So I was asked to come up with ideas for a Green Eggs and Ham script.
A man’s wife dies tragically in a car accident during a quick trip to the store while preparing a big holiday feast.
The bereaved husband comes home from the hospital to an empty house and can’t bear to part with the giant ham that his wife had cooked for their dinner. The man then sits alone in his kitchen and gnaws away on the ham for several days until its rancid and then he begins to hallucinate that the rancid ham is some kinda god or something. He begins to inquire of the godhead ham the true meaning of life.
IE. Why all the terrible pain and suffering strung together by unendurable stretches of pointless boredom punctuated by brief moments of happiness and love?
Many of the usual romantic comedy hi-jinks ensue as the rancid ham tears apart our protagonists world view. There is also a great little montage set to popular music where the rancid ham and the man try on funny hats.
I envision the whole thing done with puppets and a over the top laugh track.
Think … A Love Story meets Alf meets the Bhagavad Gita meets 2001
I already have Ariel Pink signed on for the soundtrack but who should play the ham? and who plays the man?
