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March 27th, 2008

smeddley: (Snerffle-08)
Thursday, March 27th, 2008 01:22 pm
While a few of you have absolutely delivered on round one, and many of you are still puttering about round two, a whole bunch of you stripped away the confusion and got to the bare essentials of round three. So obviously, it wasn't hard enough!

So I'm switching gears and moving from fact-based questions into the realm of creativity... and giving you a chance to take your fellow competitors down a peg!

The other day I was listening to the radio (I know, how odd) and heard Godsmack's 'Awake'. Now, thanks to far too much television viewing, that song will forever be linked to the Navy commercial (I also thing 'post office' whenever I hear 'fly like an eagle'). You may or may not remember it, but it featured the music and the tag line, 'when was the last time someone made a movie about your job' ...or something to that effect.

They were, of course, selling excitement, and there are plenty of movies featuring* the military, police men, lawyers, cops, doctors, etc. But there have been plenty of movies about jobs that are quite the opposite. Fast food worker, waitress, garbage man, assembly line workers, cube-dwellers... these have all been featured* in movies as well. So who gets left out? And this brings me to this round - read carefully, it's a three-part round.

Part One: Pitch to me, in 500 words or less, the synopsis of a movie that features* an unusual job - one that has never before been featured* in a movie. Jobs must be real (no alien snot-collectors or anything) but the plot can be fantastic. Points will be awarded both on the uniqueness of the job and the creativity** of the plot.

Part Two: List up to ten other jobs you don't think have ever been featured* in a movie. You get points two ways in this section - points for the creativity of the jobs, and if someone uses one of these in their part one you get half their points!

Part Three: List as many movies as you can think of that feature* unusual jobs. If anyone uses one of these in either part one or two of their answer, you get ALL of their points! I, as well, will 'submit' movies for this section, and if I get your points I can award them to whoever sucks up to me the most I feel like.

* Featured = a job held by one of the main characters that is part of the overall plot If you could easily switch the job of the main character and it wouldn't change anything about the movie (other than their job title) it is not 'featured'.

** Creativity of plot - points will also be awarded for amazingly bad plots, not just good ones.