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 I chose to go with my second pitch about the gambler. A working title is "Money Talks". I have three genres in mind in my early production state which I am in right now. Those are comedy, drama, and romance.


Comedy: Taking inspiration from such hit comedies like "National Lampoon's Vegas Vacation", John's gambling is a comedic escape from an otherwise hard life. He has fun and makes money, and that brings him to many hijinks in the process. In the end, he realizes he has to stop. On his last time, he tells the table master to just kill him if he comes back and ignoring the sarcasm, he meets his fate there.


Drama: John lives a very poor life. He has very little money and equally little to live for. He decides one day to try and gamble what little he has in order to make his rent. He has a little success and is able to live a slightly better life for a little while, returning to the casino to keep up with his new habits. After a while, his luck turns and he returns to his previous quality of life. He develops alcoholism while returning to the casino, and his last ever visit kills him. One last shot meant the end of John.


Romance: John lives a very poor life. He has very little money, but something to live for: one day while at the grocery store, he sees a woman wearing a casino T-shirt. She is the prettiest woman he's ever seen. He shows up at the casino one day to try and find her, discovering that she works one of the tables. He sits down at the table and keeps playing. He isn't addicted to gambling; he's addicted to the woman and her attention. In the end, he spends his last dollar and loses. Hoping for a catch-22 of good luck, he asks her out and is rejected. He dies right there of a broken heart

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