Pirates Gold
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Professional Reader Comments
PIRATES GOLD IN LAGOONIEVILLE is a fun action/adventure script that employs an atmospheric setting, colorful characters and dialogue filled with camaraderie, competition and gallows humor to breathe life into a familiar premise. The relationship between the two protagonists is great. The mixture of camaraderie and competition between these characters is interesting, as is the laughter they seem to find in the most daunting of moments. Its been said that BUTCH CASSIDY AND THE SUNDANCE KID is a love story between two men and, to a lesser degree, thats what this relationship is. Its two guys who enjoy a certain lifestyle and find a comrade in the other.
This is an action-packed thriller with a wide variety of daunting stakes facing the protagonist at every turn. The story is populated with numerous colorful eccentric characters, and the natural scenery of the Caribbean promises to make this a visually appealing film.
Pitch Points
LagOOnieville is a 120 page screenplay that takes the audience from a colorful little beer joint in the Virgin Islands to a small island off Martinique, then to Cuba, and back to the beer joint. Fortunately, it can be filmed entirely in the Virgin Islands.
Continuous action and high adventure as two carefree treasure hunting boat bums seek, find, and struggle to keep the Lost Gold of El Morro.
Sailing the Caribbean in a race to beat a hurricane to the treasure
Surviving a super hurricane while stranded on a barren island
Surviving the hurricane in a demolished house's cistern and not surviving being trapped in mangrove trees
Surviving while drifting at sea in hurricane debris of dead and boated people and animals amid feeding frenzied sharks
Surviving conniving smugglers who plan to steal the gold
Surviving in a pilot-less Learjet at 10,000 feet while wrapped up in heavy chains next to an open door with storm turbulence in full control. Then crashing on top of an unknown mountain jungle.
Surviving a trek down the jungle mountain when one of the boys has a broken leg. Then their fast and dangerous trip down a fast moving river laden with boulders - and a freefall trip over a waterfall
Surviving the French mafia who believes the boys stole their treasure
Twenty experienced companies offering location scouting, casting, wardrobe, props, crew, film production, catering, police and fire departments, and the laws of the United States for protection.
Waterfront accommodations are plentiful.
Main Players
SALVAGE TOM, 30, a self employed salvage diver finds a map to a pirates treasure 110 feet below the surface of the Caribbean Sea, chained to a dead man's wrist. Before the Lagoonieville State of Mind took control of his life, he was a NASA scientist, before that, a US Army grunt who lost his penis while in combat.
PAINTER PETE, 30, a self employed boat painter, who was a fighter pilot before Lagoonieville changed him, is talked into helping Tom find the treasure. All he has to invest to be an equal partner is the use of his sailboat to get to the treasure site and furnish all the rum and food needed. Tom, as always, is broke, his boat on the verge of sinking.
HONKY CONCH, 30, a beautiful but wild and wooly hell raising woman with the hots for Tom, is a stowaway on Pete's boat and is not discovered until they are in the middle of the Caribbean Sea. She spends her time flirting with bashful Tom, who is ashamed of his missing man parts.
Antagonists chasing the boys are: Caribbean smugglers GRADY and BILL -- and ALAIN, RANDY and TEX, henchmen for a French mafia boss who, at one time, owned the treasure map.
Note from Big Lagoonie: LagOOnieville is an adventure story that keeps the action going. Put some fun in you reading, and pass-on new adventures to the viewing public. They'll thank you for it, and you'll be glad you did it. So let a little of the LagOOnieville State of Mind seep into your soul, take a long break, pop a top or two, read the LagOOnieville script and try resisting the urge to get an old sailboat in the Caribbean and join the goodtime Lagoonies.