Movie idea
So, I've come up with an idea for a short film. If I ever decide that I don't need to be a part of normal society any more or I don't want friends, I will make it.
The basic premise is that the movie chronicles the adventures of a self-loathing Jewish homosexual in a concentration camp in 1944. The main character is young, conflicted, emotionally immature, and totally broken by the horror of his surroundings. As a result, he wants to die! However, he is a coward and is unwilling to off himself. Luckily, death is all around him, busily taking even people who are looking to avoid it...so how hard could it be for him to die, when he really wants to?
The answer: Very hard. Everything the main character does to get himself killed is a hilarious failure. He skips in line for the "showers"...and actually gets a shower. He misbehaves and is taken aside to be shot...and the MG42 jams. He starts a fight with a camp guard and is almost split in half by the guard's entrenching tool, but a girl who secretly loves him jumps between them at the last minute and "saves" him at the cost of her own life. And when he plans an escape along with several other prisoners, thinking that they will *have* to kill him once they catch him then, he actually manages to escape.
In the end, he mans up, realizes that if you want something from the world you've got to take it yourself, and jumps off of a bridge and lands on General Rommel's car driving through a valley far below, injuring all occupants, killing himself, and greatly aiding the Allied war effort by removing Rommel from the picture in time for D-day. (The Germans just said it was an aircraft that wounded him because they were embarrassed, the pre-credit scroll will insist).
The end!
The basic premise is that the movie chronicles the adventures of a self-loathing Jewish homosexual in a concentration camp in 1944. The main character is young, conflicted, emotionally immature, and totally broken by the horror of his surroundings. As a result, he wants to die! However, he is a coward and is unwilling to off himself. Luckily, death is all around him, busily taking even people who are looking to avoid it...so how hard could it be for him to die, when he really wants to?
The answer: Very hard. Everything the main character does to get himself killed is a hilarious failure. He skips in line for the "showers"...and actually gets a shower. He misbehaves and is taken aside to be shot...and the MG42 jams. He starts a fight with a camp guard and is almost split in half by the guard's entrenching tool, but a girl who secretly loves him jumps between them at the last minute and "saves" him at the cost of her own life. And when he plans an escape along with several other prisoners, thinking that they will *have* to kill him once they catch him then, he actually manages to escape.
In the end, he mans up, realizes that if you want something from the world you've got to take it yourself, and jumps off of a bridge and lands on General Rommel's car driving through a valley far below, injuring all occupants, killing himself, and greatly aiding the Allied war effort by removing Rommel from the picture in time for D-day. (The Germans just said it was an aircraft that wounded him because they were embarrassed, the pre-credit scroll will insist).
The end!