UC Riverside UC Riverside Electronic Theses and Dissertations Title MARTIAL ARTS, INC. Permalink https://escholarship.org/uc/item/0sx910nv Author Blumenthal, Andy Publication Date 2015 Peer reviewed|Thesis/dissertation eScholarship.org Powered by the California Digital Library University of California UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA RIVERSIDE MARTIAL ARTS, INC. A Thesis submitted in partial satisfaction of the requirements for the degree of Master of Fine Arts in Creative Writing and Writing for the Performing Arts by Andrew Blumenthal June 2015 Thesis Committee: Professor Joshua Malkin, Co-Chairperson Professor Stu Krieger, Co-Chairperson Professor John Schimmel Copyright by Andrew Blumenthal 2015 The Thesis of Andrew Blumenthal is approved: _____________________________________________________ _____________________________________________________ Committee Co-Chairperson _____________________________________________________ Committee Co-Chairperson University of California, Riverside MARTIAL ARTS, INC. by Andrew Blumenthal Manhattan Beach, CA
[email protected] 310-503-0677 BLACK WE HEAR a radio turn on. Then scrolling through stations - music, news, commercials. Hold on an oldie, THE BIG HURT by Toni Fischer. FADE UP EXT. THE BRONX, NEW YORK - MORNING An upscale modern bustling downtown. Title card: The Bronx. O.S. an ELDERLY MAN joins in singing along. The song is a downer but he belts it with positive gusto and joy. CAMERA MOVES OUT, through districts showing decay, boarded brownstones, prehistoric homes, landing on a ghosted ex main street - Jerome Avenue, South Bronx. Crabgrass on the sidewalks, ‘For Sale’, ‘Stock Liquidation’ signs in the stores. It’s a 1955 time capsule. The bus still comes. A WOMAN scurries to catch it, fearful of the quiet. At the blocks end is a two story tear-down with a huge neon marquee on the roof.