Elevator Pitches
If I ever get a chance to pitch movie ideas to the head of a studio, these are at the top of my list:
- The story of an adorable ragamuffin who loves pudding so much it comes to life.
- Thanksgiving on a runaway blimp.
- A darkly comic film about a man whose bathroom sink is too small to wash his bloody hands. (12 min runtime. In Czech with subtitles.)
- Behind-the-scenes at an independent book bindery where everyone gets along except on the finer points of Foucault.
- A parrot that plays billiards somehow. Nothing in the rulebook says that a parrot can’t play billiards.
- A biopic about a financially over-privileged Olympic fencer who goes on to win gold despite no obstacles.
- A British movie about a mining town ravaged by Thatcherism, only to find redemption through their plucky band of something somethings.
- A cop who is secretly a spy who is secretly a superhero.
