Idea for a short film
The long shot from camera one is of the outside of a high end cigar shop
Parked in front of the shop
Are a Mercedes sports car, a Hummer and a BMW Suv
Camera pans in
3 men sit on chairs smoking cigars
Kent Deacon is a large man but fit with a flat top buzz cut
Darren Jones has long hair, a little too long for his age and likes gold chains
Tony Spackola is heavy, and hairy and has a pencil moutstache, he sweats a lot
All the men seem to be enjoying their cigars
Kent puffs on his ‘Sandinista’ made fresh, from Cuba
They begin to talk
Kent: You guys ever have trouble with your pubic hair designs?
Darren: I gave up on it long ago, had a Brazilian and I’m done with it
Tony: Every day Kent, I struggle to find the time to work on it
Kent: I just don’t like going to the shop to have it done. I like to do it myself
I’ve shaved a beautiful heart but it took most of the morning and the kids were pounding on the bathroom door yelling at me to hurry up ..we were late for soccer but I think it looks great!
The men continue to smoke and watch people pass by.
Darren: Yesterday I found a condom in my son’s Randy’s wallet.
Tony: No kiddin, what did you do?
Darren: Took my 6 iron to him and gave him a good beating. No son of mine uses a condom. When I went into the Amazon I didn’t wear a rubber suit. You go in with what you can carry, you don’t need the Berlin Wall between you Mother Nature . I’m going to have to toughen him up…
Kent: Send him to work in a coal mine in north China. That’s what I did with Chet when he told me he wanted to take Spanish Guitar lessons.
The men continue to smoke, and watch people pass by
A man goes by on a uni cycle juggling live puppies
The men say nothing and continue to smoke
Tony: Yesterday Jan and kids went to visit her mother in the hospice and I had a skinny dip in the pool. When I got out, I saw our gardener Mr Chu looking at me. I felt something stir in me I hadn’t felt in years, and I just went over to him and we got it on. Me and Mr Chu on the back lawn.
Kent: You go tiger, you go.
Darren: Cheaper than going all the way to Asia Tony
They all laugh and continue to smoke
Across the road they watch as a man throws himself into the traffic
He is bounced around under a truck before finally being crushed
The men say nothing and continue to smoke
Finally Darren says
I’d like to see that heart shape design Kent
Kent: (putting out his cigar and stands up and removes his pants)
Tony/Darren: Whoa….cool…good workmanship….
And then a small compact American car passes and suddenly swerves onto the sidewalk between the Hummer and BMW…..Kent is first to see it and it’s hard for him to dodge out of the way because his pants are around his ankles. The men don’t realize that the car is driven by an extremist and it explodes and blows up half the city block.
Last scene:
The funeral for the men
The families are all crying when the three cigar shaped caskets are dropped into the graves.
But no one cries as hard as Mr Chu who is standing at the back of the mourners
Fade out to Bee Gees music and then credits roll