There is a channel of short films, Omeleto, that has a lot
of short films ranging 6-30 minutes, mostly ironic drama or comedy and horror,
often posing self-contradictory or problematic situations for ordinary people.
“Death by Script” (Oct. 2019), directed and written by Jason
Kessler, is an interesting meta-film (8 minutes).
A young script reader (Jonathan Flanders) meets his girl
friend in a Hollywood diner before making a decision whether to “pass” or “consider”
a script he was assigned to read on the job. The script was itself “Death by Script” which
makes this a meta-film. Somehow I though
of Pedro Almadovar and “Bad Education”.
Anyway, he reads the script, and another appealing young man passes on
the script and winds up dead.
The next day, Jonathan goes to work in downtown Los Angeles
and there is a corpse in one of the cubicles.
Mark Parrish, an actor (“Mustang Sally”, 2006, reviewed here
Nov. 7, 2007) once told me he had worked as a script reader for New Line. People really have structured jobs doing this?
I guess the most important reason to “pass” is that a script
is too complicated to follow. Christopher
Nolan can get away with it.
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