omni-comprehension-the contrary: movie guideline
this is everything so far. so close to the end, just have to work on it i little later. i still don't know what to name the characters though. the title was hard to think of though
scene 1:
he tells the audience to rewind
(flashback)
the main character is at school. he finds himself in a confrontation with a kid he doesnt get along with, the 2 get into a heated argument. the 2 meet in the locker room downstairs, as the 2 are prepared to fight each other. the main character loses the fight due and experiences blunt force trauma the the head and forfeits.
(end flashback).
the character is at the bar with his friend and looks back over his blunder of getting his ass kicked, while they order some drinks. the main character is confused about which more to be worried about: his ongoing migraines and head pain or the humiliation of getting his face wiped across the floor.
scene 2:
the main character wakes up the next morning.two days has passed. as he wakes up he is "somehow" healed fully from his wounds. he wakes up to get some breakfast. as he eats his cereal he says to himself in his mind before he makes a phone, with the phone in his hand "a banana would go well with this" a banana pops up in his hand were the phone was. he goes to school and meets up with his friend. he retells him the "strange morning" he had, with his bruises healing after a short 30 hours and the banana incident earlier that day. he recaps over what his friend brought for lunch that day, mexican baked fish. at his friends fish meal, he opens the lids to soon find live flapping gold fish in the Tupperware. confused angry and in a rage about the fish that come alive.
scene ???:
the unknown man walks into the office and puts all his stuff down. he goes to the computer and opens his word document project, but as he inspects the paper, there are edits that havent been made by him.lines that were add to the script that wasnt his own doing. he ponders upon this but due to his dilatory nature, he leaves it as it is.
scene 3:
him and his friend ponder upon the situation, how his powers came to manifest, how he was able to do the things he is able to do. so he recaps the fact "weird things have been happening since the day he lost the fight". the main character rewinds on the past two days
(flashback)
he talks about the day ever since he went to the bar with his friend, he dealt with intense migraines on the way home, and his head was "nearly pounding".he made an appointment for the doctor the next, sacrificing a day and a half of school. he goes to the doctor, asks "what now doc", telling him that he dealt some intense force to the head revealing a tiny hairline fissure to the skull. he gave him some pills to take, but never took them. said if he is still feeling pain to come into surgery.
(flashback end)
he realizes that he "popped something in his brain", unlocking anything they was holding him back for the rudiments of every day life "and then some". his powers are unlimited (short to his knowledge though).
he test his ability by distorting space time and just basically fucking around actually causing a shit load of chaos at his comical dispense. due to his blunders he turns his friend into a rabbit but quickly turning him back to normal.but before returning everything he gets a message(a man dashes down a street handing the character an envelope saying its a message). he leaves for the job interview.
scene ???:
the write and has associate sit in the coffee shop pondering about the wirtes experience last night, after the characters experimentation with his ability's and how it effected him unwilling at the same time. he describes the events as dealing out a million scratches at once, how everything was and tasted like a graphite pencil, and the never ending "blue, red and green". his associate wonders if it was lucid dreaming? or just dealing with personal issues. he links how this reminds him of this new paragraph he wrote in the script.the writer questions his friend and tells him "i think my story is coming to life".pointing out that the script itself makes general additions and changes in direction without him typing or him working on it himself. his friend tells him that he should check out psychoanalytic therapist about this...
scene 4:
the character is at the job interview, having put an immense category of talents and skills (knowing that he could do it anyway) that the job requires on the resume, the interviewer questions the fact if he is just coaxing him to see and hear what he wants to see or if he BSing. just to show an example of what he could do , he takes his wristwatch without even moving or twitching, leaving the interview in awe. the main character likes the interviews phone so he takes it from his person, without moving, once again the interviewer is just sitting there. the character says he is thirsty, the interviewer points out to the water cooler in the back, but quickly objects to the offer saying "his coffee did the trick", the interviewer picking up his mug and how it was from full to empty. the interviewer asks "did you just drink my coffee right now?". the main character replies and also retorts "im also eating your lunch too" as he just sits there in awe pondering on the situation. the main character proves hows he is more than qualified for the job at hand and asks if he can have the position.....and his vest(which he already had on him before asking), he replies and tells him to leave and that he's calling security. taken aback by the fact that they were behind him quoting "they're already here". he leaves the office. on his way out he bumps into a girls and says that she is hot, while she tells him to fuck off he replies and says she should give him her cell number, she tells him to drop dead but the main quickly retorts saying that he already got it, quoting "you gave it to me when you weren't paying attention" playing mind games with her flashing the number on his hand in his face, asking "is this not your hand writing, you wrote it on my palm just now". left in astonishment.
scene 5:
now that the character is at near deity status being able to whatever he wants and has a general understanding of his power, he calls his friend and tells him about his "new world order idea". his friend kept asking him about the interview and told him that he "nearly made him shit bricks".
scene ???:
the writer quickly takes note of the characters actions, whereabouts and plans via the latest script edit. he realizes his mistake and "well this tears it" moment. he makes some additions to the script saying the character meets the writer at his house the next day, and that the writer is impervious to whatever the character does to him if his calculations to what he thinks is true. the writer plots about tomorrow.
scene 6:
the character walks to the unknown dudes house that day...........
To be finished ASAP

Comments
Prince! This was a very
Prince!
This was a very important draft that you wrote because you have started to introduce the unknown character that is ultimately controlling the main character! How exciting! This first introduction is extremely important because he is apart of the big twist ending and I think that it's imperative that he is left mysterious until the very end. Have you thought at all about maybe making him not speak until the two characters finally meet? You could just find out that he is writing the same story as what is happening to the main character through shots of his computer screen or notebook or something. Just and idea...I like that he is shown only in short scenes in between the story of the main character discovering his power. I am a little confused about the scene between scenes 3 and 4 though. Has he written about the character or just dreamt about him. How does he know his story has come to life? How does he know the main character? At the end you also mention that the main character is going to his house but you have not established why or how they know each other. From when you were talking about it in class I was under the impression that the writer would not reveal himself to the character until the very end and that he knew all along he had the power to control the main character.
Also a few more questions... What is his "new world order"idea? How does the main character realize that he had popped something in his brain to unleash these powers? Did the doctor tell him?
I think this is a great outline but once you feel satisfied with how the story is written out I want to hear more specifics on how this translates to the screen.
Thanks!
Lenora
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