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Ty Pham's MOVIE - UPDATE!

tpham by tpham · Oct 31, 2001 · Ask eZabel · 411 views

ONE PERSON CAN MAKE A DIFFERENCE

My directing/acting debut. The story of a girl who cried a river. Abandoned by family she thought loved her. Abandoned by friends. Then along comes a stranger. Dark short and handsome stranger. Befriends the be-wildered suicidal girl.

Changes her life.

updated

Ok so i have to create a short movie for a SCHOLARSHIP.. i'm so excited about this, because i've always wanted to be a director / actor in a movie. This is going to be great. This can lead to big things for me!!! haha.. so now i'm looking for actors and actresses who want to be famous!!!! because my movie is going to be hottaaa !!!

Roles will include:

2 or more guys in the role of "ignoring girl, making fun of"

2 or more girls in role of "abandoning girl , too cool for you"

mother and father in role of "too busy for girl..."

another girl in role of "suicidal girl, intelligent, yet low self esteemed, victim of some abuse..maybe"

ME Typham "handsome dark stranger.. who befreinds suicide girl".

MEGAN - has opted to play the role of SUICIDE GIRL.. i can take other auditions if need be ~~~

I can take suggestions on scripts.. role changes.. any input is good input let me know

So far : girl in school...boys ignore her.. girls make fun of her.. she gets good grades.. maybe some flashbacks to child abuse.. maybe.. then father mother too busy working.. blah blah blah ignore her.. meets me one day on street... take her out for some coffee.. explain to her my life sucks too but i deal with it.. show her the rainbow on the other side when you enter a relationship.. how joyful that can be.. her outlook changes.. story over ...

GOOD ?

SCenario 2 !!!update!!!

starts off girl on couch .. loud fighting going on with parents.. but can't see.. only see her and fride in kitchen in the back ground.. loud fighting goes on.. see's mother thrown into fridge.. triggers her flash back of being terribly abused ..in black and white.. flash back ends with camera on tears of 12 yrs. suicide girl. back to present. girl yells stop stop stop..loses it.. thinks to self.. as tears roll.. blanket over head. loses it.. decides to jump out of 3rd story window in apartment.. there i happen to be.. confused by whats going on.. tries to catch her .. ends up breaking her bones.. or whatever..i go to hospital with her.. show her that a stranger can care for life.. and help her. she goes back home.. talks to parents..

ends.

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91 Comments

punkprincess punkprincessOG 2001

i can be one of the "abandoning girls"...abandoning megan! lol

tpham tphamOG 2001

ok..

punkprincess punkprincessOG 2001

do you not want me to? cuz i dont HAVE to...

tpham tphamOG 2001

i kinda just changed up the script.. this is an ongoing script writing. i need input.. so.. we'll see.. i'm not sure.. what i'm going to do..

i definately want to incorporate a memeber outside her family doing something disheartening to her.. any suggestions..to fit into scenario 2 ?

punkprincess punkprincessOG 2001

Maybe her & her best friend get into a fight. instead of having a popular girl dissing her, maybe its her best friend who's mad at her (inwhich... i can play that part!)

tpham tphamOG 2001

YES !! i like that idea.. love it !! good stuff..

acutally i'll have her use you as her "COMFORTER" to the problem but you are too busy.. and kind of push her off...

iwz iwz

you're gonna have a pretty dark movie there. all intense, and uncomfortable. i guess you like the dramatic more than the comedic, and that's cool. remember you only have five minutes. don't make it feel like it's rushed.

thefunkyfresh thefunkyfreshFounder

thats exactly what i told him! man, me and you ian... one mind

tpham tphamOG 2001

well it starts off dark and lightens up with a few jokes in the conversation between befriending guy and suicide girl.. makes like seem good.

thefunkyfresh thefunkyfreshFounder

i can be the unbelieveably hot guy that is not only good looking, but sensitive, and all around amazing

tpham tphamOG 2001

funky.. that type of person doesn't fit in this script.. unless you want to be the guy who helps out suicide girl. and that way i can concentrate on my directing !!!

thefunkyfresh thefunkyfreshFounder

only if this is a kissing movie!

tpham tphamOG 2001

No no kissing.. the dark and intense part will involve her life.. but then it changes to comedic and happy when you meet her.. crack a few jokes about life.. she giggles.. turns the movie light...

so that you start off sad and teary ending up lighthearted.. see what i'm saying.

thefunkyfresh thefunkyfreshFounder

and as the moonlight hits her eyes, and reflects off of her tears of joy, i brush her hair out of her eyes. our faces are mere inches apart as we stare into each others eyes....... TY IT WOULD WORK! lol

rocksupastar rocksupastarFounder

hey.. i wanna rival megan for the pathetic girl!!! well.. is there any kissing? cause.. ty.. ur a good lookin guy and all.. but, i dont like ya THAT much!

thefunkyfresh thefunkyfreshFounder

lol! mike, if you're the girl, i'm definitely not gonna audition for this

tpham tphamOG 2001

how good do you look in stiletto's and a teddy ?

punkprincess punkprincessOG 2001

EWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWW MIKE WOULD NOT MAKE A GOOD LOOKING GIRL!

thefunkyfresh thefunkyfreshFounder

it's the double (butt) chin

rocksupastar rocksupastarFounder

hey man.. dont be dissing the chin... your just jealous!

tpham tphamOG 2001

mike has two chins ?

never noticed..

rocksupastar rocksupastarFounder

yea man.. its my patented look.. its rico suave.. sorta kinda.. cept im ugly otherwise.. hahaha

deanh77 deanh77Founder

so.. who's gonna play the father? Hulk Hogan? cause he has to throw the mother "on to" the refrigerator. That's kinda hard to do. I mean lifting her up there would be one thing....

deanh77 deanh77Founder

oh wait, you meant "into". how could I have possibly missed that. geese.

iwz iwz

*honk* *honk* *gobble* *honk*

tpham tphamOG 2001

shut up before i glance your fance with my foot

tpham tphamOG 2001

fance in my language means FACE.. .had a little flashback sorry

tpham tphamOG 2001

dean i'm going to cast you as the FATHER ROLE !!! and either anna or kamila as the mother...

deanh77 deanh77Founder

can I be rude and condescending?? oh please oh please.
hey I'm married to an ulatowska? alright!!!

tpham tphamOG 2001

HAHA.. dean of course you are going to be rude and condescending.. you're going to be beating her !!!! how great is that.. i love it !

deanh77 deanh77Founder

nah, I can't hit a woman. or even pretend to. its toatlly against my nature. I'm a lover, not a fighter.

tpham tphamOG 2001

lover ? huh .. what ? you sure.. no you are an arguer.. and you'd love to beat any women.. shut up. there's no one here to impress

thefunkyfresh thefunkyfreshFounder

well... you can't "love" your own daughter! that's just sick man!

tpham tphamOG 2001 thefunkyfresh

no no .. megan is the daughter.. dean will be beating his wife..mother to megan...

thefunkyfresh thefunkyfreshFounder tpham

hmm... in that case, i can see how portraying dean as a "lover" would be much more traumitizing to her

g.f.s.rocks g.f.s.rocksOG 2001

Im definitly likeing the 2nd script, but I was thinking if you could make it all a flashback? You know, have the sucidal girl and you talking years later and all of a sudden you guys reminice and boom, you go into the heart of the script. I can visually see it, but the 5 min restraint is killing my vision. Man, I see great potential for this movie. The sucidal girl has no boyfriend? What if you would make it that her boyfriend cheated on her (Which would give her the sense that something was wrong with her and thats why he cheated), her BF got into a horrible fight with her, and the whole parents thing. That would seem to have a better affect, because now here you are saving her from the suicide, and she is more willing to think about what you say, cause now she knows it wasnt her fault for the whole boyfriend thing and that you are a guy who does care about her? If you need that boyfriend part, Im willing to make a cameo...I usually dont make many appearences, cause Im better behind the script, but Im willing to provide some visual aid to the part.

tesoro tesoroOG 2001

hmm wow, i actually think he's got a good idea....

(this is a first people) lol

tpham tphamOG 2001

I know right.. i'm thinking about just making a full length feature and forget the 5 minutes.. .. because it so interesting.. i've always wanted to direct.. me and you can be the next matt damon and ben affleck.. i call DAMON!! anyway

there's so much i want to do.. but you scenario would take up too much time.. i was actually thinking that at first.. with the whole guys abandoning her plot..but for time sake i took that out.

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leftofcenterOG 2001

Wait wait, Dean as my father, isn't that going slightly beyond abuse, and who's he gonna throw into a refrigerator, I mean c'mon, he'd be able to glance her against it at best.

punkprincess punkprincessOG 2001

HAHAHA!

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leftofcenterOG 2001

And since when did the short, dark and hansome lead turn into the tall, blond and goofy one? I mean, I could handle a love scene with Ty, but Matt Kelly...that's a stretch of the imagination.

thefunkyfresh thefunkyfreshFounder

why does everybody these days feel like its their job to be dissing me!!?? man! all i do is dispense love, and you people just HATE HATE HATE!!

tpham tphamOG 2001

sorry about that nasty thought MEGAN , matts fired !

tpham tphamOG 2001

yea well dean is old.. he looks the oldes out of all of us.. give him a pipe and thats that.. true about that glance thing.. DEAN you have to work out before production.. alright man !!! you have to get buff

deanh77 deanh77Founder

dude there's no way I wil lbe able to throw megan on top of a refridgerator. I'm sorry.

tpham tphamOG 2001

Guy it's into not onto.. it hasn't been ONTO in awhile.. re-read.. bum..and plus you're not throwing megan.. your throwing an ulatowksa girl... and maybe anna.. we all know she only weighs 45.7 lbs.

iwz iwz

so, will the fridge door be opened and the girl will actually be thrown into the fridge, and then closed inside of it?

tpham tphamOG 2001

Alright everyone relax.. . she will be THROWN AGAINST The fridge !!! alright is that better.. geez.. man.. geez

deanh77 deanh77Founder

AHAHAHAHAH. good one IAN! nice, taking over the sarcastic nit-picking. I love it.

deanh77 deanh77Founder

Ian I think you should revert the story to it's original wording so I can continue to laugh at my joke. "thrown onto the fridge" ah-hahahahaha. anyway.

tpham tphamOG 2001

yea real funny dean real funny.. need i remind you that you cant throw anything either into or onto the fridge.. only "glance" as megan said.

g.f.s.rocks g.f.s.rocksOG 2001

I've always had a thing for movies and I would love to help aid this project along. So, instead of a full scene, you should start it off as her on the phone with her boyfriend and him telling her that his feelings toward her has changed. Then you get her to call up her best friend about it and she then gets into a huge fight with her over the phone. So now she is all depressed and down, so she goes downstairs to clear up her mind and its at the same moment her father comes home (possibly drunk) and starts fighting with her mother...or you can twist and make her mother (possibly drunk) start fighting with the father, either way, one thing leads to another and there is some spousal abuse, during these meaningless comments back and forth a comment comes out about how their daughter not doing something correctly, which would put more would on the fire, at that point she runs up stairs to clear everything in her life, and just at that moment you are walking by and look-up and see her about to leap, so you start screaming, "Dont Jump, Dont Jump!!" but she ignores you and leaps anyway and then you make a miraculous dash to catch her and you do, but the impact of her fall landing on you causes the both of you to go to the hospital, and thats were you rationalize her situation and how important life is. What do you think?

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leftofcenterOG 2001

"put more would on the fire" huh Giac? How about wood.

deanh77 deanh77Founder

someone actually read all of that? geese.

tpham tphamOG 2001

yea.. geez.. megan sure doesn't have a life !!!!!

tpham tphamOG 2001

megan so funny .. so funny.. but not as FUNNY AS I AM...

g.f.s.rocks g.f.s.rocksOG 2001

I will have to admit going to college hasnt made me smarter at all, actually I think Im getting dumber, and w/out spell check its pretty difficult to write something that long and it actually come out grammatically correct.

iwz iwz

okay, here's an idea. how about the girl is close to suicide, so you start talking her out of it. you call the suicide hotline, you dial the wrong number for some reason, as if some force willed you to do it. the number you actually dial is Dr. Kevorkian!

after she talks to Dr. Kevorkian for a while, not realizing it's the wrong number, she realizes that Dr. Kevorkian is her real father! she was only adopted by her current parents. so her real father on the phone tries to talk her out of commiting suicide, simply so that he can recruit her to become one of his hotline death-dealers. He then tries to get you too, and tells you that you and the girl are twin brother and sister!

You both resist, and hang up the phone after you realize what's going on. Then you go on a quest to bring your father back from his wicked ways, and turn him on the path of helping others to live, instead of die!!!

DO IT!

thefunkyfresh thefunkyfreshFounder

and then you all go on the jerry springer show!

tpham tphamOG 2001

5 minutes.. good idea.. but in 5 minutes? it'll be rough .. i'll try

iwz iwz

haha, i hope everybody realizes that this is just a joke.. a spoof on Star Wars...

punkprincess punkprincessOG 2001

MEGANNNNN.....I AM YOUR FAAAAAAATHOOOR!

tpham tphamOG 2001

As the great director that i am.. i've decided to use the actors/actresses strengths.. megan can sing and an all around rennansionce woman.. so maybe i can incorporate that in their some how.. i already have a great letter writing.. hearing the though.. sucicde letter thing.. SO GOOD !!

tpham tphamOG 2001

"hearing the though" = " hearing the thought"

tpham tphamOG 2001

I've decided that it's going to be ONE PERSON CAN MAKE A DIFFERENCE .. GOOD OR BAD.. .and i'm gonna end up making the girl commit suicide...

i mean aren't we all sick of the happy endings.. good over evil always..

sometimes the bad guys come up with amazing unbreakable schemes.. and somehow NEo just comes along and defeats.. i don't understand

thefunkyfresh thefunkyfreshFounder

yeah but then why would we go see movies? to see the bad guys win? forget that junk!

tpham tphamOG 2001

well our lives are so happy and fine.. anyway so why not go to see a movie where it might be realistic that the murderer gets away.. look at OJ..

tpham tphamOG 2001

So the question is when will this movie start production.. i guess when DEAN bulks up enough to be able to throw a woman against a fridge

deanh77 deanh77Founder

I'm almost there, but I can't psychologically do it. I think I'll need to be beaten twice daily for 3 weeks by a woman before I can attempt that.

tpham tphamOG 2001

geez..apparently you aren't a good actor then are you.. you won't be really doing this.. you'll be ACTING.. remember you also have to beat a 12 yr old too.. can you do that.?? remember "acting" !!!! and how do you feel about nude shots ? i mean of course it fits in the script and vital to the role ... !

iwz iwz

so what's the deal with this movie? you gonna make it?

tpham tphamOG 2001

yea i'm going to make it.. just a lot or preproduction stuff.. like writing a script

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nine9starOG 2001

Just a little idea for the script - when her mum is like thrown into the fridge she calls out to her daughter to help her, but the vision is all too close to home as she has a flash back of her dad abusing her and calling to her mum for help but her mum just ignores her. and then on with ur bit

tpham tphamOG 2001

MUM, i hate that word.. it's like a MUM-MY .. but not.. i'm so scared

tpham tphamOG 2001

on a seriuos note.. when can production begin.. i wanna shoot it in JANUARY.. drama movies are always better taking place in the COLD.. you can't have drama with people wearing shorts and t-shirts..

so JAN it is..

iwz iwz

and everything is more dramatic when you can see the actors' breath

tpham tphamOG 2001

yea exactly .. so we're going to have to capture all of this.. i can't wait..

i might even make the movie longer for fun.. hand in the 5 minute movie.. but keep the longer movie and enter it into like the SUNDANCE film festival or something.. should be sweeet

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nine9starOG 2001

sorry, im british, its what we british do .............. scare the american rofl ;-)

tpham tphamOG 2001

made YOU ! look

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nine9starOG 2001

erm Pardon ;-)?

tpham tphamOG 2001

made you look again !

punkprincess punkprincessOG 2001

yer so annoying.

iwz iwz

hahaha

thefunkyfresh thefunkyfreshFounder

stop! it's annoying. hahaha, and so was THIS. and THIS! and THIS!!! okay... i'll stop. toodaloo!

tpham tphamOG 2001 thefunkyfresh

whats annoying.. no one reads this unless they are BORED or have no life !!

tina's going to be the first to comment.. watchh....

punkprincess punkprincessOG 2001 tpham

LOL! MUAHAHHAAhahaHAHHAHAH i yam the first... im BORED...therefore i have no life.

g.f.s.rocks g.f.s.rocksOG 2001 punkprincess

What I wonder is, what makes us go back to check if there are any new postings on old stories?

punkprincess punkprincessOG 2001 g.f.s.rocks

boredum - im writing somehting meaningful

g.f.s.rocks g.f.s.rocksOG 2001 punkprincess

you think what you just wrote was meaningful??

punkprincess punkprincessOG 2001 g.f.s.rocks

STOP STINKIN REPLYING TO EVERYTHING I SAY!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

g.f.s.rocks g.f.s.rocksOG 2001 punkprincess

Hey, thats what the "Reply to comment" button is about...duhh!!

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