Sold On Love

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by Jerry Patterson

"A budding screenwriter and a backwoods babe tangle amid Tinseltown intrigues as their real-life romance parallels his ’Arabian Nights’-like fantasy."
“Sold on Love” is two stories in one, both hilarious but with different perspectives and tones. The script is peppered with short, fantasy-like scenes in the mind of Tim, an action screenwriter who dreams of writing a romantic comedy and participates in a charity auction date in the hope that it will provide material. His story is about an Arab prince who buys a slave girl with a passion for monogamy as an addition to his harem. It is a parody of events in the primary story and features the same actors in different roles. Although set in the Middle Ages, the dialogue, attitudes, and even some artifacts, are strictly 21st Century LA. The script thus provides a male perspective, in addition to the traditional “chick flick” point of view. It aims for a PG-13 rating.

ABOUT THE AUTHORJerry Patterson, a part-time teacher, is one of the site’s least prolific authors. He has worked on only four scripts, including one he co-authored, but is also a widely published nonfiction writer.

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# RE: Sold On Love — clm0424 2011-03-03 21:46

I loved the story, they detail in the characters, and the realism, is astounding. The Cinderella story just got better.

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# RE: Sold On Love — unsoldscripts 2011-03-27 13:38

Dear Clm0424. In a comment on "Alien to Love," another script by the same author, you panned another reader's idea of eliminating action scenes to reduce production costs. The author wants feedback from you and other readers on a potentially more feasible cost-cutting approach to this story. Since the internal story about Arab prince is a parody anyway, do you feel it would be most effective if filmed in a real palace or in the California desert with cheese props?

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# RE: Sold On Love — Ann,Niagara Falls 2011-04-09 12:07

"Sold on Love" is a fun comedy that proves that good guys (and girls)DO finish first. One of the characters, "Jan," reminds me of many of my friends at the all-girls Catholic high school I attended. She may be the "girl next door" and a little clueless about men in the beginning, but her moral compass is a wonderful contrast to the Hollywood "girls gone wild" in the script. Happily, she doesn't need to be a "tart" to earn the love of "Tim," the story's likeable hero. In a day and age when one night stands are commonplace in television and film scripts, this movie will please guys with its comical harem vignettes and girls with its stand on real and lasting love. It's not a chick flkick -- both guys and gals will get a kick out of it.

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# RE: Sold On Love — Superior, Wisc. gal 2011-06-04 09:17

I'll vote for the palace over cheesy props, but either way the decision should be based on what works best rather than relative costs.

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