As of 10:47AM today, Plabnox Cures Productions has green-lit a new project, a water-ride based film. Rocko Taco, Director of Creative Development at PC Productions, birthed a brainchild after a period of moderate labor that occupied most of his Saturday brunch hour. A glowing Taco later made attempts to sell the brainchild to PC Productions as a “plot treatment” for a proposed film. After conducting a careful analysis of Taco’s issue (reproduced below), Plabnox Cures doctors Perofovich and Swinnard report with confidence that the brood’s box office potential is high.
Below: Taco’s infant.
MAELSTROM INLET Submitted by: Rocko Taco
Original Idea
A much-needed family vacation to a "pristine tropical resort" becomes
a nightmare when a family is caught in a typhoon. Only in the
typhoon's aftermath, does the family discover that the island has more
going on than meets the eye. With the help of a university professor,
on the island to study "abnormal weather patterns", the family must
navigate various wish-fulfillment challenges (wave machine, newly
created rapids, water pressure tunnels, etc.) and make their way to
the resort owner's secret lair. There they discover the owner has
built a weather machine, among other inventions, in the hopes of
creating an island for a "guaranteed perfect vacation". The family
and professor realize the machine must be destroyed and manage to do
so before they make a water-ride escape down the side of the mountain.
What started off as the worst vacation ever, became the vacation of a
lifetime as they realized it's not where you go, but who you're with
that matters.
This could be a big family/adventure film that capitalizes on a fun,
exciting new world that has a tie-in component to a pre-existing
Sidney attraction. Maelstrom Inlet, the Sidney attraction, is based
on the various "rides" in an exciting new world created from the
aftermath of a typhoon hitting a tropical resort hotel. The water ride
component hasn't been exploited in film and could bring an original
take on a four-quadrant mainstream Sidney film.
Plabnox Cures Analysis: Taco’s Difference
1. Taco’s treatment is a fresh take on the tried-and-true White Man’s Burden theme: Western Man’s Burden. Although the family’s race is unspecified, one might assume they come from the Occident, given the proposed market for the film. The island people are given respite from the meteorological tyranny of the resort owner only after the family’s arrival on the island and their feature-length efforts to destroy the weather machine. This thematic will pair well with our current foreign policy, and could justify getting federal funding for production.
2. One of Taco’s many innovations is the non-traditional use of the psychoanalytic term “wish-fulfillment” (usually, the drive to free oneself from tension caused by instinctual needs, as sex, which is sublimated by dreams). Here, Taco coins the ambiguous phrase “wish-fulfillment challenges,” which connotes either that the subject desires or eroticizes obstacle-course type challenges, or that the subject will express a wish-fulfillment once s/he completes a challenge. Taco’s invention could shed some much-needed light on the connection of psychoanalysis to water parks.
3. Unlike most movies of this genre, in which the academic figure accompanies the protagonists on their journey (e.g., Jurassic Park), the university professor has actually been on the island all along, apparently suffering the weather-based torture with the rest of the populace. He only realizes that the weather machine “must be destroyed” after the arrival of the family unit. With the indolent, unmotivated university professor, Maelstrom Inlet breaks with the Hollywood stereotype of the “progressive academic.”
4. Taco’s idea calls into question the notion, blindly accepted by most, that torture is categorically bad. Although the family unit and the professor decide that the machine must be destroyed, its terror-producing output also bestows pleasure and amusement, such as water slides and wave generators, upon its subjects. Thus, the film will go further than most in pointing out the positive aspects of torture, while still maintaining that torture should not be practiced, no matter how pleasurable.
5. "The water ride component hasn't been exploited in film and could bring an original
take on a four-quadrant mainstream Sidney film.”—We like the way Taco’s brain works to bring in new material, and he will use his ground-breaking methods in an upcoming treatment for a feature that revolves around colanders, also never before exploited in film.
6. "What started off as the worst vacation ever, became the vacation of a lifetime as they realized it's not where you go, but who you're with that matters." -- Taco's masterful plot promises to bring audiences to the painful and difficult revelation that relationships sometimes matter more than leisure travel and resorts.
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