High Noon at the Oy Vey Corral

After I failed to make the movie, I am giving away the script. Something in recent days has something obscure to do with it.

The script involves three major characters: Little Good Guy (LGG), Little Bad Guy (LBG) and Big Guy (BG). LGG has been threatening LBG to a fight for longer than anyone can remember. People can barely remember what the fight is supposed to be about. But LGG gets into a messy corner in his life and decides he can clean up his act if he attacks LBG. Only problem, LGG is to little to make the knockout by hisself. Now BG has always told LGG that he has his back, until just the other day when BG got insulted about something LGG either did or failed to do, no telling. BG tends to get miffed and unpredictable. LGG has a plan to force BG to come into the scuffle on his side just when BG has been bragging how he can settle deals; Big Guys make deals, only little guys have scuffles. So LGG has a plan to embarrass BG into coming into the scuffle. Only problem is that to embarrass BG into the ring he has to take a beating first.

That’s where the script got dicey. The director favored big drama, LGG actually ends up in the hospital and that makes a great scene for BG, dramatic visit to the ICU, gets all indignant and red on the face and goes after LBG. The producer felt this would be overkill and the audience would feel that BG was sort of a jerk for waiting so long if he planned to come in. The producer wanted LGG to get almost knocked out, and at the count of 9 BG jumps in dramatically. But the director was afraid BG might trip on the way in and then what? We went to casting with this tension in the air. That was a poor decision, The LGG didn’t want to get beat up at all, the LBG found the whole thing confusing and BG wanted to make both scenes and then decide. You can imagine what LGG thought of that. Strange, but this supposed script started to happen between the cast members until the producer just gave up and blamed the script and didn’t pay me.

SO for some reason it felt like the right time to share this strange experience. Just saying.