My Flamboyant Grandson Pitch

By Asher Gann

The film pitch I will be presenting is My Flamboyant Grandson. I think this story will be able to encapsulate some emotions many people face on a daily basis. One of these emotions is feeling isolated and standing out. I want the focus of the story to surround the grandson more than the grandfather. The story will still be told from the grandfather’s perspective. The first scene starts with the camera panning down on the grandfather and his grandson before they go out. The grandfather would also be narrating and describing the scene their goal to go to the theater and why they are going.
One of the ways I would focus more on the grandson is by making the story take place in the past. I would put it in the 1950’s where it is a lot less common to be flamboyant. I think placing it in the past would make the grandfather seem more in place and the grandson more out of place. Typically when we envision the past we see it as being very conformed and many of the men and women of the time being dressed the same. I would make the costume for the grandson more colorful and out there while still upholding the style of the time. Most of the scenes would also take place in an insipid setting. The streets would be dark and gray just to make the characters stand out. The rest of the film follows the same events without the futuristic advertising. There would just be billboards of different celebrities as they start to influence culture. The reason they would get in trouble with the citizen’s helper would be different. The Citizen Helper would be stuck-up and snobbish. The Helper would eventually make fun of the grandson and the grandfather would continuously get more uncomfortable. The grandfather will eventually throw a punch into the citizen helper and the grandfather and grandson will leave the scene running. Grandfather will eventually get caught and carry out the rest of the story with very few changes from the original. Instead of having to do training as punishment the grandfather would be placed in jail for a few days and will be given a hefty fine.
The movie ends with the grandson and the grandfather reuniting after the grandfather’s punishment. The movie would be live-action with actors who are unknown. I would do this to put more emphasis on the characters rather than the actors. The conversation between our two main characters will be about how the grandfather has grown to realize that the grandson is being himself. The story will have a message of standing up for people you care about and about being unapologetically yourself. Once the conversation is complete the two leads will embrace each other in a long hug and the camera will begin to pan up. The first and last scenes will have the same classical song. During the final scene as the focus moves upward, the song will crescendo into a sudden cut once the credits begin to roll.