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We've scripted plenty of our hopes for season 3.. Maybe it's time we return to the classics and interject our MM cast with twists appropriate to the SC crowd and context. My 1st thought is to see Joan surrounded by a bevy of admirers, reminiscant of the BBQ at 12 Oaks in Gone With the Wind..
I feel that Joan may be having 2nd thots about her pending marriage to Dr Greg.. At a SC BBQ, she intentionally uses her considerable assets to attract a crowd to test Greg. He will respond at 1st with nearly uncontrolled lust, quickly followed by anger and a lashing out. Paul will rise to defend her . Her secret hope is that her savior would be Roger..Joan will decide that this public display will be her jumping off point . Will this event give her cover to remain at SC and maintain her reputation ? Will she be hugely embarrased that her personal life has been put on display and the only face saving grace will be to leave SC as a failed professional?
What cinema classic scene would you suggest?
Joan and Roger are standing face to face in Roger's office looking deeply into each other's eyes. Joan has been preparing for her wedding on Christmas Day and has decided to leave Sterling Cooper after nine years. Although she loves him, she knows there is no future for her and Roger. Roger, belatedly, realizes that he has made a hash of things by leaving Mona and committing to Jane. He is in love with Joan, but realizes it is too late to turn back the clock.
Roger goes to his credenza, pours a stiff drink for himself, and returns to Joan. While she stands there silently, her beautiful brown eyes brimming with tears, Roger raises his glass and salutes her, "Here's looking at you, kid."
(Humphrey Bogart and Ingrid Bergman at the airport in "Casablanca.")
On second thought, Roger might be more likely to say, "Here's looking at you, Red."
Long Shot of the Colloseum.
Ditto St. Peter's.
MCU: the Pantheon.
Pan: Circus Maximus.
EST-shot: the Piazza Navone.
Pan the fountain.
MCU-follows Pete from a cafe there, to the Via Portoghesi.
Into La Campana. . .
He quickly reemerges, smiling.
The deeds have been done.
Peggy is waiting patiently in her tiny Hotel Portoghesi room, swilling countless Negronis. She starts to pace and suddenly Pete bursts into the room and rushes to the bidet.
Meanwhile, Don is having a pizza Napoli at the Vatican Museum cafe and sizing up a Gina Lolabrigida-esque girl in a tight pink dress and big sunglasses who is at the next table and is sipping Peroni.
Joan will meet the others later at La Fontacine, yet she must finish the dirty-work of disposing of Trudy and Mrs. Campbell Sr's bludgeoned bodies. . .
I'm imagining PURPLE NOON (1960) and the later adaptation of Highsmith's novel-part of a series: The Talented Mr. Ripley-transposed onto the near future exploits of our fav MM characters. Pete must rid himself of the albatrosses that are sabotaging him; so what better place than ROMA; so scenic: so historic!
Rene Clement did a fantastic job with Purple Noon, and then, M.Antonioni truly brought it home with the remake-late 1990's. What better way to begin Season Three than with a really cinematic double-murder-with all the principals involved-for various essential reasons!?
And to all you Jude Law fans out there: he is impeccable in the remake, yet I've always thought he cd have slayed/nailed the Tom Ripley role even more that Matt Damon.
Ah, Show Business. Ever the lucrative conundrum.
Kudos!
Movie : The Postman Always Rings Twice
Scene: Lana T and J Garfield gaze lustily as a plan foments at the lunch counter..
Our scene opens at Trudy's new interrior design shop. Since learning that Pete will not inherit as she had been given to asume, the prestige of the Dykman-Campbell name needs to be capitalized upon while there's still some bloom left on the rose. Sal, with his flair ,dash and style, has become a partner and the two have made a strong start. Trudy's social connections has made their entre' profitable and she has some big ideas.
She has begun to really enjoy the world of buisiness and has greater ambitions for growth. She has had meetings with Rachel Menken about taking a small corner on the 4th floor of the department store to display a few pieces of their collection .Sal has recently discovered an artist known as Keene,who does interesting studys with waifs who have unusually large limpid eyes .Sal feels that the art is marketable . Rachel has her doubts about the artwork but the opportunity to increase sales of home furnishings and take a % of sales is a bonus not to be missed.
Trudy and Sal have a meeting with Pete in the hope that he will provide something more than lip service, adding that when they see a bit of $ucce$$, they can bring their small efforts to SC, thru Pete, for a national campaign .
Pete, as usual, can only focus on issues that affect him directly and immediately and is entirely threatened by Trudy's independence and moderate sucess.He offers nothing more than token encouragement..
At home in his pajamas and Trudy's most provacative baby dolls, they argue in bed until Pete turns off the light. Trudy turns away, sinks into her pillow and bemoans her husband's lack of cooperation. She visualizes a more lucrative future as a widdow. She is not hesitant in bringing her partner Sal into the scheme . Sal certainly sees the merit.
It's Christmas Eve. Betty has just showed up at the SC offices to inform Don she is leaving him for the guy she picked up at the bar. Taking the kids, leaving the dog. Pete has dug up scathing info on Don's women, past identity and bank account. With the help of the copying machine, Pete has distributed this damning data to every SC employee. Bert Cooper happens to be in a bad mood that day, and has Roger fire Don and promote Pete.
Distraught, Don trudges through the snow to the 59th Street Bridge. He starts climbing over the rail and is about to jump when he is accosted by a hobo. The hobo identifies himself as Clarence, who is an angel needing his wings. He takes Don on a little tour of what life would be like if Dick Whitman/Don Draper never existed:
Betty at age 60: Her modeling days long past, and having turned down numerous inferior marriage proposals, Betty is now the spiteful, vicious editor of Vogue. Decades of chain smoking and liquid lunches have caught up with her, and she wanders the halls like a wizened troll. Her horse is her only companion.
Sally and Bobby: Having never been born, they function as guardian angels for 1960s kids, offering them celestial tips on how to make cocktails and sneak cigarettes.
Peggy at age 50: Because Don did not shake her out of her hospital bed following the birth of her child, Peggy has been confined to the state mental hospital and, at the request of her sister, has never been released. She has not uttered a word since 1960, but makes beautiful baskets and likes to play with lipsticks.
Roger: Dumped by Jane, he goes on a Christmas Eve bender with Freddy. Without Don to help him up, Roger slips in a pile of his own vomit and dies in an icy alley.
Duck: Is appointed president of SC by the new British owners, and is promptly fired along with the rest of the staff when the Brits finish pillaging the accounts.
Heartened by everything Clarence the angel/hobo has to show him, Don makes it back to his house in Ossining just in time for cocktails. Although Betty has passed out on the sofa, Sally tiptoes in with a cocktail shaker. While making Don an Old Fashioned, she notices that the ice cubes suddenly start whirling about in the glass. She says, "Look Daddy, every time an ice cube clinks, an angel gets his wings!"