November 2022 – That Should Be A Movie

It is called Single Handed
It is a Prison Camp Drama
In the vein of Unbroken.
It is like Son of Saul meets Hacksaw Ridge.
It follows courageous Holocaust survivor Tibor Rubin
And compassionate World War II veteran Randall Briere
As they fight North Korean and Chinese Communists and American antisemites.
Problems arise when Tibor and Randall are captured by the communists and Tibor is denied his medals by a bigoted officer.
Now together Tibor’s death camp experience and Randall’s determination will help them survive a POW camp and get Tibor his Medal of Honor.
My unique approach would be a movie in five acts. Tibor the Holocaust Survivor. Tibor the Immigrant. Tibor the Soldier. Tibor the Prisoner of War. Tibor the American Hero.
A set piece would be when North Korean guards call the American prisoners out of their huts and line them up, execution style. Some prisoners cry out for mercy. Others wet themselves. Some fall on their hands and knees. Tibor pulls them back up. He tells the group to pray and begins chanting in Hebrew. His fellow POWs join him. The guards raise their weapons to firing position. Then the Chinese officers show up and stop the North Koreans just in time.
Target audiences would be men and women (20 to 80), Jewish people, South Koreans, Hungarians, history buffs, military veterans, and teachers.
Audiences would want to watch Tibor’s story due to the themes of bravery, determination, excitement of battle, suspense of surviving in a POW camp, courage in the face of adversity and antisemitism, and the human-interest story of the only Holocaust survivor to receive the Medal of Honor.

It’s called The Journey of Isabela Godin.
It is a romantic drama.
In the vein of Adrift.
It is like The Revenant meets Wings of Hope.
It follows an upper-class gentlewoman with an iron will Isabela Godin
And an awkward French scientist Jean Godin
As they struggle to make their way from colonial South American to Europe.
Problems arise when diplomatic issues strand Jean on the east coast of South America and he is unable to reach Isabela on the west coast. For twenty years. Then Isabela becomes lost in the jungle.
Together their love, faithfulness, and devotion to each over will overcome the distance and the greatest life-and-death situations.
The idea came to me when I read The Mapmaker’s Wife by Robert Whitaker from beginning to end during one shift when I was a nightguard.
My unique approach would be the fish-out-of-water experiences of French Jean Godin in Spanish Peru and of upper-class Isabela in the Amazonian wilderness.
A set piece is when Isabela is lying on the jungle floor, surrounded by the bodies of family members. Starvation and dehydration have taken a toll on her body. She is being assailed by insects. Then she sees a figure. It is a hallucination of her husband. Then she hears his voice. “Get up,” Jean tells her. She struggles to stand up from the jungle floor. Then she cuts the shoes off the feet of her dead brothers and makes a pair of sandals for herself. Then she throws a scarf over her body and, with machete in hand, plunges into the jungle.
Target audiences would be men and women (20 to 80), Latin Americans, students of history, nature lovers, and environmentalists with a concern for the Amazon basin.
People would want to see the movie due to the themes of romantic love, faithfulness, devotion, adventure, endurance, inspiration, and the epic, exotic settings of the Andes mountains and the Amazon rainforest.

That Should Be A Movie

Month: November 2022

That Should Be A Movie: Single Handed: The Story of Tibor Rubin

That Should Be A Movie: The Journey of Isabela Godin