Magic Power Day Remix?!

Hey everybody here who is reading this.  long time readers of Stephen's screaminglygoodscreenplays.blogspot.com will remember one of his all-time mega-classic screen-plays called Magic Power Day.  Seriously if you don't know this one check it out because it is some good work on the part of Stephen in which God grants magic powers to everyone on Sunday unless they use illegal drugs and unfortunately the Taylor family from Home Improvement has fallen on hard times and they use illegal drugs so they don't get any magical powers.  It's really a very solid commentary on the Taylor family, religion, the socio-economic status and tribulations of tool show hosts, and of course the consequences of long time hardcore drug use.

But what I think would also be neat is if Stephen explored what might happen if he took the title of the movie "Love and Other Drugs" literally and also made Love illegal, and also Magic Power Day was real.

In this instance, you would only get magic powers on Sundays if you didn't love people.   Picture this:  There's a girl who just gets the sweetest magic powers on Sunday and she totally loves it.  But then she has emotionless hardcore sex with someone and becomes pregnant.  What does she do? She knows that if she has the baby she won't be able to not love it, but she just doesn't want to give up her Magic Powers.  Come on, God!  Isn't there some sort of work around?!  Also, maybe (in) this movie's reality, Roe vs. Wade never happened so abortion isn't even an option for her.

I think that if there is a whole world of Christian people trying not to love one another so that they can keep their magic powers, this would make for some really soulless but intense drama situations.  Like there's this whole world filled with Vulcan like people and maybe they talk in robot voices.

Granted the power, once a week
On Sundays non-junkie's are no longer weak
Tim Taylor, betrayer of God's one new rule
He's high all the time and we watch as the drool
Drips off his chin, so when can he begin
To have power, not cower, and bloom like a flower
Into a Sunday magician, and not a junkie- has-been again.
Never he says?  I hope not.
I hope not.

Namaste,

Peter Kline (numberonestevefan at gmail dot com)

hello everybody!

So I was thinking about it for the last few days, and I have a new thing to add to my SGSP wishlist!  I think it would be really cool if Stephen wrote a new screenplay that's actually about one of his other screenplays getting picked up by a major motion picture studio.  Picture the movie "Adaptation" mixed with "The Player," with two cups of "Freedomsayer," a touch of "Chinatown," a heaping tablespoon of "Tristam Shandy: A Cock and Bull Story," a pinch of "Lost in La Mancha," a  dash of "Muholland Drive," a generous touch of "Magnolia," and five parts "Deerhunter."  It's a recipe that will bring out the flavors of Stephen's efforts and also showcase his assumed talent at combining his screenplays with other screenplays such as Adaptation, The Player, Tristam Shandy: A Cock and Bull Story, Lost in La Mancha, Muholland Drive, Magnolia, etc.

mgm executive:  hey I saw blog that is great with screenplays

mgm other executive:  lets see....WOW lets do this!

mgm executive:  it's blog so we don't have to pay him for it

mgm other executive:  sweetness free $$$$

next day:

stephen: what you mean they are making freedomsayer!  nobody gave me $$$$ for that and I didn't have final say in casting

trichelle: i had a scary dream last night about something behind a dumpster lets go check it out.

That's all I've got for now. Not sure about formatting for this.  Of course Stephen could flesh it out and make it Final Cut style.  Maybe add some car chases and other action and sex scenes.   It would also have the added benefit of giving Stephen his presumably first staring role in a major motion picture about a major motion picture.  Cool beans, right?  Maybe some of you other readers could help with this so that Stephen has more to work with on his idea pallet, so to speak.

Namaste,

Peter Kline (numberonestevefan at gmail dot com)

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RE: Stephen Asking Me To Take This Site Down

A long absence and a long amount of tears.

As I'm sure you've all seen on SGSP, Stephen has asked me to take this site down.  I'm not going to lie:  This hurts.  I've spent some time now considering this request, weighing the pros and cons of continuing this site. Is keeping this blog alive worth a potential lawsuit and the abandonment of my dream of being good friends with Stephen to the point where we hang out in a coffee shop in a library in Manhattan in New York in the future?

Here's the conclusion I came up with:  Taking the site down just to save myself from getting sued and also just to keep my Stephen friendship dream alive is selfish.  It's selfish!  Fans need to discuss things.  They just do.  Fans need a special haven where they can act out their own ideas and pay tribute to whatever genius Stephen has come up with on that day.  They need a place where their own comments, curiosities, poetry, art, and expression can be heard in a community-like setting.  They need a place to vent when the movies aren't made fast enough.  They need a place where they can speak to others that are as passionate about SGSP as they are.  They need a place where someone can say "No, you aren't crazy, they be just that good."  They need a place where they can read fan fiction.  They need a place where they can not feel alone.  They need.  They need.

So with all due great respect to Stephen, I will not be taking this site down.  This site will stay.  Also, for those of you who asked, the amputation of my two fingers went as good as can be expected and I'm doing fine, thank you. Okay.  So back to SGSP:

What if Death Hat, thirsty for mercury, realizes that he can get way more mercury from the fish people eat.  He stops killing people and becomes a connoisseur of sushi and seafood.  Everybody is really happy about this and Death Hat becomes sort of a C-list celebrity, often judging contests on the food network (Iron Chef?).  Then one day we realize that he's eating way more sushi and seafood than he could possibly afford and he must be killing people to get it.  And he is!  There's this huge trial kind of like with O.J., and the trial itself moves him from C-list to B+list and all of a sudden he's getting all of these offers to judge fancy cooking shows on prime time.    But get this - only if he's proven innocent.  The movie could be a comment on the justice system and Death Hat would be presumed innocent but in the end you'd see a bunch of fisherman's dead bodies and he'd say "Me being innocent was just a delicious Red Herring."

Namaste,

Peter Kline (numberonestevefan at gmail dot com)