Script File

Everybody Goes A Little Bit Crazy Sometimes

A wealthy widow meets a mysterious drunk while visiting her deceased husband and gets quite a lecture on the insanity of love.

  • Arlin Godwin
    Writer
  • Project Type:
    Short Script
  • Number of Pages:
    13
  • Country of Origin:
    United States
  • Language:
    English
  • First-time Screenwriter:
    No
  • Student Project:
    No
  • Digital Cinema Package:
    Unavailable
Writer Biography - Arlin Godwin

Arlin Godwin works in broadcast television in Washington, DC. In his free time he writes and records a lot of music and from time to time makes films.

To his great surprise, in 2011 his short film THE MAN IN 813 won Best Local Film at the DC Shorts International Film Festival. A few months later he completed his second film GO WITH THE FLOW.

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Writer Statement

Recently, I had been shooting on a new short film and then was interrupted by Covid-19. So, I decided to do something solitary and nothing is more wonderfully solitary than writing.

I had hammered out a very rough version of this short script last summer and wondered if it might be just the thing to work on until the world gets back to some kind of normal. I found the file, opened it up, re-read it and thought "yes, this will be a lot of fun!"

I immediately knew it would be heavily dialog-driven rather than like what I had been working on which was a film with almost no dialog. So this was a big switch but one I really enjoyed.

And so, I created Linda Buckner and Roy Arbogast, two eccentric characters very different from one another and I made the story deal with things an audience might have opinions about. In fact, the conversation in this script could get me in trouble with a certain segment of the audience. But that's okay. Reality is messy.

This little story (scene really) is about a woman who waited a long time for a very bad guy to get out of prison for doing something really awful to her--and how she couldn't wait to marry him anyway. I thought that was an amazing thing. And a great idea for a script. And a movie.

So, I tried to come up with a somewhat more extreme example of what we humans will do for love. Or at least one human--Linda Buckner. I wanted to explore how far she (and we) will go. What rules and expectations are we more than willing to toss aside in order to be with our beloved--no matter who disagrees with us or how repugnant the object of our affection happens to be.