Roger
Sallis and Jason Pierce are fresh out of high school, and want to become
filmmakers. They move to Los Angeles and get jobs working on a film set to gain
experience. Roger is big and dumb. They both like movies that they think are
really deep. They both like to wear skinny jeans, thick-rimmed glasses, and
flannel shirts. They want to try and work on their own independent films in
their spare time; while also trying to change the ones they work on
professionally for what they think is better.
Roger
and Jason are new on a set, after being fired from their old one, because Roger
tried to add a big speech at the end of the movie. They meet the crew and get
to work.
They
get home to their tiny apartment and publish their newest movie online. They
gain no popularity. They talk about the day when they get their big break
online, and they can quit their jobs and work on their movies full time for a
living. And Roger will buy a hare. Not a rabbit, a hare.
They
get back to work the next day. They’re still a little bummed out by the turnout
of their movie. They go on about how nobody appreciates ‘real’ movies anymore. They get home and watch a movie that nobody’s
heard of before, have a conversation about ‘real’ movies.
Problems
begin to arise on the set they’re working at. The female lead is demanding more
cherries and her husband is having conflict with the male lead. They get in a
fight, knock over some expensive equipment. Roger and Jason try to break it up,
but accidently knock over more equipment and end up with black eyes and an even
bigger pile of broken equipment. The director yells at everybody and they all
go home early.
Roger
and Jason fear that they’re going to lose another job. At home, they start
working on making a quick movie over the weekend to try and impress their boss
to get him to keep them around. It’s about a guy’s life, from the point of view
of various insects. They upload it online. It’s watched six times. Three of them were
Roger and Jason.
They
show up to work and try to show the director their movie. He’s too busy to
watch it. They get really pushy. He yells at them. Later on his break they
surprise him and try to make him watch it. He hates it. He says it’s stupid, that
there’s no point in doing the insect thing, and that he wants them gone by the
end of the week. They scream and roll around and Roger poops himself a little
bit. Jason waits in line for a new phone and gets mugged. He yells at his
muggers about how he doesn’t care about anything. They take his skinny jeans.
He sits and thinks for a while, and decides that there’s no way this could be
his fault, that it must be Roger’s fault again. He goes back to the set and
puts on a pair of hot pants he stole from the costume rack.
He
shows up in front of the director in the middle of the scene. He tells the
director that Roger alienated the male lead and the female lead’s wife, causing
the fight, and that he knocked over the film equipment and dragged Jason into
the fight. The director has no time to
evaluate the statement and tells Jason to go fire Roger for him.
Jason
somehow thinks this means he gets to keep his job. He makes up some nonsense
about how Roger made a movie about punching babies, and rallies some of the
film crew to find Roger. They walk around trying to find him and get
mugged. The muggers take everybody’s
skinny jeans and Jason’s hot pants. They
tail the muggers and find out that they’re baristas who work at Starbucks.
They’ve been mugging people for their skinny jeans. And they find Roger sitting
in the corner, drinking some coffee. He’s at a chain coffee place. He’s a
traitor. The pantsless film crew and
Jason drag Roger into an alley and beat him mercilessly for two hours. He gets
a few minor scrapes and bruises. Jason cries and tells Roger that he’s sorry
but he’s fired. The film crew and Jason go lose a slam poetry battle against
the baristas.
Meanwhile,
Roger gets depressed and tries to make an angsty dogma in an abandoned nursery
home with some girl. She’s naked and steps on some broken glass. She gets
roger’s HIV from the glass. It turns out he stepped on it too earlier, and he’s
HIV positive. Roger Sallis is HIV
positive. He becomes a depressed mess and accidently kills a prostitute. He
moans and cries and walks around and gets mugged for his skinny jeans while
he’s waiting in line for a tablet.
Roger
and Jason don’t find each other again for a while. One day Jason is walking
through a mall, and he spots Roger working in a store. He’s not wearing skinny
jeans, he’s not wearing thick-rimmed glasses, and he’s not even wearing a
flannel. Jason talks to Roger. Roger listens to music people have heard of.
Jason screams “MY BEST FRIEND IS DEAD!” He runs out crying.
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