4 Dollars a Gallon!
Have you seen how much gas is lately?
When I see gas prices this high it makes me think of George Lucas‘es film American Graffiti and how high fuel coast would totally change the dating landscape for the American teenager. That got me thinking about how great of a film American Graffiti is and then it made me think of what would a modern day American Graffiti be like and that is how I got this great idea for a short film. Now with the coast of gas being what it is, the logical assumption is that gas is only going to get higher in the next couple of years, which makes the distance a person is willing to travel to date another person will get much, much shorter. Back in 2004 when gas was hovering just a little over $2 dollars a gallon, it was completely reasonable to live in LA and date someone who lived in Long Beach. Now with the price of gas so high it becomes a much bigger deal, a date will now cost $40 bucks just to get down to Long Beach and then you have to add dinner, a movie, and once you add the trip back home after the date to the cost of the date your looking at $150 to $200 dollars a date. I really think there is a funny short in all this, and it might be a clever and quirky way to address the political and social events happening at this moment in time.
I don’t have all the details on the short film just yet nor do I know who could afford to shoot a short with prices of gas being so high.
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