ANNUAL BEN AFFLECK APPEAL FOR 2020

This year the Affleck Appeal gets right to the point: time is not on anyone’s side, except Keith Richards.

Now that Keith has given up hard drinking, and standing back from the cigarettes, he would be a good role model for Ben on his way back to the top of Hollywood.

But first a few words about that top image.

That’s not Ben Affleck up there; it’s Orson Welles.

And it’s mean spirited.

Orson has been called so many things. The top pic includes mention of genius and drunk. The people who put it together forgot fat shaming to go along with the social stigma of being a bright light, then a fading light, then a black hole.

It wasn’t all on the same day, of course, but throughout his career. Do the criticisms sound familiar?

I don’t know either man, but I feel confident in saying, “Ben Affleck is no Orson Welles.”

Yes, both won Oscars for Original Screenplay, and both have had busy lives. But Affleck has more living to do, which is a big part of the Annual Affleck Appeal.

Both men were nominated for Best Director; Affleck won.

Welles was nominated for Best Actor, too. All of his nominations came in 1942 with Citizen Kane. He had a big year.

This is Ben Affleck’s big year, 2020. Check out the movies and projects he’s linked to on screenrant.com.

Ben’s on the way back with a movie about a drunk basketball coach. When I first heard about it, I thought of the Dennis Hopper role in Hoosiers.

His new one is called The Way Back. Here’s the preview.

Why the Affleck Appeal of 2020

I’ve posted a few times on Ben Affleck. Thirteen times after I just checked. I’ve had annual Affleck appeals. Why? Because I’m that guy, a helper-guy. And I’ve got scripts that are Affleck-worthy.

These are vetted, edited, stories, with roles that are prime Affleck:

#1

Return to WWII, Ben, and chose roles between 1. A heartless industrial leader, 2. A scene stealing sergeant, or, 3. A sneaky adult older brother of the main character. All three join the effort in the War in the Pacific. Email for more details.

WWII not on the emotional schedule?

#2

Return to the first Gulf War. The hero is a super-trained Army guy who is set to join European arms interdiction efforts just as the military/industrial complex is set to deliver the biggest cannon in the world and they don’t want any interference.

The hero gets yanked off of his career path and dumped in a backwater medical clinic to finish his enlistment, either that or cleaning toilets on trans-atlantic military transports. From the clinic he gets recruited by an ex-spook and his son to do the work he was trained for, but against current orders. So he goes AWOL and tracks down John Bull’s greatest artillery piece.

More in the mood for a love story?

#3

A young man thought he found true love after a few mis-starts, and moves to be with her, only to find out how the real world works. Her mother wants to protect her, her father is disconnected, and he leaves his new life to start over in New York City, where he finds more than he ever bargained for when he meets another young man working off a debt by peddling drugs and hubcaps in a bad neighborhood: the heroes neighborhood.

If you’re still with me, good

Ben, this is the biggie, one that will echo over time.

#4

My current work in progress is a memoir of our times that reflects on the era between the 1970’s to mid-80’s.

It is a cancer memoir of another stripe, an HPV neck cancer memoir that dives into the current state of treatment with a look back to when it must have happened. Without remorse or regret, I celebrate a perfect time in history balanced with the worst medical treatment and what it takes to persist. I include relationships and mentors and pains in the ass waiting room jockeys. You’d have to age-up to around sixty to play the lead, but you’ve got the range.

Why is this story the right story for the Affleck Appeal? After reading an interview you did with The NY Times, I knew.

“People with compulsive behavior, and I am one, have this kind of basic discomfort all the time that they’re trying to make go away,” he said a couple of Sundays ago during a two-hour interview at a beachside spot in Los Angeles. “You’re trying to make yourself feel better with eating or drinking or sex or gambling or shopping or whatever. But that ends up making your life worse. Then you do more of it to make that discomfort go away. Then the real pain starts. It becomes a vicious cycle you can’t break. That’s at least what happened to me.”

This is the right time, Ben Affleck; I hope you agree.