Rough Outline of Last Night's Dream
1. Scenic territory: a large "magnet" high school in a suburban area
2. Plot: Must steal immensely valuable something or other from school building, now forgotten, during the course of an ordinary school day. A confused but ultimately successful heist ensues.
3. Characters: Myself, Sean & Sheri, Robert DeNiro, the actor who plays "Mini-Me" in Austin Powers
4. Detail: I have never found the "Mini-Me" thing to be very funny
5. Complications: Once the item (jewel? device? sandwich?) is recovered, I have strong suspicions that DeNiro and Mini-Me will try to betray and kill me.
6. Climactic scene: As I flee the high school in terror that murderous DeNiro is going to put a bullet in yours truly (Mini-Me has left the scene, thank God), I run into Sean & Sheri, who are driving home. I convince them to give me a ride, but soon we are seen by DeNiro, who is riding a motorcycle along a parallel roadway, horribly elevated to our left -- he can see right into the back seat where I am crouched down! Sean urges me to cover myself with a blanket, but it is too late to avoid detection: the murderous actor/villain has leapt into the car with us, and orders Sean to help him kill me.
7. Unexpected twist: DeNiro doesn't want to kill me, but instead needs to jab a long pipe through the floor of the car, past me, in order to somehow, in violation of the already-flimsy reality clearly established by the dream thus far, blow life-giving air to trapped teenagers back in a part of the school which has been filling with water.
8. Shift in perspective: Now that I (and the drowning students) are out of danger, the visual scene shifts (I become a non-participating viewer in the increasingly film-like remainder of the dream) and a teacher emerges from a storage room bearing two Torah-like scrolls. She explains to another teacher that she's just figured out that the scrolls are incredibly valuable Kabbalistic documents, worth incalculable amounts, and much more valuable than whatever it was that was just stolen from the school.
9. Script Credit: Just before I awaken, it is revealed that the author of all of this is, of course, David Mamet.
Sounds like a cross between The Score and The Linguini Incident.
but did DeNiro do any comedy in your dream? maybe the next one...he does seem to be trying to alternate between "type cast" and "against type" (not always successfully)
Posted by: art on July 11, 2002 08:05 PMi want to write like youuu.
Posted by: shauny on July 11, 2002 08:55 PM