The One-Page Screenplay: Tucker Max's The SeX-Ray
Movieline's One-Page Screenplays have been many things, including epic (Rian Johnson's The Plains of Rothinian), smart-alecky (Diablo Cody's Father Approved), and just plain beautiful (Rhett Reese & Paul Wernick's One Small Step). But, we'd wager, they've never been controversial -- so why not have Tucker Max try his hand at one?
Max, for those unfamiliar, is the author of the drinking-and-debauchery memoir I Hope They Serve Beer in Hell, which has been made into an independently-distributed film debuting this Friday. Since he started his own website in 2002, Max's true-life tales have won him a legion of devoted followers, and an equally passionate set of detractors who call his stories misogynistic.
What they'll make of his One-Page Screenplay remains to be seen. On with the show!
Tucker Max's Disclaimer:
I know that this may sound like a goofy porn script. And before my movie premiere tour, I would have said it was.
But it is not. It actually happened. I offer you the (NSFW) proof:
The One-Page Screenplay:
Previous One-Page Screenplays:
· Rhett Reese & Paul Wernick's One Small Step
· Megan Holley's Squashing Ticks
· Jonathan Herman's Taxi Driver 2
· John Hlavin's Revelations
· TS Faull's THROAT BABIES
· Greg Marcks's Suicidal at McD's
· Craig Mazin's That Explains That
· Michael France's Tips on Suicide Notes
· Peter Chiarelli's The Problem with Hot Coffee
· Carl Gottlieb's Polaris Bears
· Diablo Cody's Father Approved
· Jeff Lowell's The Socialite And The Guy With The Real Job
· Michael Brandt & Derek Haas's Messy Life
· John Turman's BFF
· Rian Johnson's The Plains of Rothinian
· The Robotard 8000's Attempt #3
Comments
We can only hope it rendered him sterile.
Fail.
This totally happened!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
God, what an ass.
I guess you had to be there...?
Of course, if Tucker was a real writer, he'd know how to put his audience there with the power of his words.
there was more depth in the video.
Hm. Needs more fat chicks.
There's more depth in a cup of pudding.
He has pronoun trouble. The way Tucker and Jeff perked up and shared "a conspiratorial glance" together, I thought at first that Tucker was asking the girl to sex-ray he and Jeff having sex together. (Not that there's anything wrong....) And then I remembered I don't care all that much.
Plus, "TOUR BUS?" Really?
He has pronoun trouble.
For a start.
I hope they have remedial English in hell too.
worst It's Always Sunny episode to date.
Lame.
What was the idea behind The One-Page Screenplay again?
"We approach screenwriters we like and ask them to compose a script that exists on a single page — a sort of movieku."
Hmmm...