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All tagged dumb ideas
Take a couple Twilight Zone episodes (the classics would get the most traction, but I’d prefer to adapt my favorites) and turn them into a single stage play—an anthological play.
My mother worked in a mental hospital as a nurse shortly after receiving her degree. One of the patients to which she attended was a large black man. She asked him one day how he was doing, and he responded: "Sometimes voices tell me to kill white women." To which she responded, "Are they talking to you now?"
Three-Way Name-Swap // Bed Ghost // Those Scones // Crumbs, the Guy // Scootin’ // NOAF // etcetera…
Little did I know the guy from Freestyle Love Supreme, Lin-Manuel Miranda, had beat me to it, single-handedly producing the winningest musical of all time—2015’s Hamilton—the now-iconic archetype of a rap-centric historical biopic.
This one time, I had the itch to make different kinds of album covers. There’s nothing more to it.
Random moments or characters or lines that could “totally go” into a movie, but with far less form or tact than the similar-styled lists with these kinds of ideas in them.
Two friends and I exchanged “secondary objectives” for each other to complete during the span of their “Main Quest” a.k.a. their life.
A walkthrough attraction exploring Aztec ruins, full of treasure, traps, thrills, and displays of architecture and history. For instance, step on pressure plates in a hallway and they trigger “poison darts” (puffs of pressurized air to blast you, as if you’re being shot at). The story unfolds at your walking pace.
An excessively long list of ideas I had for short films, during a period where the ‘short’ medium had a lot of my attention. (Part 6 of 6.)
An excessively long list of ideas I had for short films, during a period where the ‘short’ medium had a lot of my attention. (Part 5 of 6.)
An excessively long list of ideas I had for short films, during a period where the ‘short’ medium had a lot of my attention. (Part 4 of 6.)
An excessively long list of ideas I had for short films, during a period where the ‘short’ medium had a lot of my attention. (Part 3 of 6.)
An excessively long list of ideas I had for short films, during a period where the ‘short’ medium had a lot of my attention. (Part 2 of 6.)
An excessively long list of ideas I had for short films, during a period where the ‘short’ medium had a lot of my attention. (Part 1 of 6.)
Short film, “Twisted Game Show”: Akin to Ninja Warrior and Minute to Win It, except the three-strike system isn't a mere triplet of tallies; instead, three members of the contestant’s family are in cages and, with each loss of a challenge, a family member dies right in front of them (spike through the head, electrified, etcetera).
The interior atmosphere would be sophisticated and warm, and leaning heavily into the vaporwave aesthetic, to capitalize not only on the frosted glass windows but the “nighttime in a city” theme, which all but guarantees the interior design emulate the late-eighties, early-nineties; pleasant and retro but clearly metropolitan.
Prison or jail with massive bulletproof glass windows, so that the public can watch the convicts like it’s a human zoo.
Dumb Idea: Print-off a bunch of yellow labels that simply say "do not remove label" and stick them to things in various, undeserving stores.
Mirror App – It’s just a reflective-looking picture, so it looks aesthetically like a mirror, but it’s $0.99 and useless.