I want to watch a movie that’s nice. Not complicated. Where
everything works out in the end.
I’d like to see a love story where a handsome man meets a
pretty girl… or better yet… where an average guy meets an average girl. And
there’s nothing special about either of them… because there’s nothing special
about any of us when it comes down to it.
Nothing special… only they both have really witty senses of
humor… and they like to eat pizza together on the couch and watch cartoons.
And they love each other.
Man would they do anything in the world for each other.
And it’s simple and easy, and they have enough money so they
don’t have to worry, but not too much money where they get bamboozled into
thinking they’re fancier and more important than they really are.
Not nearly enough money so that the man finds a mistress and
the woman gets desperate and poisons his beer… nothing so nasty as too much
money.
And they’re HAPPY. Sometimes they’re REALLY very happy. Sometimes
they get a little bit sad, but never so sad that it becomes depression. It
never gets so real that the couple can’t get out of bed… and all the light
leaves the room… and they can’t breathe.
Nothing so bad as real sadness and loneliness… only a little
sad… only sad enough so that the good feels special and so they appreciate it
more. Only that sort of sad.
And did I say that they love each other?
They LOVE each other. I want to say it again and again and
again. There’s nothing nicer than someone you love, loving you back.
And this couple that the movie is about… they go on some
sort of quest or adventure. They have some sort of goal that they need to
achieve… because it’s not a good story if there’s not a goal… if there’s not
obstacles to overcome. But… they won’t be too bad of obstacles… nothing that’ll
make me cringe and pause the film and browse around the Internet looking at cat
videos until I’ve calmed down enough to continue seeing the obstacles that my
couple that I’ve just now created are facing… I don’t know… just obstacles
like… the pizza is late one night… and the woman’s sister comes to visit for
too long… and the man plays too many video games and the woman would rather
play different video games.
But maybe this would work better as a tv show? Cause in TV
the couple could never leave the couch… they could stay there together. In a
movie, they’d be forced to go outside and gather the hobbits together to
destroy the ring with Gandalf or something just as stressful.
Finally, I’d like it to be well written… even though it’s so
simple and seemingly uninteresting… the way it’s written will make it
interesting. A walk into the kitchen to get some coffee will be infused with
such subtext and heart and courage that an audience won’t be able to dream of
anything more.
That’s what I want to watch… just something nice.
