Men who will settle for notoriety over fame.
Here is a story from CNN:
No Bigfoot
From the first time I read this story I was completely convinced that it was a pure fabrication by a few attention starved yokels from nowhere. I think my educated guess has been borne out by the personality and disposition of the men who have claimed the discovery. Apparently no one told them about the advanced state of science.
I find it hilarious that these guys held a press conference last week and announced some preliminary DNA analysis results from the body of the alleged Bigfoot. What did they find? That the DNA samples were a mixture of human and possum DNA. And they had the guts to claim that was a sample from the beast himself?
The conjecture offered up for the presence of possum DNA in the human DNA sample was that the DNA was taken from a stomach sample. Wouldn't that be a curious place to take a tissue sample for DNA typing? It is like some sort of roadside swindle on a peculiar stretch of Alabama highway . Who does this group think their audience is? It is so funny.
I can just imagine these guys grabbing some fresh roadkill possum and a bit of hair off one of the morons perpetrating the hoax, which they then proceed to rub together in hopes of creating some sort of hybrid DNA. That will definitely trick the scientists.
To me this episode represents a huge storytelling opportunity. There is just so much internal tension for each character. Each wants to be famous, wants to be known, wants to be respected, wants to matter. But each lives in the middle of nowhere and knows none of the opportunities afforded by scholarship. They fix cars and farm equipment or they run convenience stores or pump gas or drink 5 days a week and work 2. These are men who are in no position to achieve the success and fame they desire.
So how does the conversation begin in which one of these men proposes faking a Sasquatch corpse? How do they think that they will avoid scrutiny from the scientific community? How can they believe that this will lead to anything but disgrace? Who came up with the idea of rubbing some cells from a possum together with their own to create compelling evidence?
The topic seems so ripe with character possibilities. Deeply flawed and ignorant men who nevertheless have the dreams of kings, but who are too dumb to realize why they will never become kings in this society. Or at least not before they agree on this silly hoax.
The story should not lack sympathy. These men never asked to be dropped into the world they have known. They just didn't have the luck or will to overcome that kind of start.
Why use a rubber suit? Man, not only are they stupid but they are lazy. They couldn't be bothered to construct their fake corpse out of something less obviously manufactured.
I love when in the story above they test the fur/hair of the creature and it melts down into a small ball gathered at the base of the shaft. Of course, this is very uncharacteristic of human hair (or fur for that matter), but very consistent with a synthetic hair substitute. These guys are probably witnessing this happen and not thinking it poses any sort of threat to the veracity of their claim. I love it.
The conversation where these guys finally agree to admit their fraud? Priceless.
If I knew where to begin I would start writing this tonight.
If you have any comments or ideas feel free to share them.
Thanks a ton!
Your Unfaithful Servant
I can just imagine these guys grabbing some fresh roadkill possum and a bit of hair off one of the morons perpetrating the hoax, which they then proceed to rub together in hopes of creating some sort of hybrid DNA. That will definitely trick the scientists.
To me this episode represents a huge storytelling opportunity. There is just so much internal tension for each character. Each wants to be famous, wants to be known, wants to be respected, wants to matter. But each lives in the middle of nowhere and knows none of the opportunities afforded by scholarship. They fix cars and farm equipment or they run convenience stores or pump gas or drink 5 days a week and work 2. These are men who are in no position to achieve the success and fame they desire.
So how does the conversation begin in which one of these men proposes faking a Sasquatch corpse? How do they think that they will avoid scrutiny from the scientific community? How can they believe that this will lead to anything but disgrace? Who came up with the idea of rubbing some cells from a possum together with their own to create compelling evidence?
The topic seems so ripe with character possibilities. Deeply flawed and ignorant men who nevertheless have the dreams of kings, but who are too dumb to realize why they will never become kings in this society. Or at least not before they agree on this silly hoax.
The story should not lack sympathy. These men never asked to be dropped into the world they have known. They just didn't have the luck or will to overcome that kind of start.
Why use a rubber suit? Man, not only are they stupid but they are lazy. They couldn't be bothered to construct their fake corpse out of something less obviously manufactured.
I love when in the story above they test the fur/hair of the creature and it melts down into a small ball gathered at the base of the shaft. Of course, this is very uncharacteristic of human hair (or fur for that matter), but very consistent with a synthetic hair substitute. These guys are probably witnessing this happen and not thinking it poses any sort of threat to the veracity of their claim. I love it.
The conversation where these guys finally agree to admit their fraud? Priceless.
If I knew where to begin I would start writing this tonight.
If you have any comments or ideas feel free to share them.
Thanks a ton!
Your Unfaithful Servant
2 comments:
This has got to be the biggest disappointment since Milli Vanilli.
I think you're on to something in making this story a documentary. I'm picturing something like Blair Witch with a Michel Gondry aesthetic. :)
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