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Posted by: Don, May 28th, 2009, 9:46pm
August by Chip Casner - Comedy - August Dakers is an immature 29 year old alcoholic musician who rather be homeless than work for a living.  He finds love and faces his fears with the help of a witty and beautiful young college girl.   106 pages - fdr, format 8)

August by Chip Casner - Comedy - August Dakers is an immature 29 year old alcoholic musician who rather be homeless than work for a living.  He finds love and faces his fears with the help of a witty and beautiful young college girl.   106 pages - pdf, format 8)
Posted by: personnumber123864, June 8th, 2009, 9:22am; Reply: 1
good script. moves along quickly, the dialogue is natural and there's always something going on. nice job.
Posted by: August, June 10th, 2009, 5:00pm; Reply: 2
Hello, thanks for reading my script.  I appreciate the feedback.  I'm still working on finding live cats whom can sing in key and behave on stage.  The hissing tends to drown out my vocals!  -Chip Casner, writer
Posted by: bboots, June 26th, 2009, 7:09pm; Reply: 3
I liked the job you did with character development. August was interesting and fun. The dialouge too was natural and entertaining.I felt you needed more of a story to compliment your writing skills. A protagonist with a specific goal and several hurdles holding him back. I didn't get that from this script. Match your writing skills with a unique well crafted story and you'll have something.
Posted by: playa (Guest), July 5th, 2009, 7:02pm; Reply: 4
I went into this really wanting to enjoy the script, I love the story and I made it to page 50 and had to stop. I'm sorry, but this is just awful! Nothing happens in this script! We follow August Draker from boring, eventless day to boring, eventless day. And I find it hard to like or sympathise with a protagonist who, let's face it, is pretty much a paedophile. His Father Murray song is completely sick, and not sick in a "grossly hilarious" kind of way, but in a "grossly terrible" kind of way.

Again, I'm sorry for the harsh comments. The story is brilliant and really could have worked, but this script (or this draft of the script, at least) is terrible.
Posted by: August, July 6th, 2009, 1:45pm; Reply: 5
Wow, what a great feedback!  Father Murray is an actual song of mine and was also one of my most requested when I was playing shows.  In the last verse the boy actually tracks down father murray and butchers him with a hunting knife.  The lyrics are certainly crude and offensive to some, however most enjoy it.  Thanks again for the honest response.  My life and my writings are dark, rated R,  and not for the sensitive or the Disney crowd!  
Posted by: playa (Guest), July 7th, 2009, 10:48am; Reply: 6
Okay, I forced myself to read the second half of this script, and I've gotta say... I was very wrong. This script is actually pretty good. Things really pick up when August gets arrested, and (without sounding too sappy) the ending really is beautiful. The cat song is kinda weird, but overall, this IS a damn good script. I guess it just takes a while to get going. I stand corrected, man. Well done.
Posted by: August, July 9th, 2009, 2:04am; Reply: 7
Playa, thanks for reading the entire script.  August has a good heart however his alchoholism which was instilled by his dad at a very early age tends to hold him back.  He's a little weird, has a huge labido, and may come across as an uninteresting drunk until we see his vulnerable side toward the end.  I'm not sure  who could pull off August but I'd love to see Meagan Fox as Keely.  - Chip Casner, writer.
Posted by: playa (Guest), July 9th, 2009, 7:53am; Reply: 8
Yeah, I'd always imagined Johnny Depp as August- dunno what you'd make of that, but he always seems able to pull off strange parts. Anyway, I'm sorry I bashed the script at the start. And I see what you mean about Megan Fox for Keely.
Posted by: bitteroldman, July 14th, 2009, 7:38am; Reply: 9
Personally, I think that the script needs a lot work.  It starts out WAY to slowly.  TEN PAGES.  That's what you get.  Sometimes you might get twenty, but that's it.  If you don't have us by then, what's to keep us from getting up and walking out???

The dialogue is WAY to predictable.  It's what you would expect to hear...from thirteen year old girls.  You cannot allow yourself to start sentences with the word 'so' as you did multiple times.  Be daring.  Write something we don't expect someone to say. Some of the comedy was clever, but the bad dialogue far outweighed it.  

Your action needs a lot of work too.  I find that to be the hardest thing for me to write, but at least I can tell myself that it doesn't cut the mustard and find a way to make it work.  Doing so usually takes several re-writes though, but I'm glad I did when I've finally done.  In it, you need a lot of mean in a bare bones kind of setting.  Ask yourself - can this be filmed?  We can't see what a person's thinking.  Have your characters do something that reflects what they are feeling, but be brief and to the point.

I give this story somewhere in the neighborhood of a 4.
Posted by: davejendras, September 28th, 2009, 7:41pm; Reply: 10
I'm with bitteroldman, this script is annoying. why would anyone want to be with an "immature alchoholic poor musician?" Oh right, because he's not a immature alchoholic poor musician. He's actually a pretty normal, good looking, sensitive guy its just that the screenwriter thinks its hipper and edgier to be "a drifter" or "unshaven." He wears worn out clothes, wow, he MUST be worthy of entire screenplay. Please write your next script about someone interesting, not yourself.
Posted by: August, October 27th, 2009, 2:36am; Reply: 11
Thanks for your honest feedback.  I'm sorry you hated the script and found it repulsive.  No worries, everyone has different tastes in movies.  It's my first script and was basically a memoir of when I was homeless back in 1997.  I have a lot of interest in the scirpt and it just placed in the top 10% at the Austin Film Festival and has advanced in another competition so I'm very excited.  Good luck and keep writing!  -the author
Posted by: MikeCashman, January 11th, 2022, 3:07pm; Reply: 12
I really enjoyed reading this script.  I was pulling for August the entire time hoping he would get his life back on track.  He just seemed to be too wild at first.  Maybe the 3 months in prison taught him it was time to grow up and realize what he had in front of him before his minor crimes that put him in jail.  August's one night stand with Tara was just that.  Tara wanted more, but August being who he is just didn't see Tara that way.  August finds Keeley and nearly ruins that relationship as well when he was sentenced to prison.  That's why I feel that August may have grown up some while in prison and it taught him that petty crime can still land you jail.  

I can see this being a motion picture.  I could envision the characters, the settings in my head while reading this.  Very descriptive and well written.  I laughed quite a few times at August's one liners.  The ending was great!  I won't ruin it for anyone else but it just shows that life is truly challenging.  At one point things may go very well, then there is something that can alter everything, but it doesn't mean that life is over.  August picks himself back up and starts over again.  

Great job!!!!
Posted by: LC, January 11th, 2022, 3:53pm; Reply: 13
Mike, great stuff that you're giving feedback on scripts!
We need activity on these boards so your contribution is highly appreciated.

Just be aware that with scripts this old (2009) it's unlikely your kind and constructive words will elicit any type of response.

The author of this one last signed into his account 2010.
You're more likely to get a response with recent posted scripts.
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