WINE NOT TASTED
Movie Plot Draft # 1
After
a turbulent start in life Julien Lang has settled into a respectable career as
a wine connoisseur and sommelier at fashionable restaurants. He currently holds
that position at Le Poison in the nation’s capital.
Among
Julien’s classmates in a Western high school was a fellow by the name of
Stephen Spelberg who would decades later become a famous movie producer. Their
paths would eventually cross again.
Julien
grew up during the Vietnam War, becoming a hippie, drug abuser, war protester
and repeat draft dodger. The latter “offense” lead to a mousy FBI agent showing
up at Julien’s door offering a resolution and being told to “fuck
off.” Julien gets a lawyer, gets arrested, finger-printed, mug-shot taken and
sent on his way. He then gets a girl pregnant, gets married, has a daughter,
and receives a second draft greeting. From this second brush with the
establishment he is sentenced to two years alternative duty as a hospital
janitor, thus avoiding a jail term.
His
first marriage ends in divorce as does the second one not much later. His third and current marriage will much later
be dramatically disrupted. In the meantime he apprentices as a wine steward and
eventually ends up being a wine consultant for a liquor business in Wyoming.
Little did he know what that innocuous job would portend?
One
of the wine customers seeking Julien’s advice was a Wyoming politician, Dick
Heney. The two got into an escalating argument over the Vietnam War and the
draft—Heney brags about having gotten five draft deferments to avoid serving in
it. Incensed, Julien splashes Heney in the face with a glass of wine. Furious,
Heney gets Julien fired.
Life
goes on for the two antagonists. Heney becomes Vice President of the US and is
leading the plot to invade a coveted country. Lang, meanwhile, lands a plum job
as the chief wine steward at the plush Le Poison restaurant in Washingon, D.C.,
but his marriage is fraying and he is seeing a psychiatrist for increasingly
distressed memories and thoughts about America’s war mongers, military bases
covering the globe, and bombs falling on foreign lands.
Years
later, Heney, now out of office, dines with friends at Le Poison. Lang shows them a recommended bottle of wine
and then suddenly smashes Heney’s head with it. Heney survives without any complications. Lang is taken
away. He becomes an instant cult figure and his trial is swamped by
sympathizers. His imprisonment provokes antiwar protests in every major city.
He is visited by Spelberg who says
he is making a movie about the two antagonists tentatively titled Wine Not Tasted.
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