Wednesday, February 4, 2009

"Let the Music Play" Plot and other info

3. a. Travis is a Graphic Design student in Memphis, TN who is attempting to complete the simple task of developing film at 9am.
b. He actually plans to pick up the film after class at noon yet his car stops dies on the way home and his cell phone is a piece and stopped working.
c and d. After pulling to the side Travis attempts to call for help but his phone glitches out and won't turn back on. After a moment of frustration attempting to get the car running he collapses in the driver's seat of the car. After a moment, a knock breaks the silence as a fairly inebriated homeless man is peering in the window. The man is offering to help yet Travis misunderstands, assuming that he is asking for money and is dismissive. After the hobo walks away there are a few more beats and Travis notices a cop approaching. He gets out and waves his arms at the cop as he approaches but the cop just waves back and drives by. Travis chases after the cop with no success and trips over the homeless man's plant. He gets up as the the man begins crying over the plant claiming it is hurt. After calming down the man demands an apology from Travis to his plant which is apparently named Jay Jay. After a brief argument Travis reluctantly agrees to apologize, to which the plant apparently does not accept. Nicholas begins wailing again because the good luck necklace he gave Jay Jay is lost. Travis promises to help if Nicholas will stop causing a scene. This causes for more frustration for apparently this necklace is imaginary and it takes Travis to eventually learn to play along and act like he found the necklace in his car. Nicholas makes some ambiguous statement of how the necklace causes the chaos of the world correlate in favor of the those who just let it exist. Unable to really grasp what this seemingly insane man is talking about, Travis looks for change in his car to go find a pay phone. Travis then notices Nicholas doing something under the hood of his car and adamantly asks what he is doing. Nicholas simply says, "Your film is ready", and shuts the hood as his body vanishes and the plant is nowhere to be found. Travis tries the engine and it cranks right up. He is already late for class so he heads to get his film anyways, curiosity most likely helped as well. Upon leaving Walgreens, drops the film on the ground revealing pictures of himself, Nicholas, and the plant that had taken place over the past hour.
e. Travis begins to lighten up and accept more of what happens that isn't under our control. He also is more apt to be generous.
f. i hope going to get filmed developed is realistic. Homeless are evident around this area and therefore realistic. Maybe some eccentric characters but hopefully made within a believable range. Some magical qualities will be evident.

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