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    Movie based on a song

    Alan Smithee
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    Post by Alan Smithee Sun Apr 24, 2011 8:29 pm

    We've had a topic about what books people would like to see translated into a film. Does anyone have a song that they think could be fleshed out into a good movie? If anyone does care to reply feel free to post the song but just the lyrics will do too.

    One exammple,
    Black Diamond Bay - Bob Dylan

    Up on the white veranda
    She wears a necktie and a Panama hat
    Her passport shows another face
    From another time and place
    She looks nothing like that
    And all the remnants of her recent past
    Are scattered in the wild wind
    She walks across the marble floor
    Where a voice from the gambling room is calling her to come on in
    She smiles, walks the other way
    As the last ship sails and the moon fades away
    From Black Diamond Bay.

    As the morning light breaks open the Greek comes down
    And he asks for a rope and a pen that will write
    "Pardon monsieur" the desk clerk says
    Carefully removes his fez
    "Am I hearing you right ?"
    And as the yellow fog is lifting
    The Greek is quickly heading for the second floor
    She passes him on the spiral staircase
    Thinking he's the Soviet Ambassador
    She starts to speak, but he walks away
    As the storm clouds rise and the palm branches away
    On Black Diamond Bay.

    A soldier sits beneath the fan
    Doing business with a tiny man who sells him a ring
    Lightning strikes, the light blow out
    The desk clerk wakes and begins to shout
    "Can you see anything ?"
    Then the Greek appears on the second floor
    In his bare feet with a rope around his neck
    While a loser in the gambling room lights up a candle
    Says "Open up another deck"
    But the dealer say "Attendez-vous, s'il vous pl it"
    As the rain beats down and the cranes fly away
    From Black Diamond Bay.

    The desk clerk heard the woman laugh
    As he looked around the aftermath and the soldier got tough
    He tried to grab the woman's hand
    Said, "Here's a ring it cost a grand"
    She said, "That ain't enough"
    Then she ran upstairs to pack her bags
    While a horse-drawn taxi waited at the curb
    She passed the door that the Greek had locked
    Where a handwritten sign read, "Do not disturb"
    She knocked on it anyway
    As the sun went down and the music did play
    On Black Diamond Bay.

    "I've got to talk to someone quick !"
    But the Greek said, "Go away" and he kicked the chair to the floor
    He hung there from the chandelier
    She cried, "Help there's danger near
    Please open op the door"
    Then the volcano erupted
    And the lava flowed down from the mountain high above
    The soldier and the tiny man were crouched in the corner
    Thinking of forbidden love
    But the desk clerk said "It happens every day"
    As the stars fell down and the fields burned away
    On Black Diamond Bay.

    As the island slowly sank
    The loser finally broke the bank in the gambling room
    The dealer said "It's too late now
    You can take you money, but I don't know how
    You'll spend it in the tomb"
    The tiny man bit the soldier's ear
    As the floor caved in and the boiler in the basemen blew
    While she's out on the balcony where a stranger tell her
    "My darling je vous aime beacoup"
    She sheds a tear and then begins to pray
    As the fire burns on and the smoke drifts away
    From Black Diamond Bay.

    I was siting home alone one night in LA
    Watching old Cronkite on the seven o'clock news
    It seems there was an earthquake that
    Left nothing but a Panama hat
    And a pair of old Greek shoes
    Didn't seem like much was happening
    So I turned it off and went to grab another beer
    Seems like every time you turn around
    There's another hard-luck story that you're gonna hear
    And there's really nothing anyone can say
    And I never did plan to go anyway
    To Black Diamond Bay.


    Alan Smithee
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    Movie based on a song Empty Re: Movie based on a song

    Post by Alan Smithee Sun Apr 24, 2011 8:31 pm

    The Road Goes On Forever - Robert Earl Keen

    Sherry was a waitress at the only joint in town
    She had a reputation as a girl who'd been around
    Down Main Street after midnight with a brand new pack of cigs
    A fresh one hangin' from her lips and a beer between her legs
    She'd ride down to the river and meet with all her friends
    The road goes on forever and the party never ends

    Sonny was a loner he was older than the rest
    He was going into the Navy but he couldn't pass the test
    So he hung around town he sold a little pot
    The law caught wind of Sonny and one day he got caught
    But he was back in business when they set him free again
    The road goes on forever and the party never ends

    Sonny's playin' 8-ball at the joint where Sherry works
    When some drunken outta towner put his hand up Sherry's skirt
    Sonny took his pool cue laid the drunk out on the floor
    Stuffed a dollar in her tip jar and walked on out the door
    She's runnin' right behind him reachin' for his hand
    The road goes on forever and the party never ends

    They jumped into his pickup Sonny jammed her down in gear
    Sonny looked at Sherry and said lets get on outta here
    The stars were high above them and the moon was in the east
    The sun was settin' on them when they reached Miami Beach
    They got a hotel by the water and a quart of Bombay gin
    The road goes on forever and the party never ends

    They soon ran out of money but Sonny knew a man
    Who knew some Cuban refugees that delt in contraband
    Sonny met the Cubans in a house just off the route
    With a briefcase full of money and a pistol in his boot
    The cards were on the table when the law came bustin' in
    The road goes on forever and the party never ends

    The Cubans grabbed the goodies and Sonny grabbed the Jack
    He broke a bathroom window and climbed on out the back
    Sherry drove the pickup through the alley on the side
    Where a lawman tackled Sonny and was reading him his rights
    She stepped into the alley with a single shot .410
    The road goes on forever and the party never ends

    They left the lawman lyin' and they made their getaway
    They got back to the motel just before the break of day
    Sonny gave her all the money and he blew her a little kiss
    If they ask you how this happened say I forced you into this
    She watched him as his taillights disappeared around the bend
    The road goes on forever and the party never ends

    Its Main Street after midnight just like it was before
    21 months later at the local grocery store
    Sherry buys a paper and a cold 6-pack of beer
    The headlines read that Sonny is goin' to the chair
    She pulls back onto Main Street in her new Mercedes Benz
    The road goes on forever and the party never ends


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