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Ben Wallace - Master Blocker the movie

Ok, I’ve after reading this article” about Ben Wallace I’m convinced I was born to do the Ben Wallace Movie. The article is about the seven moments that shaped Ben Wallace’s career. However, as in negro diver, we all know movies have to be more dramatic than real life. Here I’ll make a translation from the article to my movie:

When we begin this story, Ben Wallace is just a teenager. A poor kid from a huge family, he has saved the money he has earned from picking pecans and cutting hair in his small town of White Hall, Ala., and he has paid to attend a basketball camp hosted by Charles Oakley of the New York Knicks. There are lots of kids — rambunctious, big-dreaming kids — and they’re making noise and their attention span is short. And Oakley, who is trying to address them, is exasperated.

Ok, here we will replace Oakley for Russell, an old school blocker. And Wallace won’t be picking pecans and cutting hair, he’ll be an oil driller, just like those tough guys in Armageddon, but he’ll be the same caliber at the age of 13.

Finally he bellows, “OK, if y’all think you know it all, who’s gonna step up and play me one-on-one?” Wallace, who was quiet the whole time, looks around. And then someone points at him and yells, “He’ll play you!”

When the other kid says “he’ll play you!” Wallace will grab his neck and breaks it single handed. Russell will gulp and piss his pants, but he has to mantain face in front of the kids, so he plays Wallace.

He takes the ball and starts in on Oakley, at the time one of the toughest and nastiest players in the NBA. And Ben bloodies his lip. And Oakley bloodies Ben’s lip, too. They pound on each other. And when it is over, the two bleeding players exchange glances and Oakley says, “Now, if you play like that all the time, maybe you’ll have a chance.” And he gives him his phone number.

This is so lame. I’ll have to rewrite all this: Wallace grabs the ball and tells Russell “You’re gonna die mutherfucker” and Russell turn his back on Wallace as he tries to run, but wallace, in slo-mo does a stunt dunk just as in NBA Ballers, and as he is stepping on his head, bullet time arrives! The camera swivels around the scene just about Wallace is about to dunk. Bullet time expires and Wallace blocks his own dunk. How cool is that?

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Posted by Mark at October 15, 2004 06:27 AM