Pitch for "A Boy's Life":
At night in a secluded redwood forest we find a craft not of this world. We see small creatures moving about the bases of the trees taking samples of plants back to their ship. As one creature dares to venture further into the monstrous forest, we hear the roar of approaching trucks and are soon blinded by five sets of headlights. In a panic, the creatures scramble back to the ship and take off, leaving this planet behind. One remains. He is E.T., the Extra-Terrestrial.
Our main character, Elliott, is a young boy who is picked on at school and at home. He meets E.T. on that fateful night, but no one believes him until he lures E.T. into his house and hides him in his closet. Over the course of several days, he and the alien become friendly and even begin to communicate with one another. Elliott discovers that E.T. wishes to return to his home and helps him build a communication device to contact his home. After a night of testing out the machine, E.T. and Elliott become sick. Shortly after, Elliott's mother finds out about E.T., as does the U.S. Government. When Elliott recovers, he breaks E.T. out of captivity, and they make for the forest to meet his ship and return home, all the way being pursued by the authorities. In the emotional moment when Elliott bids goodbye to his friend from another world, E.T. offers him to come with him, but Elliott declines. E.T. understands and assures Elliott that he will always be with him.
1. If subtext is subconscious to the actor, according to Weston, is it also subconscious to the writer?
2. As what genre or combination of genres would you classify "A Boy's Life"?
-Kyle Deason
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A Boy's Life can be classified as an action/adventure, comedy, buddy salvation, fantasy, or science-fiction.
I think you raised a great question regarding whether or not subtext works on a subconscious level for the writer as well. I think that it does. I once read an article where the author questioned Arthur Miller the writer of "Death of a Salesman" which is one of the most critiqued stories in America. He was asked questions regarding the extreme deeper meaning that the characters were engaged in throughout the story, and how he included all these subtextual elements. In his response he said, "I was just writing a story about the last day in a salesman's life."
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