Coming up for air from the non-stop Sam Bailey and Heartsgaard rewrites has helped in a number of ways... For one, I've got some ideas about how I can improve on TIYE, which I think I'm going to rename Attendance is Mandatory. For quite some time, I've been vexed by the ending. To me, it's just not realistic that Turner wouldn't have to deal with the larger authorities when he burns the school to the ground...
Finally, I've got a rock solid idea of how that can work. It makes the movie a good deal darker, but I think I can keep it at a PG-13. For those who don't know, this is a movie about a high-school kid who wakes up from his medicated haze to realize he's living in a dark future bent on squashing his soul. From there, he decides to burn his high school to the ground. Very Brazil, but with heaps of Pump up the Volume and Heathers.
Anyway, a quick rewrite on this one might now be a bad idea, once I'm done with what I'm doing. Between the science-fiction and the Heartsgaard play, I've got my work cut out for me!
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