17 July 2005

A romantic comedy you'll never see in theaters.

I don't usually dream in movies, but last night I did. It was a new romantic comedy starring Tom Cruise. It starts off in a college classroom. The professor asks a question, something like "What does it mean if a man says he is doomed?"
A male joker answers, "He hired me to act as his lawyer?"
A female answers something like, "Female problems."

Cut to Tom Cruise. He's after Brooke Shields' character. But he doesn't mind having some 'fun' along the way. In particular, he's stringing along an old ex-flame (who would not be cast in Hollywood as she was in my dream: a bit dumpy and overweight), but he's also 'playing the field.'

There's a random scene in the middle that makes no real sense. A woman is hiding in the woods, desperate. She somehow comes to my taiji instructor's, Don's, house (not in the woods in real-life), and starts picking strawberries and raspberries desperately. She's starved. Don tells her to take as much as she needs. (Meanwhile, inside we have a new student. A Frenchman who insists on doing his style of warm-ups.) If this bears any connection to the rest, presumably she's a woman wronged by ol' Tom.

Anyway, I seem to have fastforwarded a bit when Tom comes back. He's about to bed his old flame (They seem to be on a pile of gunny sacks for this), when, of course, Brooke Shields walks in at exactly the wrong moment. Tom leaps off of the old flame (clothes on, btw), and starts yammering that it's not what it looks like, it's a scene for a play or a movie, or something. Of course the old flame is furious. So's Brooke. They both storm out.

Cut to the end. Brooke and the old flame are together in a room, glaring at each other. They begin beating each other with anything close to hand (one item was a pole from a theater; the ones that hold the ropes to keep you from entering too soon). After beating the heck out of each other, they're best friends for life. (I think this scene was in the same classroom where the movie started)

The End

2 comments:

Fibonacci said...

Maybe you should email Stephen Spielberg.

Qalmlea said...

Lol. Somehow I don't see it as a Steven Spielberg film. It sounds more like a strange foreign film.