Contest: Pitch Your Script, Win a ‘31 Days of Oscar’ Notebook

Posted by Neil Miller (neil@filmschoolrejects.com) on February 27, 2009

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It’s likely that like a few of us, you are also an aspiring screenwriter. And to honor that scribely spirit in all of us, the folks at Turner Classic Movies (TCM) have sent us over a big stack of ‘31 Days of Oscar’ notebooks to give away. These come complete with a few cool pages of classic movie trivia, then roll right into the part where you can jot down your thoughts, notes and other ramblings on the 100-sheets of wide rule paper. It’s a must have for anyone who needs some paper.

If you would like to get your hands (and your pens) on one of these nifty books, all you need to do is pitch us a script — give us a 1 paragraph synopsis of a movie that you would write if given the opportunity to write a movie. Be creative, as that will count toward your final grade. The 10 most original entries will each earn their writer a free notebook and the love and adoration of the entire FSR staff.

Drop your script pitches in the comment area below, and be sure to enter your email in the comment form so that we can contact you in the event of your winning. Winners will be chosen


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  • Romeo Bechoe
    TITLE

    EE1 - EARTH'S END - PART 1 - GENOCIDE

    PITCH

    INDEPENDENCE DAY WITH THE DIFFERENCE WE LOSE BIG TIME.

    SYNOPSIS

    ALIENS INVADE EARTH.
    IN THE PROCESS THEY KILL FIVE POINT SEVEN BILLION PEOPLE. THEY KEEP 200 MILLION AS SLAVES AND THERE ARE 100 MILLION WHO MANAGE TO STAY OUT OF THEIR HANDS. IN THE MEAN TIME OUR HERO TO BE HAS SERIOUS TROUBLE TO SURVIVE THE INITIAL GENOCIDE AND BE OUR FUTURE SAVIOR.
    AS GOD CREATED OUR WORLD IN SIX DAYS THEY WILL WIPE OUT MANKIND IN SIX DAYS.
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    In an effort to sell the script, I'll get Christopher Walken to play the father and Bill Murray to play his lover.
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  • Josh Oakley
    TITLE: To Catch A Victim

    Lionel (Jeff Daniels) is a 60-year-old working at a Blockbuster. Even though he's a smart man, he's had demons which stopped him from going anywhere in life. Even though he had never touched a child, he had been attracted to kids for his entire life. Throughout his life he has attempted to form relationships with grown women and men, but to no avail. He's also tormented with the thought that his perverse desire will send him to hell and that it makes him a terrible person. Over the years he's developed a drinking problem, and a drug problem, but gotten over both. Now, he finds himself in a tiny apartment in NYC, working with Jenny (Ellen Page) and Marcus (Kevin Corrigan). Jenny, who has a thing for older guys, is attracted to Lionel, but he's more interested her little sister who often visits the store. Marcus is Lionel's only real friend, and in the film reveals that he too is attracted to kids. The main difference? Marcus can't contain himself. Lionel puts so much trust into and believes that if Marcus can resist his urges, so can he. However, at the end, Marcus has been missing for weeks. And in the final scene, Lionel flips on the TV to see Marcus on 'To Catch a Predator'. Lionel's only hope has been destroyed. Beyond that, the film mainly follows the life of Lionel, showing how tortured a man who is withheld from his desires can be. Lionel is a complete victim of himself.
  • Daniel Acosta
    JUST IN TIME

    A cyborg from another galaxy is sent to Earth after the 9/11 attacks to protect humanity. After the government learns he has the power to jump through time, they keep his ability a classified secret. Under the government's supervision, he is allowed to go back in time and save us from any danger, but whenever he comes back to the present, everything has changed...

    Tagline: He is here to protect us, but we don't it.

    djasinger@gmail.com
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    Title: Rest Stop

    A docudrama in the vein of "Fast Food Nation" that focuses on the unsavory aspects of the 24-hour roadside stops that commuters take for granted. From drug deals to filthy anonymous sex acts in the bathrooms, there is a seedy underside to each fleeting oasis along the mundane stretches of the Pennsylvania turnpike. The workers are often undereducated heathens who turn to anything to escape the inevitable boredom and futility of their jobs as the evening becomes another sullen morning. This will show the depraved side of humanity that exists in the middle of nowhere in the middle of the night.

    Mr_Nice_Guy823@hotmail.com
  • Carl Lee
    TITLE:
    Orphans

    TAG LINE:
    They couldn't hold and catch me any more, he showed me the ropes.

    SYNOPSIS:
    Richard, the 8-year-old son of the "Flying Graysons," loses his parents in a botched stunt in front of Gotham's social elite. After years of group homes and moving from place to place, he find life and love amongst Boss Zucco and his crime family. But in a foiled attempt to rob a playboy billionaire, he is turned over to the authorities. Attempting to repair his own public image and seeing no beneficial outcome in sending an adolescent to prison, Bruce Wayne takes him under his wing.

    mr.carl.lee@gmail.com
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    A beautiful 18-year-old girl, tired of the superficiality of her NYU and USC Cinema School boyfriends, falls for the poor but brilliant Film School Rejects. When she can't decide which one to offer herself to, she clones herself with the help of her pal, Chesta Drawers.
    However, when the silver-tressed Robert Osborne of Turner Classic Movies learns of Drawer's plot, he and his boss Ted Turner raise legendary SPFX master Stan Winston from the dead. But Winston turns on Turner and helps the true film lovers, who have never engaged in colorization, defeat the villains and live happily ever after.
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