The Civil War - Illinois Style

I just spent the last 8 months painfully writing a Civil War movie script. So Far there have been no buyers. And all who have looked at it have returned it to me, although Dreamworks did keep thier copy. So wish me Luck.

the name of my script is "Ashes of Illinois"

the story was easy to write, and I dont mind sharing the plot with you.

It's about a guy named Dave who is a petty thief and heavy pot smoker who lives on the streets of old Chicago. He joins the army as a way to hide from the law and get away from Chicago. While in the army, he sees several battles that cause him to break down mentally. Suffering from shell shock, He deserts the army and flees to go live in the flat lands (farming area)of south west Illinois(near the mississippi river). After living alone for many months in a small house, he keeps remembering the battles and begins to loose his mind. Following a series a voilent nightmares about the war,and he re-sights an old bible verse that says that it is better to cut off your right hand than to sin with it, and since he used his right hand to pull the trigger and killed people. He goes crazy and chops off his right hand and throws it into the mississippii river(remember the war has made him crazy. - somehow he convinced himself that cutting off his hand would make the memories and dreams stop. - But it doesn't. (((I wrote some great scenes than depict him going crazy, where he starts shaking all over, breaking out in cold sweats and then shuts himself up in his bedroom closet and talking to himself in different voices, and one of the voices is suppossed to be God)))And then he starts blaming God for everything, and then he plans to get his revenge on God. It ends on a sunday morning with him shooting up a bunch of opium and riding to a nearby town, entering a church on sunday morning and he open fires into the crowd of people attending worship service. And someone shoots him.


This should be an oscar movie.... I'll keep you posted