I've had this idea since October at the earliest, and TOY has given me the inspiration to develop and go forward with this idea. My only problem with the concept so far, is I wish to tell the story in a present tense format, but I think I have a good work-around.

The idea: Gavin Garrs (the surname might change) is a flesh colored minifigure, who lives in a segregated society dominated by yellow minifigures. He lives in a neighborhood called "Beacon Park", so named for the railroad yard 1/2 km from his house. This segregation is shown during the very first scene, when four yellow bullies on bicycles throw a lump of coal through his window. He has a yellow girlfriend named Lisa Lionel, a fact that the parents of neither family are pleased about, but Gavin and Lisa fit together like two puzzle pieces, and they know it.
Gavin is an avid alto sax player, and one night, while out at a night club with Lisa, the band leader challenges him (indirectly) to come up on stage and play. He performs Bob Crosby's rendition of "Tiger Rag" so well, that the entire audience of yellows, blacks, and fleshies is in applause, and Lisa runs on stage for a final touch to the night.
However, not everyone is happy with this inter-racial relationship, and on their way out the stage door into the side alley, three audience members grab hold of Lisa. Gavin tries to defend her, but it's 3 to 1, and he quickly gets backed into the corner. Moments from having his face smashed in, a loud bang is heard, and the leader of the three falls forward, revealing Lisa with a gun in her hand. She threatens to kill the other two goons if they take one more move towards Gavin, but they wisely run away. Gavin is astonished at what he's just witnessed Lisa do, but Lisa is more concerned in Gavin's well being.
Gavin takes Lisa home, and they agree to meet each other at the Carlisle RailRoad Depot (a play on the PRR) first thing in the morning, to head to another part of the country. They both leave notes for their parents, explaining why they're leaving, and where they're going. When Lisa goes to the bathroom at the depot, Gavin almost gets himself into a fight with the yellow passengers when he accidentally drops his hat on a yellow man's lap. The fight is broken up when the black stationmaster fires a blank from his shotgun, and tells the yellows to bug off. Once on the train, the conductor leads Lisa and Gavin to separate seats. Gavin asks to be seated next to Lisa, and the conductor initially declines because he "doesn't want another murder on his watch." But when Gavin tells the conductor that Lisa is his fianceé, the conductor allows it.
Once at their destination city (yet to be determined, but it won't be Carlisle), Gavin and Lisa step off the train car, and Gavin proposes to Lisa on the spot with "the bullet shell that she saved him with." Relieved the he finally asked, the film finishes with a sepia tone photograph of the two embracing each other, included in a letter to their parents.

The film takes place in a steampunk world, with mixtures of 30's, 40's, and 50's music, lifestyle, and technology, although there might be a few references to modern day things, such as say: PBS. While the film is not set in any particular place, it is based on what the U.S. was like from the Great Depression, to the Great Economic Revival of the 1950's as I call it.

Last edited by mcoov (January 16, 2011 (12:32am))