![]() When Jeff gets home, he gets even worse news. Meanwhile, one day while Jeff is doing errands, someone steals his boring blue Dodge car. He wants to build a club on top of the building, just like the blue tower has. Jeff is convinced that he can change the course of his company and tells his boss, Clarence, how. It’s a giant blue tower that makes his building look pitiful. It can’t even define its own workers.Įvery day, Jeff stares over at the building across from them. Which is probably why his company is dying. It’s one of those generic job titles inside large corporations that don’t mean anything. That was until I read today’s script, “Towers.”Ĥ0-something Jeff Armstrong works at a generic medium-height downtown building. It’s been my belief that you can’t help these scripts. You get the hardcore cinephiles cheering you on and not much else. What we were left with was a moody piece that occasionally decided, “Oh, let’s add a plot point here.” And by ‘occasionally’ I mean every 25 minutes or so.Īs a writer, these moody ‘tone poems’ as George Lucas once called them, are limited in their appeal. ![]() But the writer/director made the classic writer/director mistake of lingering on every single mundane moment (lots of staring out at pretty scenery in this one) until it sucked every ounce of drama away. ![]() There’s lots to work with there from a plot standpoint. Going off of that synopsis, you’re probably imagining an engaging story. Eventually, it catches up to him and his family, forcing him to finally tell them the truth. One of those movies was a film called, “The Nest.” It starred Jude Law as a family man who enjoys the finer things in life, but doesn’t tell his family when he starts hemorrhaging money, resulting in him trying to live way above his means. This has led me down some strange paths where I’ve taken chances on movies that I’d normally ignore. The writer, Aaron Rabin, has been making short films and writing for over 15 years.Īs I pointed out yesterday, I’ve been having trouble finding movies to watch. Premise: (from Black List) A businessman’s obsession with his competitor leads him down a rabbit hole of self-discovery, fantasy, and delusion.Ībout: This one finished low on last year’s Black List.
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