Thursday, February 15, 2018

Random movie idea

So I was thinking about death tonight, as I went out for my late night walk in the rain, and a pretty interesting idea for a potential novel/screenplay floated up to me: what if all death was, was just the immediate freezing, of the world, at that moment you died? I.e, if you were, say, shot in the head randomly, as you were pumping gas at a Shell station, and you died, at 3 Am, the whole world would just permanently be that exact minute you were shot, and everything in the world would be “paused” there, like a Blu ray. And when I say everything, I mean literally everything. 

For example, let's say that while you were shot, there had been an airplane passing by overhead,about to reach the small airport near your home. 

After you were shot and killed, but then got up again and “left your body” (having realized you were just killed), you'd still see that airplane paused, up in the sky, just sitting there. You'd also, of course, still see the people who were maybe pumping gas right next to you. A young girl with her head half sticking out of a backseat window. A Cadillac getting off the highway and turning into the gas station. A big tractor trailer, paused, with the wheel flaps as though they were in the wind, zooming by. And then too, when you ran home, let's also assume everything there was of course paused as well. Maybe you ran to the gas station,’for example, just to grab some potato chips and beer, during the middle of a night long session on World of Warcraft. 

When you got home, you'd see where your friends had been stopped in the game, at the exact moment of your death. You'd run into your roommates room, or your wife's--whoever you lived with--and you'd see them doing what they had been, the moment the snipers bullet ripped through your skull. Your beautiful wife is in the kitchen with a baby in her arms, burping him, as she talks on a cell phone and stirs sauce with a spoon on the stove. You try desperately to get her to realize you're there. She can't. 

In fact, when you touch her, you find her body is feels literally frozen, as though she's the one whose dead, and not you. It's impossible to move her. She's frozen solid, seemingly weighs a ton. You're able to move furniture, plates, cars, and other things, but not the people who were frozen. If a vehicle had a person in  it, you can't move it. Only one that had no one in it when you died, can be used. 

What would eventually happen, after days passed like this in the story? I think the dead character trapped in a “frozen world” would eventually have to meet some other livikg characters. But who? It could be anyone, I suppose. I imagine a scene where the dead character is falling asleep days later, following his death at the gas station, when someone comes upon him, and startles him awake. She saw him moving, and tracked him. 

We will make it a woman and who will she be? She'll be someone else who died, I should think, and who has been going through the same weird frozen world as he. She's from a few towns over. She's been on foot for days, just wandering around. 

“You're the first person I've seen, whose actually moving, in days. I'm from Wiltown. I..I think I died. I think I had a heart attack or something, sitting in my chair at home, while I was reading a book!”

“I know I died.” our main character will say. “I was pumping gas at a Shell gas station off the highway. Someone killed me with a sniper rifle!”

“Did you...see your body and walk away from it after?”

“Yes.”

“And then did you see everyone else frozen, doing exactly what they were doing when you died, like all these people and cars stil around us here?”

“Yes.”

Then they'll realize they're both dead for sure, and not crazy, and they'll start to love one another. They'll travel far and wide together through this frozen world. We could eventually even make it so that they do something ridiculous, like find a retired pilot who died drowning, and he ends up flying them in a jet plane all over this frozen world. This all just goes on for what, to them, feels like years and years, and eventually decades, but no matter where they go, nothing ever changes. Everything, no matter how far they travel,  is always precisely as it was the moment they died, at 3 AM that one night. So , for instance, if they ever want to see daylight again, they literally need to find that dead pilot to fly them to the other side of the globe, cause otherwise they never could. All of the US is trapped in a permanent night for them. The entire american continent nothing but night, forever, in their world. And as for Europe, it's trapped permanently at 9 AM, forever. 

It could be a cool movie. I'd like it if someone like Jennifer Connelly played the woman who finds the guy , and maybe for him, someone like Matt Damon or something, I don't know. Channing Tatum. I'm not really up on movie stars. I just think it'd be cool. 




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