Brainstorm: 21
Thursday, 25 June 2015
By. Chaitanya Kaligotla (CK) and Halim Madi
“Maia, the EVIL A.I. Diet Coach.”
— Write a script for a movie about an *evil* A.I. diet coach!
The day is coming when an artificial intelligence will take over the coaching industry. Better be ready! :-)
Today’s brainstorm is a scenario for a movie! We’re going to be amateur screenwriters, writing scripts for one or more scenes of dialogue between Maia, the A.I., and her human counterpart (master? slave?), Elisabeth. Maia’s goal is to make Elisabeth lose weight.
Here’s an example, to kick things off:
[SCENE 1 — RISE AND SHINE]
> Birds chirping… calm and peaceful morning setting
Maia: “Good morning Elisabeth! Time to wake up!”
Elisabeth: “Snooze”
Maia: (turns a bit evil and angry) “I’m not an alarm Elisabeth, you can tap your phone for that… now get your a** out of the bed and start burning some calories!”
[SCENE 2 — THE FRIDGE]
> Elisabeth over-ate last night (Friday night, you know).
> Elisabeth tries to open the fridge. But the fridge which is a bluetooth connected fridge, of course, won’t open…
Elisabeth: (frustrated, helpless whine) “Maia!!!! Let me open the fridge! I’m hungry!”
Maia: “No. You ate too much. Treadmill first.”
[SCENE 3 — TREADMILL]
Cuts abruptly to treadmill… Music at full blast…
Elisabeth: (panting and out of breath, clearly exhausted, gasping for air)
Maia: (increasing speed of the treadmill, yelling profanity at Elisabeth like a coxswain)
You call that running?! You fat slob!
Elisabeth: SHUT UP MAIA! (But the taunt works… she runs faster)
O.K., ready? Your turn!
Write up a scene, any scene.
Be as creative with it as you like.

