Das nachfolgende Script habe ich an einem Drehbuchwettbewerb bei Tribecea Film Institute eingereicht.
Temporal setting: present local setting: Boston soundtrack: Cover version of James Brown’s «sex machine» singer: e g Ashanti, J.Lo
abstract: It’s the story of an MIT- engineer specialiszed in robotics who is a genius in his work and gradually begins to see human beings as robots who can be manipulated in the same way as he can program his robots.
possible technical adviser: Rodney Brooks, MIT, http://www.ai.mit.edu./projects/humanoid-robotics-group/>www.ai.mit.edu./projects/humanoid-robotics-group/
scene 1
MIT engineer (Bob) has a date with his ex-girlfriend in a Boston café (he‘ll meet his later girl-friends in the same café) ex:-girlfriend: «You know you were alsways too tough and too demanding in sex , then I had these flashbacks of my rape and became so uptight that it even hurt» Bob: «And then I always felt you tried to avoid sex» ex: « It became a vicious circle: the more I gave you the feeling I didn’t want sex the more frustrated and angry you got, and your anger made it less likely to give me what I needed most: tenderness» Bob: «You sound like your analist!» ex(cynically): «As a scientist it should be no problem for you to find out how women really function…»
scene 2
At Bob’s, Bob is online. Bob is very offended. He thinks she left him because he was a bad lover and decides to improve his technique. He goes online and consults all the relevant websites (sex, anatomy, psycho-analysis, chatroom of the female orgasm club, etc…). This private research is his only pasttime after work in the MIT, but he does it with the same scientific sophistication as he does his research in robotics.
scene 3
Bob at work in the MIT with his robots.
scene 4
At Bob’s. Bob at his computer. Bob has worked out a program to become the perfect lover. He has found out about the female G-spot (picture of female anatomy on the computer display). He decides to get pierced. He workes out scientificially where he has to pierce his penis to stimulate a woman’s G-spot.
scene 5
Bob in the same Boston café with his new girl-friend girlfriend: «Why on earth did you pierce your penis?» Bob: «Because I thought I could better stimulate your G-spot!» girlfriend: «This is really mad! You even hurt me! How about learning more about woman’s mind?»
scene 6
At Bob’s. Bob at his computer. Bob is humiliated again, he was even laughed at. He consults some webpages again, this time about ethnology. He is fascinated by the ritual of circumcision. He decides to try an Afro-American woman.
scene 7
Bob in the same Boston café with his new Afro-American girlfriend, an anthropology student (e.g. Halle Berry) Bob: «Are you sure you don’t want sex before marriage?» girlfriend: «Definitely. I’m very traditional when it comes to family life. I’m not a strict muslima, and I hate religious extremiststs, but I know that it is very detrimental for a woman’s mental health when she sleeps around.» Bob: «So you will marry as a virgin, okay. For me marriage is out of question. But please could you explain me why men have to be circumcised in Islam? Is it only a matter of cleanliness?» girlfriend: «Of course this is the official reason in Judaism and Islam. But haven’t you realised that in these two religions men have more rights than woman? Circumcision helps jews and muslims to have more power over women » Bob: «Why should a man have more power over a woman when he is circumcised?» girlfriend: «Because he has control. It is him who controls the sex act. He has no problem with praecox; he can go on as long as he wants. He can experiment with her, find out what she really needs to reach the big bang. Do you know what I mean with the big bang? You know woman are multiorgasmic, which sometimes makes men jaelous. I don’t mean those mediocre orgasms she can have on the way to the big bang – I mean the real thing at the end and together with him …. Once he has got so far with her, she is enslaved to him. He can even condition her by giving her what she needs, when she was a good girl and not giving her what she needs when she wasn’t.» Bob: «That’s nothing but machism!» girlfriend: «But anthropology shows that machos seem to satisfy women’s primitive instincts, stemming from ancient times when they needed a strong man to protect them»
scene 8
Bob at the doctor’s Bob is having the piercing removed and is getting circumcised. The doctor does not see any medical indication for circumcision, but is intrigued by Bob’s explanation.
scene 9
At the Boston café with new girlfriend Pat (a divorced teacher, two teenage children) Pat «I hope it will be no problem that you have to share me with my children. At the beginning they feel you are an intruder, but they will get used to you». Bob: «And they have to accept that we need some time alone as a couple».
scene 10
At Bob’s. Bob at his computer. He is consulting webpages about motherhood (pregnancy, giving birth, breastfeeding, mother instinct etc). He comes to the conclusion that woman who have given birth are better sex partners because through motherhood they are closer to their instincts – and sex has a lot to do with primitive instincts! He develops a theory that a man can enslave a woman neurophysically by imprinting. If he is a sophisticated lover he can profit from the fact that her limbic system is larger than his: the same mechanism which is responsible for mother-child bonding can be used to make the same bond between a woman and her perfect lover – she actually «can’t get him out of her mind!»
scene 11
Bob at work in the MIT. For creating robots he has do do a lot of reasearch on the human brain. Conversartion with a neuropysiologist: Bob: «I think we have one problem that cannot be solved:to imitate the limbic system. The limbic system is important for emotions, smell , reproduction mother and child bond – and it is larger in women! Do you realize that all the robots we’ve developped so far are males?» neurophysiologist: «Of course!.That’s why the new chess computer is called Deep Fritz! It was out of question to give him a female name. You are right, the limbic system is a terrible challenge! Deep Fritz can see, but he can’t smell . But smell is not important in playing chess. By the way: is Pat crazy about your smell?» Bob: «Yes, she’s absolutely crazy about it – she even wears my stinking Tshirts.»
scene 12
At Bob’s. Very, very hot sex scene!!! (It should be so hot that the critics will find it too pornographic – which will be the perfect publicity for the film!) after sex (still in bed, both quite exhausted) Bob: «Wow! That was absolutely perfect ». Pat: «You know it always is with you and me. You found out exactly waht I need. But what shall I do when you have to go away because of your job and I can’t come with you?
scene 13
Bob at work in the MIT. Soon he has to go on a business trip. He is creating a robot – a real sex machine for Pat. The robot called ‘Bobby’ should be able to satisfy Pat in his absence. He gives in all the relevant data, Bobby has of course a duplicate of his penis.
scene 14
Bob and Pat after sex. (exhausted again) Pat.(sniffing his chest and under his arms): «How shall I survive one long month without you? We can phone and it will terribly turn me on to hear your voice, but I can’t go without your smell and – without your sperm» Bob: «I know. My smell is in my clothes, so make sure you don’t wash my dirty clothes before I go away. When it comes to my sperm, we can freeze them so you can apply them when I’m away. How many samples do you need? Shall we just start to get one sample?» This idea turns her on and she starts oral sex, of course she knows exactly when he is about to come, so she stops at the right time and he ejaculates into a small tupperware box which she usually uses for deepfreezing food. Pat: «I store this in the deepfreezer. But what did you mean by ‘applying your sperm’?» Bob: «That will be Bobby’s job» Pat::«Who is Bobby?» Bob:«One moment, please, sorry I haven’t introduced him to you yet …(He leaves the bedroom and later comes back with a robot which is a duplicate of himself) May I introduce: this is Bobby; Bobby, this is Pat.Actually there’s no need to introduce him to you , because he knows you inside out. He has all the relevant data: where he has to put his hands, where and in what rhythm he has to stimulate you with his penis – which is of course a duplicate of mine. To give him my smell you dress him with my dirty clothes. And now I’m going to eyplain you how he can ejaculate my sperm into you.»
scene 15 (showdown)
Bob is abroad for an international congress about robotics (There’s a documentary about it on CNN) Bob phones Pat . He knows she has just watched him on CNN Bob:(on the phone with Pat, after having discussed the congress): «….you made sure that my semen has the right temperature and you remember how you have to fill it into Bobby so he can give it to you later?» Pat: «Of course, it’s ready. It’s the same routine which I know from the time when I sometimes had to deepfreeze my breastmilk and later warm it for my babies. Bobby is loaded with your semen, and when I want him to come I’ll press the trigger at his lower back.. So we can start, are aou ready, too)?» Bob: «Yes I’m ready. I’ ll masturbate so that you can hear my voice and Bobby will make love to you and give you my sperm»
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