Patrick Hoffman, a video production student won the Yale Short Film Screenwriting Contest for his screenplay, "The Best Dead Body Ever." The initial spark for Hoffman's rather sinister comedy was originally ignited from surfing the Internet. Hoffman found the website www.deadbodyguy.com. This humorous site depicts a "dead guy" who stages death in different scenarios and makes a photograph of each scene. Hoffman's screenplay centers on a college student, Daniel Gentry who is all but invisible to his college community. Gentry eventually gains attention one day when he falls down in one of his classes. Gentry enjoys the attention and moves ahead to fake his own death in a number of different ways. He then takes note of how the death was recieved by the public for a sociology project he is conducting. |
Gentry quickly becomes "the man" on campus and signs autographs for his student fans. However each death scene must outweigh the previous scene, so a final grand death stunt must be concocted. Before the ultimate death scence can unfold, Gentry actually chokes and dies as a reslut of eating an M&M. Nobody in the crowd believes that he is dead and eventually his name fades into obscurity.
Patrick Hoffman at his Final Cut Station
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