BLONDE INSTINCT
aka CAPTURING TURANDOT is an award winning feature script currently in development.
It garnered several prestigious awards including UCLA'S TOP TEN, Toronto's GOOD-TO-GO Award, CALIFORNIA FILM AWARD and more.
Click on the image to see a teaser.
A "looker" cufflinks her charms to a racketeer, but when he is gunned down, she drags a beautician to the mountains where they escape an infatuated detective and two dogged wise guys who want them both dead.
SYNOPSIS:
The award winning script, BLONDE INSTINCT, launches with axes swinging in the opening scene from the opera, TURANDOT. Out struts Maiden Novak, 30, who attempts to disguise her insecurities behind audacious platinum hair and an aloof attitude. In this Off-Off Broadway theatre Novak is one-upped by the show’s Drag Queen as the cabaret is revealed to be anything BUT the NY Met. After the underwhelming show, Novak exits the theatre only to be confronted by a Punk who snatches her handbag. Never to let a Prada go, she fights back but a revolver steps in to save her. Police Detective Boschkee, an Opera aficionado, is an original gumshoe down to an authentic 1940's fedora.
Novak races home to her Penthouse where as a "kept" woman she enjoys the finer accoutrements. Peretz, a forty-year-old mobster with more bravado than hair, distrusts his luscious mistress and uses belittlement to control her. At dinner with Peretz's goons, Novak meets Tina, a beautician, who is convinced everything can be solved with pink lip gloss and extensions. While the girls are in the ladies' lounge, gunshots ring out. A mob hit and all are dead. Novak takes the lead and pulls Tina out the back door. They soon learn the reality of their situation. They need to get out of town and disappear if they want to stay alive.
Detective Boschkee and his partner, Harbach, a spontaneous, no bull, female detective, investigate the crime scene. Boschkee sniffs out a glove and becomes obsessed with finding its owner. Harbach is obsessed with Boschkee. They find a "scent" to follow. The Hitmen, Nielson and Jojo, out living a little too large, are scolded by their boss. They broke an unwritten rule, they left witnesses. Nielson isn't anyone's patsy; he will find the femme fatales and turn them into fatalities.
Scrambling to get out of town, Novak and Tina head west and learn the Feds have put a reward on their heads. Their limited cash final runs out in a small mountain town. This escape to stay alive has left them in the wilderness where they must ditch wealth, pretense and luscious platinum hairdos to stay out of the cross hairs. Befriended by the local hippie, Rockey, the girls settle into the community. He sees through their charade and helps remake their lives; get jobs, change their looks and hide in plain sight.
Evocative of any faith journey into the wilderness, the girls must literally purge their former lives or they will be hunted down like dogs and killed. Fresh out of options they allow this remote environment to metaphorically supply all their needs. Naturally effervescent springs, caves with obscured treasures, waterfalls with rugged, rocky, overhangs, and gardens of the gods offer unmistakable pointers. The mysticism of the landscape offers a depth of spiritual growth for both girls.
A local artist falls hard for Novak, but men have been the source of most of her troubles so she steers clear. Undeterred by her rebuffs, Michael becomes part of the escape plan. Novak is in survival mode making her as cold and calculating as the ice princess, Turandot, from the opening scene. This sophisticated operatic tale of the Persian Ice Princess courted by suitors who later are beheaded weaves in and out of the search for the girls. Offering a parallel story line, Boschkee is obsessed with finding his own Ice Princess in Novak.
As both the Detectives and the Hitmen close in, one last character is introduced. The terrain. With all it's rugged appeal, the topography thrusts an unrelenting harsh reality into the chase. Whitewater rapids, abandoned mineshafts, forsaken ghost towns, the hunter and hunted alike must fight or use them as assets. This landscape uncreated but duly complicated by man brings Novak to her knees. Her coping mechanism, a cold ice heart is forced to melt.
Novak begins to uses her wit and long neglected innate skills to escape their dilemma. Moxie she held as a child before the world got a hold of her. She must also perform in the acting role of a lifetime. Novak's life depends on her ability to be convincing as anyone but Novak. This ingénue's talents are pressed to the limit as she forges a comeback on her own terms.
Ultimately Princess Turandot is courted by the Prince who speaks his name, it is Love. Novak comes to realize she has been courted her whole life by her own Prince of Peace.
It garnered several prestigious awards including UCLA'S TOP TEN, Toronto's GOOD-TO-GO Award, CALIFORNIA FILM AWARD and more.
Click on the image to see a teaser.
A "looker" cufflinks her charms to a racketeer, but when he is gunned down, she drags a beautician to the mountains where they escape an infatuated detective and two dogged wise guys who want them both dead.
SYNOPSIS:
The award winning script, BLONDE INSTINCT, launches with axes swinging in the opening scene from the opera, TURANDOT. Out struts Maiden Novak, 30, who attempts to disguise her insecurities behind audacious platinum hair and an aloof attitude. In this Off-Off Broadway theatre Novak is one-upped by the show’s Drag Queen as the cabaret is revealed to be anything BUT the NY Met. After the underwhelming show, Novak exits the theatre only to be confronted by a Punk who snatches her handbag. Never to let a Prada go, she fights back but a revolver steps in to save her. Police Detective Boschkee, an Opera aficionado, is an original gumshoe down to an authentic 1940's fedora.
Novak races home to her Penthouse where as a "kept" woman she enjoys the finer accoutrements. Peretz, a forty-year-old mobster with more bravado than hair, distrusts his luscious mistress and uses belittlement to control her. At dinner with Peretz's goons, Novak meets Tina, a beautician, who is convinced everything can be solved with pink lip gloss and extensions. While the girls are in the ladies' lounge, gunshots ring out. A mob hit and all are dead. Novak takes the lead and pulls Tina out the back door. They soon learn the reality of their situation. They need to get out of town and disappear if they want to stay alive.
Detective Boschkee and his partner, Harbach, a spontaneous, no bull, female detective, investigate the crime scene. Boschkee sniffs out a glove and becomes obsessed with finding its owner. Harbach is obsessed with Boschkee. They find a "scent" to follow. The Hitmen, Nielson and Jojo, out living a little too large, are scolded by their boss. They broke an unwritten rule, they left witnesses. Nielson isn't anyone's patsy; he will find the femme fatales and turn them into fatalities.
Scrambling to get out of town, Novak and Tina head west and learn the Feds have put a reward on their heads. Their limited cash final runs out in a small mountain town. This escape to stay alive has left them in the wilderness where they must ditch wealth, pretense and luscious platinum hairdos to stay out of the cross hairs. Befriended by the local hippie, Rockey, the girls settle into the community. He sees through their charade and helps remake their lives; get jobs, change their looks and hide in plain sight.
Evocative of any faith journey into the wilderness, the girls must literally purge their former lives or they will be hunted down like dogs and killed. Fresh out of options they allow this remote environment to metaphorically supply all their needs. Naturally effervescent springs, caves with obscured treasures, waterfalls with rugged, rocky, overhangs, and gardens of the gods offer unmistakable pointers. The mysticism of the landscape offers a depth of spiritual growth for both girls.
A local artist falls hard for Novak, but men have been the source of most of her troubles so she steers clear. Undeterred by her rebuffs, Michael becomes part of the escape plan. Novak is in survival mode making her as cold and calculating as the ice princess, Turandot, from the opening scene. This sophisticated operatic tale of the Persian Ice Princess courted by suitors who later are beheaded weaves in and out of the search for the girls. Offering a parallel story line, Boschkee is obsessed with finding his own Ice Princess in Novak.
As both the Detectives and the Hitmen close in, one last character is introduced. The terrain. With all it's rugged appeal, the topography thrusts an unrelenting harsh reality into the chase. Whitewater rapids, abandoned mineshafts, forsaken ghost towns, the hunter and hunted alike must fight or use them as assets. This landscape uncreated but duly complicated by man brings Novak to her knees. Her coping mechanism, a cold ice heart is forced to melt.
Novak begins to uses her wit and long neglected innate skills to escape their dilemma. Moxie she held as a child before the world got a hold of her. She must also perform in the acting role of a lifetime. Novak's life depends on her ability to be convincing as anyone but Novak. This ingénue's talents are pressed to the limit as she forges a comeback on her own terms.
Ultimately Princess Turandot is courted by the Prince who speaks his name, it is Love. Novak comes to realize she has been courted her whole life by her own Prince of Peace.
