Hey, D.A., Andrea,
Thank you kindly for the positive feedback!
I must admit, embarrassingly… the concept of ‘Pink Freud’ was not entirely cooked up by me, I read it on a coffee mug some years back…
https://elephantbookstore.com/image/cachewebp/catalog/products/unemployed-philosophers-guild/porcelanova-chasha-pink-frojd-950x950.webpMind you, I did spend many an hour trying to come up with some mash-up dialog, that being: phrases that incorporated both Freudian psychoanalysis and Pink Floyd lyrics, some made the cut, most didn’t, lol.
As a Pink Floyd fan, I had to read this. The story was quite creative. The campy humor wasn’t wasted on me. If Syd Barrett wrote an action comic book character, it would probably read like this. |
Yes, I’m a huge Pink Floyd fan as well. Growing up ‘Generation X’ I think most of us were, still are for that matter. I remember seeing ‘The Wall’ in theaters when it came out in ’82 and I think it messed with our heads to the extent that I we longer wanted to go to school, and for the most part… I didn’t, guess that’s why I failed so many times, lol. Mind you, I was only 13 at the time so most of the message went way over our heads.
Speaking of Syd Barrett, Pink’s shot gun (in this script) is inspired by the song: the Gnome…
Wiki: "The Gnome" is a song by the English rock band Pink Floyd. Written by Syd Barrett, it is the eighth song on their 1967 debut album, The Piper at the Gates of Dawn. The song takes place in a fictional gnome world from the perspective of a gnome.
The song tells the tale of a scarlet tunic wearing gnome named Grimble Gromble. The lyrics ostensibly "came off the top [of Barrett's] head". "The Gnome" was included on the B-side of the US Pink Floyd single "Flaming" (Tower 378), which was never released in the UK.
Of course, due to potential copyright scenarios, I thought I might as well tweak the name a bit to ‘Grimble Frumble’, in the off- off- way off chance someone liked this script enough to produce it they would already be cleared. I don’t think most of what’s in the script is bordering on that serious in terms of copyright infringement, but I did have a YouTube channel a while ago that had some copyright strikes on it for simple snippets of movies with soundtracks in them, and I thought “holy shit, do I need this headache?”, the answer was ‘no’, so I deleted the channel. But then there’s the lyrics from ‘Mother’, and the mug… ::)
Ahoy - R5e --um, your handle looks familiar - can't place the name yet. Anywaz, I had entirely too much free time on my hands tonight and ended up reading this. I found it so unusual -- I read it again from the top. I wondered if it was a comedy because I had an urge to giggle in some places. It wasn't particularly laugh-out-loud funny to me, but -- I couldn't help but smile throughout. |
R5e is a pen name that I’ve used for many years now on my scripts, phonetically ‘5e’ is pronounced the same as my last name so I went with it once for shits and giggles, but it kind of stuck over the years, lol.
You may recognize my avatar from previous OWC’s etc. That’s the handle I’ve been using for several years now.
And yes, correct… it is supposed to be a comedy, or comedy-ish of sorts, not to be taken seriously of course. That being said, I listed it as Dramedy because there’s some violent elements to it as well. I also wanted it to be very Batman like, I’m talking the Batman series I watched many a Saturday morning growing up:
Wiki: Batman stars Adam West as Bruce Wayne/Batman and Burt Ward as Dick Grayson/Robin—two crime-fighting heroes who defend Gotham City from a variety of archvillains. It is known for its camp style, upbeat theme music, and its intentionally humorous, simplistic morality (aimed at its largely teenage audience). This included championing the importance of wearing seat belts, doing homework, eating vegetables, and drinking milk.Here’s one of those very scripts, complete with the ZING’s, POW’s, and BOINGs that were so iconic of the original series that I wanted to incorporate within this script -- if your down for a fun 60s style script read:
https://www.scriptslug.com/script/batman-105-the-joker-is-wild-1966Curiously, Adam West, before he passed, took up the zany off-the-wall character ‘Mayor West’ in the animated series ‘Family Guy’, which gave us a pretty good insight as to his ability to portray campy style humour with a straight face.
Soooo, someone’s head erupting into a ball of blood and grey matter probably wouldn’t fit the overall theme I was going for, hence the Skittle Painbow blow-out from Pink’s shotgun, or should I say Grimble Frumble’s Phallus, lol.
Anyway, that’s a long explanation for an 8-page script, but ideas and influence are everywhere, I just have a habit of connecting the dots every now and again into something-somewhat coherent, as surreal as that may be.
Again, thank you both for you feedback. Please let me know if I can return the read on any of your projects/scripts you might have in the works, till then, cheers!