An Easter Flashback
The following was penned by yours truly when I was all of of seven years old. It was a creative writing story for my second grade class. All of the kids in my class wrote on Easter related themes. The stories were then collected and presented to our parents.
When you read my tale notice that, even at such a tender age, I already had a grasp of the fundamental elements of a good story. Or at least of a good movie. I now present the unedited adventures of Jumpy and Thumpy:
Once there was a bunny and his name was Jumpy. He jumped at every noise he heard. One day he was jumping along when he saw a girl bunny and they fell in love. The girl bunny's name was Thumpy and they got married and on Easter they delivered eggs to all the nice children and they had fun. They went everywhere in the world.
One day Jumpy ate some pills and grew into a giant and on Easter this time he ate the children, but not the boys. He loved to eat girls. He loved big ones best, but Thumpy knew about this and she ran away and then she found some pills and she grew big, but on Easter she ate boys.
And then one day Jumpy saw Thumpy and they fell in love again and they got married and delivered eggs again and lived happily ever after.
Sex (implied), drugs, and violence? I obviously missed my calling as a Hollywood screenwriter. And how about the cliched romance plot? They meet, fall in love, have a falling out, separate, but get reunited for a happy ending. That's the romantic comedy formula to a tee baby.
Right now a few studios are reviewing my revised treatment. If it gets green-lighted, production can begin by early summer, and you can look for an Easter 2005 release of 'Jumpy & Thumpy: White Rabbit II' at a theater near you.
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