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May 25, 2006
Idea for Youth Sports Movie
I have been told that some Hollywood producers use the Internet, so I am going to throw up my best movie idea right here on my blog and wait to be contacted. (I cannot tell you my exact option price, but let's say it's betwen $450K and $452K.)
Movie Idea:
There is a youth sports team (could be baseball, football, soccer, curling, volleyball, softball, etc.) consisting of eleven super-skilled players - none of whom have shticks or one-note personalites quirks. Their team runs according to a semi-military discipline - perfect timing, "by-the-book" play, machine-like accuracy. Seasons are always 12-0. Their coach is not a maverick but an extremely wise and knowledgable mensch with over twenty-five years of coaching experience.
For the last decade, this team - "The Eagles" perhaps - has won the State Championship, and this year should be no exception. But out of nowhere comes this new team - a ragtag group of wacky misfits thown together by a maverick coach - who defy the odds and make it to the Final game. Out of sheer luck and the power of the human spirit, the ragged newcomers defeat the mechanical Eagles.
The third act of the movie concerns the human drama of losing, the pathos of giving your entire life to be the best and being robbed of the championship by undeserving, untrained nobodies.
In the postscript, however, we discover that the new Championship team imploded due to personality clash, and the Eagles go back to winning State for another decade - until the coach sadly passes away.
Posted by marxy at May 25, 2006 2:22 PM
Comments
Hey, if these youths can aslo find their first-loves despite class or societal barriers...
you've got yourself a deal.
Posted by: Rory P. Wavekrest at May 25, 2006 4:22 PM
...Whats up here? Are yall still talking about the little girl with big nugs?
Posted by: Rory P. Wavekrest at May 26, 2006 4:55 PM
People don't like it when my posts cannot be used to create a sense of smug self-superiority.
Posted by: marxy at May 26, 2006 5:14 PM
This post did that for me.
What's cracking on a Friday?
Im headed to that GAS sale with Gucchon right about now...
Posted by: Rory P. Wavekrest at May 26, 2006 5:58 PM
People don't like it when my posts cannot be used to create a sense of smug self-superiority.
correction, we don't like when you hog all the smugness for yourself, and don't leave us room to horn in.
Though to be sure, alin and dzima disagree with this entry, I disagree with them, momus likes japan, and some other people say less predictable things.
Posted by: nate at May 26, 2006 6:01 PM
Nate: yes.
Rory: we should use my non-Japan posts as a secret meeting place to dispense our weekend plans, since no one bothers to look at the comments.
Posted by: marxy at May 26, 2006 6:14 PM
This concept would have made the Bad News Bears Go to Japan much more watchable by severely reducing those smug little shits' screen time. Maybe Antonio Inoki could play the coach of the good team.
Posted by: Adamu at May 26, 2006 6:31 PM
I think the world is ready for a movie where the Bad News Bears are the bad guys - especially seeing that they are a metaphor for America.
Posted by: marxy at May 26, 2006 7:42 PM
Bill,
this entry seems to be inspired by Karate Kid.
Are you a Pat Morita fan?
Posted by: dzima at May 26, 2006 8:31 PM
does the maverick team contain a player hormonally advanced beyond their age? Is either coach a paedophile? How about the right wing nationalist angle? What if the games were all fixed by the media cartels?
Posted by: Chris_B at May 27, 2006 8:09 PM
I'll take it.
Posted by: B.J. Novak at May 29, 2006 4:08 AM
I have you cast as the "bad guy" maverick coach.
Posted by: marxy at May 29, 2006 10:34 AM