TOTAL REWRITE

Well... sort of.
I made a finished draft of the Worry Dolls short and I sent it to friends and family. The reviews were mixed, and I'm not surprised at all. In fact, I really didn't like it, and was hoping that either

a.) Everyone would love it.

b.) Someone would tell me exactly how to fix it to make it perfect.

I just had to break down the script to exactly what I wanted. There was so much I wanted to express...

1.) A mixture of a beautiful, bizarre world that was childlike that is clashing with the dull, boring world.

2.) The worry dolls to be in Will's life until a point, and then Will had to grow.

3.) The sense that Will's job was torture from the boredom.

4.) Someone from Will's job is horrific to him. Trying to put him in his place and bringing him down into the real world.

5.) A happy outcome where Will loses the Worry Dolls, but gains a girl who is like minded.

To include this and more, would be so hard to fit into a ten minute film. Even as I was writing the feature, I thought it was long winded in the way it was presented.
So I stuck to the Amelie narrative of jumping from facts, the the character's interests, to surrealism and try to connect it all. A lot of time got chopped to changing the narrative to Will presenting all the information. I cut the dating show scene, it's good but for another movie. And so it is only Will presenting the narration, which works great as he's more irreverent and more outgoing in this version then his down-trodden, Eyore, version.

Phew....