Mar. 12 Degrassi
“Unbelievable”: There was a 1hr Degrassi episode called
“Unbelievable.” It was a really good and intense episode. It dealt
with how Zoe was drunk at a party and there was a video of her being
groped. She may have been sexually assaulted. I used to watch Law
and Order: SVU since 2002 to 2009. I kind stopped and only watched
one or two eps because I find the show unoriginal. It’s like “ripped from
the headlines”, as in all the story ideas are from the newspaper.
Zoe wakes
up from Miles’s party and she’s naked. She doesn’t remember what happened
that night. There are lots of pictures taken from all the people at the
party.
Becky is
a Christian girl and she wants to be a news reporter. She’s on Degrassi
TV news and is covering a story about the dangers of teens and drinking.
There is a video where Zoe is drunk and there is a hand groping her as she’s in
her bikini. Becky gets her TV friend Imogen to help her. She then
shows the video to her friends Drew, Miles, and Dallas to see if they remember
who was with Zoe and if they recognize the voice in the video. There is a
basketball players jacket in the video.
Becky
then gets an anonymous video where Miles and Winston Chu takes Zoe’s
unconscious body away from the pool party. Becky shows it the principal
Mr. Simpson and the police are involved and asking questions. Winston
then shows a time stamped video that proves that he and Miles didn’t rape
Zoe.
24 min
in, there was a little funny part.
Miles
writes “M+W” on the chalkboard.
Miles:
Miles and Winston equals.
Miles
writes “NP.”
Winston:
Not pervs.
They do a
little victory dance.
Becky,
Imogen, and Drew are still investigating who are the rapists. They look
into two guys who are together at the party.
The punk
girl Grace enters and intros herself as The Watcher who sent the videos.
Her plan is send an anonymous text to the guys and say in it: “Your friend
already told on you about what you did to Zoe.” That’s a good plan.
They keep an eye on the pairs of two guys and there was nothing. Then
Becky sees her brother Luke argue with a guy on the basketball team about
it.
Becky
doesn’t think her brother Luke would do it. She asks to use his phone and
then sees the video with him in it. Luke notices she’s watching it and
Becky is crying. Becky runs away. Later Luke goes to Zoe and tells
her he was in the video and to forget all about it.
Luke:
You’re going to ruin my life.
Zoe: My
life is already ruined.
Later Zoe
confronts Luke and points out that he’s a rapist in front of everybody.
She starts hitting him and Becky pulls Zoe off Luke.
Luke: You
don’t have proof.
Becky:
Yes, I do. I have his phone and it shows him in the video.
Luke and
the other team member is arrested. The next day, Drew, Dallas, Tristan,
Miles, and Mia are there to support her. Zoe hugs and thanks Becky.
I was on
twop.com to read comments:
Randi H. Dela Rosa: The only thing in this episode I didn't like is the fact that like didn't delete the pics. To be more realistic he would of deleted the evidence especially when he found out the police were now involved. I mean if your sister was doing a story on it and the police talked to everyone on the basketball team I'm pretty sure he would of deleted the evidence.
SuperDwarf Hamster I
was on the edge of my seat. And it's funny you guys wanted to be realistic.
Delete the pics. But Luke said he was a christian boy. Who would believe
anyone's accusations on him. His father, mother, sister and brother are all
known for being good with god. So that was realistic. And to believe his kind
hearted sister would take his side is realistic. Blood runs thicker than water
is the ultimate saying. Sadly for him, his sister is about justice. And she
warned him in a playful way. But she said she wanted to be a hard hitting
journalist and wouldnt stop until she aired her findings.
He got what he deserved. It doesnt have to go far. With the photos/videos,
confessions and the paperwork from Zoe's doctor, he and his friend could have
it hard.
MegaJ:-Speaking of Zoe, Ana did a great job for a
"new" actress with the material. I think she wasn't raped per se but
sexually assaulted which is just as traumatic. A lot of people would probably
want this storyline to be dragged out and feel like it was wrapped up too
nicely, but goddammit after Dean got away with it and we never saw Darcy's
rapist, it's so nice to see a girl win one. I think that sends a good
message about bravery and that a lot of times, the rapist doesn't get away with
it.
Apr. 8 Screenwriting Goldmine: I was going through
my Screenwriting Goldmine newsletter emails written by Phil Gladwin.
Here’ some inspiring stories of writers succeeding on Sept. 28, 2012:
Finally,
if you really are still hesitating about whether this workshop thing is really
for you, here's an extract Phil Shelley received recently from one of his
clients:
'...just
to keep you up to date with the M-K picture that I sent you an early draft
of... thanks to your notes I was able to do a root and branch reworking of
my proposals and sent them off to Hollywood. The reaction was ecstatic
(Yes, I know it's Hollywood and all that.) I've been asked to produce a
full script by the end of the summer. Contracts are being
prepared. It's now moving in the right direction.' (Screenwriter
John Morrison, June 30th 2011)
And
here's what just a couple of happy customers had to say about
my
Screenwriting Goldmine Book:
"Dear
Phil-- I want you to know that I, a novelist, used your book on
screenwriting to help me write a romantic comedy screenplay based on one of my
published novels. It turned out so well that a successful movie producer (his
comment upon reading it was,
"Wonderful!
Delightful!") is now trying to raise the money for anindependent
production. My next step is getting a Hollywood agent to
negotiate a contract with the producer. So, thanks for your help!" Trina
Mascott - Palm Desert, California (Personal communication, June 2011)
"I've
written two screenplays since I read this book, and I've had two producer
requests for one of them, one producer request for the other, and a producer
request based on a seven-word logline for a scenario that's not yet even a
script! Stuff like this has never
happened to me before. Plus one of the above screenplays
was a finalist in this year's New York-based Bridge International Screenplay
Competition. Let me say that again: Stuff like this has never happened to me
before. Get it, read it, and do it." Ian Hamilton - Australia (courtesy of Amazon.com)
Dark
Water: I read about this in the Metro:
“Production
of a movie called Deep Water has halted due to the flight in Malaysia that disappeared in the Indian Ocean. According
to the Associated Press, Managing Director Gary Hamilton said,
"We're delaying it out of respect for what's going on."
The film
has been put on hold due to the tragic accident regarding the Malaysia Airlines
jet that disappeared from March 8 en route to Beijing from Kuala
Lumpur. Malaysian
officials have finally released information that they believe the jet crashed
and that 239 people have lost their lives.”
My
opinion: Oh yeah, that’s happened to me
before. I had written a story where a guy can just get on a plane quickly.
That’s not possible after 9/11.
Apr. 13 B-Girl:
I came home from work and checked what’s on TV.
I found this dance movie called B-Girl (2009.) It’s written and directed by Emily Dell. I saw the last 20 min. of it. It stood out to me because it’s about
dancing, the lead is a girl Angel (Jules Urich), and it’s written and directed
by a woman.
I went on imdb.com: “A story about
a female breakdancer overcoming a brutal attack to claim her place in the world
of underground hip-hop.”
I looked
into it some more and Dell had written a short film with the same title in
2004. Then in 2009 she got it produced
to a feature length movie. That’s great.
I notice
Wesley Jonathan was in it. You may
remember him as the black guy on the late 90s teen sitcoms City Guys and
Amanda Byne’s sitcom What I Like About You.
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