"Life Extension" -
Characters
César - 25 year old man
Nuria - obsessive ex-lover
Sophia -
Ideas
use the movie's "disjointed scenes" model more. With him waking to a wildly different situation each time.
Twist
option 1 - the Brunette was actually his real life wife... and the Blonde was actually a sexy but insane girl who stalked and became obsessed with him, luring him into an affair, killing his wife when he wouldn't leave her, and then killing them both in a suicidal car accident.
option 2 - LE stabilizes the troubles in his dream, and offers him a chance to join his wife's dream, since she is also at LE. He agrees. 'open you eyes', and he gets sight of his blonde wife, Sophia, greeting him into the world. She's already 'made a few alterations' to make herself sexy, and asks if he likes them. Then they have passionate sex. She asks where he would like to go in the world, and produces an amazing dream of a tropical locale. He exists with her for a few days in paradise. Then LE checks on them, makes sure the dream is stable for both of them. They couldn't be happier.
However, as soon as LE leaves, his wife starts acting weird, and asking weird questions about Nuria. "Does he ever think about her. Does he ever miss the sex? They had crazy sex didn't they?" He turns to object, only to find the woman has turned into Nuria. "Honey, we did it. We fooled them. Now we get to be together forever."
"What? Nuria? How did you get here?" He calls out to the LE staff, "Eileen? Are you there?"
"This is my dream at Life Extension. Imagine my surprise, when they told me none of this was real, my husband and I were in a fatal car accident, and that he was here, and ready to join me. I couldn't have planned it better. Now we get to spend all of our days together, and I can be anything you want me to be. " (she knows he wants to be controlled, dominated, so she makes herself a powerful amazon)
option 3 - LE stabilizes his dream, and asks if he wants to allow his wife into his dream. He agrees, and they are reunited. She eggs him on, encouraging him to enjoy his dream and remake her. He makes her tall, busty, and gorgeous. She teases him aggressively... making him wonder what's come over his wife, not that he minds. Then she starts to jump him, giving him oral, and in seconds, he can tell it's Nuria and she doesn't deny it. He tries to stop her, but she knows just how to push his buttons sexually. She reminds him this is a dream and coxes him to go further, and almost against his will, she grows into a 7'5" tall amazon. She's as shocked as she is excited, and uses her stature to dominate him exactly how she knows he will like.
Concept
Man wakes up to a female voice 'Open your Eyes'. He finds himself in a 'weird dream', with a familiar sexy brunette. He has a flashback of his blonde partner, and concludes the sexy brunette is not his wife. The dream starts to trap him.
A member of LifeExtension staff explains he's actually 'died' and is in suspended animation. The reality he's experiencing is his own dream.
After being made aware of his situation, he returns to his home to find the sexy brunette, who is aware the blond woman. He tries to let himself settle into his dream life, with the brunette becoming more and more sexually aggressive as she becomes more like his sexual ideal.
He still has flashes of memory of the blonde woman, and of the brunette. One of the flashes shows that he had actually slept with both of them, and the blonde woman knew about it. He gets sad. When he talks to his dream-wife about it, she becomes combative, relating how unhappy he was with his wife. This sets off a trigger of memories of him fighting with the brunette, and the blonde consoling him, trying to lure him away from her. He gets overwhelmed, and yells 'enough'. Everything goes black.
He wakes to a female voice, "open your eyes'. When he does, it's morning. He's in bed, waking up. The blonde woman is next to him in bed. He's relieved. He apologizes about the brunette, she shushes him. He doesn't need to worry about that now. They are together. She cuddles up to him, and he finds her much more attractive than he remembered. After some kissing and fondling, she talks about her tits being tender, but if he's careful he can play with them, then she presents the tits she had 'enhanced' just for him. She sexes him up, making references to knowing 'exactly how he likes it'.
After sex, she makes him an amazing breakfast, still looking amazing strutting around in a nightgown. He feels and acts like he's finally made it to his 'dream life'. He hugs her, and asks her what she wants to do, they can do anything, go anywhere. As they eat, they brainstorm amazing getaways, she hugs and kisses him. She asks when they should go. He says 'right now', lets go pack. She's a little surprised, being whisked into the bedroom to change and pack a suitcase, but she likes it. They get ready for their trip.
They put their little bags into the sports car, he kisses her across the seat, then as soon as he's ready to back out, he sees the brunette woman standing defiantly behind his car. He's shocked. When he gets out, she starts yelling at him, 'where the hell are you going with that tramp?'
he tries to explain to the brunette that he can't see her anymore. he's staying with the blonde woman now. it's time for her to go. The brunette starts to sob, asking what she did wrong. She tried so hard to be a good partner. He explains that it's not her. He and the blonde are soulmates, he can tell her anything.
the brunette asks what is going on. what she's doing to him. is he on drugs? is she blackmailing him? why is he treating her this way?
The blonde is next to him now, and chimes in, explaining that the brunette can never satisfy the way she can. She knows exactly what he likes. She then proceeds to threaten the brunette, all the while growing bigger. He's shocked watching her grow to just over 6' tall. Then she shoves the brunette, bending the fabric of space itself, and the brunette disappears.
By the time she's walked back to him, their surroundings have distorted and they are fantastically already on their vacation. She apologizes, explaining that she's seen enough of him being tortured by that woman. She tells him not to worry. She is going to give him everything he has ever wanted. She drops to her knees, pulling down his pants, taunting that she knows how much he loves this, putting her mouth on him. A couple minutes later, she stands, teasing that their live is going to be so amazing now. Then she proceeds to grow bigger, to 7', teasing that this is what he wants, isn't it? He wants her to be bigger than him, to dominate him. She grows even bigger, and proceeds to sex him up.
He wakes up to her voice, 'open your eyes'. she's still giant and straddling him. she shoves her massive tits in his face. He realizes she's tied his hands. Then shoves her crotch to his lips, and instructs him to satisfy her. When he's done, she condescendingly calls his performance 'adequate', for now. When she crawls off him, he can see she has the brunette tied and gagged across the room, forced to watch. He's shocked. The blonde tells him she wanted to be sure the brunette knew he was completely hers
The brunette protests, asking 'doesn't he remember?'. She is his wife. The blonde woman is his crazy ex lover, who stalked them both. She even threatened to kill me. (he remembers a flashback).
The blonde is 'bored of listening to this', and declares it is time to end this triangle once and for all. She reaches for a drawer and shockingly comes up with a pistol. The blonde shoots the brunette in the head. He rages in anger, remembering his wife. Remembering having to ID her in the morgue. Realizing that the crazy blonde killed her in real life. Remembering his own suicide. In his rage, the straps on his wrist disappear, and suddenly her gun is in his hand, and he's pointing it at the blonde, threatening her.
The blonde is suddenly the LE employee, talking to him by his surname, and asking him 'if he's okay.' when she sees the body and blood spatter, she becomes concerned, 'what is going on here?'
"EIleen?" he queries her by name, and she nods. "This is completely messed up. You are in the body of my crazy ex-lover, Nuria, who just killed my wife."
"Nuria? Nuria XYZ? She was your crazy ex-lover? The file here says ."
"Holy crap! Nuria really killed my wife? Nooo! Sophia!" He runs to Sophia's body and drops to his hands and knees. "My beloved Sophia, I'm sorry."
"No, Mr XYZ, Nuria didn't kill your wife,
Man finds himself inside an 'idyllic' life, but doesn't know how he got there. He's wealthy, retired, and something is peculiar about his wife (who appears younger, prettier, and more frisky than normal).
Opening - he's touring a lavish home he feels he can't afford, but his agent says it's well within the budget he gave her. his wife is thrilled and wants this house. he checks his bank account to find he's incredibly wealthy ($40M?), and buys the house.
He enjoys it like a dream, until it just doesn't seem right. Mysterious interruptions prevent him from watching or checking the news. He has strange dreams about a loving blonde.
She insists on driving to a dinner party with his 'friends', everyone seems shallow, changing the subject whenever he asks an 'interesting' question.
He confronts his wife, asking how he became wealthy, she feeds him a story which he 'doesn't remember at all', before dismissing the memory loss as 'typical', and encouraging him to enjoy his retirement by traveling, dining, and having her. When he doesn't respond, she parrots a phrase from when they met ('i would do anything to have her. isn't that what you said?') which triggers a memory of him talking with a friend at a party, seeing her, and remembering the whole situation, including looking at his wedding ring, ('if only i wasn't married. i would do everything to have her.) Then the blonde from his dream walks up, and he greets her at his wife.
He realizes the woman he is with is not his wife, and shoves her away, demanding to know what is going on.
She acts even more sexy, encouraging him to relax and let her take care of him.
He turns, grabbing his car keys. He rushes out of the driveway, only making it a few blocks before it realizes the car is on empty. Another block more, and the car runs out of gas. He gets out, banging the car, feeling trapped. He goes to the nearest house, and ringing the doorbell, then banging on the door. Then suddenly, seeming very out of place, a woman in a white lab coat opens the door... he starts to rant about 'needing help, because something is going on', and she greets him by name, tells him to relax, and invites him in.
she sits him down in the living room, and puts a video on the TV, explaining that she'd like him to watch this. The video is about a cryogenics company called 'Life Extension', that offers you the chance to be suspended at death, to be awoken later when medical science can cure what killed you. It explains an unforeseen complication, that the freezing process was damaging peripheral nerves, starting with the spinal column. LE developed a new higher temperature suspension method, keeping the nerves alive and active, and stimulating a dream-state, where the person can live in their dreams, until medical science can repair and awaken them.
He doesn't understand. He tries to get back to what is happening with him. Something is wrong with his wife, who is not his wife. And he can't watch the news, and his friends are not his friends, they are like robots.
The woman addresses him by name and explains that he's not crazy, she knows what is happening to him. She explains how he died (car accident?). He was frozen June 4th 2019, and after class-action lawsuit in 2045, he was found to have significant spinal damage, and was thawed. 'You are not trapped, you are living in dream-state. What is happening to you, the feeling of being trapped, is a rare side effect. Your mind can make your dreams reality, but it can also make your nightmares reality.'
He questions himself being dead. he doesn't remember dying. though his memory has become quite foggy. he explains that he has vivid flashes, including flashes of a blonde woman he thinks is his real wife.
'Yes.' The blonde woman was his wife, Barbara. Unfortunately, they don't create the dreams. They can only gently steer them. It's his mind that selected the brunette, it's his mind that made her act the way she did. It's even his mind that trapped him, and made his car ran out of gas. In fact he can go anywhere and do anything he can imagine. 'You have a choice to make. If you can accept this, I can set you back on the path to accepting your dream life. If you can't, we'll need to take more drastic measures."
(he can't accept it, and argues that what she is saying is absolutely crazy)
(she moves on to 'demonstrating' the dream-like reality. apologizing for the risk she's about to take, and warning him that it can be disorienting, asking him to relax his mind. Then she sits and 'meditates'. His vision blurs, and his head hurts, as he has trouble accepting what he's seeing, but she relaxes him enough to see her levitating in the air. He is stupefied, waving his hand under her. 'So this means I'm dead?'
'You are not dead, your spinal nerves have died. We have saved you, and suspended you in a dreamlike state, in the hope a future technology can rebuild those nerves and bring you back to a physical existence."
"So does this mean I can levitate too?" He sits and tries to levitate.
"Technically you can do anything you can imagine. However, our neural interface tries to keep your brain waves stable, to avoid your dream becoming an unstable and unrecognizable jumble. If he would like, she can lower the stabilization parameters to make it easier.
He agrees, and as she talks him through it, and she lowers them even further, he slowly levitates off the ground, getting slightly excited. Then she talks him through materializing a butterfly in his hand. He's amazed. Then he loses his concentration and violently falls.
She explains that it takes time and practice. The mind tries to recreate what it knows, which is why when he lost his concentration, gravity made him fall. Normally once a patient has accepted the dream like you have, they prefer these lower stabilization settings. However, in his case, she needs to warn him. If he hasn't fully accepted the dream, and starts to feel 'trapped' it can be much worse, even terrifying. He's also welcome to return to the normal settings, and she can check on him in a while to see if he's ready for more.
'Are you kidding me? After what I just did, you want me to go back to 'normal'? No thanks.'
"If there's nothing else, I'll be leaving now. A staff member will be back to check on you, but because of how the mind processes the dreamlike state, it's impossible for us to know how much time you will experience before our next visit."
She rounds a corner, and when he curiously checks around that corner, there is no-one there.
He walks out of the house, and into the street, towards the car he left without gas. Inside, sure enough, the car is on empty. He closes his eyes, imagining himself driving back home, and turns the key. The engine turns over several times, failing to start. Then after a few more tries, it roars to life. When he opens his eyes, the gas tank is full, and he feels a little sense of satisfaction.
As he drives back towards his house, he wonders why his mind conjured up that random brunette, rather than his wife. Now that he remembers her, he misses her, and wants to see her. Though maybe it's better this way, as it wouldn't actually be his wife, just his imagination. He pulls up to his house, not sure who he'd rather see there. When he opens the door, the brunette is inside, and rushes to him.
"Ohh XYZ, I was worried about you. I know you miss her, and I can never take her place, but we can be happy, can't we?"
"So you know too?"
"I just know what you told me. She died, and you don't think you'll ever be over her. I'm sorry. It must be terrible."