I hung out in some palazzo today that’s also a cafe in Portici, just to take half a day off, but I gotta work on my bible NOW. I thought I’d give myself a bit of a fun day on the visual end since that’s probably going to take me a second. I don’t have much experience with design tools, lol. Pleasantville came to mind because of the saturation of the color once the town gets there. It’s not the right decade. I have to watch movies from 1989-1994, and luckily, my friend Marc Eliel is the biggest film buff ever, so I hope he’ll be able to direct me to movies — he’s in cinema.

Big Fish is a story where you don’t exactly know what’s true or false, so I’m trying to find my references because this story also exists on that line even if it’s a psychological drama/dance party. Maybe Jose is dancing the lambada in a kippah, you know, I thought Ben Stiller would have done that so well, in blacks, you know, Brazilian yet Jewish, sending that ball over the net, so it’s also comedic. This mother is so sexy, it’s hilarious.

Anyway, the two girls in Miracle Mile are in ruby and gold sparkly slippers, NICOLE is a Dorothy. I am not. I’m in gold. We’re reading astrology books, playing hilarious Peter Pan games and twirling around in the backyard. We’re on the greenest grass, a storybook backyard. I show up in a fancy princess dress and bow next to the Brazilian mother who’s in a tennis skirt. There’s something classic about it. All the kids are in sports gear, sports stars, so I could sort of envision a bit of a Wes Anderson MEETS? Even a bit of Lynch meets rainbows. MEETS Brazil?

I’m going to watch Troop Beverly Hills since Shelley Long in that film is DR. J, basically, as a villain, so that’s great, it’s perfect as a reference. I’ll get the aesthetic.

I’m going to move to text now. Even if this producer says let’s rethink this movie, I might as well get started, because I think that a family centered drama around this little girl is the right direction for a movie version…I have another idea for a movie too, so we’ll see what he says, but I’m aware that I’m doing a lot in a short amount of time, so I hope that’s a good sign, do you know what I mean? Just being pulled forward.

The love songs, the sexy as fuck mother, this fairytale thread with these newcomers, the six kids who are also sports-stars, it’s a fascinating blend, I think, which makes it hilarious and heartbreaking. As far as a psychological drama goes I find that to be an unusual environment, so what would Wes Anderson do with this…? I’ll watch. I gotta watch a lot. I’m speaking to my friend tomorrow. I’m getting myself a glass of wine this evening for sure, and will begin to think Bible, sell, even the multicultural angle, I think, is strong.

The Stranger Things bible is so well done. I’m just sitting with it. He says in his introduction that Montauk is a love letter to the golden age of Spielberg and Stephen King — a marriage of human drama and supernatural fear. I have to figure out this language. The fact that it’s a real story, I think, in my case, makes it more interesting.

It’s more the atmosphere that he captures so well. Not so sure about this font, but I’m just throwing what I did up for fun, probably a cleaner font, since it’s sort of hyper real, this situation, if you would. It’s a DANCE party, too, a love song, so I just am sitting with all this…I thought this might make a good TV show, but this producer said that was complicated for a host of reasons, so I figure maybe the movie version is a prime first step, since movies become TV shows even. I’m cool with that. I wish I had a better body of knowledge right now but I’m counting on Marc Eliel to hit me with this incredible bank of knowledge. That’s all I need.

You see what I mean though with these images below?

There’s me at four, this house on Miracle Mile, sort of a perfect house situation, very Americana in a sense, and then my mother IS Shelley Long in Troop Beverly Hills MEETS the lambada, so it’s a psychological drama comedy with a VERY fairytale villain and this DARK yet hilarious…father who comes to the door…so then, it turns DARK, weird. And we’re putting on masterpiece theater for this guy who’s just standing there— DARK—while these kids are going nuts with GLEE—WEE! Dr. J. This hot Brazilian mother in a tennis skirt is bringing her hand up like a conductor — louder, MORE joy, MORE. Show’s over.

But then, they can’t let her go home. Things get real. Does all that work? I think it does. That’s the level we were on — a dramatic household. Big personalities. Comedic. Twisted. And JOSE did have to jump over the banister, basically, over the ottoman as I was a wild baby on the loose who would SCREAM, BITE, HIT, I mean, for real, “JOSE!” It already has such potential for hilarity — me running in slow motion to the lambada…once again…coming on…since it always is. Her sexuality, this mother is hot and hilarious, she’s knocking socks off tonight. The kids looking up — sometimes — because their mother was, you know, dancing very suggestively and she’s cracking up.

“Love!” She just is in love with love. Love, it’s the reason for living. Turning up the dial in her red Cadillac because we MUST, MUST, listen to the WORDS. And this is serious. A fist, I hunger for your touch alone, tipping up the volume, pay attention. SHE sings. She teaches. “TEACH the song,” someone said that about singing, well, she’s proof. That’s what SHE’s HERE to do— FOR YOU. This is a sassy lady. And then, her husband is Jewish.

I just need to find the atmospheric/stylistic references…the connecting points…which I will, because I must. I’m going to watch Royal Tenenbaums because it’s coming through me right now. Like imagine if that family was Brazilian and Jewish and professional athletes—all of them. Then, take a Tim Burton, I’ll look it up, of this Big Fish character with fantastical tales — except it’s about child molestation, it’s the dark end of all that, and you have NO clue what’s true, like Glinda in a SUIT, people compared Dr. J to Cruella de Vil, for real, or the White Witch, since she’s a stunning lady. It’s a meeting of worlds. But in the sense, in Big Fish, people get wrapped up in his stories, it’s sort of the same thing with this. Then, there’s a sinister shadow…the father…twisted.

I think the range is great. Even dispelling all this— the father. In a sense.

The kids driving over to this stupid house, her family’s house, because HELLO? And there comes a break into reality, which it was, to begin with, but I do feel the final courtroom situation might work rather well, MARIA surrounded by sports stars kids. Six. And once again, JOSE will diffuse the prayers in Hebrew hilariously…and soon…we’re going to be on the dance floor AKA living room because that’s what we do. We DANCE.

I’ll sit with that stylistic blend, cool, I just gotta be able to communicate it. I don’t know why I’m seeing MARGOT as an ally, but she’s adopted? I have to re-watch that movie. It’s a family portrait, but I just have to capture the journey and atmosphere for the purposes of this. Can someone just make me a stunning crystal chandelier with rainbows and skirts flying and a little princess NEXT to Dorothy next to a fairytale wicked queen in a red wig and a suit? Doesn’t my mother look like that? Down below? Next to TEA cup sets. Next to Gisele in a tennis outfit with legendary legs, or some fertility goddess at the center of it all with these sports stars WITH a menorah, and Ben Stiller AS Jose Lieberman. It’s the UNIVERSE for God’s sake.

Is that so much to ask?

A psychological crack up. A raucous good time. Real issues. Ben Stiller AS JOSE Lieberman. “The Power of Love…” Touching, too. A touching family. Just because these kids…it’s like…they’re born to dance, so something alchemical happens within them when the beat drops. There’s no, I don’t want to dance, that’s not how it works, it’s deeper than they are, it’s in the blood. It’s hilarious, they are practically gliding with hips like you’ve never seen…people came to watch them at these parties like together they are entertainment — so the Partridge Family? Some dance routine, breaking out into subsets. Ben Stiller as Jose Lieberman.

I’ll put together an entertaining Bible. That’s the point. I got a flash of Ben Stiller in Ed Norton’s directorial debut where he plays a sexy rabbi, type of deal, well, there you go. Read good reviews about his ability to dance on this line. So it’s Ben Stiller in that movie with his athletic skills in Royal Tenenbaums…

So, anyway, I’m off, it is the UNIVERSE.

I’m more of an epic family fairytale universe…that’s going to get real and sexy.