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-Courtney Papa

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PART 1: THE FIRST PART

I was talking with my grandfather the other day and he got very excited about the action comedy - car chases, weapons vending machines, Michelle as the token big black man, etc. He also proposed that the hero/secret-agent believe in non-violence. i haven't quite figured out how to pull that off without losing some great fights - but i think that's a great reason to do it.

he then got into a serious discussion with my cousin from DC about whether Goshen would even have undercover agents. i pointed out that they would be secret if we did. There's nothing better than Meyer holiday conversation.

PART 2: THE OTHER PART

Yesterday i was driving behind a guy on a motorcycle. a very cool guy on a very cool motorcycle. not the usual frat boy on a crotch-rocket or older man with a bandanna on a pimped-out harley (the two most common sights around here) - but a very cool younger guy in black leather on a very cool simple bike. he was obviously an action hero. he was in a movie, i could tell.

which meant i was in a movie - because i was following him. but i knew that i wasn't in a movie. i was driving a toyota. action movies don't have young bearded insurance graphic designers driving toyotas. that's pure logic.

which made me wonder about all the other people who aren't quite in action movies, but end up following the hero (off-camera, of course) for a few blocks between action sequences. i wonder if you could tell an entire action-movie story from their perspective.

i suppose you would have to call it "Marge and Norm are Not Dead" or something...

I wonder if we could get Tim Roth to play Norm...

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Last night the production team (Eric, Michelle, Adria, Emily, and I) met at the Electric Brew to talk and dream about the Action Comedy. I listed our assets.

Things we have (assets--or actionessets):
- guns & knives
- super powers
- excitement
- Mary Ellen
- action and anti-action
- bruce lee
- Nicole
- trendy
- hott
- mission
- inventiveness
- springboard platform
- short
- more blood than Kill Bill
- Running on the roofs of cars
- "iron chef of theatre"
- a wheelbarrow

In case you're wondering what a "springboard platform" is (besides some weird thing that Adria said), I made a sketch:

[for a few hours this post was on the Fear/Falling blog. That was a mistake.]

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