Steal the Words

STEAL THE WORDS
Eco-Thriller
Present Day
Midland, TX
*Finalist, Los Angeles International Screenplay Awards Winter 2021
*Finalist, Astrophobia Science Fiction and Horror Screenwriting Contest 2021

Logline: On the outskirts of a booming oil town, a dried-up, compliant oil man wrestles with a set of bizarre tasks to keep control of the situation at hand.

"First they steal the words, then they steal the meaning" - George Orwell, 1984

SYNOPSIS:

There are the new oil fields and the old ones. The old ones were tapped so much they went dry years ago, but that didn't mean everyone pulled up stakes... especially not former oil boss, BOUTY(80s).

Bouty is healthy as a horse; except for the bulging prostate in his shorts and milky blue eyes. He still wears his cowboy hat in the house along with his tie, fitted shirt, shorts and slippers. He's got a new stay-at-home, "government" job, and it's all for the greater good and mankind he tells himself. Bouty started out by keeping the animals of the world under control... "managed" like they should be, with the butt end of a gun. Now he has dedicated the rest of his life to "managing" women--especially his wife in the bed, with the best weapon of all--words.

WGAW registered 2022