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12-15-04, 09:37 AM
Ok - During a ride last week when my mind was wandering I started thinking about "Breaking Away" and what a sequel for it would be like. So, let's write a movie!
In the sequel, Dave is now middle-aged. Through flashbacks, we see what Dave has been doing for last twentyfive years. He married the French girl he met in college. He went on to become a top racer and moved to France where he won many races. They had a child - a boy, naturally. At the peak of his career, his team became involved in a huge doping scandal and, while Dave himself never tested positive, it ruined his career. He became very bitter about it, started drinking, lost his wife, and after bumming around Europe for a while, ended up working in a bike shop in Amsterdam and hanging around the coffee
shops too much. ;) He lost contact with his son (but reads about him in the cycling mags - he's become a pretty hot**** racer in the Euro circuit) and hasn't maintained close contact with his parents back home.
But a visit from the past is Dave's wake up call. His sister, Martha (who was conceived during the first movie to the strains of the song she was named after), comes to Amsterdam to inform Dave that their mother is dying. :( Dave needs to come home.
Back in Bloomington, his parents are still getting along. The used car lot is now a big new car dealership
(But still called "Cutter Cars"). :D Mike is the high school football coach and has become what he always feared he would become - "Mean old man Mike". Cyril, to the surprise of everyone, who really wasn't quite as dumb as everyone thought he was and to everyone's surprise, is fabulously wealthy due to a software company he started and then IPO'd in the late nineties. :eek: He's got a trophy wife,a Cyril junior, and donates lots of money to the University and sponsors a team in the Little 500 race. Moocher, alas, is long dead - killed in an accident while working at the stone cutting plant. However, his son is good friends with Cyril and Mike's kids and they still go to the quarry.
Ok, that's the setup. At some point, Dave also becomes reunited with his own son, who travels to Bloomington when he hears the news about his grnadmother. (A touching scene between Dave's son and Dave's mother would be in order - maybe where she tells him that the first time she used her passport was when she went to Europe to see her newborn grandson). :o
Maybe Dave finds redemption in the movie by getting back on the bike with his son, possibly riding the Tour of Hope in memory of his mother ("I ride this one for you, mama"). A cameo by Lance, maybe?
That's all I've got thusfar. Any takers?
In the sequel, Dave is now middle-aged. Through flashbacks, we see what Dave has been doing for last twentyfive years. He married the French girl he met in college. He went on to become a top racer and moved to France where he won many races. They had a child - a boy, naturally. At the peak of his career, his team became involved in a huge doping scandal and, while Dave himself never tested positive, it ruined his career. He became very bitter about it, started drinking, lost his wife, and after bumming around Europe for a while, ended up working in a bike shop in Amsterdam and hanging around the coffee
shops too much. ;) He lost contact with his son (but reads about him in the cycling mags - he's become a pretty hot**** racer in the Euro circuit) and hasn't maintained close contact with his parents back home.
But a visit from the past is Dave's wake up call. His sister, Martha (who was conceived during the first movie to the strains of the song she was named after), comes to Amsterdam to inform Dave that their mother is dying. :( Dave needs to come home.
Back in Bloomington, his parents are still getting along. The used car lot is now a big new car dealership
(But still called "Cutter Cars"). :D Mike is the high school football coach and has become what he always feared he would become - "Mean old man Mike". Cyril, to the surprise of everyone, who really wasn't quite as dumb as everyone thought he was and to everyone's surprise, is fabulously wealthy due to a software company he started and then IPO'd in the late nineties. :eek: He's got a trophy wife,a Cyril junior, and donates lots of money to the University and sponsors a team in the Little 500 race. Moocher, alas, is long dead - killed in an accident while working at the stone cutting plant. However, his son is good friends with Cyril and Mike's kids and they still go to the quarry.
Ok, that's the setup. At some point, Dave also becomes reunited with his own son, who travels to Bloomington when he hears the news about his grnadmother. (A touching scene between Dave's son and Dave's mother would be in order - maybe where she tells him that the first time she used her passport was when she went to Europe to see her newborn grandson). :o
Maybe Dave finds redemption in the movie by getting back on the bike with his son, possibly riding the Tour of Hope in memory of his mother ("I ride this one for you, mama"). A cameo by Lance, maybe?
That's all I've got thusfar. Any takers?