If I was pitching a feel-good, coming-of-age comedy (ala superbad) this would be my idea:

April 2, 2009. Writing about: Writing for fun |

Guy moves to the big city and to a new high school from anonymous small town, USA. In his first days there he inadvertently is reunited with our superficially stereotypical cute brunette protagonist that he used to be know in kindergarten. His biological father (hopefully played by Will Farrell) is a washed up hollywood actor planning to make his professional comeback with a musical and gets together with the mother of our girl who was also well known before she settled down.

Anyways, in the big city our seemingly-vapid heroine has a reputation for being easy, which is probably true and which also makes her pretty popular, but is now kind of taken in by his clumsy smalltown shyness and general lack of game. At school, our farmtown hero is a social pariah, like everyone else who’s different (it _is_ highschool afterall), far from making him more popular, the relationship between the two makes both of them less popular. But one day after co-ed gym class everyone is showering in their locker rooms and everything changes. I should mention right now that the two shower rooms (boys and girls) are adjacent to each other so they  share a wall that isn’t really soundproof. So our heroine is also a alto sax player and, unlike her popular playful, vapid or slutty side, has always strove to keep the talent hidden. But inspired by the guy’s earnestness, she brings the sax into the locker room and starts to play as she makes her way to the shower where she really starts to put her heart into it. She starts with contemporary jazz standards, to more nostalgic feeling stuff like ‘My Funny Valentine”, as if she’s finally able to get out what’s on her chest in a way she couldn’t otherwise. The sounds of it reverberating through the walls into the mens shower draws our hero to the shower stall directly adjacent to hers, while most of the other guys are confused and some even backing away…

And then suddenly, the music stops for a moment, and she starts playing Space Olympics by the Lonely Island (see song below) and after a few bars everyone is belting their heart out with her sax, and she can hear them back through the wall.

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So why Space Olympics? I’m not really sure, it doesn’t make any sense or have any context, and that’s what makes it so perfect. Listen to it a few times and tell me how right I am. I’m no film maker, but I can’t see how a filming a girl playing a sax in the shower and people singing/screaming along (mostly off key karoake style) on the other side of the tile blue walls wouldn’t be awesome.

Anyways, that’s my pitch. Please make it into a movie and give me lots of cash moneys.

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