ATS_Aaron
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This thread got me thinking: http://www.x-h2o.com/threads/81005-Favorite-Jetski-scene-in-a-movie/page2
There are movies with jet skis and there are documentaries/freestyle DVD's out there but no actual movies centered around jet skis (especially free style). So I've been working on my jet ski movie plot. I have zero film experience and zero Hollywood connections so there is zero chance of this happening, but I thought I would put it out there.
We start out with your basic guy. Not a jock, not a mathlete, just average. Except he has an obsession with stand-up jet skis. His one and only friend doesn't get it. He asks why he is so involved in stand-up skis that NO ONE rides?
Our hero explains that his dad, his REAL dad was a pro-jet skier back in the 80's before his death, accident, prison term, whatever.
Insert 80's montage of jet ski.
They live in some town in the midwest with a "River Fest" or "Lake Fest" and our hero is excited and will of course be there with his stand-up ski. Upon arrival he is blocked from riding because he has no credentials. He parks his ski on the beach and resolves to just watch.
There is a pro-freestyle show at the festival. Insert awesome freestyle video stuff.
Then during a water ski event or a wakeboard show...something...there is an accident and a really hot chick is trapped underwater and needs to be rescued. No one can get to her, but our hero happens to be next to his ski (probably an old 550 or something BTW). He races out and performs some CGI totally fake artificial and unnecessary stunt to save her...I'm thinking like a nose-stab + submarine to get to the bottom in time to rescue our trapped hottie.
He rescues the hottie who is forever grateful. The Pro-freestyle notices him and asks him to join the team. They all travel around together doing shows and things are great. But our hero gets better and better until he is the star of the show.
The previous head-freestlyer gets jealous and does something to ruin our hero - (maybe plants drugs IN his ski to make him look like a mule?, maybe frames him for something, I dunno).
The team drops him and leaves him miles from home. He is all alone for 10 minutes, until our hottie who turns out to have a heart of gold shows up, says she believes his story and drives him home.
Depending on time/length we could go into a huge heist/break-in type stuff where our hero goes all 007 to clear his name, or it could just be a simple twist like the pro-team discovers the drugs weren't real and says:
"We cleared your name kid, but it's too late to make it to the BIG EVENT (like World Finals or something). Sorry, good luck, have a nice life, etc."
Then all of a sudden we meet the crazy engineer type who was probably snooping around earlier in the movie and it turns out he was the builder/designer/engineer for our hero's dad before the accident/killed/prison/whatever. The crazy engineer still has the last ski he was working on for our hero's father. It's untested, unridden, but possesses technology that is unheard of (yet somehow still inside the rules).
Somehow the hero, engineer, and hottie all make it to World Finals and enter the competition. And of course win.
So...is it a hit? Changes/additions/tweaks welcome.
Aaron
There are movies with jet skis and there are documentaries/freestyle DVD's out there but no actual movies centered around jet skis (especially free style). So I've been working on my jet ski movie plot. I have zero film experience and zero Hollywood connections so there is zero chance of this happening, but I thought I would put it out there.
We start out with your basic guy. Not a jock, not a mathlete, just average. Except he has an obsession with stand-up jet skis. His one and only friend doesn't get it. He asks why he is so involved in stand-up skis that NO ONE rides?
Our hero explains that his dad, his REAL dad was a pro-jet skier back in the 80's before his death, accident, prison term, whatever.
Insert 80's montage of jet ski.
They live in some town in the midwest with a "River Fest" or "Lake Fest" and our hero is excited and will of course be there with his stand-up ski. Upon arrival he is blocked from riding because he has no credentials. He parks his ski on the beach and resolves to just watch.
There is a pro-freestyle show at the festival. Insert awesome freestyle video stuff.
Then during a water ski event or a wakeboard show...something...there is an accident and a really hot chick is trapped underwater and needs to be rescued. No one can get to her, but our hero happens to be next to his ski (probably an old 550 or something BTW). He races out and performs some CGI totally fake artificial and unnecessary stunt to save her...I'm thinking like a nose-stab + submarine to get to the bottom in time to rescue our trapped hottie.
He rescues the hottie who is forever grateful. The Pro-freestyle notices him and asks him to join the team. They all travel around together doing shows and things are great. But our hero gets better and better until he is the star of the show.
The previous head-freestlyer gets jealous and does something to ruin our hero - (maybe plants drugs IN his ski to make him look like a mule?, maybe frames him for something, I dunno).
The team drops him and leaves him miles from home. He is all alone for 10 minutes, until our hottie who turns out to have a heart of gold shows up, says she believes his story and drives him home.
Depending on time/length we could go into a huge heist/break-in type stuff where our hero goes all 007 to clear his name, or it could just be a simple twist like the pro-team discovers the drugs weren't real and says:
"We cleared your name kid, but it's too late to make it to the BIG EVENT (like World Finals or something). Sorry, good luck, have a nice life, etc."
Then all of a sudden we meet the crazy engineer type who was probably snooping around earlier in the movie and it turns out he was the builder/designer/engineer for our hero's dad before the accident/killed/prison/whatever. The crazy engineer still has the last ski he was working on for our hero's father. It's untested, unridden, but possesses technology that is unheard of (yet somehow still inside the rules).
Somehow the hero, engineer, and hottie all make it to World Finals and enter the competition. And of course win.
So...is it a hit? Changes/additions/tweaks welcome.
Aaron
urr:...because it is nice to feel protected indeed)! I would just like to see a new twist is all, so I think that would be a great ending.
