Wednesday - 10/12/06 Redux

2:46 PM Paul: Maybe our inability to commit is a commitment itself - a commitment to be alone, a commitment to be lonely.
2:47 PM Michael: check out the top item now on andrew sullivan
2:49 PM Paul: As a kid, you think no one can hurt you. It's only when you're older that you realize it wasn't that you couldn't be touched. It's that you couldn't really touch anyone else. (ok, i'm done for now)
Michael: hahaha, oh man
Paul: yeah, i saw that
Michael: that one was brilliant
Paul: ridiculous
2:50 PM Michael: truly
2:52 PM Paul: classic
Michael: "Sometimes you find out you weren't afraid that the outside world was gonna beat you, but that you were going to beat yourself"
Paul: that's a good one
2:56 PM here's a question for you
should other characters in the movie be like "what?! does that even mean anything?" or should everybody just play it straight?
2:57 PM Michael: i think everyone should play it straight, BUT it's a question we should keep in mind as we go, because depending on context we may want that to be the case
Paul: it could be funny if everybody played it straight until the end when somebody was just like "dude, you have got to just stop. nothing you have said has meant anything. what, did you watch the matrix and think that you were a philosopher?"
2:58 PM Michael: i think it should be a character who either wasn't in the rest of the movie or barely was, like his dad or something
2:59 PM Paul: hahaha
Michael: and then he can add "get a job"
Paul: his dead best friend
rises from the grave
Michael: to bring the message
Paul: totally
"dude, if you don't stop pretending to be the voice of my generation, a zombie will crush your larynx"
3:00 PM Michael: you are on fire now
Paul: and then he says something, and the dead best friend rises out of the ground and crushes his larynx. end movie.
3:02 PM Michael: "The End...?"
Paul: haha
3:03 PM Michael: and the love interest watches the event horrified and as the screen fades to black you see the zombie turn and start walking toward her
3:04 PM Paul: ha. it should probably go after the credits.
Michael: that works too
3:05 PM Paul: because it's a tough balance we're striking the whole time. making anyone with a brain realize that the movie is like ann coulter - crazy right winger or just in it for the money? so we shouldn't blow our whole load except as an alt. ending
3:06 PM Michael: great idea, i think you're 100% right