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Q. What are some of the best Movies for every medical student?A2A:The Doctor (1991)Gross Anatomy (film)TN’s Answer to “What are some good movies to give you an idea of medical school?”The Doctor (1991)Plot SummaryJack McKee is a doctor with it all: he's successful, he's rich, extremely self centred and he has no problems.... until he is diagnosed with throat cancer. Now that he has seen medicine, hospitals, and doctors from a patient's perspective, he realises that there is more to being a doctor than surgery and prescriptions, and more to life than serving only his own needs.- Written by Murray Chapman <[email protected]>After spending his life, his career, as a physician who treated patients with less than the respect than they deserved. He becomes a patient himself and suddenly understands what it is like to be treated like he treated so many human beings who's feelings and emotions surrounding their illnesses he never stopped to consider. Karma has come to visit and he is not prepared. He assumed that because he was a physician, that he would be treated differently than the average patient. That he would have special privileges and accommodations afforded to him due to his station he so wrongly assumed he had. Every doctor should have to see this movie as part of their humanities training, perhaps then they would be less likely to lose their empathy along the way.- Written by Lorraine Allison Traylor ParamedicTHE DOCTORTHE DOCTOR (1991)CastWilliam Hurt as JackChristine Lahti as AnneElizabeth Perkins as JuneMandy Patinkin as MurrayAdam Arkin as EliWendy Crewson as Dr. AbbottRoger EbertJuly 24, 1991Anyone who has ever been through the medical system - even with the very best of treatment - will identify with this film. “The Doctor” tells the story of an aloof, self-centered heart surgeon who treats his patients like names on a list. Then he gets sick himself, and doesn't like it one bit when he's treated like a mere patient.“It may interest you to know that I happen to be a resident surgeon on the staff of this hospital!” he barks at a nurse who wants him to fill out some forms just like the ones he has already filled out. He still has to fill out the forms.The role is played in a detailed, observant way by William Hurt, who is able to make this egocentric surgeon into a convincing human being. In the wrong hands, this material could have been simply a cautionary tale, but Hurt and his director, Randa Haines, who also collaborated on “Children of a Lesser God,” make it into the story of a specific, flawed, fascinating human being.As the movie opens, Hurt plays rock 'n' roll into his operating theater while literally holding the hearts of his patients in his hands. He leads a comfortable life in Marin County, Calif., with his wife (Christine Lahti) and two sons, but is not very close to his family. (In one revealing scene, he's standing in the living room when a son races in. “Say hello to your father,” Lahti says, and the kid automatically picks up the phone.) In his lectures to the interns at the hospital, Hurt warns that personal feelings have nothing to do with the science of medicine. Then he discovers otherwise.His problem starts as a small, nagging cough. He ignores it until one day he coughs up blood. He goes to an eye, ear, nose and throat expert (played with cold precision by Wendy Crewson), and discovers that there is a tumor in his throat. It is malignant. He needs radiation therapy. If it doesn't work, he may need surgery. In that case, it's impossible to predict how his vocal cords will respond. He could lose the power of speech.This is devastating news, which he receives with disbelief. How could a master of medicine like himself become its victim? As his treatment progresses, he doesn't like how his own hospital treats him, as he wastes time in waiting rooms, tangles with the bureaucracy and is repelled by Crewson's frigid bedside manner. For the first time, he grows close to a patient, June (Elizabeth Perkins), who has a brain tumor. They meet daily while they're having their treatments.The broad outlines of the story progress more or less as expected. Threatened with his own mortality, he turns to June not for romantic reasons but as a fellow traveler in the same path. Their scenes together are handled with quiet tact and gentleness. Although his wife desperately tries to break through to him, she can't reach him (“I've spent so much time pushing her away, I don't know how to let her get close,” he confesses). He continues to work at his own practice and finds that for the first time he actually, personally, cares about his patients.In structure, “The Doctor” is similar to the current “Regarding Henry.” Both movies are about successful professional men who are monsters until a devastating event forces them to reshape their personalities. The difference is that Hurt, Haines and writer Robert Caswell are able to find the details, the intonations and shadings of voice and tone that make their doctor into a plausible, convincing person. In “Regarding Henry,” I could always hear the hum of the plot mechanism, right offstage.I imagine audiences will relate strongly to “The Doctor,” because most people have had experiences similar to those in the movie. I personally have been blessed with what I consider particularly expert and caring medical attention, and I have no complaints. But I have a memory.A few years ago I was struck low by food poisoning and checked into the hospital as sick as a whipped dog. Wearing one of those hospital gowns designed to remove the last vestige of dignity from the patient, I was taken by wheelchair to get some tests and was parked by an elevator. I lacked even the strength to lift my head.Sure enough, half the people who went by recognized me from TV. But they didn't talk to me. They talked about me. “Look, there's the guy on TV! Jeez, he looks terrible!” In “The Doctor,” there's a scene where the Hurt character is being wheeled toward surgery, and some doctors hold a technical conversation practically across his cart. He lifts his head, contributes some expert advice, and then, when they look at him in surprise, says, “Yes! There's a person here!” I felt like cheering.‘The Doctor’ (PG-13)By Hal HinsonWashington Post Staff WriterAugust 02, 1991The rap on doctors is that they are aloof, inhuman, weird. The central character in Randa Haines's "The Doctor" is just such a case. Jack, a gifted surgeon who's played brilliantly by William Hurt, is a get-in-and-get-out-quick guy. A surgeon's job, he tells his residents, is to cut, not to care. Emotion, in fact, can get in the way when a patient's life hangs by a thread and what is needed is brisk, reflex execution. Technique, that's what it comes down to. Do your "feeling" on your own time.Jack isn't a monster, though he may seem like one at first, when he's singing in the operating room and cracking wise over some poor guy's trisected aorta. He specializes in gallows humor (of the sort we saw a lot of in "M*A*S*H") and, standing over a patient who's tried to commit suicide, he feels entitled to make cruel fun of him; he did, after all, save the boy's life. This first part of the film is actually the best section for the star. Hurt is the most modulated of actors, and he shows us here how Jack's cool, sterile manner is a proud skill learned through practice, a true mark of his professionalism. He believes what he tells his residents; it has never occurred to him to believe any differently. He thinks it will make them better doctors.Then Jack gets sick, and his whole way of thinking is turned upside down. His troubles begin with a little cough, which is soon diagnosed as a cancerous tumor on his larynx. All of a sudden, Jack is on the other end of the stethoscope, being treated by a stone-faced throat specialist in the same curt, dry-ice manner that he used with his own patients -- and he doesn't like it one bit. Nor does he like the hours of waiting, the bureaucracy and the endless pages of official forms. He's a doctor, after all; he shouldn't have to go through the same red tape that the other patients have to deal with. Initially he's outraged and tries to pull rank, which gains him nothing except the disdain of the other patients, most of whom have illnesses far more serious than his own.One of these patients, June (Elizabeth Perkins), is the key to Jack's emotional awakening. Through June, who has an inoperable brain tumor, Jack is given a window on just how hideously unresponsive the medical establishment can be. With her as his guide, he learns not only how to better cope with his own illness but how to become a more enlightened physician.Haines, who is working here with a script Robert Caswell adapted from Ed Rosenbaum's autobiographical book, wants her movie to be a damning indictment of the medical profession. Unfortunately, the mechanics of the film are too elementary for it to hit very hard on that level. Early on, she works hard to show how sterile the hospital is, with its sleek, geometric design, how humiliating and dehumanizing its procedures are, and how much it operates like a factory doing assembly line duty, with doctors working so hard to keep pace with their overhead -- the malpractice insurance, in particular -- that "patient-friendly" health care is a virtual impossibility.But for anyone who's spent time in a hospital, these observations are hardly revelatory. Doctors, like lawyers, make very easy targets; it's like shooting fish in a bedpan. If Haines had unlocked some of the profession's darker closets, the movie might be more noteworthy; as it is, it functions more as a maudlin weeper than an expose.If it weren't for Hurt, the picture might be completely negligible. His performance is densely layered and detailed. Hurt's mechanics are anything but crude. In a film where the character's dramatic journey is so obvious, he seems always to be working in the subtext, searching for the ambiguities and hidden corners in his subject's emotions and cutting against the main thrust of his scenes. At times his work is so quiet here that we feel as if he's communicating with us by telepathy. It's a mesmerizing performance.It's also, in its own understated way, a quite powerful performance, but it might have been even stronger if Haines had provided a more resonant context. There are times when the picture takes us down to the bottom of our fears about disease and death, particularly in the scenes with Perkins, who always manages to calibrate her optimism with a barely submerged outrage. But instead of challenging the audience and staying at the dark bottom, Haines reaches for easy uplift. She keeps blunting the force of her own material. With a little more courage, she might have gotten more out of her audience than tears.MOVIE REVIEW NYTReview/Film; William Hurt as Doctor Whose Spirit Heals When He Falls IllBy JANET MASLINPublished: July 24, 1991William Hurt has an exceptionally wide range on the confidence scale, an ability to move from utter self-assurance to quiet terror that such superiority might crumble. He shows this off to exceptionally good effect in "The Doctor," the story of a once-impervious physician who makes a critical 90-degree shift. Dr. Jack MacKee, a prominent heart surgeon, is first seen presiding over an operating room team with the brash, cowboy arrogance of a seasoned expert. The film follows the events that leave Jack lying helpless in the same setting, about to experience a taste of his own medicine."The Doctor," which greatly resembles the current "Regarding Henry" in its tale of a rich, cavalier professional who is made to face his own frailty, has a more realistic outlook and a more riveting figure in its central role. Mr. Hurt, making the most of his sleek good looks and stately bearing in the film's early scenes, presents Jack MacKee as a charming, cocksure doctor who specializes not only in difficult surgical procedures but also in careful, deceptively breezy intimidation.Colleagues and patients alike are thrown off-balance by Jack's mixture of false casualness, crisp professionalism and cutting wit. The film makes it clear that Jack, having spent his entire career perfecting this bedside manner, has lost track of his inner thoughts, and learned to concentrate solely on getting the job done. "Caring's all about time," he tells someone, when discussing whether work like this ought to engage the emotions. "When you've got 30 seconds before some guy bleeds out, I'd rather cut more and care less.""The Doctor," written by Robert Caswell (from a book by Ed Rosenbaum, M.D.) and directed by Randa Haines, opens with a quick succession of scenes that encapsulate Jack's professional life. He teases, jokes and plays rock-and-roll oldies in the operating room, setting a mood that is quickly broken when Ms. Haines offers a shot of the patient's battered face. He tells a patient who is dismayed by a new scar that she looks like a magazine centerfold, staples and all. He laughs with his wife, Anne (Christine Lahti), about an emergency call, which arrives via the car phone in his Mercedes. And he also finds after a party that he is coughing blood onto the shirt of his tuxedo.At this, the supreme security of Mr. Hurt's beautifully precise characterization begins to fall apart. He is utterly nonplussed at the prospect of submitting to tests by a female doctor (Wendy Crewson) whose manner is every bit as briskly detached as his own. He blanches at this doctor's examination, and later rails at the hospital procedures that force him to cool his heels waiting for further treatment. He has, he finally complains to a hospital worker, been a surgeon here for 11 years. "Then you should know all about filling out forms," this worker drily replies."The Doctor," which is much more colorful than its weak title would suggest, takes a chillingly clinical view of the medical procedures to which Jack is subjected, once he has been found to have throat cancer. And the fear that Mr. Hurt registers in these hospital scenes is in its quiet way more affecting than the rest of the story. In addition to following the course of his sickness, the film watches Jack as he recognizes the error of his ways, re-examines his profession, owns up to the emptiness of his marriage and finds inspiration in the courage of a beautiful young woman who has a brain tumor (Elizabeth Perkins), and who suddenly becomes the only person to whom he truly feels close.As she did in "Children of a Lesser God," Ms. Haines shows a talent for tugging at the heartstrings in unexpected ways, but her film's slowly emerging sentimental side endangers the crisp authenticity of its beginning. And the screenplay's eventual insistence on a conventional end to an otherwise unconventional story is damaging, too. So is the fact that no character here, except for Mr. Hurt's Jack, is fully formed. Even Ms. Perkins, very affecting as the fiercely independent young woman who helps Jack to locate his humanity, is given no more of a past than she has a future.The film's best scenes, those in the hospital, deftly capture the give-and-take of doctors striving to balance seriousness and dark humor. Mandy Patinkin is especially good as the friend who is Jack's partner "until we get it right," as one of them jokes. And Adam Arkin is memorable as a younger colleague who shows his mettle when Jack is in distress. Zakes Mokae, as a radiologist, presides knowingly over the episodes that most powerfully alter Jack's character. And Ms. Crewson is especially interesting for the ambiguity of a medical manner that initially suggests cool competence, and later reveals to Jack everything he himself has done wrong.Ms. Lahti, though often present, has a generic lonely-wife role and no real way to broaden it, just as Charlie Korsmo, as the MacKees' son, has almost nothing to do. The film's ultimate concessions to the sanctity of family life strain credulity in a way that its clear, compelling depictions of illness do not.The visual backdrop for "The Doctor" contributes greatly to the film's unnerving effectiveness. The costumes, especially Mr. Hurt's, evolve tellingly from high-income armor to an air of less artificiality and greater warmth. And the production design, by Ken Adam, turns the hospital into a sleek, controlled environment in which medicine appears to have triumphed over nature. "The Doctor" is a powerful reminder that it has not."The Doctor" is rated PG-13 (Parents strongly cautioned). It includes mild profanity and operating room scenes. The DoctorDirected by Randa Haines; written by Robert Caswell; director of photography, John Seale; edited by Bruce Green and Lisa Fruchtman; music by Michael Convertino; production designer, Ken Adam; produced by Laura Ziskin; released by Buena Vista Pictures Distribution, Inc. Running time: 123 minutes. This film is rated PG-13. Jack . . . William Hurt Anne . . . Christine Lahti June . . . Elizabeth Perkins Murray . . . Mandy Patinkin Eli . . . Adam ArkinGross Anatomy (film) - Wikipedia)Directed by Thom EberhardtWritten by Ron Nyswaner Mark SpraggStarringMatthew ModineDaphne ZunigaChristine LahtiOctober 20, 1989Gross Anatomy is a 1989 American drama film directed by Thom Eberhardt and starring Matthew Modine, Daphne Zuniga, and Christine Lahti. It was released by Touchstone Pictures.Stars:Matthew Modine, Daphne Zuniga, Christine Lahti |See full cast & crew »PlotJoe Slovak is a brilliant first-year med student whose nonconformist approach to life is tested when he enrolls in gross anatomy, the toughest course in med school. His schoolfriends include Kim, a pregnant woman, Miles, a buttoned-down blue-blood, Laurie, an ambitious student determined to make it and David, an overanalyzer who is also his roommate. Joe's freewheeling, independent style creates funny moments in the classroom, but puts him at odds with the demanding department head, Dr. Woodruff, who questions whether her easygoing "class rebel" has what it takes to be a doctor. Meanwhile, Joe falls in love with his lab partner Laurie, who won't let anything, especially romance, interfere with her plans. And while Joe's never done anything by the book, he proves he does have what it takes to succeed — without changing his ways. However, Joe's ways and the ways of medicine come to a header when he is ordered to do an extra credit assignment by Dr. Woodruff of a complex diagnosis. Joe correctly diagnoses it as a serious, difficult-to-treat chronic illness and learns the patient is Dr. Woodruff herself.CastMatthew Modine as Joe SlovakDaphne Zuniga as Laurie RorbachChristine Lahti as Dr. Rachel WoodruffTodd Field as David SchreinerJohn Scott Clough as Miles ReedAlice Carter as Kim McCauleyRobert Desiderio as Dr. BanksZakes Mokae as Dr. BanumbraRyan Cash as Frankie SlovakReceptionGross Anatomy was released domestically on October 20, 1989, earning $2,830,387 in 853 theaters during its opening weekend. After its theatrical run, the film brought in a total of $11,604,598 at the domestic box office.[1]Upon its initial release, the film received mixed to positive critical response. Roger Ebert of the Chicago Sun-Times gave the film a three-star review stating, "Most of the major events in the movie can be anticipated, but they are played with a genuine grace."[2]Janet Maslin of The New York Times also gave the film a positive review, describing the film as "mostly funny and engaging."[3]ReferencesJump up^ "Gross Anatomy (1989)". IMDB. Box Office Mojo. Retrieved January 25, 2013.Jump up^ Ebert, Roger (October 20, 1989). "Gross Anatomy". Chicago Sun-Times. Retrieved January 25, 2013.Jump up^ Maslin, Janet (October 20, 1989). "Med School Madness In 'Gross Anatomy'". The New York Times. Retrieved January 25, 2013.Gross Anatomy (1989)GROSS ANATOMY ReviewsGROSS ANATOMY (1989)Roger EbertOctober 20, 1989"Gross Anatomy" contains scenes of laughter and scenes of romance, but the scenes that I identified with the most involved performance anxiety. This is a film that follows a group of students through their first year of medical school, and they seem to be taking an examination every 10 minutes. The university atmosphere is reproduced with relentless accuracy, right down to the most subtle intonations in the voices of the professors setting the exams and asking the questions.And all of the dialogue has the ring of truth.Watching the film, I began to ask myself what I was feeling. I was absorbed by the story, I cared about the characters and yet I felt a growing unease, which I finally identified: The movie was reawakening fears that I thought I had buried years ago, those fears that the final exam was being held tomorrow and I'd never studied for the course and I was going to fail miserably and humiliate myself and disappoint my family and flunk out of school and get drafted and die.Because the movie gets that right, almost everything else in the plot seems to fall naturally into place. This is not a movie about medical school, or medicine, so much as it's a movie about being under relentless pressure. Early in their first semester, the students figure out that they have to master about 3,500 pages of material a week, and attend lectures and anatomy laboratory, and somehow find time to eat and sleep. We can taste their exhaustion as they get up at 5 in the morning and march like zombies through one unrelenting day after another. Their lives are a race between total exhaustion and fear of failure.There is one student, however, who seems unaffected by the pressure. He's Joe Slovak (Matthew Modine), a bright, cocky kid with a chip on his shoulder, who claims he doesn't care much about his future patients or anything else except making a lot of money. The only thing he takes serious is his love for his lab partner (Daphne Zuniga), and she's almost too busy to have time for him.Most of the classroom scenes take place in the anatomy laboratory, where the students dissect corpses with the most minute attention to detail, under the guidance of two doctors, played by Zakes Mokae and Christine Lahti. He is a serene African who advises the students not to revise their exam papers, "because your first instincts are almost always right," and she is a stern, unforgiving administrator whose idea of an orientation lecture is to remind the students that medicine is the profession with the highest rates of alcoholism, drug addiction, divorce and suicide.Slovak gets under her skin because he refuses to even pretend as if he cares. He's bright, he gets good grades, but he has an attitude about everything. He's sarcastic and he insists on always getting the last word. He cares about the other members on his lab team (including not only Zuniga but also Todd Field as a worried loser, John Scott Clough as a compulsive perfectionist and Alice Carter as an Asian woman determined to finish the year despite an unexpected pregnancy).But he doesn't care about sucking up to faculty members, or playing campus politics.Most of the major events in the movie can be anticipated, but they are played with a genuine grace. I especially admired the scene where Zuniga finally tells Modine, "All right, you've got me," and the one in which Lahti finally levels with her best student about her real hopes and fears. There is not much in this movie that hasn't been seen before, especially on TV medical shows, but the level of the direction, by Thom Eberhardt, gives the material more weight and importance, and the actors make their characters into particular people whose decisions begin to seem important to us.User ReviewsInteresting Caricature of Medical School8 November 2004 | by heinlen (America) – See all my reviewsHaving been through the first two years of medical school (including, of course, Gross Anatomy) it is obvious to me that whomever wrote the original material for this movie had some understanding of the precise pressures an fears that medical students suffer. Many people say that "medical school is difficult" and it is, but that idea gives you very little understanding of what really goes on that makes it difficult. Many movies get basic ideas essentially wrong - take "Flatliners" where the characters do hospital rounds routinely, although they are still just conducting Gross Anatomy classes (albeit in a dankly lit dungeon environment).In Gross Anatomy, the basic characters you seen in Med School are there. David Schreiner, the guy who burns out, represents all the people who got in off the wait list and barely eek by, all the time hating the rest of the people who find it easier. Miles Reed is your typical "Gunner" who gets by not only by obsessing over every detail of class, but by incessant campus climbing. Kim McCauley is the lovable girl who seems oblivious and ambulant to her own performance (and will likely become the best doctor of the bunch). Laurie is the girl who "always wanted to be a doctor" and has a single-minded ambition to put nothing between her and her school work, much to the detriment of her social life. Joe Slovak is probably the least realistic character - there aren't too many happy go lucky people for whom medical school is so easy. You see jovial people around who never seem to get behind, but at the same time always participate in extra curriculars, but not with Joe's laid back, devil may care attitude, and certainly not his contempt for patients.Many of the classroom and test scenes are sort of over-hyped - think about how many times they professors say, "People this IS Gross Anatomy". However, at the same time, there is always an importance placed on the seriousness of the school environment that hints at what the experience is really about.I enjoy the movie because it does almost seem like an inside job in the medical field poking fun at many of the people and practices we see on the way to medical licenser and is only thinly wrapped with the hint of a storyline.Probably the best around as medical student movies go.Underrated character flick nobody ever talks aboutAuthor: g-man-22from L.A.4 June 1999Not a great film, I suppose, but "Gross Anatomy" has enough that's entertaining, engaging and memorable about it to recommend the film to fans of character drama. "ER" and "Chicago Hope" may well have set the standard for medical dramas, but this look at some first-year med students and their quest to achieve the impossible (become a practicing surgeon or specialist) has long since been forgotten in the trash-bin of seemingly negatable Disney flicks. Released at the turn of the 80's, when Disney was rampantly putting out what seemed like a movie a week, it features a sterling performance by the eternally underrated Matthew Modine as Joe Slovak, an endlessly appealing character despite his tendency to annoy everyone else in the film. Slovak is a wonderful creation on the part of the writers, first seen in a highly memorable pre-credits sequence in which each of the post-grad medical schools asks him questions that eventually reveal the 'real Joe'. Or at least the Joe Slovak he wishes to project. Christine Lahti, who would of course go on to fame and acclaim in "Chicago Hope", practiced her medical chops here as a sickly professor bent on pressuring her students to achieve perfection, even if they themselves aren't often willing to reach for it. The rest of the cast (Daphne Zuniga and the always-great Todd Fields) have done work elsewhere that's gotten more attention, but it's doubtful they've ever been as effective as they are here. By no means is this a classic, but a sharply-observed film that despite a layer of Disney-esque schmaltz manages to touch, entertain and invigorate.Engrossing.Author: Pepper Annefrom Orlando, Florida2 July 2004Gross Anatomy was released one year prior to another med student saga entitled Vital Signs. While the movies are similar in many respects, especially in creating a formulaic arrangement of characters, Gross Anatomy is much more of a comedy/drama while Vital Signs is pretty much a straight drama.The story of Gross Anatomy concerns five first-year med students who's grueling academic schedule and various experiences with getting their feet wet forces them to consider whether they're really ready for the committment or are they just wasting their time. This is particularly true of main character Joe Slovak (Matthew Modine), as apparent from the introduction of him sitting in various admissions interviews trying to answer questions the way he thinks would please the representatives. Joe's a bright guy, and a pretty gifted med student, if only he'd apply himself. And that's pretty much the whole ponit of the movie. What is Joe Slovak's goal here?The one to impress that on him the most is a pretty tight-fisted, but well-meaning professor played by Christine Lahti. Her character is not simply there to turn out med students who know the human anatomy, but who also have compassion towards their patients and realize that there is really much more to the whole field than just memorizing terms or grades on exams. Joe Slovak has yet to learn that.The movie is pretty funny, despite being a somewhat sad story towards the end (and you'll probably guess why early on). But, it is a pretty entertaining film, and often a funny one at that. It's also interesting to take a look at the day in the life of a med student, particularly if those are your perspective plans. I'm not sure that this (and Vital Signs, which deals with 3rd year med students) is an exaggerated perspective of medical school like say, The Paper Chase (which deals with first year law students). Then again, they're two different ball games. 80s fans are sure to enjoy it. Daphne Zugian is always funny to see as the girl who tries too hard to pretend that she doesn't care or isn't effected by certain things (see The Sure Thing), but later, has to break down and admit it. She's pretty funny here, as well as the rest of the supporting cast, to make it quite an engrossing little movie. Aces!Works Inspite of ShortcomingsAuthor: tfrizzellfrom United States20 July 2002A first-year med student (Matthew Modine) is obsessed with becoming a doctor, but jokes his way through everything else in his life in this under-rated little flick that works due to a clever screenplay and good performances from the major players in the cast. The film goes for funny and outlandish situations, but has undertones of drama early and then the drama takes center stage by the film's final act. Christine Lahti shines as the one professor who locks horns with Modine. Above-average and enjoyable overall.Interesting Caricature of Medical SchoolAuthor: heinlenfrom America8 November 2004Having been through the first two years of medical school (including, of course, Gross Anatomy) it is obvious to me that whomever wrote the original material for this movie had some understanding of the precise pressures an fears that medical students suffer. Many people say that "medical school is difficult" and it is, but that idea gives you very little understanding of what really goes on that makes it difficult. Many movies get basic ideas essentially wrong - take "Flatliners" where the characters do hospital rounds routinely, although they are still just conducting Gross Anatomy classes (albeit in a dankly lit dungeon environment).In Gross Anatomy, the basic characters you seen in Med School are there. David Schreiner, the guy who burns out, represents all the people who got in off the wait list and barely eek by, all the time hating the rest of the people who find it easier. Miles Reed is your typical "Gunner" who gets by not only by obsessing over every detail of class, but by incessant campus climbing. Kim McCauley is the lovable girl who seems oblivious and ambulant to her own performance (and will likely become the best doctor of the bunch). Laurie is the girl who "always wanted to be a doctor" and has a single-minded ambition to put nothing between her and her school work, much to the detriment of her social life. Joe Slovak is probably the least realistic character - there aren't too many happy go lucky people for whom medical school is so easy. You see jovial people around who never seem to get behind, but at the same time always participate in extra curriculars, but not with Joe's laid back, devil may care attitude, and certainly not his contempt for patients.Many of the classroom and test scenes are sort of over-hyped - think about how many times they professors say, "People this IS Gross Anatomy". However, at the same time, there is always an importance placed on the seriousness of the school environment that hints at what the experience is really about.I enjoy the movie because it does almost seem like an inside job in the medical field poking fun at many of the people and practices we see on the way to medical licenser and is only thinly wrapped with the hint of a storyline.Dissection of The First Year of Medical SchoolAuthor: lord woodburry ([email protected])from The Society NY14 May 2006This is a genteel romantic comedy about the first year of medical school from the perspective of Laurie Rorbach (Daphne Zuniga). There's no hold barred from day one onward: This is a total commitment.Enter Joe Slovak (Matthew Modine. He's the wise guy from a lower class background but he's got a system for beating the odds and getting by with a minimum of effort. His natural intelligence pulls him through most test of wills, but that chip on the shoulder attitude leaves him with utter contempt for the concept that something greater than educating a medical mechanic is at work. A wise instructor Dr. Rachel Woodruff (Christine Lahti) is out to teach Slovak a powerful lesson.The lab partner make up an excellent supporting cast. The washout student who is bright willing though unable, the Joe-College type who has pretensions and ambitions as thinly veiled as Slovak's sarcasm, and the female student whose husband wants to keep her barefoot and pregnant give a good cross-section of young adulthood which is of course still in a "becoming" stage.I was surprised to see that this delightful film did not get higher ratings.not to be confused with the "Anatomy" horror moviesAuthor: disdressed12from Canada23 May 2007i liked this http://movie.it's about first year medical students and what they go Through It focuses specifically on a small group of five in PARTICULAR.IT's a drama more than anything.it the first half of the movie is pretty light in tone,but the second half is much more serious in tone.in fact,there are two heartbreaking scenes in the second half, which got me pretty emotional.but that's just me.this is a very much a character and story driven movie and it succeeds,in my mind,at least mostly.the acting is pretty good.Matthew Modine, Daphne Zuniga and Christine are the main actors.all are likable characters,in their own way. .overall, well written,well acted movie.not great, but pretty good.for me,"Gross Anatomy" is an 7/10Romantic comedy and character study nicely rolled into a dramaAuthor: napierslogsfrom Ontario, Canada22 November 2010"Gross Anatomy" is a romantic comedy and med school student learns about life and himself character study, nicely rolled into a drama. I first saw it as a young teen in the early 90s, and it stuck with me as a dramatic romantic comedy but more so as a med school examination that really spoke to me.Almost twenty years later, I am much more film literate, and while I still like it, I can see it's not as good as it could have been, or as I remember it. It's really not much of a character study, as Matthew Modine's Joe is your typical smart slacker who gets by on his looks, charm and natural intelligence - which is almost enough for med school. I wish they showed me more of his struggles in school and less of his romantic efforts to win over Laurie (Daphne Zuniga). The romantic comedy angle is so formulaic and predictable, that the comedy fell flat. On the other hand, the interpretation of med school seemed more realistic and not as enticing as most shows and movies make it out to be."Gross Anatomy" is probably more intriguing to a younger audience, with its immature characters and predictable romance. But these characters are appealing, especially Modine as we follow him on his journey through first year med school. I was not as emotionally invested as I first was years ago, but I still enjoyed this as a cute film.A nice dissection of year one in the life of a medical studentAuthor: Amy Adlerfrom Toledo, Ohio3 July 2007Joe Slovak (Matthew Modine) is the son of an east coast fisherman. Bright as a button, however, Joe wants to become a doctor and he gains acceptance into a medical school. Once there, his easy going style is at odds with those around him. Beautiful Laurie (Daphne Zuniga) is the privileged daughter of a wealthy doctor and wastes no time in telling Joe that her schedule has no room for casual dating. Then, too, Joe's anal roommate, David (Todd Field) is so uptight he has flossing on his daily schedule and his lab partner, Miles, has a silk shirt on every day. In addition to all of this, the school boasts a no-nonsense instructor (Christine Lahti) that uses ridicule as a teaching tool, if she so desires. Will Joe be able to sail the difficult waters of a first year medical student, without compromising his basic style and principles? This is a fine look at the first year in the life of a medical student. The workload is excruciating, to say the least, and even those who are smart and dedicated can fall between the cracks, failing examinations and more. All of the actors playing these roles are terrific, with Modine a delight as the atypical medical student and Zuniga very lovely as the determined but thoughtful doctor to be. Then, too, Lahti is wonderful as the much-despised instructor who uses her sharp tongue to weed out those who don't have what it takes to become competent doctors. You will like the costumes, sets, and look of this film very much, too. If you are contemplating a future as a doctor, you must get this film soon, as it will give you a taste of the intensity your life will take on for the next few years. But, even if you just love films about the medical profession or those that boast a nice little love story, this one is for you.Teacher AssistantAuthor: grege83from United States6 October 2009I am the guy(the teacher assistant) pointing at the diagram on the chalkboard(for about 3 seconds) in the movie.(no kidding)The movie itself is largely entertaining, though predictable. It is obvious the guy will get the girl in the end, though what he has to go through to get her makes it interesting.If I were interested in going to medical school, seeing this movie might make me think twice about it.Still, it illustrates the same tired theme of many other movies. This being, "You gotta really want it, more than anything else, if you're gonna get through it successfully."Daphne Zuniga is enchanting in her role and Matthew Modine is annoying in his. I almost hoped he wouldn't end up with her. It reminded me a bit of his role in "Full Metal Jacket." Maybe they should have called him "Joker" in this movie,too.Overall,a pleasant, if inconsequential, movie.medical school dramaAuthor: SnoopyStyle1 February 2016Joe Slovak (Matthew Modine) gets into Chandler University's College of Medicine. He's a smart irreverent student from a fishing community. His roommate David Schreiner (Todd Field) is neat and high-strung. His Gross Human Anatomy class is taught by Dr. Rachel Woodruff (Christine Lahti) who thinks he doesn't try hard enough. He changes group to be close to Laurie Rorbach (Daphne Zuniga). The group includes the self-important Miles Reed and Kim McCauley with a family.This is 'The Paper Chase' of medical school. Everything in the story is telegraphed. The story is pretty well done. The acting is solid. There are some lighter rom-com moments but this is a generally serious drama. The major problem seems to be that there is an expectation of a wacky comedy with heart. There is no wacky comedy in this. There is a sprinkling of lighter moments in a pretty solid school drama.

Here are 303 writing prompts that I wrote. Three different types.We get our ideas from a plethora of sources — news headlines, novels, television shows, movies, our lives, our fears, our phobias, etc. They can come from a scene or moment in a film that wasn’t fully explored. They can come from a single visual that entices the creative mind — a seed that continues to grow and grow until the writer is forced to finally put it to paper or screen.One of the best ways to find compelling and engaging story concepts is to come up with intriguing “What if…” questions. Some of the greatest cinematic stories have come from the answers to some of those questions.101 “What if…”Writing Prompts…Note: Because we’re all connected to the same pop culture, news headlines, and inspirations, any similarity to any past, present, or future screenplays, novels, short stories, television pilots, television series, plays, or any other creative works is purely coincidence. These story writing prompts were conceived on the fly without any research or Google search for inspiration.1. What if the past and present timelines began to merge?2. What if the Greek Gods truly did use to walk the earth?3. What if your stepfather or stepmother is actually your future self?4. What if the sun began to die?5. What if the universe as we know it is actually someone’s imagination?6. What if the Big Bang was actually nothing more than someone coming up with the idea of our solar system?7. What if an alien invasion was actually meant to stop humans from destroying themselves?8. What if a young boy or young girl could hear everyone’s inner thoughts?9. What if a newly elected President came to power because they could hear everyone’s inner thoughts?10. What if technology was a test given to us by aliens to see what we’d do with it?11. What if a portal opened to another world during a child’s sleepover?12. What if the human mind suddenly went through an extreme form of evolution?13. What if robots were actually here first?14. What if we are actually the descendants of another planet, brought here long ago?15. What if an executioner was suddenly granted the ability to bring people back from the dead?16. What if the dream world is the actual world?17. What if World War I never happened?18. What if World War II never happened?19. What if the space program never stopped going to the moon?20. What if there are still people in bunkers from the buildup to the Y2K scare?21. What if a worldwide EMP destroyed all electronics?22. What if a woman was elected President?23. What if the oceans began to dry up?24. What if dinosaurs are still alive somewhere?25. What if vampires are real?26. What if ghosts were the ones that were alive… not us?27. What if some scientist has been successfully cloning humans for years?28. What if you had the powers of God for one day?29. What if you could relive your childhood in exchange for your life?30. What if the Creator has been in a coma?31. What if Christ has been among us for 32 years?32. What if someone could possess anyone’s body for 24 hours?33. What if God came down as a human to explore his or her creation?34. What if Bruce Lee never died?35. What if someone came out to the press claiming to be Andy Kaufman?36. What if Hitler survived World War II?37. What if Hitler was discovered living in an American suburb in the 1950s?38. What if someone unlocked the secret to immortality?39. What if Christ was an alien… and he returned?40. What if the remaining superpowers decided to invade America?41. What if a humanoid underwater civilization was discovered in the ocean depths?42. What if magicians were actually part of a secret society that could use real magic?43. What if every human being had the same dream at the same time?44. What if the world suddenly became a musical and people could only communicate in song?45. What if dogs and humans switched bodies?46. What if cats and dogs ruled the earth?47. What if there was a scientifical explanation to ghosts?48. What if a wormhole opened up just outside of Earth’s atmosphere?49. What if the moon was once Earth’s equivalent?50. What if Mars is already populated by a species living underground?51. What if you could stop time at will?52. What if someone had the ability to morph into anyone, anytime?53. What if a comatose patient could communicate with their loved ones through their dreams?54. What if a comatose patient started to haunt the dreams of their nurse?55. What if Mark Twain was brought into the present from the past to experience how life has changed?56. What if time travel was real?57. What if time travel was discovered long ago by the elite New Order?58. What if all conspiracy theories are actually true?59. What if President Kennedy had never died?60. What if a small town in the middle of nowhere was actually a human zoo on an alien world?61. What if someone from Oz was left in Kansas after a tornado?62. What if the cure for cancer was found, but the government doesn’t want us to know?63. What if every male in the world dropped dead because of some chromosome-related disease?64. What if Area 51 hides a wormhole to alien worlds?65. What if Area 51 is a cover site?66. What if a reporter discovered that an unknown astronaut went missing in space during the Gemini and Apollo missions?67. What if angels lived among us?68. What if children were now angels born into man?69. What if a police officer discovered that his whole precinct was actually aliens in disguise?70. What if humans are all organic robots that killed off their makers long ago?71. What if the memories of every living human on Earth were erased?72. What if all of the adults disappeared, leaving only children to fend for themselves?73. What if there are monsters living under our beds?74. What if a poor man or woman discovered an actual money tree that only they could see?75. What if someone woke up to discover that they were living in their parent’s bodies during their own childhood?76. What if video game consoles could control real soldiers?77. What if a boy or girl realizes that their family has been replaced by aliens?78. What if rooms in a huge mansion were portals to people’s nightmares?79. What if a serial killer found out that they had a long lost child?80. What if someone woke up in a remote forest with no recollection of how they got there?81. What if a brother and sister, fighting over who gets to play Fortnite, were sucked into the game?82. What if someone discovered that they could email their past self?83. What if hackers erased everyone’s debt?84. What if an earthquake unleashed a series of underground monsters?85. What if a professional thief was blackmailed into stealing a haunted artifact from King Tut’s tomb?86. What if a newly elected President of the United States tried to find out the truth about the Kennedy Assassination?87. What if a newly elected President of the United States tried to find out the truth about Roswell?88. What if humans began to age backward?89. What if Star Wars was not a figment of George Lucas’s imagination?90. What if the Titanic suddenly appeared… with no people onboard?91. What if the Titanic suddenly appeared… with all of the original passengers and crew members onboard?92. What if someone woke up in a strange spaceship with no recollection of how they got there?93. What if someone kept waking up from dream after dream with no end and no way to determine what was real and what was a dream?94. What if the late night layover in a deserted airport was actually the gateway to heaven or hell?95. What if an island suddenly appeared off of the coast of New York?96. What if you suddenly woke up in the process of getting an MRI with no recollection of who you are and how you got there?97. What if you started to take on the characteristics and personality of your organ donor?98. What if the medical field performed the first brain transplant… with drastic results?99. What if a writer’s words came to life?100. What if filmmakers could produce a film by merely imagining it in their heads?101. What if you are actually the character that someone conjured after reading these story writing prompts?Source: My ScreenCraft article: 101 "What If..." Story Writing Prompts - ScreenCraft101 Terrifying Horror Story Prompts…1. A girl goes missing in the woods and her parents find only a decrepit and scary doll left behind. They soon learn that the doll is actually their daughter. And she’s alive.2. New residents to an old neighborhood are invited by their friendly neighbors to a Halloween party. The neighbors are vampires.3. A family dog runs away from home. He returns a year later to the delight of his family. But there’s something different about him. Something demonic.4. A girl goes missing. Fifteen years later her parents get a call from her older self. But they listen in fear because they killed their daughter that dark night years ago.5. A man reads a novel, soon realizing that the story is his very own — and according to the book, a killer is looming.6. A scientist clones his family that died in an airplane crash — but soon learns the repercussions of playing God.7. A man wakes up bound to an electric chair.8. A man wakes up in a coffin next to a fresh dead body.9. A woman wakes up to find her family gone and her doors and windows boarded up with no way to escape.10. A man afraid of snakes is shipwrecked on an island covered with them.11. Serial killers worldwide are connected by a dark web website.12. The world’s population is overtaken by vampires — all except one little child.13. A woman afraid of clowns is forced to work in a travelling circus.14. An astronaut and cosmonaut are on the International Space Station when their countries go to Nuclear War with each other. Their last orders are to eliminate the other.15. A treasure hunter finds a tomb buried beneath the dirt.16. A young brother and sister find an old door in their basement that wasn’t there before.17. Winged creatures can be seen within the storm clouds above.18. A man wakes up to find a hobo clown staring down at him.19. Residents of a town suddenly fall dead while the dead from cemeteries around them rise.20. A doctor performs the first head transplant — things go wrong.21. A man is texted pictures of himself in various stages of torture that he has no memory of.22. A girl wakes up to find a little boy sitting on his bed, claiming to be her younger brother — but she never had one.23. A scare walk in the woods during Halloween is actually real.24. A bartender serves last call to the only remaining patron who is the Devil himself.25. Earth suffers a planet-wide blackout as all technology is lost.26. A boy’s stepfather is actually a murderous werewolf.27. Something has turned the neighborhood pets into demonic killers.28. A priest is a vampire.29. A woman wakes up with no eyes.30. A man wakes up with no mouth.31. A monster is terrified by the scary child who lives above his bed.32. An astronaut jettisoned into the cold of space in a mission gone wrong suddenly appears at the doorstep of his family.33. A woman answers a phone call only to learn that the voice on the other end is her future self warning her that a killer is looming.34. A boy realizes that his family has been replaced by aliens.35. A woman wakes up in an abandoned prison that she cannot escape.36. A bank robber steals from the small town bank that holds the riches of witches.37. A door-to-door salesman circa the 1950s visits the wrong house.38. Deceased soldiers return to their Civil War era homes.39. Kidnappers abduct the child of a vampire.40. An innocent circus clown discovers the dark history of the trade.41. A homeless man is stalked by faceless beings.42. A spelunker stumbles upon a series of caverns infested with rattlesnakes.43. A group of friends are forced to venture through a chamber of horrors where only one is promised to survive.44. He’s not the man she thought he was. In fact, he’s not a man at all.45. Suburbia is actually purgatory.46. Someone discovers that we are all actually robots — who created us and why?47. She’s not an angel, she’s a demon.48. An old shipwreck washes ashore.49. A sinkhole swallows a house whole and unleashes something from beneath.50. A man suffers from sleep paralysis at the worst possible time.51. A woman out hiking is caught in a bear trap as the sun begins to go down.52. Naked figures with no faces stalk campers in the woods.53. An astronaut is the sole survivor of a moon landing gone wrong — only to discover that the moon is infested with strange creatures.54. A woman is wrongfully condemned to an insane asylum.55. A mother’s baby will not leave it’s womb and continues to grow and grow and grow while doctors try to cut it out but can’t.56. Friends on a road trip stumble upon a back country town whose residents all dress up as different types of clowns.57. Tourists in Ireland retreat to an old castle when the country is taken over by greedy and vengeful leprechauns.58. A boy on a farm makes a scarecrow that comes alive.59. A figure dressed in an old, dirty Easter Bunny suit haunts the children of a town.60. The abused animals of a zoo are unleashed and wreak havoc on a small town.61. A deceased grandma’s old doll collection comes alive.62. Little Red Riding Hood was a vampire.63. Somebody clones Hitler and raises him as a white supremacist.64. A pumpkin patch comes alive — beings with heads of pumpkins and bodies of vines.65. An endless swarm of killer bees wreaks havoc on the country.66. Christ returns to Earth — at least that is who people thought he was.67. A natural anomaly brings all of the country’s spiders to a horrified town.68. A woman finds old 16mm film from her childhood and sees that she had a sister — what happened to her?69. Something ancient rises from an old pond.70. A woman suddenly begins to wake up in somebody else’s body every morning — each day ends with her being stocked and killed by the same murderer in black.71. An Artificial Intelligence begins to communicate with a family online, only to terrorize them through their technology.72. A family buys a cheap house only to discover that an old cemetery is their back yard.73. Years after the zombie apocalypse subsides, survivors discover that the epidemic was caused by aliens that have appeared to lay claim to the planet.74. A woman has memories of being abducted by aliens — but she soon learns that they weren’t aliens. They were…75. A boy has a tumor that slowly grows into a Siamese twin — the older they get, the more evil the twin becomes.76. A cult that worships history’s deadliest serial killers begins to kill by copying their methods.77. Stone gargoyles suddenly appear on the tops of buildings and houses of a small town.78. A family on a boat trip stumbles upon an old pirate ship.79. A winter snow storm traps a family in an abandoned insane asylum.80. A little girl comes down from upstairs and asks her parents, “Can you hear it breathing? I can.”81. A town is enveloped in unexplained darkness for weeks.82. A jetliner flies high in the sky as Nuclear War breaks out below.83. Children discover a deep, dark well in the woods — an old ladder leads down into it.84. A child sleep walks into their parent’s room and whispers, “I’m sorry. The devil told me to.”85. As a woman showers, a voice comes from the drain whispering, “I see you.”86. A child finds a crayon drawing of a strange family — it’s inscribed with the words we live in your walls.87. All of the cemetery’s graves are now open, gaping holes — the dirt pushed out from underground.88. A woman is watching a scary movie alone on Halloween night — someone, or something, keeps knocking at her door.89. Someone is taking a bath as a hand from behind the shower curtain pushes their head into the water.90. A farmer and his sons begin to hear the laughter of children coming from his fields at night — no children are in sight.91. Someone looks out their window to see a clown standing at a corner holding a balloon — staring them.92. Mannequins in a department store seem to be moving on their own.93. What if the God people worshiped was really Satan — and Satan had somehow kept God prisoner?94. A man dies and wakes up in the body of a serial killer — and no matter how hard he tries to stop killing, he can’t.95. A prisoner awakens to find the prison empty — but he’s locked in his cell.96. A woman jogging stumbles upon a dead, bloody body — she then hears a strange clicking sound and looks up to see a dark figure running towards her.97. A girl hears laughter downstairs — she’s the only one home.98. An Uber driver picks up the wrong person — and may not live to tell the tale.99. There’s someone or something living and moving up in the attic — but it’s not a ghost.100. A child’s imaginary friend is not imaginary.101. The reflections that we see of ourselves in the mirror are actually us in a parallel universe — and they are planning to do whatever it takes to take our place in this world.Source: My ScreenCraft Article 101 Terrifying Horror Story Prompts - ScreenCraft101 Hilarious (or Slightly Amusing) Comedic Story Prompts…1. Two opposing football coaches from rival schools fall in love with each other.2. A man is afraid of everything.3. A mom is obsessed with wanting to be popular amongst her teenage daughter’s friends and peers.4. A past arcade game champion from the 1980s quits his job to travel the country getting high scores on classic arcade game consoles.5. A world where cats and dogs rule Earth.6. Mark Twain is transferred into the future to experience what life is like now.7. Someone believes that they are an amazing athlete, but nothing could be further from the truth.8. A character desperate for a job accepts a position as an interpreter, but can’t actually speak the native language.9. A bigot’s soul is transferred into a minority’s body.10. An egotistical genius is suddenly stripped of their intelligence.11. An unethical CEO of a superstore is ordered by the court to work a month as a cashier.12. A cowboy is forced to work in the corporate world.13. A male mermaid falls in love with a female castaway.14. Mrs. Claus is forced to deliver presents on Christmas after her husband runs off with a stripper.15. A janitor enacts hilarious daily revenge on the students that mock him.16. An Uber driver picks up a doppelganger.17. A disgraced angel who hates humans is forced to live amongst them.18. A mother and her teenage son switch bodies.19. The world’s unluckiest man.20. A man finds a loophole to enter the Miss Universe contest.21. A world where everybody suddenly tells the truth no matter what the consequences.22. A pastor is accidentally sent to Hell for a missionary trip.23. A talented but laid-off chef is forced to take a job in a fast food joint.24. A group of promiscuous high school friends decides to live like do-good virgins to win the heart of a new student.25. What if Romeo and Juliet hated each other?26. Someone dies, only to see that their childhood wish of returning to life as a dog comes true.27. Someone that faints at the sight of blood becomes a vampire.28. A man discovers that’s he’s actually a robot.29. An alternate universe where adults are the children and kids run the world.30. A man suffers from a strange mental disorder that forces him to communicate only through puns.31. High school friends of the opposite sex vow to marry each other by 40 if they’re still single — only to finally reunite at a high school reunion and discover they can’t stand each other, but don’t want to be alone.32. A tone-deaf singer trying to make it as a performer.33. An egotistical Dungeons & Dragons player wakes up within the world of their campaign.34. Pranking gets out of hand in an office building.35. A man finds any way he can to get his wife to divorce him — but none of it works.36. A marriage counselor that has been married five times.37. The world’s worst beekeeper.38. The world’s worst soccer player that is only on the team because their father coaches.39. An otherwise innocent priest is disenchanted with the church, quits, and decides to make up for lost time by sinning — but their conscious is making it very difficult.40. The world’s worst hunter.41. The angel and devil on one’s shoulders are actually real.42. A man afraid of the water decides to confront his fear by visiting the world’s biggest waterpark.43. A man afraid of clowns decides to confront his fear by attending clown school.44. A woman is literally afraid of her own shadow.45. The country’s funniest comedian decides to run for president as a joke — and wins.46. The world of enthusiastic parents and coaches during a week-long soccer tournament.47. A group of childhood friends reunites for their 25th reunion only to learn that each of them has undergone drastic changes in their genders and sexualities.48. A character obsessed with Tom and Jerry cartoons is thrust into that world.49. The son of a secret agent is nothing like his father.50. A princess from another country decides to go incognito and attend an American college.51. A prince from a male-dominated society comes to America.52. The opposite of vertigo — the fear of being too close to the ground.53. A woman has Sinistrophobia — the fear of objects to your left.54. A millennial who can’t detach from technology is forced to go camping.55. A romantic comedy about two dogs that fall in love against all the odds.56. Someone that hates horror movies because the characters make stupid mistakes is thrust into a world where those scenarios play out.57. Dogs and cats, living together.58. The frog that was turned into a prince turns back into a frog after the princess divorces him.59. A millennial who can’t detach from technology is transported to 1980s.60. A hipster who wishes they could live in the simpler times of the 1800s gets their wish and realizes how hard that life really was.61. A Little House on the Prairie fan wishes they could live in that world and realizes how hard that life really was.62. A TV personality is a fake Shark expert on a Shark Week show.63. A popular TV Chef that can’t really cook is hired by the White House to cook for the inaugural ball.64. An egotistical President of the United States decides to pull a publicity stunt for the upcoming election — he wants to be the first president in space.65. A family wakes up to discover that their dog, two cats, and two frogs can now talk.66. A family is transported to the land of Oz only to be mistaken as witches because of their smartphones.67. Unappreciative twin brother and sister are transported into the bodies of their father (brother) and mother (sister) at their birth and get a taste of what it was like raising twins.68. Unappreciative twin brother and sister are transported into the bodies of their father (sister) and mother (brother) at their birth and get a taste of what it was like raising twins.69. Parents travel into the future to see what their children are like — and the results are not that great.70. Grandparents welcome their six grandchildren for a week’s vacation; only the parents never come back.71. A group of children start an underground candy factory and run it like a drug cartel.72. A group of soccer moms start an underground cupcake factory and run it like a drug cartel.73. A bunch of bored fathers that binge The Sopranos decides to start a suburban mafia — but they are a far cry from gangsters.74. A farmer decides to open a knock-off of Disneyland, complete with lackluster versions of Pirates of the Caribbean, The Jungle Cruise, It’s a Small World, and many other iconic Disney rides.75. The competitive world of belly flop competitions.76. The competitive world of cannonball diving.77. The competitive world of adult go-cart racing.78. The competitive world of minigolf tournaments.79. Neighbors living in Midwest suburbia decide to get into the lucrative world of internet couples pornography.80. A white family wants to open up a Chinese restaurant in Chinatown.81. A group of children obsessed with 1980s movies decides to remake the classics.82. A group of children playing hide and seek in their basement discover old VHS tapes and have no clue how to play them — leading to an adventurous journey of mystery and discovery.83. A middle school decides to run school elections like the presidential race and prove to the world how childish adults in the political world really are.84. A grownup butt dials their childhood phone number. Guess who answers?85. A priest, a rabbi, and a monk walk into a bar.86. The world’s worst fistfight between two suburban dads goes viral.87. A world where humans evolved from sloths.88. A white-collar prisoner does everything he can to return to prison when he’s released at an old age.89. A spoof of The Shawshank Redemption where the protagonist is an idiot that makes the most stupid mistakes and gets caught at every escape attempt.90. The world’s easiest prison to escape.91. A hardcore rapper that actually didn’t grow up in the hood.92. A mom that has had enough of her spoiled children and husband plans a vacation for herself.93. A man and his best friend, his dog, switch bodies.94. A woman and her best friend, a cat, switch bodies.95. A movie buff that is sick of body switch movies actually switches bodies with someone.96. The competitive world of the Summer Redneck Games —classic events include the toilet seat horseshoe toss, watermelon seed spitting, mud pit belly flop.97. The competitive world of Quidditch.98. The world of Renaissance fairs.99. The world of cosplayers.100. A 25th high school reunion committee decides to do an adult prom, leading to mirrored drama from twenty-five years ago.101. A blogger trying to concoct a list of 101 hilarious (or slightly amusing) comedic story prompts runs out of ideas when he reaches the end of the list.Source: My ScreenCraft Article 101 Hilarious (or Slightly Amusing) Comedic Story Prompts - ScreenCraftPlease follow The Tao of Screenwriting for more screenwriting and film industry insights. Ask me questions. Come visit this “dojo” for screenwriting, movie, television, film/TV industry insights, inspiration, writing exercises & best practices, tips, advice, and industry hacks. I’m here to help and share and inspire. This answer was adapted from three articles I wrote on ScreenCraft. Check them out!

Trump or Biden?IntroductionSince people have given their lives partially to preserve our right to vote, I wholeheartedly believe that it's our sacred and patriotic duty to do so and preserve our liberty. In the hope of helping undecided voters make their final decision, what follows is the basis upon which I made mine. If you base your decision on what policies each candidate might or have pursued, rather than each one’s personality, I think you will discover one candidate to be more effective than the other in getting things done without impinging on our liberties. Because what’s at stake is nothing less than what kind of country we'll have after this election, it may be worth investing the time to read one or more of the 9 parts of this paper. You are welcome to share anything you believe may be helpful to others.Part 1 - Compare promises and accomplishmentsPart 2 – What if… and the importance of the candidate for Vice PresidentPart 3 – Personal ConsiderationsPart 4 – Typical arguments including racism & anti-SemitismPart 5 – 15 Relevant Questions and considerationsPart 6 – WalkAway Democrats, Comparing Careers, Pandemic, RiotingPart 7 – Impact of the divisive hate campaign and media collusionPart 8 – Uncomfortable considerationPart 9 – Voting criteria and conclusionPart 1 - Confession and Decision-Making ProcessBefore laying this out, I have a confession to make: I voted for Obama once, but sometime during his first term in office I read his book and it was a revelation. I started to focus on his deeds rather than his polished well-spoken words. Consequently, I didn't vote for the Obama-Biden ticket a second time.Now I face a similar choice having to consider for each candidate the stark contrast between their words, deeds, and personalities. I also realize that it’s not a personality contest. But this time we can go beyond campaign promises because each one has a track record: we can compare 8 years of Obama-Biden with almost 4 years of Trump-Pence.So, let’s begin by taking a look at President Trump’s accomplishments. Keep in mind that by the fourth year of a president's first term, failures are his and his alone. Blame can no longer be attributed to the shortcomings and policies of the previous administration. The same applies to his successes.Until the onset of the catastrophic pandemic—something quite impossible to predict—any reasonable person would agree that President Trump kept most of his campaign promises—something not very many former presidents can lay claim to. The significance was revealed in the smoking hot economy before the China virus struck and in the continued amazing recovery since the partial re-opening of the economy. His critics, moreover, must concede that the economy was zipping along before the spread of the virus, however much they wish to credit Obama for those remarkable successes. That should be enough for almost any president to be easily reelected.Let’s take a look at the list of some of President Trump's accomplishments in the face of overwhelming pressures, threats, and cabals seeking to impeach him.(1) record numbers of people were working(2) minorities had the lowest unemployment rate in modern times(3) lowered healthcare costs by removing gag orders on pharmacies(4) welfare slavery was being reversed(5) restored Obama’s funding cuts to black colleges and universities(6) by executive order, anti-Semitism was officially condemned and added to the Civil Rights Act(7) reinvigorated the military's readiness and moral(8) expanded the services in the US Department of Veterans Affairs by reforms of policies and ongoing programs(9) got passed the Family Leave Act(10) reversed the undermining of police morale(11) mitigated the negative impact of the Biden coauthored Crime Bill on blacks and Hispanics(12) reversed the weakening of border security in part by enforcing existing immigration laws(13) welcomed Christian victims of Islamic religious apartheid and deadly oppression in the Middle East and North Africa(14) discontinued and sharply condemned the Obama-Biden administration's practice of using government agencies to spy on political and ideological opponents (aka Obamagate)(15) pursued policies that resulted in the United States finally achieving energy independence(16) lower gasoline prices resulting from energy independence (see #15)(17) kept interest rates lower(18) implemented a tax cut that stimulated the economy(19) pursued policies that resulted in manufacturing jobs returning to the US from overseas(29) lessened reliance on unfriendly foreign countries for strategic goods(21) renegotiated detrimental trade treaties to our benefit(22) convinced our allies to pay their fair share of NATO costs(23) reversed promotion of the Obama-Biden belief in globalism over nationalism(24) soaring stock market and with it the portfolios of working people(25) emphasized the power of capitalism and economic growth relative to the Democrats' preference to emulate failed socialist systems(26) reduced and eliminated many of the stifling excessive regulations by government agencies(27) scrapped the divisive promotion of race consciousness via identity politics(28) ended the embarrassing practice of the president of the United States apologizing to our enemies(29) fulfilled significant promises made to Israel including moving our embassy to Jerusalem(30) facilitated peace agreements between Israel and several Arab states(31) stopped the undermining of Israel with US votes in the UN(32) ended the funding of Palestinian Arab terrorism(33) ended the suicidal treasonous whitewashing of the civilization-destroying ideology of submission (Islam in Arabic)(34) did not repeat the Obama-Biden act of sending billions of dollars in cash to a "Death to America and Death to Israel" country like the Islamic Republic of Iran(35) terminated the disastrous nuclear deal with the "Death to America" Islamic Republic of Iran(36) kept the US out of new wars in the last four years, and was the first president in nearly half a century who didn’t use our military to overthrow a foreign governmentEven if someone attempted to dispute one or more of these items, an objective observer would likely wonder how much more might have been accomplished for all the people of this country had the Democratic Party not practiced the politics of No, Slander, Sabotage, Misdirection, and a phony impeachment trial.Also keep in mind that Joseph Robinette Biden Jr., Democrat candidate for president has boasted that if elected that he would drop most if not all of the policies or executive orders that that led to these successes, reinstate restrictive regulations, and raise taxes. You might compare what Trump's leadership has actually succeeded in getting done in less than four years in office with Joe Biden's nearly five decades in government, including eight years as vice president. Besides the Crime Bill that Biden co-wrote which resulted in an explosive increase in the number of blacks and other minorities being sent to jail, one would be hard-pressed to name another item of major impact on the country has Biden been instrumental in getting accomplished.One question to ask about all the wonderful far-reaching promises Biden and the Democrats have been making about what they'll do if elected is why didn't they fulfill them during the 8 years when Obama-Biden led the government? If they lied to us before, what would we let them fool us again? This weighed heavily on my voting decision.If the radical policies Biden promotes and wishes to impose on the entire country were effective, shouldn't cities and states run by liberal democrats for decades already be models of growth and prosperity? Since this clearly is not the case, why should we vote for a candidate that advocates policies that contributed to the deterioration of so many cities?Part 2 – What if… and the importance of the candidate for Vice PresidentThere's an observation about Biden’s candidacy that has significance and far-reaching implications for the entire country. Anyone who has personally experienced having a family member or close friend who suffered from dementia can see that Biden is repeatedly showing signs of its onset. It's not just a case of rare occurrences, momentary slip-ups, faux pas, or some personality quirk on his part but undeniable and observable deterioration. This weighed heavily on my decision, and I would think it would on yours as well.Ask yourself, if Biden was a trial attorney, would you trust him to represent you in court against a serious felony charge to keep you from going to prison? Remember your answer when you vote.Now imagine the unimaginable - imagine that either candidate wins and couldn't serve the full four-year term in office for whatever reason. Would you trust and have more confidence in Michael Pence or Kamala Harris to become the President of the United States with the power to issue a wide range of executive orders and serve as Commander in Chief of the armed forces with the authority to start wars and launch nuclear weapons? With which one would you feel safer? Once again, remember your answer when you vote.Part 3 – Personal considerationMost of us know of someone who lost friendships, alienated family members, or even lost a job or promotion because of the impact of the Democrats' strategy of encouraging fascist-like intolerance toward Trump supporters. Those who voice positive opinions about President Trump or even wear a pro-Trump hat, shirt or button are at risk of suffering verbal, social, and/or physical abuse. The reverse rarely, if ever, happens. This is not the United States we grew up in. Ask yourself why this is happening and who is benefiting from it.The purpose of the hostile atmosphere fostered by the Democratic Party is to divert our attention away from the tangible positive results of President Trump's policies by tricking you into focusing on his demeanor instead of his deeds. They'll do anything that keeps you from comparing the Obama-Biden administration with the Trump-Pence administration - anything! They'll try to distract you by talking about his taxes, hair color, if he's wearing a mask during the pandemic, or any other relatively trivial topic. They've even spent tens of millions of taxpayer dollars, your dollars, and weeks of wasted legislative time on a phony impeachment investigation and trial.Part 4 – Typical ArgumentsTrumpophobics usual in-depth unsubstantiated arguments against the President can be summarized as follows:- Orange man bad- He lies (unlike other politicians)- He's racist (despite copious evidence to the contrary- He's an anti-Semite (again despite copious evidence to the contrary)These inanities have absolutely nothing to do with the results of his policies. It's insulting to your intelligence that the Democrats are attempting to misdirected your attention.It's something like an old saying that goes something like, "When all else fails, slander becomes the tool of last resort for the losers."Is there evidence that either Biden or Trump is a racist?Ask yourself why, before changing from being a Democrat to becoming a registered Republican, Donald Trump was heralded as a humanitarian who fought against racism. He received awards from major civil rights organizations and public praise from celebrities and politicians. See this for yourself by reading articles and viewing videos made before he switched parties. Many of the same Democrats who earlier praised him are the ones now vilifying him at every opportunity. They are bringing up things he said and did years and even decades ago to divert your attention. They must think that you're really very stupid and very gullible.While you're at it, also view videos of President Trump publicly denouncing neo-Nazis and white supremacists not once, not twice, but numerous times. But you might say, "What about Charlottesville?" The media edited out when he specifically excluded white supremacists when he said there were good people on both sides. Google and read the unedited transcript yourself. But be forewarned that you'll likely be royally pissed off about how once again you're being manipulated and played for a sucker by the Democrats.When President Trump banned travel from 8 countries with high risks of importing terrorism, including 6 of the 50 Muslim countries in the world, the Democrats and Joe Biden railed against it, claiming that the president’s ban was racist because it blocked all Muslims when in fact it did not.They used the same propaganda technique when Trump continued the Obama-Biden administration's policy of enforcing immigration laws on our border with Mexico. What could motivate a person to call a president racist who is trying to keep our country safe, in part by following laws passed by Democrats?LEGAL immigration - YesILLEGAL immigration - NoWhat law-abiding person who cares about our country would have a problem with that?Yet Biden's own running mate even accused him of supporting racist policies when she viciously attacked him on the debate stage in the Democratic primary. Again, watch the video.Biden and the leadership of the Democratic Party repeatedly accused Republicans and President Trump of being racist and sexiest. Yet they chose a vice presidential candidate (who was rejected by all but 2% of the voters in her own party's primaries) based on her race and sex. That struck me as oddly hypocritical, don’t you think?In general, the Democrats' divisive promotion of race consciousness and hatred of others based on politics is having a detrimental effect on the entire country. Have you noticed that the hatred almost always comes from the Democrats?Is there evidence of actual systemic racism?Ask yourself why any Black person would consider voting for the Democratic Party. Historically, it's the political party that championed slavery of blacks in chains until the 1860s, the KKK through the 1920s, black voter suppression, and Jim Crow racial segregation laws until the mid-1960s when welfare slavery took hold until this very day. They promote the welfare slavery that decimates family structure while undermining Black people's chances for upward mobility. Consider that 100 years after slavery in chains, 22% of black children grew up in single-parent households. That number tripled after only 30 years of plantation like paternalistic welfare slavery.Democrats have been using handouts and long-term welfare to buy votes and keep people dependent on the government. In contrast, the Republicans use handouts as a temporary stepping stone so people can eventually get jobs, have an opportunity for upward mobility, and a chance to free themselves from welfare slavery.The only time in decades that fewer blacks needed welfare and were no longer beholding to handouts from big government has been during the presidency of Donald J Trump. Over 5 million black people were able to get off food stamps and into meaningful work and onto self-reliance. That alone should be reason enough for them to vote for the Republican Party. If social justice is important to you, keep this in mind when you vote.And why would anyone for whom criminal and social justice is important, vote without first considering that Joe Biden is co-author of the Crime Bill which resulted in an explosive increase in the number of blacks and other minorities being sentenced to long terms in jail. Note too that President Trump has issued orders that resulted in the release of thousands who suffered from Biden's excessively harsh bill.Is President Trump anti-Semitic?- Is there evidence that the President of the United States with Jewish grandchildren is an anti-Semite?- Is his executive order that officially condemned anti-Semitism and added it to the Civil Rights Act an anti-Semitic action?- Is the president that finally kept the government's decades-long promise to move our embassy in Israel to Jerusalem an anti-Semite?In contrast, ask yourself:- Why would any Jew vote for a Democratic Party whose leadership protects its openly anti-Semitic members of congress?- Why would any Jew vote for the presidential candidate from the party that advocates reversing Trump's policies in order to restore the Obama-Biden funding to Israel's declared genocidal adversaries?- Why would any Jew vote for the candidate who has promised to renew the nuclear deal with the "Death to Israel" Islamic Republic of Iran?- Why would any Jew or any Zionist, vote for a Democrat, knowing that the highly regarded Simon Wiesenthal Center ranked the Obama-Biden administration's refusal to veto an anti-Israel UN Security Council resolution condemning Jewish communities in Judea and Samaria as the most anti-Semitic incident of 2016?Seriously?But recognize that dwelling on charges of racism or anti-Semitism is another ploy to redirect your focus away from the President's successes and Biden's failings.Part 5 – 15 Relevant Questions and emotional considerationsSometimes our decisions are based on emotion rather than or in addition to facts. Consider this when making your choice:1- If you're insulted by the diversionary tactics being used against you by the Democratic Party to misdirect your attention from comparing Trump's kept campaign promises and accomplishments with Biden's political career, then Trump should be your choice.2- If Democrats calling Republican candidate Trump a hate-monger seems completely opposite to what you’ve personally observed and that it's usually only Biden supporters that go ballistic and spew hatred and venom whenever someone dares to say anything positive about the President, then Trump should be your choice.3- If you're more bothered by over-the-top overly sensitive political correctness than by someone's brash demeanor, then Trump should be your choice.4- If you're disturbed by an apparent change in our education system from teaching our children HOW to think instead of teaching them WHAT to think, then Trump should be your choice.5- If you're angry that school curriculum in many Democrat-run cities is attempting to indoctrinate children in left-wing socialist principles while instilling race consciousness along with the belief that the United States is at its core a racist country, then Trump should be your choice.6- If you wonder if the reason some politicians aren’t objecting to the tearing down of historic statues of Democrat segregationists and slave owners may be because if the statues aren’t around then people won’t ask about the racists’ political affiliation (Democrat), then Republican Trump should be your choice.7- If you worry about the significant impact on your pocketbook to pay for your electric bill, to heat or cool your home, and soaring prices at the gas station if Biden’s announced energy policies are put in place if he's elected, then Trump should be your choice.8- If it bothers you that for the last 4 years White House press conferences have looked more like partisan gotcha events to attack President Trump than anything close to neutral journalism, then Trump should be your choice.9- If it doesn't smell right that while the mainstream media seemed to go on and on with front-page stories about hearsay accusations of Trump collusion with Russia or Ukraine, actual video and email evidence about Biden or his son doing almost the same thing is being ignored or underplayed, then Trump should be your choice.10- Considering the last item, if you're asking yourself why Democrats claim that while it's acceptable for Joe Biden to "blackmail" the President of Ukraine, that it's an impeachable offense if Donald Trump inquires about it, then Trump should be your choice.11- If comparing a successful businessman who went into government already a billionaire, with a career politician like Biden who somehow became a multimillionaire while only being in government raises questions, then Trump should be your choice.12- If you are scratching your head trying to understand why Democrats are calling President Trump racist for referring to a virus that began in China as the Chinese virus, then Trump should be your choice.13- If you find yourself wondering why reported instances of bundles of mail-in ballots found in the trash or massive voter fraud in recent elections (as in Newark, NJ) receive less attention in the media than democrats accusing Republicans of voter suppression if they raise these concerns, then Trump should be your choice.14- If you're concerned if Trump loses the election that the Democrats will bring an end to the far-reaching ongoing investigation into the Obama-Biden administration's weaponization of government agencies against American citizens and political opponents, then Trump is by far your safer choice.15- Before casting your vote, ask yourself if you really want the party that ruined Minneapolis, Memphis, New York, Philadelphia, San Francisco, Portland, Seattle, Chicago, Detroit, and other deteriorating dangerous cities to run the entire country again?... And much much more.Part 6 – WalkAway Democrats, Career Comparison, Pandemic, RiotingFor a real eye-opener, read some of the testimony given by ex-Democrats who joined the #WalkAway Campaign on Facebook. Quite a few of them were lifelong Democrats - including a few who had actually been politicians or activists for the Democratic Party. A theme you'll see expressed by some of them is that they don't perceive themselves so much as having walked away from the Democratic Party, but rather that a corrupted Democratic Party has changed for the worse and walked away from them. Last time I looked, the #WalkAway campaign Facebook group had over four hundred thousand members. It's well worth exploring it yourself.Career Comparison Think about this - The Democratic Party's long-time career politicians like Biden (over 50 years in government), Schumer (over 45), Pelosi (over 30), Feinstein (over 60), and Waters (over 45), all blame Trump (a businessman with less than 4 years in government) for problems they couldn't (or wouldn't) solve in decades.Honestly, one has to wonder if the strategy planners for the Democratic Party are secretly rejoicing over the collapse of the economy due to the impact of the pandemic.PandemicThose Democrats are the same hypocritical callous manipulators that called President Trump racist and xenophobic when he temporarily halted travel from China and Europe because of the impending pandemic. Of course no one is perfect, but can you imagine how many times greater would be the number of deaths from covid-19 had he listened to the Democrats and reversed the restrictions? Trump saw to the restocking of strategic medical supplies left nearly exhausted by the Obama-Biden administration after the last pandemic. And lest we forget, decisions about public health, safety, and pandemic restrictions are made by the governor of each state. The worse hit states are all run by Democrat governors whose mandated return of discharged Covid-19 patients to nursing homes resulted in a disproportionately high number of deaths. Yet those governors are blaming President Trump for the devastating impact of their decisions. They must think you are stupid enough to fall for that ploy.RiotingIf you're still not sure whether to vote for Trump-Pence or Biden-Harris ticket, ask yourself what are the chances that those doing the rioting, looting, arson, and assaults during some of the protests in cities across the country will be voting for Trump - somewhere between zero and none? Are you comfortable voting with them? And do you agree with Trump's condemnation of democrat mayors and prosecutors whose Catch and Release policies let arrested rioters go back to the streets? How does it make you feel that while President Trump considers Antifa to be a domestic terrorist organization that's engaged in countless acts of violence and destruction, Biden refuses to do the same? Think about that when you vote.It's become obvious that the leadership of the Democratic Party would go to any lengths, even allowing destructive riots to go unchecked in cities they control, to undermine the President of the United States. They are doing this regardless of the negative impact on the people in those cities and on the rest of the country. The huge number of homes and businesses destroyed, billions of dollars in damage and thousands of jobs lost overnight were apparently a small price to pay to undermine the positive impact of the President's concrete accomplishments. They even sank so low as to use the pandemic as a political weapon so you won't be thinking about how much better things were during the first three years of the Trump-Pence administration than under Obama-Biden.If only Trump's crystal ball worked as well as his critic's rearview mirror, things wouldn't be so bad, right? Think about that too.Part 7 – Impact of the divisive hate campaign and media collusionFor those unable to agree that President Trump is responsible for even a few of the three dozen aforementioned accomplishments, it may be beneficial to consider that this could be an indication that they themselves may be innocent victims of the insidious manipulation and hateful propaganda of the political party that lost the last presidential election. For some, hatred for the President of the United States is manifested as an irrational phobia whereby none of his words or deeds can be perceived in a positive manner. Meanwhile, patently false and/or slanderous accusations are wholeheartedly embraced. In extreme cases, they would go so far as to vote against their own self-interests and that of the country as a whole by voting for anyone but Trump, even if it meant undoing most of his positive accomplishments and exposing the country to potential dangers.There used to be a saying about computers that went something like: No matter how powerful or sophisticated the computer, garbage data going in will result in garbage results coming out. In other words, Garbage-in Garbage-out. This also holds true for people’s opinions no matter how intelligent, sincere, and open-minded is they happen to be. Ask yourself why in much of the mainstream media, good news about anything even remotely connected to the president will inevitably include something negative to mitigate its positive impact. This is clearly a partisan attempt to manipulate your opinion and ultimately your vote - It's partisanship in the mainstream media at its worst. Think about that before deciding for whom to vote.Part 9 – Uncomfortable considerationThere is one topic I am hesitant to include, so I kept it for last. It is not meant in any manner to be mudslinging politics or any form of slander. But self-censorship would have left this element of my decision-making process hidden away from you. But for me, even though it has little to do with the results of either candidate’s policies, it's a real concern.It leaves me with a bad taste in my mouth and an uneasy feeling every time I see video after video of Biden making little girls uncomfortable by the way he touches them. Once or twice may have been a case of an overly sensitive child or one who misinterpreted an innocent violation of personal space. It's not rumors, innuendo, or hearsay and we can't pretend that because of political concerns that what we're seeing with our own eyes isn't actually happening. One can't help but wonder why the mainstream media is participating in what appears to be a cover-up to protect Biden's image and reputation. Frankly, I'm not sure whether his actions or the media's apparent cover-up is more cause for concern. Both concerns had some measure of influence on my vote.Part 10 – Voting criteria and conclusionWhat are we faced with in this election, a choice between a lifetime politician, on one side a former VP, a 78-year-old with a few memory problems with few significant achievements to his credit for the 47 years he’s been in office. On the other side we have a former businessman who proved to be a vituperative, inarticulate, and narcissistic president.I've long said that what this country needed was a president who has more loyalty to the country than to any particular political party. Trump has demonstrated that he is that person and therefore earned my vote.Put aside your feelings for the moment and don't judge this book by its cover.-Vote based on substance, not style-Vote based on deeds, not words-Vote based on results, not promises-Vote based on performance, not personalityIn other words, vote in favor of the policy results of the Republican candidate rather than for more in a long long line of unfulfilled promises from the Democrat candidate. Vote for capitalism and the uplifting policies of the Trump-Pence administration rather than a return to the Chamberlinesque foreign policy and big government over-regulation and creeping invasive socialist policies championed by the Democrats. While Donald J Trump may occasionally say some really irritating and stupid things, his actions speak louder than his words.Consider all this and more when deciding whether to vote to re-elect Republican Trump. The vote is about the results of his policies, not if we like his personality. If his pre-pandemic accomplishments in only 3 years dwarfed Obama-Biden's in 8, imagine what he might do for the country with a second term.Regardless of what you feel you must do and say to avoid repercussions from democrats, socialists, globalists, or Trumpophobic friends, family, acquaintances, associates, or colleagues, remember this:NO ONE WILL EVER KNOW HOW YOU VOTED UNLESS YOU TELL THEM!Even if you now regret that you already early voted for Biden, do the right thing and share this with anyone you think may find it helpful to avoid making the same mistake.PSShooting the messenger doesn't qualify as a rebuttal.