Data vs Date

In development. 

This is what movie producers say when they do coffee with other film types.  They might buy my book Sweetness and turn it into a movie starring me of course or ask someone with little clothes on, but has a million views a day to headline the project.

We saw a great potential for a movie the other day.  We are staring at a traffic light counting seconds for it to turn green for pedestrians, but the eye was caught by something more captivating than the city’s robots, as they say down south in Africa.

Boy and girl are at a coffee shop.  Boy is making love to his phone.  Girl touches her hair as they do in the movies.  Boy continues to scroll down the phone.  Girls moves her chair closer to boy.  Boy frowns and moves his chair away.  Girls smiles, thinking it’s because boy wants to make room for her.  Girl puts her arm around boy’s shoulders.

Traffic light opens.  These Canadian avenues are massive and by the time we cross over, boy and girl have stood up and are walking away.  Girl puts her arm around his waist.  He marches forward.

The script I’m working on will explore the injustice of the situation.  Boy has a right to be online, on his phone, he has loaded with data to access it anytime anywhere.  Girl has a right to be noticed by her date, especially because she went to the hairdresser to hide the grey hair and fixed her face.

Two rights are involved here: data or date?

Based on a true story.  That is how I will entice producers like Nate Moore (Black Panther) about the project.  I kid you not.

By:  Nonqaba waka Msimang.