Conflict Scripts - William Mayhes

William Mayhes
Creative Team / Screenwriter

"Imagine a black and white picture of a room. A dim light bulb hung on the ceiling, swings beating the rhythm of a jazz ballad. You can't see clearly if there's any kind of furniture around. Suddenly from the left door a man comes in. He wears a brown trench coat, a black fedora and he's smoking a non-filter cigarette. He is a private eye.

Shortly after from the same door comes in a seductive femme fatale. Then: a fat short rich tyrant, the tallest and dumbest of someone's hit men, a couple of professional thieves wearing black woolen clothes, a young police officer who is beginning to delight the bad way and an old most wanted slaughterer who is beginning to delight the right way; dirty desperate prostitutes and dirty frustrated office workers after them, come in later.

Then a family man who is about to kill himself but he's too much afraid of death. A lawyer, his boyfriend, the lawyer's boyfriend's wife and their kids. Uncle Ronnie with a shotgun waiting for the Evil to come and try to corrupt his religious "pure" soul. The Evil, wearing cool Hawaiian clothes and black sunglasses which hide his malignant sight.

And after him: a B movies scriptwriter, a black blues man, a Shakespearean actor... And when it looks like the room is full, the Marx Brothers come in running across."

Can you imagine this panorama? If you do, then you'll understand what's going on in my Mind every second of my life...

My name's William Mayhes. My CS forum's nickname is Will... you would never know why. And I live to write. This is the only thing I'm always ready to do. But I write mainly in Catalan and Spanish since I'm from Barcelona. Anyway, nowadays I'm planning to translate my stuff into English and bring it to the CS team, but you have to be patient. And so have I.

So, for those who are reading this: Just be yourself and use your mind to write, not to live.

SCREENPLAYS:

The Living Death (Short)

When a man loses the will to live he takes it upon himself to end his miserable existence. Only he isn't the right man for the job. Abaddon's sole purpose is to rid the world of potential sinners. Human beings who believe it best to end their own lives rather than change their destinies.

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