Escape scenes through air ducts drive me insane, so I gladly took the « vow » as suggested by screenwriter John August:
I, Martine Pag�, hereby swear that I shall never place a character inside an air duct, ventilation shaft, or any other euphemism for a building system designed to move air around.
ok, i just had the most hilarious idea for a screenplay, right? there’s this screenwriter from quebec city who goes to Hollywood to pitch a treatment in Century City and accidentally witnesses a murder – you with me? and then there’s this game of cat and mouse trying to evade the killers (who will be quirky twins) and at one point, she has to escape them by squeezing into an air vent…get it? and the ironic thing is, earlier in the film she’s complaining to her agent about dumb scripts where the heroine has to escape through a vent…it’s GOLD, i tell ya.
Total gold, man! I’m considering taking your comment down so I can keep the idea for myself. Minus a small commission for you, of course. Would dinner with Jodie Foster be enough of a compensation for you?
What about laundry chutes? No one escapes through those anymore.
go ahead…the idea’s all yours…and dinner with la Foster is always welcome. If you can arrange for Juliette Binoche and Catherine Keener too, that would be marvy. See you at the bar at the Chateau Marmont!
phew!
I also wonder why escaping through air vents are never claustrofobic? From personal experience (no I wasn’t escaping but had to go in there for work) I can attest that air vents are dark, and very scary.
Recently saw a very dumb movie with Susan Sarandon who escapes through… an air vent. Poor Susan, at her age…