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Dec 6, 2011
- by jbeswick
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Spoiled brat Brit Marling is driving home shitfaced listening to the exposition on the radio when she sees Another Earth in the sky.
CUT TO another car containing a perfect family.
WILLIAM MAPOTHER
Holy shit, this family's so nuclear I'm amazed Iran hasn't tried to weaponize it.
INT - MISERABLE PRISON CELL CEILING CAM - DAY
Brit sits in the corner and we see that in prison you have to poop in public. Gross. Brit has to become the bitch of a prison lesbian named Scratcher who got the nickname from killing her husband with a nail file. Yeah, I know, a married lesbian. Oh wait, we just cut the most interesting scene in the film. Back to pooping in public.
TITLE CARD - "4 YEARS LATER" No really, it just feels like the backstory has taken a long time.
INT - TEMPING AGENCY OR SOMETHING - DAY Brit acts like someone coming out of Joliet by not combing her hair and looking generally dishevelled.
TEMPING CHICK
With a brain as big as yours I could get you a super swick job designing lasers or some shit.
BRIT
No I was going with a hot body and good luck to become a trophy wife but now my life's ruined so I want to clean toilets forever.
TEMPING CHICK
Ok. Whatever.
Brit shows up at Bill's house. He acts his butt off to show how distraught he is about the death of his family - he's even taking some non-descript pills while he can stare at their photo frames.
BRIT
Weren't you in Lost?
BILL
Yeah. And The Grudge. I'm like William Fichtner. I'm in 90% of all movies and nobody's ever stopped me for a fucking autograph.
BRIT
Can I clean your house for free? It's a trial. Or a metaphor. Or whatever.
BILL
As long as I can mope around that'll be cool.
BRIT
Sweet.
INT - BILL'S HOUSE - DAY
Bill and Brit are giving each other a good 'cleansing', if you know what I mean. Hot, sweaty, arty and tastefully directed missionary all around. Kind of like sex in the 1950s.
BILL
Wow this cleaning service has benefits.
BRIT
Yeah, weird right? By the way, I've entered a competition to be the only human to get in a spaceship and fly to that other earth that's in the title.
BILL
Ha, what are the odds of you winning that? Oh, I just saw the title. Well, shall I put the spaceman in my rocket one more time?
BRIT
If you think that euphemism was a stretch, wait til you see the end of this movie.
BRIT'S BROTHER
I put a note on your door.
BRIT
Really? Couldn't we have just cut this scene and shown the note.
BRIT'S BROTHER
Yeah, but the screenplay needed a couple more pages since the studio said it would be a TV movie otherwise.
BRIT
Good God. Tell me more about the note.
MILLIONAIRE
Hi I've got so much money I can do all sorts of bizarre shit.
BRIT
Wow. I've cleaned so many toilets that one day I want to become one.
MILLIONAIRE
I've currently got a project where I'm trying to stuff the Gobi desert into a poodle. Interested? Anyway, I'm going to fly you to that big shiny thing in the sky.
BRIT
What, the sun?
MILLIONAIRE
No, dipshit, you're thinking of Sunshine, that other movie nobody saw. The Another Earth is where you're going.
Brit shows up at Bill house, which has happened like 5 times already.
BRIT
Let me tell you a story about a girl who did something really bad and had to live with it.
BILL
Is this like one of those Swedish books about the girl who drank lighter fuel or something?
BRIT
No. Have you ever had a spider in the car?
BILL
Yeah - I almost drove over a taco truck trying to kill that thing!
BRIT
Well I saw a big Another Earth in the sky and crash.
BILL
That's understandable. Hell, that's like looking in the rear mirror and seeing a clown or something.
BRIT
Yeah, plus I was drunk and killed your family.
BILL
Shit you could have mentioned that before I banged you harder than a Salvation Army drum. You know I was in CSI Miami as well?
BRIT
Here's my ticket to the Another Earth. You have it.
BILL
Oh, so you think my family's still alive on duplicate Earth? Deep.
BRIT
Yeah, it's a stretch given that the exposition earlier showed that everyone there does exactly the same shit we do so there's no way they're alive.
BILL
Isn't anyone concerned about what happens when that big shiny thing in the sky hits us?
BRIT
What, the sun?
BILL
No, the freaking Another Earth.
BRIT
Yeah, you'd think we'd all be partying like t'wer 1999 but instead I'm cleaning toilets and moping around your place.
BILL
Ok, whatever I'm off to my spaceship to go back to a life of sexual frustration.
EXT - BILL'S HOUSE - DAY
Brit is in the garden staring at something. RACK FOCUS to another Brit staring back at her. How fucking deep is that, Sundance? Word.What did you think of this review?
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woopak_the_thrill
December 13, 2011
LOL! pretty entertaining write up...I would give this more thumbs on the "fun to read" scale if I could! thanks!
jbeswick
December 13, 2011
Thanks William - I think I'm going to try out this format for some new titles... :-D
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Scotman
December 13, 2011
Wow, was it really that bad? There are better "other earth" movies but they usually have that dupe planet on the other side of the sun. That's the movie title too: Journey to the Far Side of the Sun. Been done to death. Maybe I'll rent this. :)
jbeswick
December 13, 2011
I think staring is the new dialog... so many new movies incorporate staring that I'm thinking of trying it out the next time I'm at the post office. Oh wait, they just closed that post office. :-)
Scotman
December 13, 2011
Yep, I hear ya! The Twilight movies were all about staring. I watch most of my films with Netflix rather than go out to the theaters anymore.
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It is far from uncomplicated to avoid athlete's foot or so due to the fact it is usually contracted inside outfit houses, showers, along with mishaps locker houses wherever uncovered toes come in contact with the yeast. Then again, can be done very much to stop an infection by way of training good foot care. Each day washing belonging to the foot with a cleaning agent in addition to waters; drying thoroughly, particularly involving the feet; plus modifying shoes and hose repeatedly to minimize moisture, assistance stop the fungus out of infecting that toes. In addition beneficial is daily use of an outstanding ft . powder snow.
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Cast:
Jordan Baker,
William Mapother,
Natalie Carter,
Robin Taylor,
Brit Marling,
Flint Beverage,
Joseph A. Bove,
Diane Ciesla,
Jeff Clyburn,
Bruce Colbert
Director:
Mike Cahill
Genre:
Drama
Release Date:
20 July 2011 (USA)
Screen Writer:
Mike Cahill,
Brit Marling
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