Writing and Directing Drama

Within this 'Steve McQueen' play I have got some ideas as to who this person is and where they are. 

One of my main ideas is that the main character is a man who is a boaster and I believe that he is making this story up and I believe he is making it up because of who he is.  He is a down and out character who is just barely getting by in his work. , which I would say is an estate agency.  I then thought of writing down shots of him at his workplace with other younger workers talking about him, or a younger manager shouting at him.  I then believe that he could then deliver his story within a crummy bar where he is possibly trying to seduce a woman by telling this story about his meeting with Steve McQueen.  And since he works in an estate agency, his story is very believable since he is naturally a good talker.  But I can envision him not succeeding in talking with this woman which therefore makes his character more tragic.  This character that I have in my head is quite like Jack Lemmon's character Shelley Levene in the movie "Glengarry Glen Ross" which was written by David Mamet.

"Drama is life with the dull bits cut out"

                                            Alfred Hitchcock

 

Writing and Directing Drama

For an assigment I am going to write and possibly direct a screenplay based on a short play by David Mamet.  I'll let you see the writings of David Mamet which this specific one is simply called 'Steve McQueen':


...well, I'm from Hawaii - I met him when he was at the Kalona Mar, he was there two months.
He wasn't well. You Know. We'd talk... we got to talking motorcycles. He asked if he could borrow my bike, I said of course.  He got to taking it out every day.  He was registered there as "McGuire". He was keeping a low profile, you know? But after a week or two, you know, I think that he was lonely. I'd see him aound the pool. He must have seen me one morning coming to work on my bike, becasue he asked me about it: How was it riding, something; and we started talking about bikes. He had at that time over one hundred bikes in his collection... I don't know where they were.. in the states.
You know, The Great Escape...? He did those stunts himself. You know where he jumps the barb wire? He did that himself - though it wasn't barb wire.
He found out that I was into martial arts and we took to sparring. He was in great shape - even though his disease - he was strong as a horse at the time. A fifty-sixty-minute workout was nothing to him. I'll tell you something else is he would drink a case of beer a day. Twenty-four beers a day. Lowenbrau. I know becasue I used to bring them to him. And smoke like a chimney. I guess he was just one of those men who are blessed with a completely perfect constitution. Though he was in great pain. I know that he was.
 Indians...Harleys...Nortons... he had all of them. Did you know on the old Indian the oil used to go through the frame? It flowed through the frame.  You know the stunt on The Great Escape where they get the bike? The German motorcycle rider's coming down the road, they stretch a wire...? They had the greatest motorcycle rider in the world... Rusty, something... Rusty... they told him "Just drive down the road". They told him, "Be ready for anything." That's why it's so authentic. He runs into that wire...? He didn't know it was there.  They did it in one take. (Pause)
I met his son. (Pause) At that time he was training as a flight instructor. I stayed at his house in Malibu. Three Days.

                                                                                                                        
"Life is a tragedy when seen in close-up, but a comedy in long-shot."
                                                                                                        
                                                                                                        Charlie Chaplin