"Life of a card" My movie idea

[BigBeerGut]

I always thought a cool movie idea would be a story of a guy with 5 or so old cards and the story of the life of the 5 cards and how they all got into the hands of this one guy would be the plot. So maybe he has a T206 and that card starts in a pack gets thrown on the ground by the smoker a kid picks it up trades it to a friend it gets creased it gets loved it gets lost it gets found again on and on -- the five different cards all have cool stories as to how they started and lived and eventually got into the hands of the guy! Whaddya think fellas?

[pete zouras]

Like the movie the red violin but for cards. I get it. Good luck getting green lighted by studio execs.

I like it! Great idea! The stories of each card would be what makes the movie. You could easily integrate historical events into each story or simply have great characters with interesting things happening

[ullmandds]

I have thought the exact same idea over the years which is part of the reason I like Worn cards they have more of a story than a car that was put in a Bible And never touched for 100 years.

You should do it!!!

[ullmandds]

Originally Posted by Gobucsmagic74

I like it! Great idea! The stories of each card would be what makes the movie. You could easily integrate historical events into each story or simply have great characters with interesting things happening

agreed!!!! historical events...the hippie who decides to sell/trade his magie for a gram of weed in the 60's turns out to be worth a small fortune decades later!!!!!!

And then you could have all these dramatic moments when the '52 mantle almost gets put in the spokes, or almost gets traded to a kid who would ultimately destroy it, or drops out of a box of cards and is nearly lost forever

[bobw]

Forrest Gump as a baseball card......

[frankbmd]

Or me drooling mustard on my Cobb while eating a hot dog at the ball park

[h2oya311]

You may want to skip and/or fast forward the part where the card sits in grandpa's attic for 50 years...

[samosa4u]

Or you could do a movie of a guy who starts off by working for some card dealer. He later quits and starts trimming cards, and making insane amounts of money. He revisits that dealer, kills him, and steals his pretty blonde girl.

He starts living the good life. Buys a mansion, buys his wife a tiger and his younger sister her own salon. When people accuse him of trimming cards, he gets angry and has them killed.

In the end, a large group of card collectors get fed up and storm his mansion. One by one his guards start getting picked off. In the last scene the trimmer will come out of his room with his AR-15 and he'll say "say hello to my little friend," and then he'll begin firing at everyone. However, somebody ends up approaching him from behind and shoots him. He'll fall over his balcony and land in a large pile of trimmed cards in GEM MINT slabs.

~The End~

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=doS6rwyIkfA

[frankbmd]

Originally Posted by samosa4u

Or you could do a movie of a guy who starts off by working for some card dealer. He later quits and starts trimming cards, and making insane amounts of money. He revisits that dealer, kills him, and steals his pretty blonde girl.

He starts living the good life. Buys a mansion, buys his wife a tiger and his younger sister her own salon. When people accuse him of trimming cards, he gets angry and has them killed.

In the end, a large group of card collectors get fed up and storm his mansion. One by one his guards start getting picked off. In the last scene the trimmer will come out of his room with his AR-15 and he'll say "say hello to my little friend," and then he'll begin firing at everyone. However, somebody ends up approaching him from behind and shoots him. He'll fall over his balcony and land in a large pile of trimmed cards in GEM MINT slabs.

~The End~

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=doS6rwyIkfA

Too realistic

I think the OP was looking for more of a fantasy laden script.

[AGuinness]

Originally Posted by frankbmd

Too realistic

I think the OP was looking for more of a fantasy laden script.

I don't think that's too realistic at all. In fact, I think it's so realistic that people wouldn't believe it. For anybody unfamiliar with cards, they wouldn't believe people would pay so much for little pieces of cardboard. And judging from the reaction to the most recent scandals, a huge part of the collecting population already doesn't believe it anyway! :P

[z28jd]

When I first got into writing for fun, I wrote a short story called "A Card's Life" and posted it here. There was a link on the site for over a year that had the entire story on one page, but then I made some copies of the book on Lulu printing. That was back in 2007, about three years before I actually started writing as my job because I needed about three more years of writing before I was good enough to get paid for it.

The story was following the life of two Old Judge cards from the time they were produced back in 1888 until current day. Had a young kid, who owned the cards, and then his relatives who found them years later.