The Bad Screenwriter

Paul, a substandard talent-less screenwriter. works for a porn company, as he is not good enough to write scripts for tv or films. His script, The Scarlet Pimp, is being made into a porn film, with Daisy, a porn actress, playing the part of a French aristocrat, rescued from the guillotine by the Scarlet Pimp, who sets her up to work in a brothel in eighteenth century London, as a porn take on the Scarlet Pimpernel. Zoe, Paul's friend, has read one of his serious scripts, The Bullshit Bullfight, which features a matador slipping in the arena on bull diarrhoea, as a sickly bull is all the bullfighters have left, as they have slaughtered all the healthy ones. Zoe tells Paul his script is seriously bad. Paul has a relationship with Daisy, and Zoe urges him to record their romantic encounters on a mini USB stick recorder. Zoe then encourages Paul to use the recordings to create a romantic comedy drama script. They work together on the script, and Zoe thinks it is actually good enough for film producers to be interested in it. Paul asks Daisy to marry him, which she does. He has a crisis of conscience, and tells Zoe he cannot seek to have the script sent to producers as it would be a betrayal of Daisy. He says he would only seek to get it made if Daisy ever betrays him.