Thursday, February 1, 2007

Wall Street 2: Pleasant Valley Apple Orchard

Backdrop:
Michael Douglas has retired from Mergers and Aquisitions and moved out to New Jersey where he now runs a small apple picking farm and rents a spare bedroom to Wilfred Brimley who helps him around the orchard. Meanwhile 20 years after Charlie Sheens fathers death and his virtual disapearance from Wall Street, he realizes that the only thing that truly matters is money. He makes a big comeback starts his own firm and now wants to recruit Michael Douglas to be his partner.

Scene 1: Charlie Sheen's limo pulls into Michael Douglas's unpaved driveway where customers are walking away with buckets of apples. Charlie Sheen gets out of the back, and peals off his sunglasses to reveal a bewildered look.

CS: Well I see it but I don't believe it
MD: that will be 6.50 please. out of seven, and 2 shiny Washington's are your change.
Customer: Thank you
MD: No thank you...Come again....and Don't forget pumpkin season's right around the corner.
CS: I see you haven't lost your entreprenaurial spirit. This is quite an operation you've got going.
MD: I like to think so. Did you come here to buy apples or to bust my balls.
CS: Neither. I've got a firm. We're the biggest up and comer since JP Morgan.
MD: So I hear.
CS: We've been on the S&P for only 3 quarters now and we're showing tremendous gains. 9 figure profits, we're the biggest movers and shakers on the street.
MD: Well congratulations pal, now if you'll excuse me I have an orchard to run.
CS: I want to make you a partner.
MD: Not interested.
CS: Look this thing is about to skyrocket, and with you as my partner theres no limit to what we can do.
MD: Not interested.
CS: What happened to you. You used to be a killer.
MD. I found the secret to a better life.
CS: Oh Yeah...What's that?
MD: You want money to grow on trees? Start an apple picking business.

LATER SCENE: Charlie Sheen's persistence has landed him a meeting with Michael Douglas under the terms that the meeting occur while fly fishing at Dawn on Michael's farm.The scene begins with Charlies driver again opening the door to his Limo, Charlie walks over to Michael who is putting the finishing touches on a tire swing he has just installed.

MD: The secret to a good tire swing is, it's all in the knots.A good timber hitch at the top and you run it down into a running bowline. Sturdy knots...sturdy swing.
CS: That's great but I didn't wake up at 4:30 to talk about tireswings, so can we get down to business.
MD: C'mon

Michael leads him down a path to his pond.Charlie carrying his state of the art fishing rod.

CS: I'm prepared to up the anty. I'll give you 1/4 a million in stock per quarter for your first 2 years plus my previous offer of making you partner.
MD: Take your shoes off
CS: I'll even throw in a company penthouse on 5th Avenue.
MD: Look if you want to ruin a perfectly good Armanie suit be my guest pal, but personally, I would roll up those pant legs and get in the water while the kiver are bitin'

Charlie takes off his shoes and socks, rolls up his pantlegs.

CS: Where's your tackle box
MD: I don't have one
CS: Well what do you use for bait
MD: WORMS!!

Charlie puts a worm on his Rod and joins Michael in the water. Michael is using a branch with fishing wire and a worm on a hook which dangles just feet in front of him. Charlie casts his line a good 20 yards into the pond.

CS: Can I ask you something?
MD: Fire away, Buddy.
CS: You're a multi billionare. What the hell are you fishing with a worm on a stick for
MD: If it was good enough for Tom Sawyer, then it's good enough for me.
CS: How do you catch anything with the line just dangling a foot in front of you?
MD: The same way I made money. I let it come to me.
CS: Well how many fish have you caught using that thing?
MD: none
CS: None?!?!
MD: That's right, None.
CS: Well What The Hell Are We Doing Out Here??!
MD: GOD DAMNIT!! YOU JUST SCARED ALL THE FISH AWAY!!!

Camera pans back to show Charlie still in the water with the legs of his Armanie suit rolled up as he watches Michael Douglas storm out of the shallow water he was wading in, carrying his stick.

LATER SCENE:Charlie,Michael, and Wilfred Brimley are sitting around a small campfire on the farm sharing a jug of Carlo Rossi wine.

WB: Did I tell you 'bout that feller that's working at the hardware store. I tell ya'..ha...the goddamn sissy didn't just have hair down to his shoulders, but don't you that son of a bitch had an earring. Somebody oughta give that boy a good ass woopin' I tell ya, and I think I just might be the man for the job.
CS: You and me will make a hell of a team we can have it all. The whole world in our hands
MD: Problem is, I've been there and back. You get the whole world in your hands, but then what? what do you with it? What do you want with it?
WB: I'll pull that earring right out his goddamn ear. I used to kill punks like him 2 ata time back in Korea.
CS: Don't you miss the action? The thrill of the hunt? You were the best.
MD: Ha!
CS: I mean it man the best that wall street ever had. It took more guts to walk into your office the first time I met you than to deliver my fathers eulogy.
MD: Yeah well I'm sorry to hear that
CS: Can't you just see it. There's only so much action in the world, and you gotta grab it while you can. I mean what are you doing out here in the middle of nowhere selling apples to hicks. Youre a Killer Man and you gotta get back in the game. The street needs you...I NEED YOU.
WB: (Fart)