Post by gabraham on Sept 15, 2006 10:34:48 GMT -5
I have an idea for a feature length film. The tentative title for the film is "The Wild Adventures of Sambo and Denver," starring Emmanuel Lewis and Gary Coleman.
The film begins in 1930's Mississipi. Sambo (Coleman) and Denver (Lewis) are the sons of a single, cotton picking mother named Jessa (Star Jones). Jessa's husband, Dwayne, was recently killed by a train when he got his foot stuck in the rails of a track, and through Jessa's flashback we see Dwayne carrying a bag full of liquor and grits, screaming when his foot gets stuck and gnarled and a train comes barreling through and blows him to crap.
Jessa is exhausted. To complicate matters, she has severe back pains and a crippling case of tendonitis, never mind the fact that she has to take care of Sambo and Denver, who are insatiable in their desire for cheap thrills. Every morning they promise to "stay home and read the bible," just like Jessa instructs, but as she heads out to the fields, they amble into town and watch the older kids shoot dice, smoke pot, and fight.
Haunted by the loss of their father and disturbed by Jessa's work load, Sambo and Denver take a street teen named Ben (Will Smith) up on an offer: hitch a ride on his truck in exchange for runnin' favors. The truck is headed for "beautiful, sunny California" where secret reserves of gold are supposedly buried in the vagina of a deep cave called "Lucky's Lurch."
"We can save mama," Denver says, "just fetch a lil' gold and bring it back and she a'int never gone need work again." Sambo is reluctant at first, but thumps his chest and quietly exclaims: "Let's do 'dis."
Off they go. Cinematographic brilliance will illustrate the golden beauty of a deep fried Mississipi, and Sambo and Denver swill whiskey from Ben's flask, all the while beatin ' out polyrhythms on a couple o' empty barrels. Hilarity and expansive mania charge through the truck like bright blue piss.
Back at "home," Jessa finds an empty house. Collapsing in a heap of despair and pain, she clutches her bible and begins to scream. "They done gone and left me!"
Barreling through the red states with zeal and amphetamine-crazed audacity, the trio rant and rave with rabid froth about the golden nugz in Lucky's Lurch, how they're "thick as a pregnant mama's ass." But 'round midnight, Ben swerves drunkedly into a live carnival, seething with life and nauseatingly artificial lights and dynamo rides. "Y'all wait here now, ya hear?" Ben instructs via a question, "or I'll beat y'all within an inch of your lives."
A few minutes after Ben busts outta there, Sambo and Denver run headfirst into the carnival's crotch, intoxicated by the ellusive delights. "Step right up! Step right up! See the bearded lady and the man with two heads!" but Sambo and Denver are seduced by a white devil (Gary Busey) who calls them over with a backwards bend of his index finger. "You boys ever been in the house of mirrors? Go on in, you'll see your souls inverted."
The boys are tentative at first, but hold hands and walk in. Inside they scream at their distended faces and are quickly wrapped up in a maze of reflection, left and then right and around and 'round...'till all is a blur, and causality and the separation of day is mixed up, and brief psychosis ensues.
Ben has left them, and the boys' only leader is the white devil, who tells them that he too is headed for Lucky's Lurch soon as his shift ends, and that he'll give them each two dollars if they gather up all the cans on the lot, run into town, exchange 'em for cash and bring it back to the white devil. They do just that to the tune of Duke Ellington's "Perdido," but now the mood is no longer so joyous.l
Next day finds them bleary eyed and homesick, riding in the back of the White Devil's vaccum sealed vehicle, barely able to breathe amidst the stifling heat within. The White Devil never speaks, only gives them sick and creeping looks every few minutes, bending in on himself and laughing with all the hidden confidence of a paranoid schizophrenic.
At "home," the woeful Jessa is being treated by a doctor who puts ice on her wounds and administers Diacetylmorphine. The doctor promises to stay with her until she heals, and as she brushes his face with her funny fingers, she says: "You are a gift from Christ himself."
Sambo and Denver reach the desert, covered in vomit and urine. The White Devil has picked up a pack of needy women, their track marks and broken noses hidden with caked on make-up. "This is the end of the line," the White Devil screams, "up and at 'em!" And he kicks the pair to the street.
"You smell the sea?" Sambo asks. "We're near Lucky's Lurch." The next hour of the film depicts the dehydrated and hallucinating Sambo and Denver, stumbling through the cactus-clogged desert, driven forth by a biblical determination.
The day arrives, and Sambo and Denver reach the sea. A chain of cars stretching on for miles leads into the vagina of the cave. A female cop (Annie Lennox) standing near the back of the line asks the boys what they come for, and when they reply that they come for gold, she smiles wryly and says: "Get in line."
The boys reach the cave after thirty hours of standing in wait, so weak they can barely stand, and once inside they find a row of tables manned by salesmen, each hocking lumps of phony gold chains and tacky pins. "Welcome to Lucky's Lurch!" they scream in unison.
The final scene shows Jessa and the doctor copulating, Jessa on top.
The film begins in 1930's Mississipi. Sambo (Coleman) and Denver (Lewis) are the sons of a single, cotton picking mother named Jessa (Star Jones). Jessa's husband, Dwayne, was recently killed by a train when he got his foot stuck in the rails of a track, and through Jessa's flashback we see Dwayne carrying a bag full of liquor and grits, screaming when his foot gets stuck and gnarled and a train comes barreling through and blows him to crap.
Jessa is exhausted. To complicate matters, she has severe back pains and a crippling case of tendonitis, never mind the fact that she has to take care of Sambo and Denver, who are insatiable in their desire for cheap thrills. Every morning they promise to "stay home and read the bible," just like Jessa instructs, but as she heads out to the fields, they amble into town and watch the older kids shoot dice, smoke pot, and fight.
Haunted by the loss of their father and disturbed by Jessa's work load, Sambo and Denver take a street teen named Ben (Will Smith) up on an offer: hitch a ride on his truck in exchange for runnin' favors. The truck is headed for "beautiful, sunny California" where secret reserves of gold are supposedly buried in the vagina of a deep cave called "Lucky's Lurch."
"We can save mama," Denver says, "just fetch a lil' gold and bring it back and she a'int never gone need work again." Sambo is reluctant at first, but thumps his chest and quietly exclaims: "Let's do 'dis."
Off they go. Cinematographic brilliance will illustrate the golden beauty of a deep fried Mississipi, and Sambo and Denver swill whiskey from Ben's flask, all the while beatin ' out polyrhythms on a couple o' empty barrels. Hilarity and expansive mania charge through the truck like bright blue piss.
Back at "home," Jessa finds an empty house. Collapsing in a heap of despair and pain, she clutches her bible and begins to scream. "They done gone and left me!"
Barreling through the red states with zeal and amphetamine-crazed audacity, the trio rant and rave with rabid froth about the golden nugz in Lucky's Lurch, how they're "thick as a pregnant mama's ass." But 'round midnight, Ben swerves drunkedly into a live carnival, seething with life and nauseatingly artificial lights and dynamo rides. "Y'all wait here now, ya hear?" Ben instructs via a question, "or I'll beat y'all within an inch of your lives."
A few minutes after Ben busts outta there, Sambo and Denver run headfirst into the carnival's crotch, intoxicated by the ellusive delights. "Step right up! Step right up! See the bearded lady and the man with two heads!" but Sambo and Denver are seduced by a white devil (Gary Busey) who calls them over with a backwards bend of his index finger. "You boys ever been in the house of mirrors? Go on in, you'll see your souls inverted."
The boys are tentative at first, but hold hands and walk in. Inside they scream at their distended faces and are quickly wrapped up in a maze of reflection, left and then right and around and 'round...'till all is a blur, and causality and the separation of day is mixed up, and brief psychosis ensues.
Ben has left them, and the boys' only leader is the white devil, who tells them that he too is headed for Lucky's Lurch soon as his shift ends, and that he'll give them each two dollars if they gather up all the cans on the lot, run into town, exchange 'em for cash and bring it back to the white devil. They do just that to the tune of Duke Ellington's "Perdido," but now the mood is no longer so joyous.l
Next day finds them bleary eyed and homesick, riding in the back of the White Devil's vaccum sealed vehicle, barely able to breathe amidst the stifling heat within. The White Devil never speaks, only gives them sick and creeping looks every few minutes, bending in on himself and laughing with all the hidden confidence of a paranoid schizophrenic.
At "home," the woeful Jessa is being treated by a doctor who puts ice on her wounds and administers Diacetylmorphine. The doctor promises to stay with her until she heals, and as she brushes his face with her funny fingers, she says: "You are a gift from Christ himself."
Sambo and Denver reach the desert, covered in vomit and urine. The White Devil has picked up a pack of needy women, their track marks and broken noses hidden with caked on make-up. "This is the end of the line," the White Devil screams, "up and at 'em!" And he kicks the pair to the street.
"You smell the sea?" Sambo asks. "We're near Lucky's Lurch." The next hour of the film depicts the dehydrated and hallucinating Sambo and Denver, stumbling through the cactus-clogged desert, driven forth by a biblical determination.
The day arrives, and Sambo and Denver reach the sea. A chain of cars stretching on for miles leads into the vagina of the cave. A female cop (Annie Lennox) standing near the back of the line asks the boys what they come for, and when they reply that they come for gold, she smiles wryly and says: "Get in line."
The boys reach the cave after thirty hours of standing in wait, so weak they can barely stand, and once inside they find a row of tables manned by salesmen, each hocking lumps of phony gold chains and tacky pins. "Welcome to Lucky's Lurch!" they scream in unison.
The final scene shows Jessa and the doctor copulating, Jessa on top.