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Gabriel Burokas

Learning to Cook: Lesson #7 Smoked Salmon

Premise

An eskimos dreams for a perfect dinner turn out a bit

different than he intended.

Logline

A lone eskimo, Nanuk, living in an igloo out in the wilderness

wishes only for one thing, a perfect dinner. Day in and day

out he fishes and eats the same dinner over and over again, a

lone fish on his dinner plate. One day hes sitting at his

fancy table prepared like in a restaurant, but his plate holdsnothing more than one salmon as usual and he start to

hallucinate vegetables appearing around the fish and then

imagines his whole igloo made of vegetables. He snaps out of

his dream but hes hit with an idea to build a greenhouse.

After getting a self-building greenhouse pack from ACME which

is placed over his fish rack he starts growing tomatoes and

cucumbers for his dinner, they grow finely at first but the

next day theyre frozen into ice blocks. Almost crushed he

attempts one last act of desperation, he uses a vacuum cleaner

to suck out the heat from his house fire into the greenhouse.

The vegetables start to thaw but one piece of burning wood

teeters on the edge of the fireplace then finally gets sucked

in. Exploding in a ball of smoke and fire the greenhouse gets

ruined. In a strange turn of events he sits at his table once

again in front of a plate with burnt vegetables on it but also

the very first smoked salmon putting a smile on his face.

Step Outline

EXT. FISHING HOLE NEXT TO IGLOO. DAY

Nanuk fishes out a salmon at his fishing hole.

He then hangs it on a drying rack.

INT. NANUKS IGLOO- DINING TABLE. EVENING

Nanuk sits at his candlelit table. He tucks in his

napkin.

He takes a look at his dinner and eats.

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EXT. FISHING HOLE NEXT TO IGLOO. DAY

Nanuk fishes out another salmon at his fishing hole.

He then hangs it on a drying rack.

INT. NANUKS IGLOO- DINING TABLE. EVENING

Nanuk sits at his candlelit table. He tucks in his

napkin.

He takes a look at his dinner and frowns.

EXT. FISHING HOLE NEXT TO IGLOO. DAY

Nanuk fishes out yet another salmon at his fishing hole.

He then hangs it on a drying rack.

INT. NANUKS IGLOO- DINING TABLE. EVENING

Nanuk sits at his candlelit table. He tucks in his

napkin.

He takes a look at his dinner and starts hallucinating

vegetables popping onto his plate.

Then his igloo turns into vegetables.

He snaps out of his dream but gets a lightbulb over his

head.

EXT. NEXT TO NANUKS IGLOO. DAY

Nanuks standing next to a self-building ACME greenhouse

kit patting the top of it and staring at space around the

drying rack.

A few hours later hes standing next to a built

greenhouse.

INT. GREENHOUSE. DAY

Nanuk looks over in joy at his growing tomatoes and

cucumbers.

He walks over and leans over to one and rubs it till it

shines.

He bends back up, ready to leave.

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INT. IGLOO- NANUKS BED. MORNING

Nanuk wakes up in bed and stretches and yawns.

He gets a big smile on his face.

INT. GREENHOUSE. MORNING

Nanuk stands before his vegetables. His face is filled

with horror.

A view of the vegetables reveals that theyve all turned

into ice cubes from the cold. Nanuk thinks for a little

bit.

He then comes back with a vacuum cleaner and sets it down

inside.

He bends down and turns it on.

INT. IGLOO- FIREPLACE. DAY

The vacuum starts to suck the heat from the fire.

INT. GREENHOUSE. DAY

The iced vegetables start to thaw.

INT. IGLOO- FIREPLACE. DAY

One piece of fire wood edges toward the tube slowly,

stops, then finally get sucked in.

EXT. TWO SHOT OF IGLOO AND GREENHOUSE. DAY

A little dramatic pause and then the greenhouse explodes

in smoke and fire inside.

INT. IGLOO- DINING TABLE. EVENING

Nanuks sitting at the table once again with a plate

filled with charred vegetables but also smoked salmon. He

takes a bite and gets a smile on his face.