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Commercial
Script: "Energy Crisis"
December
1, 2001
by Tyler Durden
Andy Warhol, Frank Zappa, Abbie Hoffman, Marshal McLuhan,
all of the media heroes of the counterculture generation figured
this out a long time ago:
The medium is the message, and boys and girls, the media
is not the current shills for the administration acting
as the "New Propaganda Ministry." It is US getting the word
out.
How is this done? The same way these whores sell everything
from soup to nuts: advertising.
I humbly submit a draft script I wrote for a political commercial
decrying the fake energy crisis and the gas pump gouging of
the summer.
The Commercial:
Visual: Scene opens with a DRIVER
pulling into a gas station. We do not see the prices, or the
logo. The DRIVER, a casually but well
dressed man in his mid 30's steps out of the car, opens the
gas cap, picks up the nozzle, looks at the price, Shrugs,
and places the nozzle in the car, with his back to the pump.
Sound: The DRIVER humming, the
pump "dings" as it pumps gas, which continues for the duration.
Visual: As the DRIVER starts
pumping gas, a door opens in the pump right behind the DRIVER,
and the head and shoulders of a BUSINESS EXECUTIVE
stick out of the door in the pump. The BUSINESS
EXECUTIVE is obviously expensively dressed and expensively
groomed.
Sound: Quiet men's chuckling from the inside of the
pump, with shushing sounds as...
Visual: The BUSINESS EXECUTIVE
deftly picks the DRIVER'S pocket, removes
the money from his wallet, and replaces it in the DRIVER'S
pocket. The BUSINESS EXECUTIVE stifles
his obvious laughter:
Sound: The BUSINESS EXECUTIVE
stifling his laughter, stifled laughter from inside the pump...
Visual: The BUSINESS EXECUTIVE
goes back into the pump, the door closes, to the sound of
Sound: Muffled "high five" slaps, "Way to go" from
hidden persons inside the pump...
Visual: The DRIVER looks up,
looks behind him at the pump with a look of "What was
that noise?" on his face, shrugs, returns attention to
pumping the gas.
Picture fades to black. Fade up white letters on the black
background.
Text with Voiceover: "Highway Robbery doesn't have
to happen just on the Highway."
Text with Voiceover: "It can also happen at a Gas
Station, Or in a the Voting Booth."
Text with Voiceover: "Vote Democratic. Don't get robbed
again."
Fade to Black. Fade out sound of Dinging Gas Pump.
End
Think it'll work? Could be.
More to come.
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