Starring in an indie-drama-comedy-stoner flick

[FONT=&quot]I got cast as a lead for an indie stoner flick by someone I had a class with at my local CC. I only get a piece of the script every other week so that the shoots are more “vivid”. Here's what I got so far, I tried to cut it down a lot. [/FONT]

[FONT=&quot]It's a pretty[FONT=&quot] long read so if your attention span is pretty short[/FONT][FONT=&quot] and your reading prowess not so strong[/FONT][FONT=&quot], [/FONT][FONT=&quot]just go ahead [/FONT][FONT=&quot]and[/FONT][FONT=&quot] take it easy somewhere else.[/FONT][/FONT]

[FONT=&quot]So basically, the story is about (I replaced this name with one I made up) Blue, 22yo. Having dropped out of a nursing major at the U because he had a change of heart, Blue is back in city college. The same one he got his associates in a year ago. He's taking only one class, once a week, for Fall: Plant Biology. Why? I guess he's trying to be an entheobotanist or hoping that the world ends by 2012 because “there's too many dumb idiots to legalize entheogens”.[/FONT]

[FONT=&quot]He shows up to class late on the first day because his school usually never has any parking. He just sits down on the closest table. Being the only guy on the table, he tries to make friends with the table girls. It seems like those girls were just there for their grade and to get out. He couldn't care less about the class, but he doesn't mind making a few friends. At first, none of them really budged at all, they just talked enough to get lab work done. So he kept trying and failing to make friends with anyone. Well, except for a grower and an old classmate of his.[/FONT]

[FONT=&quot]On his off days, Blue just stays at his family's house. He writes scripts for a film crew that's defunct. He makes art and has no intention of selling it to anyone. Since the beginning of the year, he's been working on a picture book, but he's stuck on the last 10 pages of coloring for some reason. He also does graffiti on places he goes to at night with his best and only friend. He doesn't bother applying for jobs anymore because most of the people hiring either want someone stupid or someone with a degree (for a fucking gig at Fred Meyers). He makes money by selling his old stuff, lab tests, quick profit investments with the 5k he's saved up from his old job, and selling edibles to people close to him.[/FONT]

[FONT=&quot]There's also his girlfriend of 5 years. She just moved to the city to live closer to the university. Let's call her Orange, 21yo. She's really smart and pretty (I'm actually seeing her off set). She's trying to get into aerospace engineering or whatever else the U will let her. She's 420 friendly but she's more of a beer girl. They see each other every weekend when Blue takes the bus to the city or she comes to town. Everything's great for them but he's worried that she'll get tired of having a lackadaisical stoner boyfriend who's probably not going anywhere in life.[/FONT]

[FONT=&quot]On one fortunate class day, one of the girls on the table started talking to Blue about Peyote. It turns out that she's not a giant stiff like the rest of the table girls; she's actually a pretty legit herbal and safe trips girl. Let's call her Emerald, 19yo. She's pretty much the stoner's dream gal, intelligent and the kind of beautiful that doesn't even bother. So after class, Blue walks her to her car. She offers to drive him to his car even if it was a ways away from the campus; he goes ahead and takes the ride. They talk about entheogens like Ayahuasca and Iboga. After that, he gets her number so he can call her when “he's smoking out with his friends or something”.[/FONT]

[FONT=&quot]Then Blue pretty much texts her daily that week saying something along the lines of “Hey let's go vaporize.'[/FONT]

[FONT=&quot]What a loser, lol.[/FONT]

[FONT=&quot]The next class day, Emerald texts him back, acknowledging his desperation for a bud buddy. He shows his stash and she digs around her back to match him for the day (this is our actual personal stash too). They have the bud but no lighter or vape. Fortunately, she sees his magnifying glass and shows him how to use the sun to burn the weed (it hits clean like a vape, crazy). He turns on the CD player and the album for the movie plays, some mellow unheard of stuff. They talk for a while and get to know each other (there were no actual lines for this one so we had an actual conversation about ourselves). She's a smart young lady and she just really wants to get a job. He's just trying to keep it together and get his books done. She's got some boyfriend issues. He's just happy to be bud bonding with anyone. Etc, etc. Then suddenly, it's 3:30PM and she's gotta go like some kind of Cinderella type of deal.[/FONT]

[FONT=&quot]Same thing happens for the rest of the week as the last one except she replies every now and then. After a night hanging out with his friendly neighborhood dealer and friends, Blue puts two and two together. She doesn't reply as much because she's either with her guy or he's a giant tool and she's just using him for weed. He tries to lean to the first one more because he really enjoys having her around to blaze up with on the regular.[/FONT]

[FONT=&quot]Next class day, they go collecting specimens of fungi in the forest while it's fucking raining. The whole time, Blue's just walking around with her, talking about nothing of significance. Then Emerald asks if he notices anything, he doesn't. She cut her hair a little shorter; he tells her that he didn't notice because he tries not to look below a certain region of her body (Idk how I did that, her body's hard to be nonchalant about). After class, the pair and one of their classmates who had the day off went to Emerald's house to vaporize. It was supposed to be Blue's house but she had to drop off her family somewhere. Blue was just trying to lay back and enjoy the orange stuff he just got, but in his heightened state of mind, he was starting to be captivated by Emerald. She had to sit close so the vaporize would reach. With the herb vaped and everyone (except for Blue) having things in their schedules, they transformed and rolled out.[/FONT]

[FONT=&quot]Blue back in solitude, couldn't get Emerald off of his mind. As an underground pot scientist, he acknowledges the value and rarity of a stoner girl, especially a real pro like her. He doesn't want to scare her off with some shenanigans the human body and its hormones try to pull. He realizes that there's always that “what if” dimension, even if he manages to get her to stay and be a real friend. Being high, he goes over all the possibilities of what could happen, sun down to sun up.[/FONT]

[FONT=&quot]The next class week was a little special, Blue turns 23, his Dad pulls his insurance, he becomes more of a failure in the eyes of society, the relationships with most of his family and friends remain distant, the remainder of his peers start to question his value within their social circle, all his life's mistakes seem to be closer to culmination, and things don't seem to be getting better. He'd kill himself but he's tried many times in the years before and he's just too fucking hard to kill. Instead of driving out somewhere to be alone while he eats pizza that only tastes amazing mostly because of ketchup and nostalgia, he asks Emerald if she wants to do something for his birthday. She tells him to bring a pipe, he does.[/FONT]

[FONT=&quot]After a really slow class day, they get in her car and park by his to grab his fireplace lighter. She puts a bud in his spoon and tells him that he gets first hit. They had the windows up a little but the rain was starting to turn into ice/snow so they just hot boxed the car. The conversation in this scene was still unwritten but it did say to try and take it somewhere romantic. So they started off talking about Blue's Jigsaw puppet beanie hat (Jigsaw from Saw). Then they debated whether a spoon is used with water in it or not. When the bowl was cashed, a big truck parked behind and across from them and they were pretty paranoid about that for a while. When they calmed down, Blue told her that he really appreciates her spending time with him. Then he had her pick a piece of his White Widow because she wanted to hit some more. [/FONT]

[FONT=&quot]After a while, Blue started trying to tell Emerald that the girls in school are probably just stiffs because she's the most beautiful one there is. Emerald smiles and gets all dumbfounded because she probably didn't expect that out of her tropical islander buddy. Before he can keep talking, she tries to change the subject about how Mr.Nobody is better than Inception. Blue, having just seen Mr.Nobody gets side tracked and completely gets into the subject. She brings up the fungi lab and says they should meet up another day to do the write up on it. Then she gets a text and her demeanor changes a little because it seems like she's needed elsewhere. So he packs up and they say their goodbyes. Walking around to her side of the car, he asks her if she's good to go. Emerald asks the same question right back. He tells her, “Of course. I'm the boss.”[/FONT]

[FONT=&quot]/Story[/FONT]

[FONT=&quot]Aaaaannnddd congratulations, you're a reading champ for putting up with my shitty summarizing. That's all I got so far. So I don't know what's going to happen in the story or wtf is Emerald's secret. It's pretty intense, acting while high, you just get really into it. The camera and the crew just blend into the background. Plus most of our conversations were just adlib so that was nice too. [/FONT]

[FONT=&quot]I gotta say though, the actress who plays Emerald is not very far from her character. She is a keeper; whoever her boyfriend is must have been blessed by the 11th dimension overlords of reality. Most people might think she's just a beautiful airhead but she's always got her mind on something. That and she kept matching my bowls like a boss. In a Cannabishowdown, I'm not 100% sure I can defeat her.[/FONT]

[FONT=&quot]Anyway, that's that. PM me if you want any updates on the story (I don't know why the fuck you would though, lol).

If there's anyone OCD enough to trim this post, just PM me a copy and I'll edit it down.
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lol, sorry folks. The papers I got were thick. I'd edit it down but I got other stuff at hand.

I asked the main writer guy what the "core" of the story is.

Apparently, it's pretty much just about an eccentric stoner (or a loser, "depends on your perception") and he's just trying to keep it together as everything around him slowly craps out. The stoner girl he meets brings relief to him just by having someone to smoke out with. I guess the problem is that at the end of the semester, he doesn't know whether they'll still be bud buddies or if she'll just disappear.

 

I'll tell him to throw in more poop jokes and 3D, lol.

 

Muahahahaha, some of you are getting closer to the truth.

 

I was waiting for someone to call it.

Yeah, this non-existent movie would be quite a turd of a movie.

AFK has more details than I ever could put into a story. Plus half of the stuff is bs or altered.

I was just messing with you guys.

I was hoping it would at least get to 2 pages.

lol, thanks for putting up with it though.

 

I do write scripts, but I do comedy. This drama stuff, not so much. I'll leave that to future bestfriend who can make my thoughts into competent realities.

Plus the story isn't over since I'm living it out for reals still.