THE ONE DOLLAR INCIDENT: A Moving Picture Synopsis
The One Dollar Incident is about a robbery gone awry.
Based on something that happened to me in San Francisco, relocated to Memphis.
The story follows a young man forced by circumstance and a bus driver into unfamiliar and dangerous part of town.
A man asking for a light confronts him. He is a tall-relaxed black man; the kid knows he’s in trouble.
The man is a thief. He is however a pro not a junkie.
The kid approaching cautiously as thee man is casually showing him and colt 38, and demands his money.
The kid tells him that he only has one dollar. Something in the young man’s intonation rubs the thief the wrong way; he brings the barrel of the revolver upside the kid’s head. There’s only a dollar and a wallet containing a maxed out credit card.
The thief informs the kid that this is his home that the kid invaded,
These are reasonable consequences considering the situation.
Relaxing, (the kid is harmless) the thief decides to return the dollar and starts to walk away.
Afraid of being robbed by a less reasonable thief the kid begs the man to stay until the bus arrives. Feeling pity he agrees.
Based on something that happened to me in San Francisco, relocated to Memphis.
The story follows a young man forced by circumstance and a bus driver into unfamiliar and dangerous part of town.
A man asking for a light confronts him. He is a tall-relaxed black man; the kid knows he’s in trouble.
The man is a thief. He is however a pro not a junkie.
The kid approaching cautiously as thee man is casually showing him and colt 38, and demands his money.
The kid tells him that he only has one dollar. Something in the young man’s intonation rubs the thief the wrong way; he brings the barrel of the revolver upside the kid’s head. There’s only a dollar and a wallet containing a maxed out credit card.
The thief informs the kid that this is his home that the kid invaded,
These are reasonable consequences considering the situation.
Relaxing, (the kid is harmless) the thief decides to return the dollar and starts to walk away.
Afraid of being robbed by a less reasonable thief the kid begs the man to stay until the bus arrives. Feeling pity he agrees.
posted by J Postal at
11:59 PM
5 Comments:
hell, I dont even have to watch your film as you gave it all away in this piece. But is that a problem, would one read this before watching the film and if they did how would that change their approach to the film?
I read some of your friends comments on your blog. i am sorry i was such a bad actor, I told you I did not want to be in the film, my presense really brings the quality of this fime down, and for that I am sorry, i am no actor. But otherwise that film ended being the best in the class and really great. Congrats on your effort.
Nice Synopsis..but i would change the wording of "He is a tall-relaxed black man; the kid knows he’s in trouble." Do we need to know he is an African American male...could be misleading(maybe a tall relaxed man)...otherwise Great Job!
This would ruin the movie for me, if I read it before I got to watch it. Well detailed, but maybe you need to leave a little of the movie out of the synopsis so the veiwer could be a little curious as to what might happen when they watch it.
you talk alot about the plot/story, jonathan, which is obvious through the watching of the film. what about the mise-en-scene?
and "Based on something that happened to me in San Francisco, relocated to Memphis." is not a sentance.
pretty good but the actual dialogue takes away from the story. don't included the part about this happened to me. Although important not a part of the synopsis. just focus on what you would want in a newspaper write up about your movie. Good!
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