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This week's Answer: Christmas
Cheer Up 'Cause It Won't Be Christmas Much Longer Michael,
I think it's a great idea to write a non-crap holiday
script. (It will be so much easier to read that
way.) How do you do it? Good question.
You're going to need a lot of snow (especially if you have
scenes where it's going to snow a lot). Somebody
will need to not be in good holiday cheer. And
you'll need some snow. One of your characters will
have to have ruby cheeks and an almost cloying or actually
cloying smile that the character who doesn't have ruby
cheeks or a holiday smile wants to slap off his face (or
something even more violent and un-holiday-ish). And
did I mention that you're going to need snow? And a
miracle. You're going to need a miracle or something
that could be referred to as a miracle or a strange,
wonderful happening that happens to happen during the
holiday and is quite holiday-esque. This
holiday-type happening will most likely transform the
originally "uncheerful" person into a cheerful
one and will cause he or her to, once again, believe in
the power and joy of the holiday season, along with
sometimes a whole town or some large, populated
area. They'll be a lot of cheery holiday music
especially at the end. And as we pull away, glad to
have gone through the two hours in order to remember to
feel good during the holidays (even though we just might
not want to)... it snows, snow being emblematic of purity,
refreshing the landscape, blanketing it and all with its
beauty and grace.
Which will eventually need to be
shoveled so the cheery holiday people can get out of their
beautifully blanch-blanketed houses.
So, Michael, as you can see, you've
made an excellent choice, being that it's much easier to
shovel snow than to shovel... well, you know.
Cheery Holidays,
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