#MATT AND BEN SCRIPT PDF MOVIE#

One of the great story touches Menear uses, is he places one impossible song on the list вЂ“ a song listed as вЂњThe song that reminds me of that day in the park.вЂќ It becomes the ultimate impossible goal for Beverly. Beverly starts to punk herself out, if only to get closer to these people she never knew. Throw in Anti, the aging hipster who owns a run-down version of a High Fidelity record store, and Beverly is able to peck her way through the list.ДЄ side effect of this journey is her connection with the music, which, to her grandmotherвЂ™s chagrin, starts to change her. EllenвЂ™s got a computer, which allows them to locate some of the songs, and NickiвЂ™s a walking music encyclopedia, which allows them to find songs that even the internet doesnвЂ™t know about. Beverly decides that through hell or high water, she must find every one of these songs.Д®ventually she teams up with a fellow outcast named Ellen, a Korean girl who just moved in down the street, and Nicki, the chain-smoking вЂњfreakвЂќ girl at school that everyone is both repulsed by and terrified of. TheyвЂ™re actually two of the more popular groups on the list. If names like Bikini Kill and The Quick donвЂ™t ring a bell, you better hold your breath. All thatвЂ™s left is a list of odd sounding songs from the most obscure bands imaginable. Excited, she throws it in an aging walkman, only to accidentally destroy the tape. One day, while rummaging through some old boxes, Beverly comes across a mixtape made by her parents. How did *she* come from *them*? Beverly wants nothing more than to find out the answer to that question. Hip, cool, punk-rockers вЂ“ clearly music lovers and proud rebels.

Her parents are the complete opposite of her. This picture is the source of much of BeverlyвЂ™s confusion and misdirection. Her grandmother never speaks of them, and so all Beverly has to go on is a single picture of the two when they were younger. The only thing that keeps Beverly going is the threadbare memory of her parents, who died in a car accident when she was a baby. A bully in a wheelchair? Talk about turning a clichГ© on its head.

In one of the many instances you know youвЂ™re dealing with a unique writer, Menear doesnвЂ™t paint BeverlyвЂ™s nemesis as the typical Adonis blond-haired jock you remember from all those 80s flicks, but rather a wickedly cruel boy in a wheelchair. In other words, she was born to be bullied. SheвЂ™s an overweight poor 13 year old girl without any friends who lives with her ultra-conservative grandmother. ItвЂ™s an antaster.Д«everly Moody has it as tough as any teenager can have it.

#MATT AND BEN SCRIPT PDF MOVIE#

Looking at this script before reading it, I anticipated a 2012 like disaster (you can use either the movie or the expected disaster for that analogy вЂ“ both work).Д«ut Mixtape is anything but a disaster. Mention an old Richard Marx tune to a metalhead and there goes your audience. Music is one of the hardest things to write about in a screenplay because a) the reader canвЂ™t hear the music, and b) a song you love very well may be a song the reader hates. By blinking you could be My SisterвЂ™s Keeper.ДЄs if that wasnвЂ™t difficult enough, Menear bases the story around music, which basically nuclear charges every one of those mines. One wrong step and you can fall perilously into any of those. Its subject matter is a literary mine-field, the kind of graveyard where scripts go to die. IвЂ™m still in shock after reading this, as IвЂ™m amazed that Menear even attempted the story. If you had told me that one of my favorite scripts off of this yearвЂ™s Black List would be an emotional drama about a 13 year old girl cobbling together random songs from a broken mixtape, I wouldвЂ™ve expected you to also inform me that you were a robot from the future sent to save mankind. Playing the part of Beverly will be Chloe Moretz (вЂњHit GirlвЂќ in Kickass, as well as the lead in the remake of вЂњLet The Right One InвЂќ) The film will be directed by вЂњKing of KongвЂќ helmer Seth Gordon. Stacy Menear, the writer, doesnвЂ™t have any previous sales or credits. ItвЂ™s the вЂњIвЂ™m a Loser, BabyвЂќ or вЂњParanormal ActivityвЂќ of the screenwriting world, a script that found success purely through word of mouth. If thereвЂ™s a script that truly embodies the spirit of the Black List, this is it. Mixtape may have finished even higher had it officially gone out. Premise: A thirteen year old outcast finds a mixtape that belonged to her deceased parents, accidentally destroys it, and uses the song list to find all the music.ДЄbout: Finished with 14 votes on this yearвЂ™s Black List.

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