Okay, for our Writing class, a friend and I are teaming up to write a movie script. Now, since this is about a movie script, I figured it'd be best suited here. Now, I'm not posting the whole script, as it's still in the works, but I may after we finish. Heres the concept.
*666 (Tentative Title)
An Atheist, Brian Locke, did more than disagree with the idea of religion. He hated it, hated it with a passion. He was on his walk home from work one hot, Summer day, and passed a local church. He mumbled to himself about his hatred toward it, and occasionally grimmaced at it, until finally passing it. He made it to his worn, dirty New York City apartment, arriving just in time to answer the phone. It was a coworker, who let him know that he left his camera at the office (Brian was a photogropher, working for the New York Times.) Brian left, back to his workpkace. He was stopped by a homeless man, but didn't feel like bothering with him, so he pushed the hobo aside, and walked onward. He picked up his camera, and made to go home. He was stopped by the hobo again, and couldn't seem to dodge him. He finally asked the hobo what he wanted, and the hobo asked him a question. "Do you believe in God?" He started, and proceeded to tell a story about how one must not take God, or Satan, lightly. Brian answered to this, calling it "Bullshit." The man told him, in response to this, not to toy with the power of God, nor the power of Satan. Once again, Brian replied "Bullshit." The bum then told him, if he wasn't scared, to dial *666, and see what would happen. He dubbed it, again, "Bullshit," and said that he would dial the number. He went home, and turned on the television. He got up, and looked at the mirror in his bathroom, and saw, or thought he saw, the hobo's reflection, and could've sworn he saw him holding a phone, and saying "Dial it." He kept having these images, until finally deciding to make the call. He hadn't been scared, but didn't intend to take orders from a hobo. However, he dialed the number, and heard a simple 'beep', a pause, and then a dial tone. Nothing happened. He laughed, and sat back down in front of the TV. He heard a noise from the kitchen, and walked into it, to see his dog, Butch, playing in a pile of trash, that he'd torn out of a garbage bag. Brian rebagged the trash, and decided to take it to the trash can outside. He opened the door, and stepped into, instead of his backyard, a vast, crimson world. Earth had become a living, breathing embodiment of Hell.
I'm too lazy to summarize the rest. Brian learns that he, the one who dialed the number, must save the Earth from Satan. Over the course of the script, a certain emphasis is placed upon the hobo, and he is revealed to be God. He had given Brian the 'advice' to dial the number because a good deal of Earth had forgotten about him, and religion all together. Brian ends up defeating Satan, and banishing him back to Hell, and gaining religion in the process. The world went back to it's previous state, and Brian was not the only one to have found religion. The people of Earth had stared God in the face, and could no longer deny his authenticity.
This is a poor summary, I know, but give me some criticism (sp?) none the less.
