Date Posted:15:51:30 06/02/08 Mon Author:Sarah Moor Subject: Packet of crisps
Dear Ian,
I read about your Hay reading and your request for other examples of the scene in which your protagonist unwittingly eats somebody else's crisps.
The short film Lunch Date by Adam Davidson won an Oscar in 1991 using the same premise. In it a woman dressed in a fur coat has missed her train in Grand Central Station. She orders a salad and sits in a booth opposite a man who looks like a vagrant. There is no dialogue.
The film is discussed in a variety of books on screenwriting including Linda Cowgill's Writing Short Films.
Regards
Sarah Moor
