I woke up feeling stressed today because there is just so much happening at the moment that I do not always know how to place everything in folders from A-Z. But it got me thinking what if the world of television and movies started creating stories that would be interesting and that motivates at the same time. I know there are many such movies out there but I am referring to all the little stuff that becomes so big within our minds if we allow it. I have never done a screenplay before so I did a very small one to explain a different path.
EXT. WOODS. NIGHT
The wind was raging
through the trees, rain pouring down as JESSICA ran towards the house slamming
the door behind her.
INT. HOUSE. NIGHT
There was silence in
the living room as the others looked at JESSICA soaking wet and shivering from shock.
MATT
What is going on?
Are you alright?
STACY
It looks like you've seen a ghost.
JESSICA
We have to leave,
now!
MATT
Tell us what is
wrong?
JESSICA
I told both of you
it was a bad idea and now it is after us.
MATT
JESSICA what are you
talking about?
STACY
Are u referring to
the Cave JESSICA, the cave with the bones? Oh you can be so silly
sometimes. I think I am calling it a night guys.
JESSICA
We did something,
there is something out there, stuff that are not meant to be real. You have to believe me.
MATT
It is raining Jess, it is dark. Maybe it's just your imagination playing tricks on you.
JESSICA
There was a boy
running through the forest, he looked like he jumped out of a fairy tale with leaves covering his body but I
ignored it until I heard an old woman calling out for Snow White. Once again I
thought it was just children playing, but then hiding within a stack of trees I
saw the beast, a man like beast, half human, half animal.
MATT
JESSICA listen to me
whatever you saw cant be real. Like you said it was most probably just children
messing around. I think we all just need a good nights sleep.
STACY
Agree, so that some
of us don't see something out of Peter Pan, the witch from snow white and the
beast without his beauty.
INT.UPSTAIRS. NIGHT
Lightning flashed
through the windows, small branches from nearby trees scratching against them.
A slow knock on the door startled JESSICA and the others.
MATT
Who on earth could
that be this time of the night?
WOLF
Let me in, let me in
little friends or I will huff and puff and blow your house down.
STACY
Oh you've got to be
freaking kidding me.
MATT
Stop with your jokes and go home. Mommy is probably worried about you as it's way past your bedtime.
JESSICA
We should have left that cave alone.
So this is what I came up with, silly I know, but this is before all the death scenes and stuff. What will come out at the end of this is focused on the paths that are chosen. Do you go looking around a cave that clearly says DO NOT ENTER. You always have a choice but normally our curiosity gets the better of us so we do go looking and sometimes we create problems and issues in our lives that aren't real. Like stress, what would a movie about stress be about...a stress monster that is destroying the world and it is up to the S.T.R.E.S.S.E.D team to deliver stress balls to everyone on the planet. If no one squeezes anymore, it is over.
I know this is all so far fetched that it sounds ridiculous, I know that too but wouldn't it be nice to put the movie in and watch the stress team in action, how they defeat the bad guy once and for all. Is that not better than chocolates ad cookies or coffee and ice cream, cigarettes, alcohol and all the other bad habits we use to sooth the stress within us. I think so.
I hope this makes at least a little sense as it does within this mind of mine. I know life is a stage, today I have broken my leg, allowed the fat lady to sing and watched the curtains fall. Luckily I have my stress ball.
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