We Cause Scenes Page #2

Synopsis: The extraordinary story of a group of twenty-somethings who seized the streets of New York, transforming the meaning of comedy, performance and art through forming 'Improv Everywhere,' a prank collective ten years in the making.
Director(s): Matt Adams
Production: FilmBuff
  1 nomination.
 
IMDB:
7.1
NOT RATED
Year:
2013
86 min
Website
9 Views


you know, my life.

Where I decided, "Okay, well.

I wanna write this story down.

I need a website.

Like what's my group called?

Well, what about, what about

Improv Everywhere?"

I typed it up

and I had this website,

and I put like, a little picture

of Ben Folds on the top of it.

And I emailed it out

to all my friends.

And then, I just kind of saw

the roadmap from there.

I was like "Okay well, I did

this unique, unusual thing.

I'll go do more weird things.

And this will be the venue

where I document it. "

The first few things I did, were

with people who I knew from college.

In the earliest days,

it was pretty much, uh...

we would... just talk to each other

in person, most likely over drinks.

Ideas started generating, and 90% of them

are crap, but the 10% that are okay,

you know, you end up with something

kind of fun, kind of silly.

It wasn't a really,

like something to be part of.

It was just something

we were doing.

It was fun.

The website

was really mostly text.

And then I figured out how to

upload some tiny photos.

There wasn't such thing as a

blog but it was a blog, I guess.

And he started putting up all

this things on his website.

So I would check it out

all the time.

And see, he was the

first friend that I had

that had any way of keeping in touch

with him electronically and passively.

I remember Rich Lovejoy

saying like "Oh!

My new roommate, this guy Rob Rosenbum.

He's got a camera. "

"Oh, wow!"

These guys are looking at me like

it's something funny going on.

Well, it's 'cause you're

acting, like, really paranoid.

You could just relax.

Well, that's apparent

'cause you won't show it to me.

And then the price was a quarter and you

charged $20 about the time I sat down.

Uh, I'll show it to you

when you're done.

All right.

Some of the early Improv Everywhere

pranks were kind of conflict based.

He's charging me $20 for that.

- Twenty dolla?

- It's a caricature.

$20 for this?

It doesn't look like me at all.

It's-it's a caricature.

But ultimately,

it's just so easy.

I mean, you could do that

over and over again.

I got excited about those

ideas were it was just like,

"let's just

do something positive,

let's do something happy,

let's do something that's weird

for the sake of being weird. "

When Charlie first brought up the

idea of doing an open subway ride,

that was probably one of those

times when I-I really...

I really thought "Wow, this is...

this is an amazing idea. "

I got a... random email.

It didn't even say from Charlie, it just

said "webmaster at Improv Everywhere"

saying... "there's a prank, we are gonna

ride the... subway with no pants on. "

The basic idea was, what would happen

Rate this script:0.0 / 0 votes

Charlie Todd

All Charlie Todd scripts | Charlie Todd Scripts

0 fans

Submitted on August 05, 2018

Discuss this script with the community:

0 Comments

    Translation

    Translate and read this script in other languages:

    Select another language:

    • - Select -
    • 简体中文 (Chinese - Simplified)
    • 繁體中文 (Chinese - Traditional)
    • Español (Spanish)
    • Esperanto (Esperanto)
    • 日本語 (Japanese)
    • Português (Portuguese)
    • Deutsch (German)
    • العربية (Arabic)
    • Français (French)
    • Русский (Russian)
    • ಕನ್ನಡ (Kannada)
    • 한국어 (Korean)
    • עברית (Hebrew)
    • Gaeilge (Irish)
    • Українська (Ukrainian)
    • اردو (Urdu)
    • Magyar (Hungarian)
    • मानक हिन्दी (Hindi)
    • Indonesia (Indonesian)
    • Italiano (Italian)
    • தமிழ் (Tamil)
    • Türkçe (Turkish)
    • తెలుగు (Telugu)
    • ภาษาไทย (Thai)
    • Tiếng Việt (Vietnamese)
    • Čeština (Czech)
    • Polski (Polish)
    • Bahasa Indonesia (Indonesian)
    • Românește (Romanian)
    • Nederlands (Dutch)
    • Ελληνικά (Greek)
    • Latinum (Latin)
    • Svenska (Swedish)
    • Dansk (Danish)
    • Suomi (Finnish)
    • فارسی (Persian)
    • ייִדיש (Yiddish)
    • հայերեն (Armenian)
    • Norsk (Norwegian)
    • English (English)

    Citation

    Use the citation below to add this screenplay to your bibliography:

    Style:MLAChicagoAPA

    "We Cause Scenes" Scripts.com. STANDS4 LLC, 2024. Web. 28 Mar. 2024. <https://www.scripts.com/script/we_cause_scenes_23153>.

    We need you!

    Help us build the largest writers community and scripts collection on the web!

    Watch the movie trailer

    We Cause Scenes

    Browse Scripts.com

    The Studio:

    ScreenWriting Tool

    Write your screenplay and focus on the story with many helpful features.