So, as you might expect if you're trying to come up with a plot for a story you've started writing, I've come up with an idea that has nothing to do with what I'm working on. What if there's a guy, let's call him "a dude." What if there's a guy, say, early twentieth century England, who befriends a family of privelege. This guy, however, is no social climber, as the cliche would have him, but instead has no ambition whatsoever, but to get drunk or stoned and flirt with the high society types, but keeps getting stuff put in his lap. And then I saw this trailer, an adaptation of Evelyn Waugh's classic, and I realized, It's "The Dude" from Big Lebowski meets Brideshead Revisited, with perhaps a little Forrest Gump thrown in. Hmm. Although maybe it should be set a little further back, a kind of male twist on the porn for uptight females that is Jane Austen. Feedback? Thoughts? Anybody? (by the way I already mailed a version of this to myself, so if you're thinking of turning this into the Oscar winning screenplay that it obviously is, then your going have to pay, and pay big)
N.B. Evelyn Waugh is a man? Who knew?!
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