me 0:06:25.960 --> 0:06:28.520 mcmanahand threw a stapler at me from his seat in 0:06:28.520 --> 0:06:28.919 the back. 0:06:29.200 --> 0:06:29.279 What. 0:06:29.880 --> 0:06:31.520 Yeah, he brought a staple funeral. 0:06:31.640 --> 0:06:35.320 This is he wanted to teach you a lesson. Yeah, stapler? 0:06:35.520 --> 0:06:38.120 Yeah, I tried this thing, will never jam. 0:06:38.320 --> 0:06:41.080 Wow. Yeah, that guy's a real rat fucker. Anyway, he 0:06:41.160 --> 0:06:43.600 had everyone chanting hard pass by the end. 0:06:43.920 --> 0:06:47.960 Oh, and whole room of people channing art pass a 0:06:48.000 --> 0:06:49.160 second corpse in the room. 0:06:49.320 --> 0:06:52.800 Yeah, good thing. I did get the phone number of 0:06:52.800 --> 0:06:55.920 the widow Huxley. We're gonna have tea sometimes, madam? 0:06:55.960 --> 0:06:56.799 Do you have tea? 0:06:56.920 --> 0:06:57.200 Yeah? 0:06:57.320 --> 0:06:59.119 Is that why you've been drinking all my tea? 0:06:59.360 --> 0:07:00.680 Oh? Is this your? Yeah? 0:07:00.800 --> 0:07:02.280 Oh that grs. Greg gave me some. 0:07:02.360 --> 0:07:05.279 I'm sorry that's not his to give. But yes, you're 0:07:05.320 --> 0:07:06.720 old Earl Gray. 0:07:08.400 --> 0:07:10.520 Hey, that's a good stage name, you think, are you 0:07:10.560 --> 0:07:11.800 guys a big fan of Earl Gray? 0:07:12.000 --> 0:07:12.520 Huge fan? 0:07:12.640 --> 0:07:14.280 Well that's fucking trash then, isn't it. 0:07:14.400 --> 0:07:16.240 Why don't we get into the script, Greg, Why don't 0:07:16.240 --> 0:07:18.960 you set this up? It's your week to shine. 0:07:19.400 --> 0:07:23.200 Well, I'm so excited about the script that I wrote 0:07:23.240 --> 0:07:27.400 this week because I was really thinking that my generation, 0:07:27.960 --> 0:07:31.120 the millennials, needs I'm a millennial. 0:07:31.160 --> 0:07:32.520 We're the same generation. 0:07:32.720 --> 0:07:36.080 No, we're not. You guys have a millennial. No, you 0:07:36.080 --> 0:07:37.040 guys are way older than me. 0:07:37.240 --> 0:07:38.960 Really yeah? Two years older than you? 0:07:39.120 --> 0:07:39.440 Yeah? 0:07:39.440 --> 0:07:41.720 Well yeah, you might be two years older than me. 0:07:41.800 --> 0:07:44.559 But generationally we're like, really far apart. 0:07:44.840 --> 0:07:45.920 Am I a baby boomer? 0:07:46.080 --> 0:07:48.720 I don't think so. I don't think we're far apart anyway. 0:07:48.760 --> 0:07:53.000 I think my generation, the millennials, needed our movie. Do 0:07:53.040 --> 0:07:53.640 you know what I mean? 0:07:53.680 --> 0:07:55.120 But You're coming of age tail? 0:07:55.320 --> 0:07:57.120 Yeah, just the movie of my generation. 0:07:57.520 --> 0:07:59.920 Okay, what was my generation's coming of age? 0:08:00.000 --> 0:08:01.520 I mean we all had Garden State? 0:08:01.640 --> 0:08:03.840 Right, yeah? And look where you guys got, well, you 0:08:03.880 --> 0:08:04.320 had it too. 0:08:04.360 --> 0:08:06.680 Where did we get Garden State? Was also yours? 0:08:07.280 --> 0:08:09.440 No? I didn't understand most of what was happening in 0:08:09.480 --> 0:08:12.440 Garden State. You guys had Zach Barf. I need my. 0:08:12.760 --> 0:08:14.480 I don't think it's Zach Barf? Is it? 0:08:14.560 --> 0:08:17.320 Are you saying you're the Zach Barf of your generation? 0:08:17.440 --> 0:08:20.480 And I'm trying to give my generation a movie that 0:08:20.600 --> 0:08:22.760 Zach Barf didn't deliver for his generation. 0:08:23.160 --> 0:08:23.880 Zachly, Yeah it does. 0:08:24.040 --> 0:08:27.280 He didn't deliver. But you're saying, you're saying that that's 0:08:27.360 --> 0:08:30.200 my generation's coming of age movie, and he didn't deliver. 0:08:30.520 --> 0:08:32.880 No, and so I need to deliver from my generation. 0:08:32.960 --> 0:08:35.360 If that makes sense. I need to take the mantle 0:08:35.400 --> 0:08:36.160 for my generation. 0:08:36.720 --> 0:08:38.320 I still think we're the same generation. 0:08:38.520 --> 0:08:40.679 No, you guys were like old enough to be firefighters 0:08:40.679 --> 0:08:43.320 at nine to eleven. I had my little baby hands 0:08:43.360 --> 0:08:44.480 like gripping the tea. 0:08:44.520 --> 0:08:46.080 I remember younger than me. 0:08:46.200 --> 0:08:48.680 I remember looking at the television screen and going, like, 0:08:48.840 --> 0:08:49.679 what happened? 0:08:49.920 --> 0:08:51.400 You couldn't talk at age twenty? 0:08:51.559 --> 0:08:54.360 Hold on, you're telling me why why couldn't you talk? 0:08:54.400 --> 0:08:54.880 At twenty? 0:08:55.000 --> 0:08:58.000 I was watching as the horror. I was crying. Everybody 0:08:58.040 --> 0:09:00.600 around me was saying, what everything's changed now? Going, I 0:09:00.640 --> 0:09:01.120 don't know. 0:09:01.120 --> 0:09:03.160 You use the phrase what happened at twenty? 0:09:03.320 --> 0:09:05.679 I was just going, why can I say something two 0:09:05.720 --> 0:09:08.160 years later? Your little baby hands could hold a fire hose, 0:09:08.200 --> 0:09:10.600 Because that's the difference. Right now, you're saying we were 0:09:10.640 --> 0:09:11.600 firefighting men. 0:09:11.720 --> 0:09:14.120 If you were obeying, it was a sad day in 0:09:14.200 --> 0:09:17.560 my young mind. That forever, everything from that point on, 0:09:18.200 --> 0:09:20.520 like my generation was crushed by that, but in a 0:09:20.559 --> 0:09:22.079 totally different way than your generation. 0:09:23.679 --> 0:09:27.320 I feel like, okay, okay, sure, maybe I am old. 0:09:27.400 --> 0:09:29.160 Maybe that's why I didn't get a callback. 0:09:29.480 --> 0:09:32.000 Well, you're playing an old guy for Big Wonder. 0:09:32.120 --> 0:09:33.719 When you guys were coming up, you could buy a 0:09:33.760 --> 0:09:35.440 house for thirteen thousand dollars? 0:09:35.640 --> 0:09:37.880 What we could what? 0:09:38.360 --> 0:09:39.880 I should have been all over that. 0:09:39.960 --> 0:09:42.560 I didn't have thirteen thousand dollars on nine to eleven. 0:09:42.960 --> 0:09:44.480 Yeah, probably because you weren't a firefighter. 0:09:44.559 --> 0:09:47.000 Why did I fucking tour Florida for a year? 0:09:47.200 --> 0:09:47.520 You did? 0:09:47.600 --> 0:09:47.800 Did? 0:09:48.040 --> 0:09:48.240 Yeah? 0:09:48.280 --> 0:09:48.560 As what? 0:09:48.840 --> 0:09:50.360 Oh, it's the worst state in the Union. 0:09:50.400 --> 0:09:52.080 Well, I just wanted to kind of take a vacation. 0:09:52.120 --> 0:09:54.920 Could it afford Europe? Apparently I could have afforded a house. 0:09:55.000 --> 0:09:57.520 But Florida is not the Europe of America. 0:09:57.640 --> 0:09:58.360 No, it is not. 0:09:58.720 --> 0:09:59.319 It is not. 0:09:59.440 --> 0:10:01.080 What were you touring Florida? As? 0:10:01.240 --> 0:10:02.280 I just went up and down? 0:10:02.760 --> 0:10:04.040 Oh, you weren't doing it as a job. 0:10:04.160 --> 0:10:05.080 You America's dick. 0:10:05.160 --> 0:10:07.600 Yeah, I guess it, up and down America's dick. 0:10:07.679 --> 0:10:10.120 Anyway, let's get into this script because I'm so excited 0:10:10.160 --> 0:10:14.160 to give a movie to my generation, and this is. 0:10:14.360 --> 0:10:19.360 This movie is called The Boy, The Girl and Leopold. 0:10:19.000 --> 0:10:21.599 Ooh intrigue, can't wait to meet Leopold. 0:10:21.720 --> 0:10:25.080 Yeah, it's kind of an indie generational movie in the 0:10:25.120 --> 0:10:27.320 spirit of a Garden State, but not like Zach Barf 0:10:27.360 --> 0:10:30.600 would do it. So here's the plot. When aspiring young 0:10:30.720 --> 0:10:34.800 artist Graham Hash moves to Chicago, he falls in love 0:10:34.920 --> 0:10:38.320 and finds himself over three weeks and two thousand and seven, 0:10:38.880 --> 0:10:42.920 finds himself where he finds himself, and he's in Chicago. 0:10:43.000 --> 0:10:45.400 But he finds himself in Chicago, and it all takes 0:10:45.400 --> 0:10:45.920 place in the. 0:10:45.840 --> 0:10:48.079 Shadow of conscious Was he unconscious? 0:10:48.200 --> 0:10:50.040 I was a little bit because I was so young. 0:10:50.080 --> 0:10:50.839 Then oh this is you? 0:10:51.080 --> 0:10:51.720 Are you Graham? 0:10:51.880 --> 0:10:53.920 Well, it's based on my experiences for sure. 0:10:54.120 --> 0:10:55.560 Oh okay. 0:10:55.640 --> 0:10:57.439 And it all takes place in the shadow of the 0:10:57.480 --> 0:11:00.960 greatest financial crisis our country's ever seen, and tragedy worse 0:11:00.960 --> 0:11:01.640 than nine to eleven. 0:11:02.679 --> 0:11:04.480 I think we got to stop talking about that. 0:11:04.760 --> 0:11:07.040 Learning something here. I thought nine to eleven was worse. 0:11:16.000 --> 0:11:17.600 All right, set it up here we are where do 0:11:17.600 --> 0:11:18.080 we dive in? 0:11:18.160 --> 0:11:20.920 Okay? So the Boy the Girl. In the first scene 0:11:20.960 --> 0:11:24.079 we meet Graham, he's twenty eight, he's attractive. He works 0:11:24.120 --> 0:11:27.920 at group on, he likes IPA's, he has shaggy hair, 0:11:27.960 --> 0:11:31.199 He wears those snap buttoned cowboy shirts. He rides a bike. 0:11:31.280 --> 0:11:32.679 He listens to Modest Mouse. 0:11:32.800 --> 0:11:33.640 It's definitely you. 0:11:33.920 --> 0:11:36.040 Okay, he doesn't know who he is yet, but that 0:11:36.160 --> 0:11:37.959 is all going to change. And when we meet him 0:11:38.000 --> 0:11:40.360 at the start of this film, and this is a film, 0:11:40.440 --> 0:11:43.200 not a movie. He's on this terrible date and he 0:11:43.480 --> 0:11:46.560 escapes through a bathroom window. But he's about to meet 0:11:46.600 --> 0:11:49.840 the girl who's going to change everything. All right, So 0:11:49.920 --> 0:11:52.720 let's pick up on page Let's see, let's do a 0:11:52.800 --> 0:11:55.920 scene from page three. Okay, So Mark, why don't you 0:11:56.000 --> 0:11:59.720 read the stage directions? And Brendan, why don't you read 0:12:00.240 --> 0:12:01.720 the part of Imagen? 0:12:02.120 --> 0:12:05.160 Oh okay, all right, and you'll be graand oh yeah. 0:12:04.960 --> 0:12:07.280 Of course he use my sexiest lady voice. 0:12:07.960 --> 0:12:09.480 Just read it normal, all. 0:12:09.440 --> 0:12:11.200 Right, Page three, saying apple lady voice. 0:12:11.280 --> 0:12:12.920 Yeah, just read it in your normal lady voice. 0:12:13.000 --> 0:12:13.920 Oh all right. 0:12:14.320 --> 0:12:17.600 Page three, exterior bar night. Graham falls out of the 0:12:17.600 --> 0:12:21.319 first story window into a snow drift, the sound of 0:12:21.360 --> 0:12:24.560 a woman laughing. He looks up to see Imogen Wiley 0:12:24.679 --> 0:12:28.640 twenty one, quirky in that really attractive way. Razorcut bangs 0:12:28.800 --> 0:12:31.800 frame a flawless face with the exception of a gap 0:12:31.840 --> 0:12:34.080 in her teeth that is more cute than anything. She 0:12:34.160 --> 0:12:37.040 wears a Greek fisherman's cap with a down parka and 0:12:37.080 --> 0:12:40.280 smokes a hand rolled cigarette in her other hand, A 0:12:40.320 --> 0:12:43.080 heartbreaking work of staggering genius by Dave Eggers. 0:12:43.440 --> 0:12:45.880 Let me guess, bad date or did you just not 0:12:45.920 --> 0:12:46.760 want to pay your tab? 0:12:47.000 --> 0:12:49.560 Graham stands, brushing the snow off his clothes. 0:12:49.760 --> 0:12:53.000 Bad date? Oh shit, I left my debit card in there. 0:12:53.640 --> 0:12:56.719 You're weird, uh, says the person who's reading in the 0:12:56.760 --> 0:12:57.840 cold and the dark. 0:12:58.400 --> 0:12:59.319 You think that's weird? 0:12:59.520 --> 0:13:02.320 Watch the image and scrunches up her face, crosses her 0:13:02.320 --> 0:13:03.680 eyes and makes weird noises. 0:13:04.400 --> 0:13:08.880 We'll do it like cute though, Yeah, okay, what are 0:13:08.880 --> 0:13:09.360 you doing? 0:13:09.640 --> 0:13:11.360 I do stuff like that all the time. I don't 0:13:11.360 --> 0:13:12.439 know why. I just like it. 0:13:12.480 --> 0:13:13.320 Graham smiles. 0:13:13.720 --> 0:13:14.319 I'm Graham. 0:13:14.880 --> 0:13:17.960 Huh. You should pronounce it Graham like they do in London. 0:13:18.240 --> 0:13:18.920 What's your name? 0:13:19.440 --> 0:13:20.400 Wouldn't you like to know? 0:13:20.600 --> 0:13:22.840 She puts out her cigarette, swings a leg over her 0:13:22.840 --> 0:13:24.040 fixed gear bicycle. 0:13:24.120 --> 0:13:25.440 Wait, we just met. Where are you going? 0:13:25.559 --> 0:13:27.560 I have a gig see you window boy. 0:13:27.840 --> 0:13:29.240 Wait, what's your name? 0:13:29.480 --> 0:13:32.520 Calls over her shoulder, image and then she sticks out 0:13:32.520 --> 0:13:35.439 her tongue and disappears around the corner. Graham watches her 0:13:35.440 --> 0:13:38.280 go with a mix of thrill and confusion on his face. 0:13:39.000 --> 0:13:45.280 Imagen and scene. Okay, that's interesting. 0:13:45.000 --> 0:13:45.600 That's cool. 0:13:46.280 --> 0:13:48.559 That was a very me cute. 0:13:49.440 --> 0:13:53.080 Yeah they meet cute, so Graham and sort of the 0:13:53.120 --> 0:13:54.679 manic pixie dream girl. 0:13:55.160 --> 0:13:55.319 Uh. 0:13:56.240 --> 0:13:58.080 I wouldn't call her that. I would say she's a 0:13:58.080 --> 0:14:02.040 well rounded female character with lots of different feelings and emotions. 0:14:02.120 --> 0:14:04.400 He was stunning, but she's I mean, she's a she 0:14:04.520 --> 0:14:06.480 fits the mold. She's a manic pixie dream girl. 0:14:06.520 --> 0:14:09.720 Mark. This is based on real people that I actually dated. 0:14:09.880 --> 0:14:12.000 It's not a knock, but it's it's a movie trope. 0:14:12.040 --> 0:14:13.600 I mean, that's that's what you're setting up here. 0:14:13.760 --> 0:14:15.800 I'll say I was sort of cute. 0:14:15.920 --> 0:14:16.600 I was in her skin. 0:14:16.679 --> 0:14:19.400 I didn't feel manic, Okay, I felt beautiful. 0:14:19.480 --> 0:14:22.080 Yeah, And this is actually four girls I dated, all 0:14:22.160 --> 0:14:23.760 sort of wrapped into one. Wow. 0:14:24.160 --> 0:14:26.120 So what does Graham say to the other girl that 0:14:26.160 --> 0:14:27.040 he ditched at the bar? 0:14:27.680 --> 0:14:29.640 What does he Yeah, what does he say to her? 0:14:29.720 --> 0:14:31.440 Yeah? So he I mean the poor girl? 0:14:31.480 --> 0:14:31.560 She? 0:14:31.720 --> 0:14:34.320 I mean, does she think he's dead? Like, what's her situation? 0:14:34.640 --> 0:14:35.080 Who cares? 0:14:35.760 --> 0:14:38.720 Cares? Person that he ditched? Did you do that in 0:14:38.800 --> 0:14:39.280 real life? 0:14:39.360 --> 0:14:39.600 Yes? 0:14:40.160 --> 0:14:41.960 What did the did you ever see the person again? 0:14:42.080 --> 0:14:43.920 Is somebody who worked with well, the good thing back then? 0:14:44.000 --> 0:14:46.280 You probably too old to remember this, but back then, 0:14:46.320 --> 0:14:48.400 when we were dating in Chicago, you just kind of 0:14:48.400 --> 0:14:49.400 would climb out of windows. 0:14:49.440 --> 0:14:51.600 I had that happen to me a lot. 0:14:53.200 --> 0:14:55.760 Well, I don't remember that. Why don't we move on 0:14:55.880 --> 0:14:58.320 to what's the next scene you want to share? Well? 0:14:58.440 --> 0:15:00.960 The next scene is this is kind of where their 0:15:01.000 --> 0:15:05.800 relationship really starts to blossom, and Imagen becomes just even 0:15:06.160 --> 0:15:07.360 more interesting and well. 0:15:07.240 --> 0:15:08.440 Rounded more interesting. 0:15:08.520 --> 0:15:10.320 Okay, which page. 0:15:10.400 --> 0:15:12.520 Let's go to page thirty one? 0:15:12.640 --> 0:15:18.200 Here thirty one, all right, Page thirty one. Exterior Chicago 0:15:18.280 --> 0:15:21.400 Theater night. Imagen and Graham slowly walk down the quiet 0:15:21.440 --> 0:15:22.080 city street. 0:15:22.360 --> 0:15:22.920 I'm bored. 0:15:23.400 --> 0:15:26.120 Let's go find something fun. But it's eleven thirty. The 0:15:26.120 --> 0:15:27.280 city is dead. 0:15:27.320 --> 0:15:28.320 Not my city. 0:15:28.640 --> 0:15:32.440 Arcade fires, keep the car running, swells exterior street night. 0:15:32.560 --> 0:15:35.280 Imagen pushes Graham through a gap in a metallic gate. 0:15:35.480 --> 0:15:37.680 Come on, window boy, She pulls. 0:15:37.480 --> 0:15:39.440 Them down a dark tunnel. The exit of the tunnel 0:15:39.480 --> 0:15:43.680 to exterior center Field, Wrigley Field, Graham is in awe 0:15:43.880 --> 0:15:47.240 tag You're it? They laugh and chase each other around 0:15:47.240 --> 0:15:47.680 the field. 0:15:48.160 --> 0:15:48.840 Who are You? 0:15:49.160 --> 0:15:52.600 Cut to interior Tattoo Parlor. Imagen and Graham hold up 0:15:52.640 --> 0:15:56.080