Film idea pitch

We were asked to come up with a film pitch, so here is mine.

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• The story is about a woman in her mid-twenties who is very wealthy.

• Instead of spending money and sitting around all day, she works in a charity shop from 9-5 and attends fund raisers and does all the charity fun-runs. Basically, she is a wonderful person who helps people because she wants to. She enjoys having money, but wants to feel normal, so she gets the tube to work every day.

• She gets the tube at the same time every morning and every evening. This is observed by her train driver.

• He is a disturbed man in his 40s with an unhappy wife and an illegitimate 8 year old son who the man ignores. The train driver watches the woman every day, and paints a picture of what he imagines her life to be like. He becomes so intrigued that he puts cameras in the carriage that she always gets into, and puts a microphone by the seat she always sits in. He finds out everything about her life through listening to her phone calls, seeing her talk to people, and looking through the cameras at her diary to see where she'll be.

• He stalks her, finds out where she lives, and steals small, personal things from her, such as underwear, one sock, or a mascara. His favourite item is one stud earring.

• One day he sees her get on the train with a man, who she kisses as she gets off the train. This makes the train driver go mad with jealousy (because in his fantasy, he and the woman are together), and he decides to fulfil her wish of being normal.

• Murderers go after "normal" people.

• He waits until a day when she is alone in her carriage. At the next station, he tells everyone to get off the train, but doesn't open the doors to her carriage. He takes her to the end of the line, where he ties her to the train track. He attaches a note to her body - "bad things happen to good people, so why be good?" He leaves, and when the next train comes into that station, she is crushed.

• You then see him get back into his driving pod and put the single stud earring on his dashboard. The camera pans to show rows and rows of other single stud earrings sticking out of sponges. Each one is different, and symbolises a woman he has stalked and killed.

• The next day the train driver notices another nice woman and his obsession continues.......

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Thought of this while waiting for the tube...