Great Script
Got a great idea for a movie script. It's got everything in it - intrigue, courtroom drama, passion, betrayal, murder, dogged detective, making legal history - the works.
A young computer programmer, super-intelligent, has a surprisingly difficult time meeting women. Strange, you'd think, given his obvious magnetic personality. Let's call him something nice and short and easy to type. Let's call him Hans.
In the dot-com years, he makes a lot of money. An awful lot of money. The guy is smart, and uses some of this money to fund start his own software company. the company does very well indeed.
In an effort to reduce costs, and because Russian programmers are amongst the best in the world, he moves some of his operations to Russia - which is in economic dire straits round about this time. Since he's got loads of money, he buys himself a Russian bride called Nina. Stunningly attractive, and also intelligent, she marries him since it offers her much better prospects than seem to be available in the prevailing economic meltdown.
They move back to the USA, have a couple of kids. Nina likes the USA - the land of plenty. She loves California - Silicon Valley - and the massive freedom she has compared to her Soviet upbringing. She quickly discovers that Hans's friends are more interesting than he is and starts an affair with one of them. This friend introduces her to debauched pleasures of the flesh, and introduces her to drugs like ecstasy.
Hans finds out about this and goes a bit mental. Nina leaves him, suing for divorce and threatening to take the children back to Russia where he'll never see them again. Shortly afterwards, Nina disappears without trace. There are rumours that she's went back to Russia and also rumours that she has been murdered by Hans.
Hans's abandoned car is found, with the passenger seat missing, and it's recently been spotlessly cleaned inside and out with a fire hose. In the back seat is a book on "How to Commit The Perfect Murder".
At the same time, strange little message start to appear in Hans's computer code. Things like:
The guy is one of the most famous and brilliant computer programmers in the world, and eyebrows get raised a little.. but everybody knows that he's just taunting the law.
The dogged detectives set out after Hans. They put him under surveillance 24x7 and start to watch his every move. He knows it, and takes counter-surveillance measures - doing u-turns on motorways and stuff like that.
The detectives make out a case and take it to the DA, and Hans is prosecuted with Nina's murder. It is front-page news - this guy is almost as famous as Bill Gates. It is to the world of computers what OJ Simpson was to the world of football.
There's only one problem though - they don't have a body. Nobody has actually been found dead. Hans, genius and a bit odd, is charged with murdering somebody whom nobody can actually say is dead. It's a legal first in the USA.
Hans is offered a deal. If he pleads guilty to manslaighter, he'll get 5 to 15 years. He laughs at them, asks them to prove that somebody is actually dead, and goes to trial.
As the trial goes on, Hans demonstrates his rapier intelligence and argues with the prosecutor, the witnesses and even the judge. At one point, the judge says to him:
The day before he is due to be sentenced, Hans has another surprise in store. Handcuffed to his lawyer, he leads the Police into the Oakland hills and takes them to where he buried Nina's body after strangling her.
In another legal first, Hans was convicted of first degree murder, but is going to be able to plead guilty of second-degree murder in exchange for showing them where the body was.
Wow. Hollywood anyone? Except for one thing:
It's all true.
On Monday, the mighty Hans Reiser finally confessed to murdering his wife Nina.
One of the most gifted programmers in the world, I knew Hans. I worked with him and helped him to design and flesh out the software which made him famous. I knew Nina, and was at her "Welcome to the USA" party. I have - or once had - the bragging rights of being referred to by Hans as "the smartest guy I have ever met".
I would have bet the farm that Hans didn't do this, and it blew me away. It also blew away my American friend. I got a phone call last night at about 11pm:
A young computer programmer, super-intelligent, has a surprisingly difficult time meeting women. Strange, you'd think, given his obvious magnetic personality. Let's call him something nice and short and easy to type. Let's call him Hans.
In the dot-com years, he makes a lot of money. An awful lot of money. The guy is smart, and uses some of this money to fund start his own software company. the company does very well indeed.
In an effort to reduce costs, and because Russian programmers are amongst the best in the world, he moves some of his operations to Russia - which is in economic dire straits round about this time. Since he's got loads of money, he buys himself a Russian bride called Nina. Stunningly attractive, and also intelligent, she marries him since it offers her much better prospects than seem to be available in the prevailing economic meltdown.
They move back to the USA, have a couple of kids. Nina likes the USA - the land of plenty. She loves California - Silicon Valley - and the massive freedom she has compared to her Soviet upbringing. She quickly discovers that Hans's friends are more interesting than he is and starts an affair with one of them. This friend introduces her to debauched pleasures of the flesh, and introduces her to drugs like ecstasy.
Hans finds out about this and goes a bit mental. Nina leaves him, suing for divorce and threatening to take the children back to Russia where he'll never see them again. Shortly afterwards, Nina disappears without trace. There are rumours that she's went back to Russia and also rumours that she has been murdered by Hans.
Hans's abandoned car is found, with the passenger seat missing, and it's recently been spotlessly cleaned inside and out with a fire hose. In the back seat is a book on "How to Commit The Perfect Murder".
At the same time, strange little message start to appear in Hans's computer code. Things like:
- if (nina.notWorking())
then
kill nina;
The guy is one of the most famous and brilliant computer programmers in the world, and eyebrows get raised a little.. but everybody knows that he's just taunting the law.
The dogged detectives set out after Hans. They put him under surveillance 24x7 and start to watch his every move. He knows it, and takes counter-surveillance measures - doing u-turns on motorways and stuff like that.
The detectives make out a case and take it to the DA, and Hans is prosecuted with Nina's murder. It is front-page news - this guy is almost as famous as Bill Gates. It is to the world of computers what OJ Simpson was to the world of football.
There's only one problem though - they don't have a body. Nobody has actually been found dead. Hans, genius and a bit odd, is charged with murdering somebody whom nobody can actually say is dead. It's a legal first in the USA.
Hans is offered a deal. If he pleads guilty to manslaighter, he'll get 5 to 15 years. He laughs at them, asks them to prove that somebody is actually dead, and goes to trial.
As the trial goes on, Hans demonstrates his rapier intelligence and argues with the prosecutor, the witnesses and even the judge. At one point, the judge says to him:
- "There are not enough words in the English language to describe just how obnoxious and arrogant you are"
The day before he is due to be sentenced, Hans has another surprise in store. Handcuffed to his lawyer, he leads the Police into the Oakland hills and takes them to where he buried Nina's body after strangling her.
In another legal first, Hans was convicted of first degree murder, but is going to be able to plead guilty of second-degree murder in exchange for showing them where the body was.
Wow. Hollywood anyone? Except for one thing:
It's all true.
On Monday, the mighty Hans Reiser finally confessed to murdering his wife Nina.
One of the most gifted programmers in the world, I knew Hans. I worked with him and helped him to design and flesh out the software which made him famous. I knew Nina, and was at her "Welcome to the USA" party. I have - or once had - the bragging rights of being referred to by Hans as "the smartest guy I have ever met".
I would have bet the farm that Hans didn't do this, and it blew me away. It also blew away my American friend. I got a phone call last night at about 11pm:
- Ring ring.
"Hello?"
"DUDE! WHAT THE FUCK? HE DID IT!"
posted by 2009 Dakar at
Wednesday, July 09, 2008
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