(Also for Three-Word Wednesday and ABC Wednesday: "I" is for "Ike")
Here’s this week’s Berownial quiz question.
I wrote the following
little scenelet, basing it - loosely - on a very popular motion picture. Your
assignment, should you choose to accept it, is: name the movie.
“Morning!
You’re the crop duster?”
“Right.
The agency sent me. My name is Ike
Barnes and I’m from Muleshoe, Texas; I’ve been spraying since I was 19. Out there on the runway is my plane, an Air
Tractor 802A. I usually spray corn,
cotton, pumpkins and potatoes.”
“Great.
That would make quite a lunch.
Except maybe for the cotton.”
“You say you got work for me?”
“Right.
We need a very experienced crop duster for a special assignment. We’ll pay double what you usually get for a
job. You’ll do what you always do in
your work and we’ll be shooting film of you.”
“I’ll be in the movies?”
“That’s right, and with a famous director.”
“Man, I’m getting excited.”
“We’re going to have a guy standing alone
on a road out in a vast wilderness; no one else is around. Your job will be to fly at him, very careful and low, low
as you can get, and the preservation instinct will cause him to drop down flat on
the ground so you can’t hit him.”
“Wait a minute. That sounds dangerous.”
“For him, not for you. He’ll be an actor so we can easily get
another one if we need to.”
“This is sure a strange kind of crop
dusting.”
“The guy will than run into a corn field
where he can hide in the corn stalks.
You then swoop back and this time spray some pesticide on him.”
“What!?
That’s it, I quit! I could use
the money, but I don’t want to wind up in jail!”
“It won’t be real pesticide, Ike. It’ll
be fake. In fact, it’ll be water.”
“Oh.”
“And that’s all there is to it. We’ll probably shoot the scene a couple of
times to be sure there are no mistakes. Then it will be hugs all around and you can
pick up your check and get back to your pumpkins and potatoes.”
(Also submitted to Sunday Scribblings)
