I'd love to complete the dialogue and iron out the details, and possibly even do some storyboarding for some of the more cinematographically-interesting shots (like the closing bit and the Sam Raimi-esque bit), but this has been sitting on my hard drive for a few days and I've been too busy to invest that time into it.
Let me know if you want me to flesh it out more or whatever.
---------------------------------------
Scene 0
-Some kind of conversation between two friends that leads to one of them going out for a walk late at night.
-Title overlay appears as Main Character exits the house. (“Cat Got Your Lung” just sounds so… punny. In my humble opinion. :p But the title can be anything, of course.)
Scene 1
-Main character walking along side of road under streetlights.
-Shadow approaches from behind.
-Freeze frame of character turning around with shocked look on his face. (Overlay title.)
Scene 2
-MC wakes up lying on the street (or in an alley?). He is wearing an MP3 player with a video screen. He is confused and stumbles as he stands. He holds his stomach in discomfort.
-The MP3 player turns on and the MC holds it up in curiosity.
-A video begins playing of a person talking. (The video is a close-up of the person’s face.)
“Good morning, name. Did you sleep well?” *evil grin* “How do you feel? Tired? Off-balance? Confused? Something’s wrong, but you’re not sure what.”
-The MC looks around in confusion.
“You’re probably wondering who I am and why your stomach is churning so much.”
-The MC’s stomach gurgles and he winces in pain.
“The answers to those questions are easy. My name is evildoctorname, and I knocked you out last night and took you to my laboratory. By the time you see this video, I will have surgically inserted my cat, catname [holds up cat], into your belly, just above your bowels.
“Don’t worry, though. Catname is sedated, and she won’t wake up for quite some time. In fact, I’d say you have until about midnight tonight before she awakens and tears you open from the inside out.
“Enjoy your last day on earth, Main Character!” *evil villain laugh*
-MC’s face contorts in horror and the camera spins around him. He falls to his knees and yells, “Nooooo!”
**Note: This could also be done with the Main Character finding a cell phone in his pocket and talking to the evil doctor on the phone. It could even be a video call.
Scene 3
-Main character reveals his desperate plight to his girlfriend.
Example dialogue: “Promise me you will love again after I’m gone!”
Scene 4
-Main character reveals his desperate plight to his mother.
Example dialogue: “Now I finally know what it was like for you to carry me for those nine long months…”
Scene 5
-Main character bargains with God.
Example dialogue: “If you take this cat out of my stomach, I promise I will…”
-Main character is sitting under a streetlight watching the stars with less than an hour until midnight. A friend of his comes along and sees him.
Friend: What’s wrong?
MC: Something like: “An evil doctor knocked me out and left me a video/cell phone and told me he surgically inserted a cat into my stomach. He said that sometime in the next half an hour it’s going to wake up and go berserk, and I’m going to die.
Friend: What, and you believed him? Don’t you think you’d at least have a scar or something?
MC: Um… Yeah, I guess. Y’know… You know what? You’re right! I didn’t have a cat surgically implanted in my chest. That’s absurd!
-Friend rolls his eyes and leaves.
-Main character looks up to the sky (“Thank you, God”) and turns to leave. He walks off-frame and the camera slowly zooms in on the place he had been sitting, as concluding music begins to play.
**Optional ending:
-Concluding music ends abruptly and there’s a loud meow mixed with screaming and the tearing of flesh.
(-A cat walks through the frame.)
Options:
- -All of the names still have to be decided. Assign cast member names as desired, or do whatever.
-None of this has to happen at night. If necessary, the main character can go out in the morning and wake up the next morning. There could be a scene when he wakes up where he’s confused and he asks someone what time it is:
MC: What time is it?
Passerby: 9 AM.
MC: What!? But I left my house at 9:30!
-or-
MC: Oh, ok. I’ve only been gone for an hour, then. Wait. What day is it?
Passerby: Tuesday.
MC: Holy crap!
-The cat could be a hamster or something if the lack of a huge increase in stomach size makes this so exaggeratedly outrageous that it takes away from the humour instead of adding to it.
