Monday, May 30, 2011

How it Sucks to be Poor

What can I say my people? Hmm I will have to apologize for this long silence here in my bakery. Recently, I had serious screenplay demands for Home video and TV soap opera producers. If you were in my shoes, you won’t say no either. During my last screenplay contract which was a fifty- two episode TV script, I was actually half way to the end of this screenplay when an idea struck me.
I know you would be wondering what idea LionKing in nurturing this time; well it has to do with a screenplay that I will draft next. HOW IT SUCKS TO BE POOR?


Why should the Lion roar from the den, why should the golden cock crow in the morning, the virgins have even lost their virginity, war has taken over the waterside villages, slavery was the greatest threat to the Gurus but in this dream that I nurture, the children of the most wealthy citizens sleep and wake up with a sudden urge to discover. They failed to research on impending dangers of a democratic community, they left behind, medical researches on the control of disease outbreak, they have abandoned mathematics and Law, they want to know something, what millions of children they see along the streets knows, what even the children of their gardeners’ know. they have watched from the glasses of their exotic cars, they have seen from the veranda of their towers and empires, they are getting tired of learning from the televisions, watching them with a dirty plate on their hand and a torn cloth that covered their nakedness, their curiosity has waxed very strong that adventure have taken over their sense of reasoning.
Right here in my Bakery, I declare to you, what these children have resolved to do, why won’t they do it? When their grandfather was a senator and their mother’s wedding was in New York. Why won’t they do this, when their third driver was sacked for watching them tread on a dirty mud in their school gate? Why won’t they do that, when a senior doctor is paid for overtime during epidemic periods? Why won’t they resolve to do this, when soldiers are paid well to take them on evening strolls? They were born into great riches and have never experienced lack. Now to them, it has all been riches, riches and riches. But they have asked these questions for long, how does it feel to be poor? Even their father could not answer that, because his grandfather was a senator, not to talk of the mother, who was born and brought up in New York.
Now the children are tired of police guards, they no more enjoy Tinted cars and Roaring jeeps, they jealous what they do not know and they have set up a mission, a mission to know HOW IT SUCKS TO BE POOR.
Does it really suck to be poor? Is there a different life to enjoy in poverty? If yes, the retched ones should stop hawking along the streets and if no, the smiles that come from the faces of the poor should fade away
This mission is the base of my next screenplay, it is for all and for sundry, TV Producers can start to call, Home videos and International Film makers are free to come in at this point.
I am looking for a producer that can give me his budget and I will write up the screenplay to fit in. all I need is a little upfront and it’s done
You may be new to my bakery but I assure you, I can write about anything except nothing, and when I sit to write, I become the master and his slave, see you when you call +2348038843041

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