User:Shinyhappyperson

Shiny Happy Person Tagline: (Making) Bad things happen to good people


 * Ref- PI, Medusa Touch, American Psycho, Nausea, Carrie, K-PAX, Bladerunner, Sliding Doors, Next
 * Wake up in the morning, radio – happy song, smiley face on ceiling
 * Focusing on train coming through tunnel
 * Bridge jump – someone else jumps
 * List of positive affirmations on walls
 * CD compilations strewn- Happy 1, Happy 2
 * Extreme positive behaviour when he meets with other people; mantra under breath, she’s so innocent, she loves her mum etc.
 * Can’t kill himself by standard means because in the process of doing so, his bad thoughts affect those around him
 * Unsaid backstory perhaps where he has (and doesn’t even know) how many friends and family he’s killed. Photos around, maybe he says sorry to a particular one every day. Or maybe all of them!
 * Morning routine consists of taking loads of drugs and eating foods which help with endorphins
 * He’s 35-40, he’s learnt to control it
 * Rapist in prison just chokes and dies, cut to protagonist reading paper with story about rapist. Maybe he starts flicking through the paper quickly past all the negative stories, exasperated at *the media’s obsession with reporting fucked up shit.
 * Meditation, weekly routine, yogi, hypnotist
 * Potential hope at the end


 * Meets a girl who’s immune to it or maybe she’s changed his mindset
 * Ending (possibly): his negative thoughts have no effect on her but we don’t know why
 * Maybe he’s never fallen in love because he never allowed himself to get that close and maybe love is the antidote (but not in a gay way)
 * Maybe he hurt a little girl in the playground when he was young
 * Maybe he can only affect people – and when people are controlling things like driving cars, planes, trains
 * What is his job? He’s at home, maybe something computer based.


 * Alleyway mugging – ‘Hey give me your money’ (expecting resistance from protagonist). Protagonist can’t give him the money quick off, runs off. ‘Deer’ like.


 * Kid A and the girl argue in the café, she storms out momentarily we see Kid A scowl and purse his brow. Outside café, cars screech, slam, crash. Kid A looks across, presuming the girl is dead, he screams in total anger, cars crash, people collapse and die, Kid A falls to his knees.


 * He sees the girl’s head rise (maybe she smiles), she walks over to her and comforts him as he sobs. Camera pans up like a bird’s eye view, and in the distance we see cars and people strewn for miles.


 * He realises that when he falls in love with someone, that someone is immune to his powers (unwritten)


 * Moment in room looking in photos, wreaths, she teases him about all the photos, she gets lockjaw (cos he gives it to her), and he says, ‘Sorry about that.’


 * Underlying theme of ‘is he or isn’t he doing these things?’ The audience doesn’t really know for sure (like in the sixth sense) till the end. Could he just be a madman who has become a hermit?


 * Two moments where we see Kid A flash forward to possible extreme scenarios i moments of anger or stress e.g True Lies/Final Destination/Next


 * Opening shot: Breathing condensation onto lift door, draws smiley face onto condensation


 * People out of focus in the background, close up on him as he recites his mantra, voices in the background. Doors open and the smiley face has been drawn in the condensation.


 * Steadicam riverbank shot