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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 whoeversucks 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.
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
* 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.
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I had appointments myself during lunch time, but I scored a fudgy-brownie with peanut butter frosting, so that made up for it.
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Obviously my brain isn't fully functioning today anyway!
Answer for Round 4, Part 2
*Bioinformatics scientist/programmer
*Genetic Counselor
*LiveJournal Administrative Asshole
*Goddess/Engineer of Potholes and Puddles
*Flea Circus Ringmaster
*Tuning Fork Manufacturer
*Road Construction Flagger
*Law Enforcement Officer that Masquerades as a Child on the Internet to Catch Perverts
*Greeting Card Writer
*College/University Groundskeeper
(not to be confused with an athletic groundskeeper)
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And since I have yet to make heads or tails of rounds one and two, I don't think these are too easy at all.
*moves away, trying to scrounge up enough creativity to respond to round four(*
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Round 4, Part 3
I think Will Ferrell character in Stranger than Fiction, an IRS auditor was fairly unusual as a main character.
Drew Barrymore, as a plant waterer, in Music and Lyrics.
Best portrayal of people in pharmaceutical development and sales- Brain Candy.
Conjoined twins working in a freakshow- Twin Falls Idaho.
Michael Caine as a doctor and illegal abortionist running an orphanage.
Pot-growing gardener, Saving Grace.
Time-travelling inventor of the elevator, Hugh Jackman, Kate & Leopold.
Round 4, Part 1
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Arianna survived her dreary and mundane childhood in North Dakota to go onto a prestigious entomology graduate program, where she excelled. Now a caprifier (http://www.careerplanner.com/DOT-Job-Descriptions/FIG-CAPRIFIER.cfm) in an exotic, coastal region in Greece, Ari has inadvertently stumbled into an international plot that can threaten all of humanity.
Just as things were heating up between Ari and Fernando, a simple, yet sexy local fisherman, a dashing stranger comes into her life. Reginald is an ethnobotanist studying ancient fig trees in the Mediterranean. Recently having taken genetic samples of a tree living since 288 B.C., to further determine the molecular clock and evolutionary history of figs, Reginald discovered an anomaly that has greatly puzzled him. In hopes that Ari can trace the wasp species involved in the pollination of this Ficus religiosa, he pulls her into an intrigue that is more complicated than either of them could have imagined.
They travel to every end of the earth, as they uncover a plot involving genetic engineering of fig trees in order to bring a new vicious wasp species to the forefront of world domination. A devious mastermind with a bitter hatred of all of mankind, Dr. Agaonidae, thought his plot to be far too subtle for the ignorant common man, the testosterone-poisoned military leaders, and corrupt politicians of the world. Little did he consider the intellect, drive, and compassion of a pesky caprifier to unravel and derail his plans. Ari and Reginald struggle to convince others of the potential devastation that is impeding upon the world. The set up has been two-fold… the engineered figs cause instant infertility to any mammal that consumes and digest them, and the pollinating wasps have been selectively bred for aggressiveness, supernatural intelligence, and a mutualism with the figs that borders on symbiosis. It is clear that the wasps have the ability to organize and collaborate to become a deadly entomological army once their numbers increase.
There is mystery and suspense as Ari and Reginald discover the scope of the plot, attempt to alert the world, evade incarceration by those that believe they are pathological lunatics, track down Dr. Agaonidae, and still manage to fall into a passionate and flowery love affair.
The ending is ambiguous, as Dr. Agaonidae appears to have met a tragic demise in a fiery explosion (though the remains are unidentifiable), and Ari has discovered a hummingbird species* to use as a predator and biological weapon upon the wasps. Unable to convince fig arborists across the world to destroy their trees, Ari and Reginald begin covert vigilante missions to burn the trees that had been affected by Dr. Agaonidae, thus setting up the possibility for a sequel. The audience is left to wonder however, as the camera pans, then fixates upon a conveyor belt of Fig Newtons, if humanity is really saved or doomed to develop gratuitous and unproductive sex lives.
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*While most commonly known as nectarivores, some hummingbirds also eat small arthropods found on flowers. However, it is important to also realize that hummingbirds are pollinators as well as the wasps, thus providing another potential plot twist that is conducive to developing a sequel.
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OKAY SEE I HAVE THIS SCREENPLAY, I THINK YOU'RE GOING TO LOVE IT. THERE'S THIS HOROLOGIST RIGHT. AND HE FEELS ALL INSIGNIFICANT AND STUFF, RIGHT. AND THEN THIS GENETICIST GUY TELLS HIM HE CAN BE SPECIAL IF HE HAS SUPERPOWERS, RIGHT? SO HE GOES OUT AND KILLS A GUY AND TAKES HIS POWER, RIGHT? AND THEN-- wait, what do you mean, 'copyright'? O_o
(Do I get points for capslocking without pressing the capslock key? :D)
Um.
Anyway.
>_>
Picture it: a young man, training in cryptozoology, though his true passion is for animation; he works in an ice-cream parlour to earn money for his degree. But his father, a world-renowned glassblower, wants his son to continue in the family business. The young man falls in love with a beautiful young woman, but she is but a lowly ditch-digger, and his parents will never consent to their love. So, one fateful night, they creep together to the father's workshop and full all of his vats of melted glass full of ice-cream... and elope, giggling, to Disney Studios, where the young man's animation skills and knowledge of unearthly anatomy lead him to design some of its most famous critters, and where the young woman finds that they are in desperate need of a ditch-digger for some reason that probably has to do with plot. But there's a happy ending for the crotchety old father, too, because this is a family-friendly movie: he learns a moral all about fun and stuff when all of his glass turns out tasting like Raspberry Ripple.