This article is an excerpt from the author’s movie screenplay “The Tycoon and the Teenager”, being proposed for Hollywood production. Interested producers and readers can read a shortened version of the screenplay at this link = https://eastwindjournals.com/2023/06/16/the-tycoon-and-the-teenager-30/
Terence is the vicious tycoon, the greedy billionaire. Therese is his newly hired teenage intellectual rebel, a summa cum laude with no work experience, hired for her devil-may-care perspective none of his best executives have.
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By Bernie V. Lopez, eastwindreplyctr@gmail.com / www.eastwindjournals.com
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THERESE – How many people did you cheat to get to the top.
TERENCE – Are you accusing me of being a cheat?
THERESE – Yes.
TERENCE – Just a few.
THERESE – Be honest with me, Terence, please, I beg you.
TERENCE – Okay, okay, more than a few.
THERESE – My gut feel is that you cheated a lot of people.
TERENCE – Yes, Therese, a lot.
THERESE – I knew it. Make a list, a complete detailed inventory – names, when, how much more or less, as far as you can remember.
TERENCE – I can’t remember.
THERESE – You mean you won’t remember.
TERENCE – Okay, I will do it. My accountants can do it.
THERESE – That’s your ticket to heaven, you know. Not one stone shall be left un-turned. You have to return every penny.
TERENCE – Plus interest?
THERESE – Plus interest. Your accountants can do everything. If the people who cheated are dead or you cannot find them, give it to the poor.
It took years for Terence to pay off the people he had cheated. He established a cancer foundation and placed the money he could not return to dead or missing people he had cheated, following the suggestion of Therese.
Terence discovered later that Therese had terminal cancer, that was why she was so devil-may-care about what would happen to her. She was drinking Tequila everyday as a form of suicide, meaning, in the hope it would hasten her death. But it did not. Terence let her manage the cancer foundation, which surprisingly healed her very own cancer. The doctors said she had 6 months to live. She was still alive and kicking after 5 years.
TERENCE – To what do you attribute your defying death, Therese.
THERESE – Simple, Terence. First, the Lord still needs me to pay off your lousy debts to people you cheated. Second, when you heal others, you heal yourself.
TERENCE – Agree.
With her salary, Therese left money with her sister to take care of her aging mother. She bought a modest beach house in Martha’s Vineyard in Cape Cod and a second-hand Benz. Terence was envious of her beach house, and bought a nearby one, bigger, more elegant.
THERESE – Are you following me?
TERENCE – Nope. I’m following Him.
THERESE – Oh. How nice. So, we’re both headed His way.
TERENCE – (Narration).
Therese and I, the tycoon and the teenager, watched a thousand sunsets together, over Cabernet this time, as she could no longer handle Tequila. We brainstormed regularly on how to give more love to the chaotic world. It was expensive, we realized, but we didn’t care because I had the money, and it triggered our adrenaline – hospitals, senior homes, even a vast open-air theater for concerts featuring the likes of Julio Iglesias and the Croatian cellist Hauser. The theater income would go to the poor and to a drama school for poor kids.
When Therese died, I had a hard time throwing my vast empire away for the Lord because there were just too many people I cheated. Now, I spend my sunsets alone in the beach, writing my book on the meaning of life, as Therese taught me in one frenzied afternoon in my office. The title will be ‘Sunset Girl’.
Everyone thought I was mad getting rid of my empire, except the Lord, of course.
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