For months, I've been thinking about what serious, dramatic, heart-grappling tearjerkers should be made into films that have the potential to win every known award in the universe. Nowadays, almost every known film releasing this year and the next year is all based on novels this, novels that; it used to be okay with us when it was Harry Potter, but after Twilight,....SOMEBODY PLEASE STOP THIS CRAP EXCUSE FOR A FILM TREND!!! It's getting very tiring for all of us moviegoers and it's overkilling the whole idea of going to the movies and even making them! And that makes me so mad as hell! So, I decided to think up a list of movies that are NOT based on novels, but from my raw thoughts and imagination only. In my mind, I'm thinking someone should make a serious, drama-themed movie about family problems, mental illnesses, personal insanity, etc. And I have a whole list full of all that just to kindly help any aspiring would-be movie maker, whether director or producer, writer or cinematographer, etc. Now, are you ready? 'Cause here goes nothing...:
MOVIE IDEA #1:
An autistic, morbidly obese, dark-skinned Bangladeshi teenage boy is constantly abused by his whole family for even every little thing he hasn't even done or said yet...or at all. His mother slaps him like he's her punching bag whenever he tries to talk to her or ask her something. His dad grabs him by the arm and throws him across the room because of his dress code or he plays in another room. His older brother and older sister kick him around and insult him very deeply, for they find him either annoying, a threat, or both. Whenever these events happen to him, he sobs in the bathroom or his bedroom or even the basement of the family's house in the suburbs of DC, and one day, he decides to plan his runaway from home to the White House when his family's not around so that he can address the President on the topic of family abuse/domestic violence in which he feels he is the lone victim. But how will he prepare himself for the big quest? How should he even start packing clothes and supplies and especially the tools to help bring the government's attention to his bullying problem? How can he keep his whole abusive family and his bullies in the dark throughout the whole time of his runaway journey without any of them ever stumbling upon a single sign of his plan to save himself? And most importantly, will the President answer the boy's plea and take him out of this world of heartbreaking ruins?
MOVIE IDEA #2:
Similar to "Rain Man", a young man has to deal with his older brother who suffers from ADHD in every aspect of life; for example, he can't leave home without him. Otherwise, the older brother will be found playing with toys, making his own videos and pictures and publishing them, drawing ridiculous pictures, dancing like a lunatic, etc. And the Protective Services find all that a problem and will blame the younger brother by charging him and put the disabled brother in an asylum, for these bouts have been fought off with the boys' parents in the past. So, the brothers have to make every trip together: shopping trips, outings, reunions, etc. That's all the young man has to do to keep his brother sane, except for one problem: the older brother brings all his electronics, his toys, and his art supplies in a briefcase and a backpack. Those could potentially enable his hyperactive outbursts, and that could also get the younger brother locked up. So, he has to be very careful not to run into a place that might cause his brother to lose control, and he has to limit the use of the briefcase and backpack for his brother. Wherever the two brothers have to hold hands everytime just to keep an eye out for each other, the younger one is misunderstood and ridiculed by almost everyone they meet. How will this duo ever keep it together without so much as a single puzzle to freak either one out?
MOVIE IDEA #3:
A Bangladeshi family man with an older daughter and a younger son finds out his wife is a cheating, gold-digging prostitute and she played him for a fool all his life. She even neglected his children since they were born. He decides to return the favor by playing mind games with her just until the day he leaves her and files a divorce just to marry an obese, dark-skinned nun that he met last year. The ex-wife keeps the children with her after that, until the daughter decides to run away to the broken family's second home, leaving her younger brother in their mother's evil clutches for several months until their father comes back home and sends cops to take the boy with him and leave the ex to suffer. Now he, his daughter, his son, and his new wife, who just lost her position as a nun, live in the second home where they are financially struggling. And worse, it's revealed that the ex didn't sign the divorce papers that the man signed first. So, the man is technically married to two women. To top it all off, the man vents most of his problems on his new wife, threatens to ostracize his daughter, and duresses his son to apologize to their stepmom for every outburst that the man takes out on her, even though the son is never involved in a single argument. The former nun, who was the secondary start of the train wreck next to the ex-wife, had a very shattered past that made her what she is, and her antics occasionally frustrate the children and seldom agitate the man. The struggle gets worse months later when the ex decides to do weekend visits to the family, prompting the man to have the nun visit her family at another house at the same time. Ultimately, the son feels he is being used just to end up in the same hole as his dad, his mom, & the stepmom, or all of them at once. Will the family man be able to keep his women from fatally clashing with each other? Will the daughter and son be able to escape the messy love triangle that is draining them down? How will the children cope with having to leave the beloved homes that used to bring meaning to the word "family"?
So, that's all I have in this list, but these three important ideas could be really huge hit movies one day. And also, they could even send out a message to people suffering from autism, broken families, and domestic violence that we can help end these problems ASAP. And we also must do something about improving third-world countries such as Bangladesh and the people living here in USA that are from there. Nations like BD are a huge disappointment for a system. Most of it is used for corruption. I've visited it four times...and did NOT like staying there one bit. It's so antisocial to begin with. I feel like I'm the target of hate when I am there. That's why I decided that I'm gonna bring attention to frequently abused and neglected groups like Bangladeshis through film and imagination. And if you can read this, you can feel free to add a little bit of dark comedy into the ideas above that you may turn into films. I wish all of you out there a huge, heaping plate of success and glamour, and most importantly, praise and respect, because I am helping you pursue your dreams and I pray every day that you aspirers achieve something great and fulfilling, in part thanks to me. So, go knock yourselves out, and that's all, folks! :) <3
