Kerim Duran

The screen fades from black.

We see a young attractive girl, in her early 20s; she is dressed as if she were to be going to a club. She tries to be sincere as possible as she looks into the camera.   



Girl: I think you‚re a really cool person and all∑ I really like hanging out with you.



Cut to a shirt less guy who is looking straight into the camera with a disappointed look on his face.

Cuts back to the girl.



Girl (Continues): I really do, but I just want to be friends.



As she completes her line, she puts her hands on the guy‚s shoulder.

The last words slowly repeats itself in the background, as it were some melody to a piece of music, „just friends∑..just friends‰ and it slowly fades down. While the repetitiveness continues, the camera turns to face the guy, who is also dressed up for a club- it‚s the same guy that didn‚t have the shirt.  The guy looks at her with a heart broken expression. He then sees her looking off at a distance. As he turns his head to look, he sees a guy flexing his muscles. He turns to face her again, noticing her small grin as she continues to look over. He stares into the camera, which slowly cross dissolves to him being shirtless.

It then cuts to a profile of him looking in the mirror.



He begins to check himself out in the mirror.  He begins to wiggle his body to see how much fat he actually has on him.



Guy: I‚m sick and tired of being people‚s friends. No more Mr. Nice guy, I‚m going to be a new man pretty soon. None of this friendship crap.



He then exits the frame.



The guy walks into his house carrying bottles of protein supplement along with fitness magazines. He scatters the goods on the kitchen counter. He pulls out the protein supplement container and begins to read the instructions.

Instructions say: „Three shakes a day after a balance meal.‰

He pulls the blender and makes himself a shake. With the shake in his hand, he walks over to the counter and grabs the Maxim‚s calendar and posts it on the wall. As he drinks the shake with disgust, he marks off his starting point of his work out day. He begins flexing his feeble arms for the girl that‚s on the calendar. He starts talking to the poster.



Guy: Do you think I have a chance?



The camera cuts to a close up of the girl on the calendar.



Guy: Yeah, I don‚t think it‚ll happen. But it won‚t hurt to try.



He weighs himself, and finds out that he‚s 190lbs.  



Next day. We see on the track, he‚s not properly dressed for running. He‚s wearing a pair of boots, cargo pants, and a white shirt that says „Stop following me, cause I don‚t know where I‚m going.‰ He stretches on the track, getting ready to run. He begins to loosen up, and begins to run.  Actually, he sprints the track. It is not even a quarter of the way, and the guy stops and begins coughing, desperately seeking for air. As he tries to control his breathing, he takes a seat on the lawn. He looks around the track and sees people just jogging in proper attire.  He hears a woman‚s voice from the distance saying, „just want to be friends‰.  He gets up from the ground and begins to jog.



Fade to black then fade from black.



He comes home sore, barely walking. He goes and makes a shake. He drinks it. Then he steps on to the scale, and the scale still reads 190lbs. He looks at the scale with frustration. Then he goes to the calendar and marks off another day. Then he goes to bed.



Fade to Black. We hear the alarm go off.

Fade from black.



We see a close up of him drinking the shake.



Fade to black then fade from black.



We see a close up of a brand new running step in to frame, the camera slowly pulls out and tilts up to reveal the guy wearing running apparel. He loosens up, and begins to jog.



Montage Sequence:

We see a time elapse long shot of the guy running the track, as the day quickly passes him- morning, afternoon, and evening. It is then intercut with him doing sit-ups, push-ups, pull-ups, drinking the shakes, and marking off the days on the calendar. It ends with nightfall.



Fade to black then fade from black.



A week goes by, he comes home and goes to the scale to weigh himself. The scale reads 185lbs. He‚s a little satisfied, and has a shake and goes to bed.



Fade to black then fade from black.



Montage Sequence repeats itself, but this time a little faster, and the calendar days are different. And it ends with him stepping on the scale, which shows 178lbs.



Fade to black then fade from black.



Shot of the guy sitting all alone at the table with a shake on one hand and a fitness magazine in the other. He reads an article about how shaving all his body hairs can speed up a person‚s metabolism.  He quickly downs the shake rushes over to the bathroom and looks for a razor and clipper. He looks at himself in the bathroom mirror. Without thinking too much, he pulls out the clippers and shaves his head as well as his chest, arms, and legs.



Fade to black then fade from black.



The montage sequence starts again, but this time a bit faster, the calendar days being checked off, and a bald guy doing the running. It ends with him on the scale weighing 164lbs.



Fade to black then fade from black.



He finishes taking a shower and goes over to the mirror to check himself out. He‚s becoming happy with the way he looks and gains confidence. Suddenly, the girl who rejected him appears in the locker room, and looks at him. She begins to criticize his progress.



Girl: You think that you‚re fit, oh hell no! Look at all that fat you still have.



She grabs his love handles and shakes it.



Girl: You‚re still not good enough for me, or for anyone. You‚re still fucking fat. You need to work out, cause it doesn‚t look like you have been.



The girl cusses him out, trying to make him feel bad but also causing him to work out more. Then the guy slowly begins to breakdown. He looks at himself in the mirror. The girl continues to nag him. The guy slowly goes down on his knee and begins to cry. He covers his face to prevent her from seeing his tears. The nagging continues as he makes an outburst.



Guy: I‚m trying my best to∑..



The girl is gone from the locker room.



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He comes into his house with more bottles of protein supplement. The guy picks up one of the protein bottle and reads the instructions again. He pulls out the blender. He makes a shake and drinks it, then another, and another until he can no longer drink more.



Fade to black then fade from black.



The montage sequence starts again, but this time a bit faster, the calendar days being checked off, and a bald guy doing the running. It shows the guy overloading himself with protein shakes. It ends with him on the scale weighing 150 lbs.



Fade to black then fade from black.



The montage sequence starts again, but this time a bit faster, the calendar days being checked off, and a bald guy doing the running. And the guy overloading himself with protein shakes. But it abruptly begins to slow down, the guy begins to cough as he is running. He stops to the side of the track, and begins to vomit. As he vomits, a woman‚s voice is heard, „do you just want to be friends?‰ He nods his head no. He gets back on the track and starts to run. The woman voice continues, „I‚ll be more than happy to be just a friend.‰ He nods his head no, and begins running harder. As he begins to run faster, he begins to cough again. „What‚s wrong with friendship‰ said the woman voice. The guy suddenly stops, and vomits again. The guy clearing his mouth tells the voice, „That‚s not what I want.‰ The woman voice then replies, „Go for what you want.‰ The guy begins to run like he never ran before in his life. We see his pain on screen as! he runs for what he wants. His face begins to turn red as he painfully pushes his limit. Suddenly, he stops and falls to the track floor. He begins to breathe heavily as well and rapidly grabs his mid chest as if something had stabbed him. His breathing begins to slow down as his hand grabs his chest. Gradually his energy dwindles until he lies there lifeless. Suddenly the screen is blown out to complete whiteness.



We see the guy and the girl together again. The guy is in his normal body weight before the transformation. This is almost a repeat of the beginning scene. Except this time there is a voice over job from the guy.

            Guy (v.o.): In a perfect world, looks are non-existent. People shouldn‚t be judged for their appearance, nor should they be judged on their personal assessments. It is society to be blamed for the desire of the perfect body. As a result destruction of one‚s self comes to the individuals who pursues this. In reality, we don‚t live in a perfect world. God, what a shame. I pity those people who are the cause of our imperfections, because the truth is that everyone is perfect.



As the voice over goes on, we see the guy staring into the camera.



Guy: It‚s not worth it.



He walks away from the girl.



The girl is left in the background yelling about his comment. The screen fades to black.        

 The end.