Post by andrew touch on Jan 17, 2008 19:51:24 GMT -5
When Rock and Roll Dreams Come True
Review by Alessandro Marescas
"When rock and roll dreams come true" is basically the attempt by screenplay writers Andrew Touch and Mark Shuan to live out in a fantasy story,where make believe is the main and only element,a life long dream cherished by thousands of tribute bands out there today...and that dream is being able to play a concert in front of a member of their favourite band.(which ever that band and it's members may be) Dream cherished by Tribute bands all over the world,that in their thousands,as imitators,out there today with incredible dedication represent.
To bring this dream to life (As they themselves have cherished such a dream as you will find out by reading on)the screenplay writers Andrew Touch and Mark Shuan,decided to create an imaginary band,called "REPUBLICK" a Heavy Metal American rock band renowned worldwide for it's wild and crazy stage presence and "One" of it's famous co-founding members called "Mick Slick". And last but not least,the counterpart fantasy tribute band(to represent all tribute bands out there today) "A New REPUBLICK" a European Tribute band that has dedicated the last 13 years of it's life to bringing the show of this band to stages around Europe.
Taking into consideration the fact that the actual writers of the story Andrew Touch and Mark Shuan are the founding members of Italian Kiss Tribute band "Dressed to Kiss" and after 13 years in this band with concerts all around Europe,T.V. apperances,documentaries dedicated to the band and the only tribute reality show ever based on a tribute itself.
They decided to put pen to paper and at least in their imagination live out their wildest dreams by creating a kind of let us say magical,musical,box of interacting themes...But! not wanting to limit themselves by basing the story on the Kiss tribute band they play in (as their first draft of the screenplay was based on and if needed they can send the original draft on request ...read the synopse and see why the script is interchangable) decided to expand on the theme and invented a new band called "REPUBLICK" that in many ways resembles "Kiss" as the band members of "Republick" wear make-up, but portray a new set of characters as you will read in the screenplay.The writers feel that by making it so that "REPUBLICK" not actually being a real band leaves a wider spectrum for interpretation and also avoids a pigeon hole situation where if it where dedicated to just one band,would anyone actually be intrested in the movie script?...
Still as they were writing they believed they should use their real names and base the story on real life experiences.
So we see the writers involved within the story as the real life musicians and founding members of the band that they really are.By devising the plan within the plot of the story they are acting as a real life movie director would,by directing the cast themselves in real life into a fantasy world to obtain their goal.
Also the story acts and portrays real life because,as they are in real life,they are also in the story... so we have Andrew,Mark and other members of the band coming together to devise a plan to decoy the bass player of Mega Rock Group "Republick"and bring him to their tribute bands show,when Andrew finds out (in the story) that "Mick Slick" bass player and co-founding member of American rock Super Group "REPUBLICK" will be in Europe on a promotional tour and exactly in his home town and city on the same day as the bands concert,a band meeting is organized and a plan begins taking shape.
The screenplay incorporates elements of other kinds of movie making and screenplay writing finesse,strangely enough by starting were it ends.The story begins by showing an unknowing "Mick Slick" arriving at a venue and actually assisting "A New Republick's" show,as he thinks this to be, all part of his tour itinerary,when actually the venue is only moments away from being raided by the police and the cast and characters being taken to police headquarters for questioning and thus begins a "flashback" which will conduct us eventually back to the present time and through all the events,As they are telling it to the commissioner at headquarters the wiewer is reading it on the script,or seeing it on the screen if you like.Through out the script as the story unfolds there is a constant goal that must be obtained in making the final objective possible which maintains a certain amount of urgency and suspence.Also elements of what recall gangster or bank robbery,thriller movies are all very finely and subtly added in the undercurrent theme.As the cast device a plan,that involves exchanging limousines and driver on an unaware "Mick Slick" and so making it possible to decoy him from his original tour itinerary and take him to the venue where the tribute band will play the show.Then secondly,decoying police officers that are on the heels of our characters and leading them off track.All to end up with a comical outcome as one would expect in a rock and roll context with what you could call,let's say,a no violence and nobody get's hurt kind of attitude.Just as all good fun rock and roll should be,but!... with a last final addition of rebelliousness as would be expected in any rock and roll story format,which occurs,when a crowd gathers outside of the police station to try and have our four heroes set free.The movie script in itself is not complicated and is easy to read thruw and comprehend,the language is street level and punctuation is respected where needed .It is obvious that we are not talking about "Napoleon meets the Queen of England" type of material but being a Graduate Degree at the University of Rome in the Movie Making and Arts Field i found the script enjoyable,refreshing and amusing.
The carefree attitude of the writing itself has brought me to believe that in the end the old saying still holds true and that is,that "To keep things simple in the end is the best thing any writer can do" because that's what makes good writing great. One thing I must say is that there are a few lapses in the screenplay,but seeing as the two writers being at their first tentative try in writing a script and having also translated the script from Italian to English just as this review itself has been translated, I feel that they can be excused.As a quick re-read thruw and with a few slight adjustments,these small points can be sorted in no time by a team of professional intent on using the screeplay.
All the elements are there for a great story.All i can add is...That if your are looking for a comical rock and roll type of script this is it! This is Spinal Tap,meets Kiss,meets the Stones,meets the Three Stooges and all with a hint of thriller suspence and some very amusing interaction and subplot savvy,all in all, I must compliment the boys as writers for having done a more than average job. Your faithfully Alessandro Marescas.
P.s. this section was added by the writers themselves
We have recently sent this script as it has been made out in various versions to various rock and roll celebreties including Gene simmons of kiss (the original draft) Paul Stanley of Kiss vocals and guitar, Ozzy Osbourne, Steven Tyler of Aerosmith and David Coverdale of Whitesnake; through their web sites and invited the band and fans of each singer to our own special forum where fans of each artist could read the screenplay (for all these versions of the screenplay and synopsis please follow the link below.)
andrewtouch.proboards50.com/index.cgi?board=general
Also we have sent the screenplay to a certain Mr. Adam Rifkin director of rock movie "Detroit Rock City" amongst others,and he has shown intrest in directing the film if we where to get the right backing.
Also we have created a short narrated movie with photo's that can be found at the following link to view, a kind of story board let's say as a presentation, by following the link and seeing the short movie one can get the idea of what it is about, we have also created a comic book that is kind of a story board and depicts the story that we can send out if requested.
(you can see this short movie by following the link below and see or watch when rock and roll dreams come true part 1-2-3-4-(all the other material on the web site is our tribute band videos))
es.youtube.com/profile_videos?user=dressedtokiss&p=r
And that's not all!!! you will also find the fictional version of the short movie starring "Mick Slick" rock super star and The tribute band "A New Republick" at the following link. this is also narrated and in English (just follow the link and watch "When rock and roll dreams come true" part 1-2-3-4=)
es.youtube.com/profile?user=screenplayshortmovie
following are our contacts andrewtouch@hotmail.com
our band web site if needed for any reason
www.myspace.com/dressedtokissdemos
*And last but not least*we would just like to add that we are all living in Rome Italy Europe but can move to anywhere if need be for the right reasons to follow this trought.
I am Andrew Touch Saolini and i speak fluent English as i lived for 16 years in Australia before moving to Europe.
thank you very much for your time it has been a pleasure hoping to hear from you soon this is my personal web site on my space for curriculum and music.
www.myspace.com/godzillaroar
P.P.S. If you do not accept links to screenplays please let me know and i will send a full version trough by e-mail.
SYNOPSIS OF SCREENPLAY:
TITLE: When Rock and Roll Dreams Come True.
(SYNOPSIS.)
A crowd is gathered outside of a European live rock club they are waiting upon the arrival of Mega rock star "MICK SLICK" of Mega Rock Band "REPUBLICK".He is in Europe for a promotional tour to promote the new REPUBLICK DVD "Shock the World".
Mick Slick arrives in a limousine and people cheer his arrival,he enters the venue accompanied by a Sony public relations representative.
He sits at a table and a tribute band takes the stake and begins performing.
Half way thruw the first song police officers rade the venue and arrest the band and take them in for questioning..
All fades to black--.
A flash back begins:(A week earlier) Andrew Touch lead singer of "A New Republick" (Republick tribute band) is walking down the street and enters an Internet Cafe' He posts on a local Republick-web site an announcement for an up and coming gig in a weeks time,while there he sees another post on another web site that announces that “Mick Slick of Republick will be in Europe for a promotional tour to promote the new Republick dvd "Shock the world”.The full tour itinerary is shown on the web site.
One of the tour itinerary dates in particular catches his eyes.The one saying that Mick Slick will be in Milan Italy(Europe) on the 26 of March a friday,the same day as his bands gig..
Andrew leaves the Internet cafe' and contacts his fellow band members and organizes a reunion that night, in a local pub where they usually hang out ..
The four band members meet in the pub later that evening and thus begins a crazy plan to decoy Mick Slick from his scheduled tour itinerary and somehow bring him to the club the boys will be playing,on the friday night...the four members study all the aspects of the crazy plan and in the end manage to pull it off and bring the famed Republick Mega Star to their concert,but! not all is smooth sailing and the boys will end up having to deal with a very upset Sony representative a certain “Miss Trendy Styler “ that threatens to have them locked up for good and a police officer that can't wait to get his hands on them...All to finish up in a Police Headquaters to the amusement of Mick Slick when he is finally told and finds out what has occured and decides not to press charges..all to the delight of a crowd that has gathered outside of the Police Station in defense of our four crazy heroes.
Review by Alessandro Marescas
"When rock and roll dreams come true" is basically the attempt by screenplay writers Andrew Touch and Mark Shuan to live out in a fantasy story,where make believe is the main and only element,a life long dream cherished by thousands of tribute bands out there today...and that dream is being able to play a concert in front of a member of their favourite band.(which ever that band and it's members may be) Dream cherished by Tribute bands all over the world,that in their thousands,as imitators,out there today with incredible dedication represent.
To bring this dream to life (As they themselves have cherished such a dream as you will find out by reading on)the screenplay writers Andrew Touch and Mark Shuan,decided to create an imaginary band,called "REPUBLICK" a Heavy Metal American rock band renowned worldwide for it's wild and crazy stage presence and "One" of it's famous co-founding members called "Mick Slick". And last but not least,the counterpart fantasy tribute band(to represent all tribute bands out there today) "A New REPUBLICK" a European Tribute band that has dedicated the last 13 years of it's life to bringing the show of this band to stages around Europe.
Taking into consideration the fact that the actual writers of the story Andrew Touch and Mark Shuan are the founding members of Italian Kiss Tribute band "Dressed to Kiss" and after 13 years in this band with concerts all around Europe,T.V. apperances,documentaries dedicated to the band and the only tribute reality show ever based on a tribute itself.
They decided to put pen to paper and at least in their imagination live out their wildest dreams by creating a kind of let us say magical,musical,box of interacting themes...But! not wanting to limit themselves by basing the story on the Kiss tribute band they play in (as their first draft of the screenplay was based on and if needed they can send the original draft on request ...read the synopse and see why the script is interchangable) decided to expand on the theme and invented a new band called "REPUBLICK" that in many ways resembles "Kiss" as the band members of "Republick" wear make-up, but portray a new set of characters as you will read in the screenplay.The writers feel that by making it so that "REPUBLICK" not actually being a real band leaves a wider spectrum for interpretation and also avoids a pigeon hole situation where if it where dedicated to just one band,would anyone actually be intrested in the movie script?...
Still as they were writing they believed they should use their real names and base the story on real life experiences.
So we see the writers involved within the story as the real life musicians and founding members of the band that they really are.By devising the plan within the plot of the story they are acting as a real life movie director would,by directing the cast themselves in real life into a fantasy world to obtain their goal.
Also the story acts and portrays real life because,as they are in real life,they are also in the story... so we have Andrew,Mark and other members of the band coming together to devise a plan to decoy the bass player of Mega Rock Group "Republick"and bring him to their tribute bands show,when Andrew finds out (in the story) that "Mick Slick" bass player and co-founding member of American rock Super Group "REPUBLICK" will be in Europe on a promotional tour and exactly in his home town and city on the same day as the bands concert,a band meeting is organized and a plan begins taking shape.
The screenplay incorporates elements of other kinds of movie making and screenplay writing finesse,strangely enough by starting were it ends.The story begins by showing an unknowing "Mick Slick" arriving at a venue and actually assisting "A New Republick's" show,as he thinks this to be, all part of his tour itinerary,when actually the venue is only moments away from being raided by the police and the cast and characters being taken to police headquarters for questioning and thus begins a "flashback" which will conduct us eventually back to the present time and through all the events,As they are telling it to the commissioner at headquarters the wiewer is reading it on the script,or seeing it on the screen if you like.Through out the script as the story unfolds there is a constant goal that must be obtained in making the final objective possible which maintains a certain amount of urgency and suspence.Also elements of what recall gangster or bank robbery,thriller movies are all very finely and subtly added in the undercurrent theme.As the cast device a plan,that involves exchanging limousines and driver on an unaware "Mick Slick" and so making it possible to decoy him from his original tour itinerary and take him to the venue where the tribute band will play the show.Then secondly,decoying police officers that are on the heels of our characters and leading them off track.All to end up with a comical outcome as one would expect in a rock and roll context with what you could call,let's say,a no violence and nobody get's hurt kind of attitude.Just as all good fun rock and roll should be,but!... with a last final addition of rebelliousness as would be expected in any rock and roll story format,which occurs,when a crowd gathers outside of the police station to try and have our four heroes set free.The movie script in itself is not complicated and is easy to read thruw and comprehend,the language is street level and punctuation is respected where needed .It is obvious that we are not talking about "Napoleon meets the Queen of England" type of material but being a Graduate Degree at the University of Rome in the Movie Making and Arts Field i found the script enjoyable,refreshing and amusing.
The carefree attitude of the writing itself has brought me to believe that in the end the old saying still holds true and that is,that "To keep things simple in the end is the best thing any writer can do" because that's what makes good writing great. One thing I must say is that there are a few lapses in the screenplay,but seeing as the two writers being at their first tentative try in writing a script and having also translated the script from Italian to English just as this review itself has been translated, I feel that they can be excused.As a quick re-read thruw and with a few slight adjustments,these small points can be sorted in no time by a team of professional intent on using the screeplay.
All the elements are there for a great story.All i can add is...That if your are looking for a comical rock and roll type of script this is it! This is Spinal Tap,meets Kiss,meets the Stones,meets the Three Stooges and all with a hint of thriller suspence and some very amusing interaction and subplot savvy,all in all, I must compliment the boys as writers for having done a more than average job. Your faithfully Alessandro Marescas.
P.s. this section was added by the writers themselves
We have recently sent this script as it has been made out in various versions to various rock and roll celebreties including Gene simmons of kiss (the original draft) Paul Stanley of Kiss vocals and guitar, Ozzy Osbourne, Steven Tyler of Aerosmith and David Coverdale of Whitesnake; through their web sites and invited the band and fans of each singer to our own special forum where fans of each artist could read the screenplay (for all these versions of the screenplay and synopsis please follow the link below.)
andrewtouch.proboards50.com/index.cgi?board=general
Also we have sent the screenplay to a certain Mr. Adam Rifkin director of rock movie "Detroit Rock City" amongst others,and he has shown intrest in directing the film if we where to get the right backing.
Also we have created a short narrated movie with photo's that can be found at the following link to view, a kind of story board let's say as a presentation, by following the link and seeing the short movie one can get the idea of what it is about, we have also created a comic book that is kind of a story board and depicts the story that we can send out if requested.
(you can see this short movie by following the link below and see or watch when rock and roll dreams come true part 1-2-3-4-(all the other material on the web site is our tribute band videos))
es.youtube.com/profile_videos?user=dressedtokiss&p=r
And that's not all!!! you will also find the fictional version of the short movie starring "Mick Slick" rock super star and The tribute band "A New Republick" at the following link. this is also narrated and in English (just follow the link and watch "When rock and roll dreams come true" part 1-2-3-4=)
es.youtube.com/profile?user=screenplayshortmovie
following are our contacts andrewtouch@hotmail.com
our band web site if needed for any reason
www.myspace.com/dressedtokissdemos
*And last but not least*we would just like to add that we are all living in Rome Italy Europe but can move to anywhere if need be for the right reasons to follow this trought.
I am Andrew Touch Saolini and i speak fluent English as i lived for 16 years in Australia before moving to Europe.
thank you very much for your time it has been a pleasure hoping to hear from you soon this is my personal web site on my space for curriculum and music.
www.myspace.com/godzillaroar
P.P.S. If you do not accept links to screenplays please let me know and i will send a full version trough by e-mail.
SYNOPSIS OF SCREENPLAY:
TITLE: When Rock and Roll Dreams Come True.
(SYNOPSIS.)
A crowd is gathered outside of a European live rock club they are waiting upon the arrival of Mega rock star "MICK SLICK" of Mega Rock Band "REPUBLICK".He is in Europe for a promotional tour to promote the new REPUBLICK DVD "Shock the World".
Mick Slick arrives in a limousine and people cheer his arrival,he enters the venue accompanied by a Sony public relations representative.
He sits at a table and a tribute band takes the stake and begins performing.
Half way thruw the first song police officers rade the venue and arrest the band and take them in for questioning..
All fades to black--.
A flash back begins:(A week earlier) Andrew Touch lead singer of "A New Republick" (Republick tribute band) is walking down the street and enters an Internet Cafe' He posts on a local Republick-web site an announcement for an up and coming gig in a weeks time,while there he sees another post on another web site that announces that “Mick Slick of Republick will be in Europe for a promotional tour to promote the new Republick dvd "Shock the world”.The full tour itinerary is shown on the web site.
One of the tour itinerary dates in particular catches his eyes.The one saying that Mick Slick will be in Milan Italy(Europe) on the 26 of March a friday,the same day as his bands gig..
Andrew leaves the Internet cafe' and contacts his fellow band members and organizes a reunion that night, in a local pub where they usually hang out ..
The four band members meet in the pub later that evening and thus begins a crazy plan to decoy Mick Slick from his scheduled tour itinerary and somehow bring him to the club the boys will be playing,on the friday night...the four members study all the aspects of the crazy plan and in the end manage to pull it off and bring the famed Republick Mega Star to their concert,but! not all is smooth sailing and the boys will end up having to deal with a very upset Sony representative a certain “Miss Trendy Styler “ that threatens to have them locked up for good and a police officer that can't wait to get his hands on them...All to finish up in a Police Headquaters to the amusement of Mick Slick when he is finally told and finds out what has occured and decides not to press charges..all to the delight of a crowd that has gathered outside of the Police Station in defense of our four crazy heroes.