Fear Makes Us Stronger

There is a well acted indie film out there called MARTHA MARCY MAY MARLENE. The lead girl is an Olsen twin little sister and she does a great job as a damaged girl escaping from a cult in upstate New York. She also has a great rack. John Hawkes plays the cult leader and does an award worthy job. The movie itself doesn't add up to a lot but the two performances are exceptional.

A few reviews compared the cult leader to Jim Jones. Having now seen the film, the Col sighs and realizes that TLB is now less than a footnote to the public. Why?

- Hawkes seduces each girl and then sleeps with her, making it seem like a religious rite
- Each girl then helps the next girl get ready to be screwed.
- There is a cute young boy there to recruit girls for the cult.
- Hawkes hands a gun to one accolyte and says "Go ahead and kill me."
- The cult creepy crawls houses. Like for real.
- There is a great sequence as they jump off rocks into a swimming area that is filmed like in Hendrickson.
- While creepy crawling someone is killed.
- Hawkes using charisma to control Olsen and make her get over the killing. "For me."
- Hawkes has a long discussion with Olsen about "fear" and how it is a pure emotion and makes one aware. Fear brings you to NOW.

Anyway.... the film is clearly modeled on the Family, not Jonestown. I wonder why I think I am the first to point this out?

Check it out and let me know your thoughts.

Talking About the Movie That Won't Happen....

From Fearnet.com.... especially laughable shit in RED.
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In 1969, a cult of brainwashed hippies killed eight people in a seemingly random, unprovoked two-night spree. Charles Manson is normally the boogeyman attached to the Tate-LaBianca murders, but Manson didn't even set foot in either crime scene. He sent his "family" to do the dirty work for him. The Manson Family legend is one of the scariest and most fascinating in true crime, yet the focus frequently is on Manson himself. Writer/director Susanna Lo is set to change that with her film, Manson Girls, which will tell the stories of followers such as Sadie Atkins, "Squeaky" Fromme, Linda Kasbian, and Patricia Krenwinkel.

We chatted with Tania Raymonde (Death Valley, Lost) about her role as Leslie Van Houten, and what sets this film apart from other Manson films.

Tell us about the movie.

Everyone knows about the Manson story. Everyone has seen the movies and read Helter Skelter. This is a very different take on the Manson story. The focus is exclusively on the girls. The focus is on the girls' life before Barker Ranch, how they met one another, and then them living as a family together on the ranch. The movie ends a minute before the first murder. You never see any of the murders. You only hear about Sharon Tate vaguely, but you know it is coming.

Not only that, but you never see Manson. You only hear him off-screen talking to the girls. It is really about the girls interacting with one another, discovering things for the first time. Sexually, emotionally, spiritually. It's about seeing how these girls could be manipulated into going down a path that would lead them to murder someone. It's more of a psychological thriller, showing how the girls got to that point. I'm very excited about it.

Have you started shooting yet?

No, we start in about two or three weeks.

Will you be shooting at the actual Barker Ranch?

We were thinking about it, but logistically there are problems with that. Plus, the actual ranch was burnt down. I think we will be shooting in and around LA for the first week or two, then we are going down to Puerto Rico for the rest. That will be our desert.

That's got to be intense. Manson's manipulation was astounding.

Yeah. You also find out a lot about the girls' personal lives. No one ever thinks of the girls as people. You are so horrified by this awful thing they all did, and it colors your perception of who these girls were. A lot of them came from interesting backgrounds. Weird stuff happened to some when they were young. All that stuff, combined with living at the end of the 1960s, the political movements of the time, really molded them into the women they would become. That was one of the reasons Manson picked these girls. It's interesting to see the way these girls interact with one another. A lot of people just don't know about them, or about peripheral murders and dramas that happened on the ranch. For once, it tells the Manson story but doesn't exploit the murders or rehash the horrible things done to Sharon Tate and the LaBiancas. It's just about how these girls were manipulated. It's creepy, but there is something interesting about it.

Did you do a lot of research for the role?

I've been reading everything I can find. The great part about playing a real person is that I can go on YouTube and look up interviews of Leslie when she was young, when she was old, all her court hearings. She is an enigma. There is a lot that I don't think people know about Leslie. I think it will be interesting to play a real person, and get to the core of her. It's scary. The whole Manson thing, the murders and his ideology... it really frightens me. I'm really scared by that kind of stuff, and I think that is why I wanted the part. It scares me.

Apparently the girls stabbed Sharon Tate and her friends like 55 times, then took a shower in their bathroom and ate a watermelon from their fridge, then drove home, had sex, watched TV, and just had a laugh. But they weren't bad girls. Some were abused, but some weren't. They were normal kids. But there was just something about Manson that allowed him to completely brainwash them. It's really creepy. I do wonder what it will be like to get to that point, mentally.

It's going to be especially weird, since in the project I am just wrapping up, my character is very focused, very goal-oriented, and kind of a badass. Then I am going to play a brainwashed, head-in-the-clouds hippie. It's going to be strange. But fun.

ITEMS!

Item- Does anyone want me to keep tearing apart that shitty screenplay by Scott Kosar? I haven't gotten very many comments about it so maybe no one gives a shit. It isn't like the film will ever come out.

Item- Did you get your Bobby Parole Letters in yet? Deadline is in a few days.

Item- Brenda is not happy with evil liz. Personally, my worldview is that Cats is the queen whose feet I am not worthy of touching. Liz hates Cats. Therefore Liz is insane. But I am not sure why she pissed off Brenda. Does anyone CARE what she is doing these days? I don't. I just want to know why TLB happened. I suspect Brenda has some ideas, but she isn't the link to the solution. Good luck Liz, be careful opening the door.

Item- The new Charlie book is delayed a few weeks. Somehow I don't think I'll learn much new.

Item- Anyone hear anything about a Charlie film that some kids in Wales were gonna shoot? Talk about authenticity!

Later !

Script Review- THE FAMILY- Part 2

And we're back

Page 13 Snake's mom gives her to Charlie, complete with signature.
Oh snap. Another Montage. All the girls on the bus as Snake tries desperately to explain them all in one paragraph. Katie tried to be a nun. Squeaky's dad was a rocket scientist? Yeller looked like Greta Garbo? Sandy was snooty. Sadie was a brat.

The Charlie sings Garbage Dump over a montage of Family dumpster diving, car washing (?) and candy eating. Montage central this thing.

Then Sharon has her first date with Roman. Calls him Mr. Polanski. Uh huh.

Mary gives birth to Pooh Bear. Lots of joint smoking and screaming. This ends with Snake biting through the cord and tying it off with the guitar string. So much for any sort of accuracy Kosar.

I'm sorry. I am gonna stop on Page 21 after this quote-
Snake
I was called "Snake" because snakes were super-aware
of everything and Charlie said I was very aware for
someone so young.

In the comments I would like all real scholars to tell us why this is BULLSHIT!

Script Review- THE FAMILY- Part 1

Screenplay is called THE FAMILY by Scott Kosar based on the book by Ed Sanders. Not sure why since it IS NOTHING like the book.

Screenplay is the FOURTH Draft, most easily available to this reviewer.

No date is available.

First scene is with Dianne Lake in Death Valley in 69, telling us she had some friends but they changed. Then we see Tex driving the girls in the car a few minutes after the Cielo slaughter. Next we slam cut to the HOG FARM where Dianne is 13 ( can you imagine the casting?) and watches her mother screw on the floor.

We're only on page 3 before Kosar decides to let logic lapse completely. You see Dianne goes out on her bicycle from the Hog Farm, in Sunland, and arrives at the dumpster in Topanga where Mary, Katie and Squeaky (he actually has someone call her SQUEAKS- this was of course NEVER done) are diving for chocolate bars (when in fact it was always for veggies). And Dianne has a magic bicycle because of course there's fucking 38 miles between Sunland and Topanga and she isn't even sweating.

Now the Col always thinks montages in the middle of films are lame but Kosar starts his on page fucking 4. A series of vignettes where we meet all the main girls (and Yeller?) who all tell Snake what a great lover Charlie is. Dianne stuffs her bra and hitches to ... The Spiral Staircase where the Family is crashing. WTF? It was a club. Mary and Sandy grab Snake (who is called this even though she hasn't met Charlie yet, who gives her her nickname)

More meeting girls like Cappy. Then Charlie on a bus. He notices her stuffed bra, and then owns her ass.

That's through PAGE 13. Not nearly as bad as Wyman's garbage, but again, Dianne Lake, go get lawyers now! Your lawsuit is guaranteed a home run!

More to Come! Scott looks over us from the photo above, asking why we would question his fictions and lies!

More Horse Pucky

EXCL: Kwanten Stars, Kosar Directs Manson Film

Source: Ryan Turek, Managing Editor

October 28, 2010

Heat is building on Scott (The Machinist) Kosar's script for The Family, his long-gestating project about Charles Mason.

Ryan Kwanten told the press recently that he is going to star and that appears to be true, however, a journalist misconstrued something Kwanten said about Brad Anderson directing. And that's false.

"First off, my good friend and idol Brad has nothing to do with this film," Kosar tells Shock Till You Drop exclusively. "I will be making my directorial debut from a script I wrote. The movie won't focus on the Manson murders. Nor is it a Manson biopic. It's a family biopic. A movie about a surrogate family of wayward teenagers who, through extraordinary circumstances, came together and were transformed into the most notorious American family of the 20th century. Hence the title."

Kosar elaborates his film with explore the family unit. "A very unconventional unit, but a family nonetheless. It is not a horror film, though the subject is inherently horrific. The goal is to do, finally, after forty years, the first authentic film about the so-called Manson Family. Unlike other films on the subject, The Family will also spend time getting to know the victims, particularly Sharon Tate, who will be portrayed very sympathetically. I don't think a responsible movie can be made about this subject without humanizing the victims, which must be done in order to truly convey - as much as a film is able to - the enormity of the tragedy. This won't be a slasher film, but it won't gloss over the violence either. It's a film about an American taboo that has never been dramatized with any balance or accuracy. Bugliosi-based films accurately deal with the prosecution of "the Family." My film will concern the family itself. Who they were and what their lives were like with Manson."

Interesting stuff. Of course, we've seen plenty of Manson films come down the track over the last few decades - some good, some bad. The Family should certainly deliver something unique given Kosar's time developing and researching the script.

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And now the interpretation-

Jesus websites can be so ass kissing can't they?

1- There's no heat just because a TV actor said he was playing Charlie. An Australian actor btw. There's no heat at all.
2- The TV actor doesn't even know who is directing the alleged goddamn film. He mentioned a real director named Brad Anderson. But it is Scott Kosar, who has never even directed traffic.
3- He mentions Bugliosi as truthful, thus killing any chance of this being any use to anyone.

Like I said, the Col is finally examining this screenplay and will share his comments with you. But I tell you this much- it features DIANNE SNAKE LAKE as the centerpiece of the action. This means
- It's bullshit
- Miss Lake's lawyers can have a field day since she isn't a public figure and certainly didn't authorize the film.

More to come.

Learning Time

Here's an article for you to read and then the Col will help you understand it better on the flip side. Toodles.

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Ryan Kwanten joins Manson 'Family'

'True Blood' thesp to star in Scott Kosar's indie drama

By DAVE MCNARY

Scott Kosar will make his directorial debut on "The Family," an indie drama focusing on the wayward teens who became the Manson Family.

Ryan Kwanten ("True Blood") will play Charles Manson, who was found guilty of conspiracy to commit the Tate/LaBianca murders in 1969. Nicholas Simon ("City of Ghosts") will produce with The Gotham Group. Production's expected to be in Los Angeles next summer.

Kosar's adapted Ed Saunders book "The Family" and emphasized that the pic won't focus on the Manson murders, nor is it a Manson biopic but rather with the Manson Family as a unit.

"It is not a horror film, though the subject is inherently horrific," said Kosar, who stressed that the story foocuses on the victims, particularly Sharon Tate.

"I don't think a responsible movie can be made about this subject without humanizing the victims, which must be done in order to truly convey (as much as a film is able to) the enormity of the tragedy," he added. "This won't be a slasher film, but it won't gloss over the violence either."

Kosar's scripting credits include "The Machinist," "The Amityville Horror" and "The Crazies."

News of Kosar's directing attachment and Kwanten's signing was first reported on the Shocktillyoudrop.com site.

Read the full article at:
http://www.variety.com/article/VR1118026547.html

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Okay, now this is some bullshit right here. What happened was a not bright television actor spoke up about possibly doing a film. If you read the article closely, who is paying for this film starring a supporting TV actor? No one. Who is distributing this film? No one. Wait, what about the Gotham Group, they are mentioned! Nope, they are a low level management company that represents animators (!) and seemingly this Kosar chap. They don't finance films.

But then this Kosar guy is a major director right? Nope, never directed a film before in his life. He wrote the TEXAS CHAINSAW MASSACRE remake, which is something he should be ashamed of, not boasting.

Do some googling and you'll see that Fangoria announced this sure to be crapfest back in 2002. AT BEST this article is wishful thinking.

But what it did do is prompt the Col to track down this screenplay. Maybe it would be better that the Brad Wyman shitfest which featured Nancy Pitman as a hell of a nice girl. The film that ALSO never came out.

We'll examine the screenplay over the next few days.

SometImes People Don't Think....

So say you want to write a book about the case. Or an article. Or how about a film?

Well, you COULD base it on one of the books about the case. The partially fictitious, fully self-serving HELTER SKELTER is pretty played out after that hideous TV remake a few years ago. Sanders' THE FAMILY, despite being a poorly organized checklist of events, might be a good idea, till you find out it is under option to Paramount Vantage (though with little likelihood that it gets made). There are other books out there too. Suppose you look around, realize that the upcoming books including Gypsy's, where she glosses over her crimes post-Charlie, and Tom O'Neill's ten year in the making book which tells us everything we already knew again are not for you, and instead decide to base your film on book XYZ by ABC.

Now remember, you don't HAVE to do this, simply because most of the material out there is in the publc domain. You could write an original screenplay. It doesn't have to be as bad and wrong as the MANSON GIRLS script hat Wyman and company were peddling (and still are apparently). Almost everything out there is open to the public- trial transcripts, newspapers, etc etc. You'd only have to worry that somebody who was never convicted of a crime who had a lot of money could come after you. And basically that's Melcher. And guess what- he's dead. After you're dead your reputation cannot be protected and you have no life rights. So I say go ahead and just write it kids. Or you could do like Wyman and get the life rights of someone like he did- Nancy Pittman. But why?

But suppose you really want to buy book XYZ? The normal way it works is that you give author ABC an "option". An option is a legal document that gives you the right to buy the book for a certain price during a set period of time for a small amount of money up front. For example, $10,000 for 18 months during which time at any point you can pay $300,000 for the film rights to the book. It is an option to DO something, in this case buy the book rights.

Well I recently learned that Xenon Films has optioned a book that they want to make into a film.

It is called "Will You Not Die For Me" by Tex Watson.

Fucking Hell.

This means that this company has given money to Tex Watson. A man who gleefully stabbed an almost nine month pregnant woman to death.

Charming.

I don't care whether they optioned the book for $1.00 or $10,000. They gave money to Tex Watson. They want to do his life story. Presumably how "poor" Tex was made by Charlie to commit 8 murders.

Sure they are a rinky dink company. Sure the film will likely not happen.

But there's a special place in hell for people who give money to someone like that. A hot place.

The Manson Girls Filmic Train Wreck

This isn't ever gonna not suck...
Anyway I got a special request to look for this scene so here it is- as inaccurate as possible.

BRENDA NARRATING O.S.

After the sentences were read out in court, Sandra,

Squeaky, Michael and myself just pulled up stakes...

EXT. BRENDA’S HOUSE IN STOCKTON – DAY

An establishing shot.

BRENDA NARRATING O.S. cont.

… and set up shop in Stockton, where we did

what we always did… We set out on a life of

crime and pretended we’d live forever in perfect

bliss… We manufactured speed… We robbed…

We stole… And sometimes we killed…

INT. BRENDA’S HOUSE – DAY

Brenda, Michael and a MALE and FEMALE COUPLE with a BABY are sitting at the table cutting SPEED. The woman has some very distinctive TATTOOS ON HER HAND.

BRENDA NARRATING O.S.

We lived the criminal’s fantasy and when reality

impinged on our little world of criminal make

believe, we’d take drugs so we could continue the

fiction that the life we were living would never end…

(beat)

But of course, just below the surface we all knew

how it was going to end... Even if we weren’t

able to admit it to ourselves…

EXT. HIGHWAY – NIGHT

A POLICE CAR rolls down the highway.

INT. POLICE CAR – SAME MOMENT

A single COP sits behind the wheel, when he passes something OFF CAMERA that gets his attention.

COP’S POV – as he passes a deserted construction area off the side of the highway, where an old CHEVY SEDAN without any lights on is stirring up dust around an enormous, 30 TON EARTH MOVER with SOMEONE SITTING IN THE OPERATOR’S SEAT.

BACK TO SCENE

The Cop slows down in preparation for making a U-Turn.

EXT. CONSTRUCTION SITE – MOMENTS LATER – NIGHT

Brenda sits in the operator’s seat of the EARTH MOVER, fiddles around with the controls, while her latest boyfriend, Michael Montfort, stands below looking impatient.

MICHAEL

(annoyed)

I thought you said you knew how to work this

thing!

BRENDA

This one’s kind’a big, okay?!

INSERT ON CONTROLS – as Brenda pushes a button, making THE ENGINE TURN OVER and START UP..

BACK TO SCENE

MICHAEL

Okay, okay! Let’s get this thing moving!

BRENDA

Just hold on, goddamnit! I’m doing the best I can!

MICHAEL

Just hurry the fuck up!

Brenda pulls one of thirty levers.

WIDER – as the SHOVEL lurches upward.

MICHAEL

Now dig that fuckin’ hole!

BRENDA

Okay, okay!!!

Suddenly the entire area is lit up by intensely bright light.

ANOTHER ANGLE – Brenda and Michael are illuminated by a bunch of COP LIGHTS.

Two COPS put Michael in handcuffs.

ANOTHER ANGLE – as a handcuffed Brenda is brought around to the rear of the Chevy as another COP pops the trunk.

INSERT ON TRUNK – the BODIES of TWO MEN are stuffed into the trunk.

COP O.S.

Looks like they were killed with a shotgun...

BACK TO SCENE

COP

(to Brenda)

What, you were just gonna bury these guys on

the side of the road?

COP 2 O.S.

Call an ambulance! This one’s still alive!

ANOTHER ANGLE – as a barely breathing MAN is pulled from the trunk and laid on the ground.

INT. SMALL HOUSE IN STOCKTON – KITCHEN - DAY

Brenda and Michael Montfort sit at the kitchen table with their hands cuffed behind their backs, while COPS move in and out all over the place.

COP O.S.

(calling)

Got something here!

INT. BASEMENT – SAME MOMENT

A bunch of COPS have set up lights and are digging in the dirt.

ANGLE ON DIRT – as a WOMAN’S HAND with the same DISTINCTIVE TATTOOS as the woman seen cutting speed with Brenda and Michael is uncovered.

ANOTHER COP O.S.

We’ve got a body down here... Looks pretty

fresh...

BRENDA NARRATING O.S.

Altogether, because of a technicality, I ended

up serving a little over three years for being an

accessory after the fact to four murders, while

Michael got life...

The People Behind the Movie THE MANSON GIRLS

Producer: Brad Wyman
email:
bwhibbs@aol.com

He is the guy who is trying to get Lindsay Lohan insured. The guy with the bad hairdo.

The WRITER and DIRECTOR of this crappy film is
mwbright@gmail.com
He is the bozo in the hat and earphones.

If you wish to contact them, like one blog member did, this is the best way.









But what you really want is more script commentary? How about the lame writer trying to make Brenda all sympathetic?

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EXT. BEACH – WEEKS LATER - DAY

Brenda sits looking out at the ocean.

BRENDA NARRATING O.S.
I hadn’t taken a drug in nearly a year and so I
was finally able to feel something for all those
people who’d been killed…

INT. PITTMAN DINING ROOM – NIGHT

Brenda sits alone eating dinner across from her little brother in silence..
BRENDA NARRATING O.S.
And when I heard what my friends had done to
the LaBiancas and how they’d posed the bodies
and carved “pig” on Mr. LaBianca’s stomach and
left this barbecue fork stuck in his body, I felt kind
of sick… And deep down, I knew their lives were
over...

CUT TO:

INT. BRENDA’S CAR – DAY

Brenda drives through the city listening to the radio.

D.J.
Yes, caller number four… What do you think
about what pundits are calling the, “Trial of
the Century”?

CALLER
I think they should dispense with this trial and
execute them… Anyone can see they’re guilty…

Brenda turns off the radio. It’s just too depressing.

BRENDA NARRATING O.S.
I don’t know what made me drive downtown to
where the trial was being held… I guess I just
needed to be there

EXT. SIDEWALK – DAY

Brenda walks down the sidewalk where a bunch of NEWS VANS covering the Manson Trial are parked.

ANOTHER ANGLE – Squeaky, Sandra Goode and Gypsy sit on the sidewalk looking incredibly cheerful and surrounded by ONLOOKERS.

SQUEAKY
Oh, my God! You’re out! You’re out!

Squeaky leaps to her feet, then runs up and embraces Brenda for a long moment as Sandra and Gypsy rush up to hug her too.

SQUEAKY cont.
Oh, my God! Where are you living?!
BRENDA
At my parent’s place, in Malibu.

SQUEAKY
Well, not anymore, you’re not!

BRENDA
No, Squeaky, listen... I have to stay in Malibu…
My bail was contingent on my being in the
custody of my parents… I can’t go anywhere…

SQUEAKY
Oh, bullshit… I rented a house a half a mile from
here and there’s plenty of room... Now come on…
We’ll go there now... I need to talk to you…

INT. SQUEAKY’S DOWNTOWN HOUSE – DAY

Brenda sits at the kitchen table snorting lines of crystal with Squeaky.

SQUEAKY
So right after the big bust in the desert, Dede’s
parents packed her off to Paris to be a model.

BRENDA
You know they weren’t gonna let her stick
around for this circus.

SQUEAKY
Yeah, and I wish her well… I really do… But she
was just a tourist… She was never really part of us...
Jeez, toward the end there, I don’t think I saw her
more than once or twice...
(beat)
You know, Clem and Danny got indicted yesterday…

BRENDA
For what?

SQUEAKY
I keep forgetting you’ve been in jail all this time.
(beat)
The day after you got busted, about a week before
the big move to Death Valley… We all got together
and killed Shorty.

BRENDA
Oh, my God.

SQUEAKY
Hey, you knew it was going to happen sooner or
later.

BRENDA
Yeah, he was a pain in the ass all right.

SQUEAKY
It took a really long time too… First they started
on his feet and then they worked their way up to
his head. Just cutting and cutting... Fuck, it was
so intense...

BRENDA
That’s enough… I don’t want to hear anymore.

SQUEAKY
Then they hoisted him up by his feet and

BRENDA
Sadie!

SADIE
Sorry... Sorry...

BRENDA
How’d they get caught?

SQUEAKY
How do you think?

BRENDA
Sadie, of course.

SQUEAKY
Of course it was Sadie... I’m lucky I’m not in
jail too.

BRENDA
Charlie was crazy to have Sadie do all that stuff.



SQUEAKY
Yeah, well... He’s only human...
(beat)
Hey, wait’ll you meet the guys.

BRENDA
What guys?

SQUEAKY
Some guys Charlie hooked up with, for protection
from the blacks... Who, as you can imagine, are
pretty pissed off at him.
(beat)
They’re calling themselves, “The Aryan
Brotherhood.” Anyway, two of ‘em staying here…
Wait’ll you meet ‘em… They’re so damn cute…

BRENDA
Listen, Squeaky... I have a curfew now... And I
really need to be getting back... It’s a long drive
to Malibu.

Squeaky gets a hard expression.

SQUEAKY
God, Brenda... I don’t even know you anymore.

BRENDA
Yeah, well... I don’t even know myself anymore.

SQUEAKY
Look, you’re Brenda McCann and you’re one of
us. And right now, Charlie and three of our sisters
are on trial for their lives not half a mile from
here and you want to go back to Malibu? What
the hell’s in Malibu?

BRENDA NARRATING O.S.
Squeaky was right... There wasn’t anything in
Malibu to replace what I’d lost... So I risked
everything and broke the terms of my bail and
moved back in with Squeaky... And I didn’t care
if I went to jail for a thousand years... I just wanted
to belong again...

Remember to Shake Afterwards

Bret, the owner of the best Manson site on the web, thinks the Manson Girls Script is great. I wonder if it is the amazing dialogue (Fuck you- no Fuck You) or the fact that.... nah it just sucks beginning to end. Here's a scene at the Hinman house. Notice how he seems all down and into being the victim. Drive me to the emergency room indeed!

BACK TO SCENE

Sadie finds she can’t look Charlie in the eye and turns her attention back to Gary.

SADIE cont.

Let me look at it, Gary, okay? Just take your
hands away… I need to look at it...

GARY

I can’t believe he did that!

Gary lets Sadie push his hands to reveal his wound as Mary looks over her shoulder. Then Bobby walks back in to look over Mary’s shoulder and grimace at the sight..

SADIE

Fuck, Gary! Shit! Oh, man! Your ear’s like,

completely split in half!

GARY

Great, you guys! Just great!

MARY

He really tore him a new ear hole.

GARY

Fuck off, Mary!

(beat)

Now which one of you assholes is driving me to

the emergency room?

BOBBY

Forget it, Gary... … Emergency rooms mean cops…

Let’s just keep this shit in house, okay?

SADIE

Which means, I gotta sew your ear up myself,

Gary... For real... You need some serious stitches.

GARY

No way you’re getting near my ear, Sadie! No

fucking way!

SADIE

Look, I’m gonna go to the market an’ get some

food and find whatever I can for Gary’s ear, okay?

BOBBY

Yeah, get some pizza or something… With meat,

okay? I’m tired of all this fucking vegetarian shit.

SADIE

You want something, Gary? My treat… What do

you feel like?

GARY

Fuck you, Sadie!

SADIE

I’ll just get whatever looks good.

GARY

I’m not eating anything with meat in it.

EXT. GARY’S HOUSE – HALF HOUR LATER

Sadie drives up and gets out of the car with a bag of groceries in her arms.

INT. GARY’S HOUSE – SAME MOMENT

Sadie enters to find Gary laying on the couch BOUND with ROPE at his wrist and ankle.

SADIE

Why’s he all tied up?

MARY

Because he threw a glass at me, okay?

SADIE

Whatever...

(beat)

So listen, Gary... I got pizza and drinks and all

kinds of good stuff for your ear, okay?

GARY

You aren’t a doctor, Sadie... So stop pretending

you are. No way you’re touching my ear.

SADIE

I used to work in a veterinary hospital, okay? So

we can do this the easy way with you cooperating,

or we can do it the hard way and then we’ll just sit

on you… It’s your choice, Gary.

GARY

You’re crazy!

Gary lets Sadie examine his ear.

SADIE

Now hold still… I need to put this medicine

on it and it’s probably going to sting a little…

Sadie uncaps the plastic bottle of Bactine and squirts it all over his hair, his collar, his face, his eyes and sort of incidentally onto his wounded ear.

GARY

Fuck, it hurts! It hurts!

SADIE

Well, I warned you didn’t I?

MARY

You’re being very brave, Gary. I’m really

proud of you.

Sadie then threads the dental floss into a sewing needle and sits down by Gary where she starts sewing his ear back on. Meanwhile, Gary begins to chant to deal with the pain.

GARY

Nyom Nyoh Ringeh Kyoh… Nyom Nyoh…

ON BOBBY – watching the procedure and getting very queasy..

MARY

God, this is so disgusting...

ON MARY – queasy to the point of nausea.

GARY O.S.

Nyom Nyoh Ringeh Kyoh… Nyom Nyoh

Ringeh Kyoh…

TIGHT ON SADIE – concentrating intensely as she sews Gary’s ear back together.

GARY O.S. cont.

Nyom Nyoh Ringeh Kyoh… Nyom Nyoh

Ringeh Kyoh…

SADIE

There… Now you look beautiful again.

Bobby looks over Sadie’s handiwork.

INSERT ON GARY’S EAR – it’s the most badly executed stitch job ever, like Dr. Frankenstein went to work on him

GARY

I gotta pee, okay…

Sadie grabs a bowl of bloody water and tosses the contents out the window, then hands it to Mary for Gary to pee in..

SADIE

Take his pecker out so he can pee.

GARY

I think I can pee for myself, if you just fucking

untie me!

BOBBY

Not until you sign the cars over, okay?

Mary rolls Gary to his side and undoes his pants. Then she takes the bowl from Sadie and holds it under him, then takes his dick in her hand and aims it for him so he can pee.

SADIE

(to Mary)

Don’t forget to give it a little shake after.

GARY

Fuck you, Sadie.

SADIE

Listen, Gary... If you sign the cars over, I’ll give

you a super awesome blowjob.

GARY

No way!

SADIE

Come on, Gary, please! I wanna go home!

GARY

Fuck you!

About that MANSON GIRLS Movie....

First off let me note that neither the HOLLYWOOD REPORTER nor VARIETY have reported on this film yet. Considering they usually do a story on any film that even MIGHT get made one might assume that the movie THE MANSON GIRLS is more tenuous that one might think. And you would be correct.

Brad Wyman the producer is legendary in Hollywood for having lost his mind one year in Cannes, stripping naked and running up and down the Croisette. Matthew Bright the director, aside from directing the unmistakenly bad film FREEWAY directed a film called TIPTOES in which Gary Oldman played a dwarf. Yes you heard me. You could ask Matthew about the film but he got fired off of it pretty fast. He had nothing to do with the post production of the film at all. And then there is the alleged star Lindsay Lohan. Her last 5 films have been bombs. She has been in and out of rehab. Wyman said in his interview that they got insurance for her. But I don't believe they have insurance or even money to make the film. And thanks to her tabloid exploits I don't believe anyone will finance it- it would be like pissing money down the drain. Top that off with the screenplay I read- written not even on a screenwriting program but simply on Microsoft Word, it is stupid and grossly inaccurate and badly written. Helter Skelter the remake was better than what I read and THAT SUCKED.

But I got better reasons why I predict this never happens. The law of the land. You see, the real Nancy Pitman must now be aware of the possible existence of this film. She has not been looking for attention by lying out her ass like Gypsy. She has been quietly doing her planting and nursery work in Oregon. Now, the filmmakers have the right to depict her based on the public record, sure. But that means the court trials. And there is so much bullshit in the screenplay that any Errors and Omissions insurance company will refuse to insure it.

If Nancy Pitman is out there, get a lawyer honey. You can stop this film without trying and you really should. Protect whatever good name you earned over the last 30 years.

----------another scene from the screenplay- badly written and all inaccurate------------

EXT. TERRY MELCHER’S CIELO DRIVE HOUSE – DAY

A day time get together with about fifteen upscale Rock & Roll CELEBRITIES.

Mingling among the professionals are various Manson Girls, including Brenda, Squeaky and Sadie, really pouring it on and acting as flirty and vivacious as possible.

ANOTHER ANGLE - Dennis is introducing Charlie to various PARTY GOERS, one of whom is an enormous FAT WOMAN.

DENNIS

Hey, Cass... I want you to meet this guy I’m getting

ready to record… This is Charlie Manson... Charlie,

this is Cass Elliot, from the Mamas and the Papas…

MAMA CASS

Hello, Charlie… I’ve heard a lot about you.

Charlie proceeds to kiss ass with the rock stars to the point of nausea.

CHARLIE

Hey, Mama Cass... I’ve been digging your records

for a long time now.

DENNIS

And this is Frank Zappa. Frank, this is Charlie

Manson...

CHARLIE
Your music is so groovy. Definitely groovy.

Frank takes an instant dislike to Charlie. Something about his heavy handed charm offensive just rubs him the wrong way.

FRANK

Well, Charlie… We try to be groovy in

everything we do… Grooviness is definitely

one of the qualities we strive for…

Charlie catches the disrespect immediately. He gives Frank a cold look. Frank sees it

and laughs contemptuously. Dennis sees it too and takes Charlie by the arm.

DENNIS

Hey, Charlie… C’mere, there’s someone else

I want you to meet…

Charlie looks back coldly at Frank Zappa for a moment as Dennis leads him away to a MAN standing on the other side of the room with a beautiful blonde WOMAN.

DENNIS cont.

Charlie, this is my producer and our host, Terry

Melcher and his girlfriend, Candice Bergen…

Charlie looks Candice Bergen like she’s a particularly choice piece of meat.

CHARLIE

I really like your movies, lady.

CANDICE

Why, thank you, Charlie. How nice of you to

say so.

ON BRENDA, SQUEAKY & SADIE – dancing with a funny little guy with a mustache. This is SONNY BONO (32).

BRENDA

So, Sonny... Where’s Cher?

SONNY

She’s visiting her mom back east.

SADIE

She’s really hot.

SONNY

Yes, she’s definitely that.

SADIE

Is she into girls?

SONNY

You’d really have to ask her that yourself...

(beat)

So, who’s your friend?

Sonny gestures toward Charlie who’s talking with Terry Melcher and Candice Bergen.

SQUEAKY

Oh, that’s Charlie... The most amazing man in

the world. And the next Bob Dylan... No, he’s

better than Bob Dylan.

SONNY

Really... He’s like your guru or something?

BRENDA

Something like that.

SADIE

Hey, Sonny...

Sadie leans in close to Sonny and puts her hand on his leg.

SADIE cont.

Wanna go inside?

BRENDA

Come on, you’ll have fun.

Sonny smiles – he’s going for it.

ON CHARLIE – talking with Terry and Candice, while Sonny can be seen being pulled into the house by Brenda, Sadie and Squeaky.

TERRY

So, Charlie... Dennis tells me you’re into some

really happening sounds.

Candice sees Sonny go into the house with the girls and elbows Terry to get his attention.

CHARLIE

Well, I’m just doing what comes honestly..

TERRY

I like that. I do…

DENNIS

I was hoping you’d drop by and listen to what

Charlie’s doing when he gets a little more material

together.

TERRY

Say, don’t you have a tour coming up?

DENNIS

Yeah, but I’m letting Charlie use the studio…

Charlie’ll call and tell you when he’s ready to

show you something, won’t you, Charlie?

CHARLIE

Definitely, man… Definitely…

ON CHARLIE – having big dreams of stardom.

BRENDA NARRATING O.S.

Terry was this big time music producer whose

mom was that actress Doris Day… He was also

the guy who’d discovered Paul Revere and the

Raiders and he was also the producer for the

Byrds... And now he was going to be working

with Charlie...

INT. TERRY & CANDICE’S BEDROOM – SAME MOMENT

Sonny Bono, sweating profusely and completely ripped, is holding Sadie up against the wall like Sonny Corleone in The Godfather, fucking her like some kind of animal, while Brenda and Squeaky in various stages of undress lay on the bed watching with stunned expressions..

BRENDA

Who would have thought Sonny Bono was such

a stud?

SQUEAKY

It’s always the quiet ones.

ON SADIE – being driven to new highs by Sonny Bono.

Some of the Most Laughable Shit Evah

This really is an excerpt from the Screenplay MANSON GIRLS by Matthew Bright.
It feels like it was written in crayon.

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EXT. BEACH – SHORT TIME LATER

ON CHARLIE – watching Nancy and Sue as they step onto the shore with their boards.

ON NANCY - carrying her surfboard onto the shore and letting it drop to the sand before picking up her towel and drying off.

CHARLIE

Hey, girlie... What’s your name?

Nancy ignores Charlie, slipping on a beach dress as Dede comes up behind him.

DEDE

That’s Nancy, Charlie... Remember, that girl I was

telling you about? And you’re gonna dig her so much.

CHARLIE

I already dig her…

(to Nancy)

Hey, you want to hang out with us today?

Nancy seems reluctant, while Dede stands behind Charlie silently pantomiming like she’s taking a hit of pot – trying to encourage her to come along because this guy has weed.

NANCY

I probably shouldn’t.

SQUEAKY FROMME (19), steps from the Bus and crosses the sand to Charlie.

SQUEAKY

So, we finally meet the famous, Nancy Pitman...

But she looks more like a, “Brenda,” to me...

Don’t you think, Charlie?

CHARLIE

Yeah, she does look like a “Brenda.”

Henceforth, Nancy will now be referred to as “BRENDA.”

ANOTHER ANGLE - Sue appears, carrying her surfboard over her head.

SUE

Hey, Charlie… Hey, Squeaky…

Sue leans her board against the seawall in front of her house, as Charlie takes Brenda’s hand and leads her toward the bus parked at the curb.

INT. THE BLACK BUS – MOMENTS LATER

Brenda, Sue and Dede climb aboard with Squeaky and Charlie following behind.

POV – FIVE GIRLS and several BIG DOGS sit on a carpet inside the bus.

BACK TO SCENE

CHARLIE

Listen up, ladies… This is Brenda… Brenda,

this is Ouish…

OUISH (16), (pronounced “Wheesh”) smiles warmly..

CHARLIE cont.

And that there’s Snake… And that one there

with the baby’s Sadie…

SUSAN ATKINS aka “SADIE”, holding the BABY’S arm up and making him wave.

CHARLIE O.S. cont.

And Squeaky, who you met… She’s sort’a like

everyone’s mom... And Yeller...

SQUEAKY

Welcome to our magic bus, Brenda.

CHARLIE

She don’t know it yet, but my little crystal ball

tells me, she’s gonna be gettin’ real close.

BRENDA

Oh, I am, am I?

CHARLIE

You was lost, Brenda… But now you’re found…

You just didn’t know it ‘cuz you been asleep

your whole life...

Charlie gets behind the wheel as Brenda sits among the Girls, where Squeaky places a string of homemade love beads around her neck and strokes her hair affectionately.

EXT. HIGHWAY – SAME MOMENT

Charlie pulls out onto the Pacific Coast Highway.

INT. BUS – SAME MOMENT

Squeaky produces a small leather pouch and taps a few TABS OF ACID into her hand.

SQUEAKY

Now, Brenda… I need you to close your eyes and

stick out your tongue so I can give you your present.

As Brenda opens her mouth to comply, Squeaky puts a TAB of ACID on her tongue.

SQUEAKY cont.

Okay, now swallow it down like a good little girl.

BRENDA

What is it?

SQUEAKY

It’s God… And nothing’s better for you than God…

Squeaky gives a TAB to Dede who doesn’t need any encouragement. Then she offers one to Sue who refuses, shaking her head to say no.

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