Thursday, May 23, 2013

The Pitch: Screenplay: A Guide to Fine Dining



Query:  A Guide to Fine Dining

By Slim Fairview
By Bob Asken


Screenplay: Comedy/Caper


THE PITCH:


The great and wonderful Chef Aurique wants to open his own restaurant and he has a plan.  He will pretend to open his own restaurant where he will launch a new and exciting cuisine hoping to attract the attention of Monsieur Patronat, owner of Chez Palace,, assuming Mons. Patronat will hire him as a chef, thus attracting backers for him to open his own restaurant. He faces only two small obstacles.  He has no money, and, he can’t actually cook.


However, Aurie, as his girlfriend calls him, does have two friends:  Rammy, who owns the hole in the wall Schnitzel Haus in the village, and Ali, who has no visible means of support but does have a sunny and optimistic disposition, to help him.
Through a series of various and temporary Chef jobs which he loses for various reason—one being that he overcooked the Sushi at a Sushi Restaurant—and a few scams, which include posing as a Health Inspector, a Waiter, and a Gourmand, he nearly achieves his dream.


Now, if you have “The Boys” you must have, “The Girls”.
Patty, Aurie’s girlfriend, loves Aurie the way Daisy loves Onslow.
Ali’s girlfriend, Gia, is a Wall Street financial consultant.
Lesje, Rammy’s girlfriend, is a lawyer.


Aside from Patty, the girls wonder if their boyfriends will ever grown up.


At the end, the girls bail the boys out, and make them repay the victims of their well intentioned but misguided efforts.  Except for a few dollars that Aurique had concealed in a hidden compartment of his briefcase:  just enough to finance his next venture.
But can he pull it off?  Can he!  Aurique grabs a large sketch pad and a marker, and with a few bold strokes, reveals the sketch for the sign for his new enterprise.


Chez D’Aurique
Maison de Pouvant être Façonné



Except for a few outside shots, most of the scenes take place in an apartment, an upscale restaurant, or the kitchen of a restaurant.  This, to keep the set costs down.


The final scene is intended to segue into the sequel A Guide to High Fashion—easily timed to coincide with Fashion Week.  This leaves only the third in the trilogy: A Guide to High Finance. By that time, the US economy should have recovered enough to make Finance a hot topic.


The Screenplay:



Thank you for your attention to my query;

Sincerest regards,


Slim


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