Screenwriting I was a motley crew of losers, hacks, weirdos, depressives and no-hopers all guided by an older professor with the patience of a saint. One of those students, whom we'll call S, managed to get far and away the most negative reaction from a submitted screenplay.
S could be described as a black, male version of J, only with glasses, braces and a shitty afro. He looked like an overgrown middle schooler that somehow conned his way into a college experience. Also, he had a habit of collecting copies of the scripts he gave out like we were reading the new
Star Wars movie. Nobody else in the class shared this approach.
We had to write three short screenplays in class. Long story short, everyone sucked, but S sucked in a unique way where his skills seemed to get
worse as the class went on. Screenplay #1 was a boring ghost movie. Screenplay #2 was a jarring, nonsensical revenge movie that had the whole classroom in stitches. Screenplay #3 is what we're talking about.
The assignment for Screenplay #3 was voiceover and S wrote a screenplay that seems ripped straight out of the Manosphere. The main focus is Female-on-Male rape on a veteran by his fiancee, but it's so clumsily handled that it's one of the most misogynistic, poorly written things I've ever read. I'll pull some choice quotes:
Script said:
"Out of all the men, Tom may have just been the one who was waiting to return to his family the most. Maybe, that is. Can't say for sure. After all, we army men are always eager for the fighting and bloodshed to end and pray to fuckin God that we survive so that we can return to our families. I just give special notice to Tom because he's the one I've talked to the most. Yeah, we're kind of best friends."
Script said:
"The wife that I thought I knew was gone. There was no Loretta. There was just some unfaithful tramp. I wanted to hurt her. Fuck, I wanted to kill her. There was so much anger surging through my body I felt like I was gonna explode. I went to war, lost my best friend, and experienced shit that I'll never be able to fuckin erase from my mind. And this is what I walk back to? My soon-to-be wife fuckin another goddamn man!? FUCK! I wanted her fuckin dead! Make her hurt!"
Script said:
"She raped me. That crazy God-forsaken bitch fuckin raped me. And I couldn't do a goddamn thing about it. Correction: I could've. but I knew if I so much as touched her, my life would forever be destroyed. When we men get abused or raped by women, we're still labeled as the motherfuckin perpetrator, while the woman gets to sit back and play the bullshit victim, And when men are forced to carry, that label, it's branded on them for the rest of their lives. Even when you're proven innocent.
Truly, he has the writing skills of a young Charlie Kaufman. These people agree:
Lady Hitler said:
Are you sure you didn't secretly write this just to piss me off?
Sister Hitler said:
Was this written by a men's rights activist?
Best Friend said:
If this is his major, then cinema's dead.
His was the last script read for the night, and I want you to imagine how well an MRA-skewing screenplay went over in a class filled with tired, cranky students on an SJW-y campus. If you said "The class tore him a new one for a half hour", then you'd be correct. When class was dismissed and S went around to collect his script, I put the script in my bag, snuck out the back door and put it in my desk drawer for safekeeping. I'll make a .PDF if anyone wants the full experience.
Moral of the story: No matter how bad you may think you are at writing, there's always somebody infinitely worse than you.
UPDATE:
More Rapey Shenanigans