The Typewriter

My first time handling a camera in school, I ended up making a fairly good stab at a silent picture. I adapted a story I had written in Junior High School (which I won a writing award for) about a man who gets an assignment to write a book within a weekend. When he goes home, he feeds continuous paper into his typewriter, which types the story for him. When the book is three-quarters done, it demands a blood sacrifice from him. He is apprehensive, but finally succumbs. He drops off his manuscript to his editor on Monday, after he leaves, the editor removes a pen which starts correcting page after page on its own, while we end the shot with the editors arm all scarred up. I still get amazed at all that can be read into a simple short film. Honestly, I can say I had no ulterior motives when I wrote the story or screenplay; it was just a stupid little, "Look, its’ twilight zone-esque!" kind of a movie.

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