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THE ANTI WOODY ALLEN FILM by (me!) sandra, tvgp

let me not be selfish.  i will start my day by sending a get well card to squidmann in half moon bay;  care of his wife

i mean, as i did not receive a request off from blogging form, or receive word of any upcoming vacation..  i trust he's on his death bed; this is our agreement.

   -speedy recovery, bloggerman...

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and now i'm left to initiate a blog myself.    i prefer responding, but, if you only respond and never initiate, well..

i don't know what happens; i'm not that stupid.

-k-

so,

had breakfast and coffee this morning with some of my filmmaker friends,  -usually i just listen, but apparently this week God wants me initiating everything, including conversation,

fine, whatever; amen.

"you know what the whole wide world is starved for?"  i asked them

and they are very talkative, so unless i just jumped write in with the answer, i'd still be there, so i just jumped write in with the answer,

"the whole wide world is starved for a genuine love, love story"

they gave me their attention.   "that's write,"  i said,  "a genuine love, love story...   we've had several decades now of temporary romantic love, lust, sleeze, divorce, cheating, love gone wrong, can't find love..  loved and lost..

seemed like love, could-have-would have-should-have-loved...  but i challenge you to name me one,    -ONE! genuine love love story"

-again..   hold your own self to blame if you ask talkative, imaginitive people questions.. 

so i was careful again to answer my own question, because if you hand the table over for a minute, it's theirs for hours

"you can't!   -but here's my scene, here's my scene..   first scene the whole world is starved for:

the wife

and first of all, the wife is genuinely in love; completely devoted; makes love and flirts with her husband after 26 years like it was still their honeymoon, k

and the wife is really successful, doing..  not sure, but has to go to one of those uppity social events, where the rich and powerful, good and evil, sleezy and faith-filled all end up in the same room, dressed up really nice with fancy food and cocktails   -write

and she gets dressed all pretty in front of her husband..  and he loves the sight of her..   and helps her with her bra, only he gets distracted and they can't even get ready for the event without stopping to make love

then they finished getting ready, and on the drive there, wife says to the husband, "i saw the invite list.  there will be a miss couldn't care less there..  i've seen her in action before.."

it's husband/wife, wife/husband code.     /can you imagine?!  husband and wife on the same team? 

the whole world is starved for it! i tell you!

anyway..   cut to the uppity social event..   and the wife is off mingling with one set of socialites, and the husband a different group

and a very attractive young woman makes her way toward the husband..   she flirts and makes a few obvious seductive moves to gain his attention, and he  -to her great surprise takes a step

BACKWARDS!

now..  she doesn't give up that easy; has a wake of destruction/divorce she intends to keep growing   -and so flashes the husband the best of what she has to offer..   goes close enough to whisper to him..   "like what you see?"

now!

the husband..   he starts searching the room with his eyes..  searching, searching...   until he finally locks eyes on his wife, who is talking to a mr. whatever he wants  (husband/wife, wife/husband code for men who use power/money to get what they want (even if it's someone elses); but don't want it once they got it)

and he looks at his beautiful wife, and then back at miss couldn't care less, and he says to miss couldn't care less  -all cary grant like,

"i like what i see over there.."   and looks directly at his beautiful wife!

it's like an anti woody allen film!   the husband and wife on the same team vs. the cheaters/tempters

and   -standing ovation please...     THE HUSBAND & WIFE WIN!

the whole world is starved for it, i tell you!   -k-

so,

gets better.   the husband then looks at miss couldn't care less, and as he walks away with disgust at her behavior, and not like..  oh it's so hard to walk away from temptation..  

he looks at his wife again, and back at miss couldn't care less, and says,  "i think i married the last woman on earth who still has some class and integrity about her..."

oh, i tell you, i can hear the whole audience clapping.. cheering...

and then they lock eyes across the room, husband and wife, and wink at one another; that knowing wink:   she knows he's about to exit the scene from  miss couldn't care less..  

and she knows he's about to come over and rescue her from the narsisitic company of another one of those, mr whatever he wants

miss couldn't care less is left in the dirt!  

loyal, faithful husband joins equally loyal, faithful wife and they toast one another with a knowing smile.  flirt.  and continue conversation..

this ups the ante, as they say, for mr whatever he wants..   increases the challenge.. and so he has someone come escort husband away to the bar to meet someone very important..

and tries to isolate the wife..   lure her with stories and evidence of his power and wealth..


points to his castle, visible through the window..   "i like what i see when i look at you.." he says all seductive to this other man's wife.. "do you like what you see?"  and points to himself and castle

and she searches the room...  searches for her husband...

you know what comes next!  you know...    but i'm tellin' ya..  the whole world is starved for it!

 of course!  she looks at her husband of 26 years with an affection money cannot buy..

with a love that will not be ruined by self-serving, highly practiced, male or female manipulators  

and she looks at her husband, then back at mr whatever he wants, and looking at her husband, says, "i like what i see when i look at him..."

oh!  husband and wife win again!   tempters LOSE!     it's a genuine love love story!

the secrets and the codes and the flirtations are between the husband and wife, not between the spouses and cheaters...

the whole world needs it...   the whole world wants it...

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i'm not done:

backstories... gotta have backstories.    -for the husband..   when he was a child, his dad was tempted away by some woman..    left the mom alone, broke, and the kids all had to move... different neighborhood, different schools..   and mom had to work, so..  they were left without anything they once knew   -fell on hard times, for a long time..

so, the husband..  he doesn't see the temptress as a temptress..  he's sees a woman who is self-absorbed and manipulative and selfish, a woman who..   -couldn't care less about what she does, or who it effects..

the wife...    her dad was a whatever he wants type..     she watched him, as a child, want and get, want and get..    get whatever he wants

she watched him set a goal, and stop at nothing   -no matter who it hurt, to get what he wanted, and then lose interest once it was his..

so, the wife, she doesn't see the castle as a temptation..    or herself as truly desired..   just another conquest on an infinite list..."


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"do you have director in mind?"   one of my filmmaker friends asked

"not woody allen."   i said with a smile,  "anyone but woody allen."

posted by SHE @ 12:22 PM