Attention to all hoping to make movies in the future or planning on making one!
Or... If you plan to write a novel/make a comic (though I'd love to see this as a movie).
Asexual, lesbian archaeologist with dyslexia and her assistant who eventually becomes her girlfriend. 3 movies. Make it adventure, but also lace it with romance accordingly.
So anyway, if you happen to see this and want to make this happen in some shape or form, please go for it.
And then tell me when it's done, where I can find and how much of my soul I owe you.
I want more adventure films! Make it Indiana Jones etc but better, make me want to watch it over and over again. Make the plot be interesting and please make sure that you consult actual people who work on that stuff. Oh also no awkward smooches thanks. If you can make it intimate and romantic without that nonsense, I will bow down to you and call you my liege. I am starved for romantic content that isn't just about physical stuff. I need gestures, brushing hair of your loved one, taking away a leaf that was stuck there, making breakfast and sliding a cup of something warm to them across the table while leaning on your hand as you smile lovingly at the person, make me believe that these people are in love and not in lust. Give me something new to find each time I see it, details, callbacks, make it consistent and make it real.
The not-yet-an-assistant has had a crush on this archaeologist for a while now, and she's been working for the said archaeologist father for a while now. At one point she asks him for pointers for wooing his daughter and while he's not against it, he is bit concerned that she might get hurt in the process because his daughter is a career woman. He then mentions that his daughter may need someone like her to help her out though and promises to help her to get in touch with her.
The archaeologist accepts and it turns out that she has trouble reading from time to time and she'd rather have someone to just read it out to her at this point to save time.
Their expedition starts and the archaeologist teaches her new assistant how to thread the place and to be extra careful, because ancient things can be very fragile and while there technically may be some traps left behind, they typically aren't as fatal as the floor or the roof giving in because of people not being careful.
Surprise surprise, one of their team members betrays them and they're stuck in a tomb, the assistant panics while the archaeologist is calm about it (on the outside) and proceeds to see if there is a way out. She's also just super excited about the carvings on the walls, so she takes lot of photos. They also decide to create a language (and a writing system) of their own for the sake of securing their future findings from any rivals or thieves.
Eventually, they get out and learn that the turncoat was not only wanted for crimes, but also committed the said crimes in hopes of gathering enough money for his wife's life saving surgery. The archaeologist pays it in his stead, offers a desk job to the wife and tells the husband to sit his sentence and then come back because she can't fault him for wanting to save someone's life.
Because of the stuff that happened in the first movie, the archaeologist and her crew has to stay a certain time period without travelling outside of the country to heal and to get potential traumas sorted out the assistant learns that the archaeologist is just not fan of staying put, so she proceeds to attempt to find ways to enrich her life while they're stuck there.
They finish creating their language, they start to figure out how to make it work as a means of communication, but even that doesn't seem to keep the archaeologist too happy. So the assistant starts to wonder.. Just what does the archaeologist really look for in these expeditions.
She takes her to do some heavy exercise, rock climbing, bungee jumping, she breaks cheap vases and buries them into a garden for the archaeologist, but none of it seems to do the trick.
Eventually, she decides to drag the woman along with her to do some in country travel, however it is at her childhood home that the archaeologist finds a spark of excitement.
In the cellar, there is a secret room. And in that secret room, two items, seemingly sealed away for a reason: An Egyptian sarcophagi and a stone mask. And with this... She's set to attempt to trace back how these two got into the cellar, where'd they come from and who is the mummy in there.
At the end of this movie, the archaeologist proceeds to thank the assistant for attempting to cheer her up and makes a proposal. "Please move in with me". The assistant assumes that it's for work purposes, but the archaeologist corrects her, telling her that she feels romantically attracted to her and would like her to become her girlfriend.
The archaeologist-assistant couple are travelling again, both of them needing some time to think about the arrangement in the previous movie. While travelling, now onto a more known site, they learn some new things about each other.
The assistant is good at math and she loves writing stories, but she finds drawing to be hard so she's given up on that.
The archaeologist can paint and prefers to make paintings of sceneries, she also knows how to compose songs, however she finds it too time consuming and annoying due to her dyslexia making it harder.
While investigating a tomb (and more specifically the decorations on it), their conversation turns to an allegedly gay couple on it. The archaeologist then proceeds to talk about how tempting it is to use modern lingo to describe something, though these people probably had their own word for it which time has forgotten. She tells the assistant how she'd rather refer to both hetero and homosexual couples as lovers due to how much better it sounds to her and because of how the word lover has kept its meaning for so long. She then humorously talks about how the future archaeologists will keep this very same dilemma of wanting to tie the past to the present with words that they use while the words that were used in the past to represent certain groups fall into the well of forgotten languages.
The assistant then proceeds to ask her about why she chose to suddenly ask her to move in with her. The archaeologist admits that she doesn't feel sexually attracted to her, but quickly reassures that she does find her otherwise attractive, which spurs a conversation about different kinds of attractions and more over the huge process that it was for the archaeologist to figure herself out as an asexual woman.
This prompts them to talk more about the different historical couples and why they aren't always clearly stated to be this or that.
Things take turn to bit more alarming when someone attempts to steal an item that was found from the tomb, which turns out to be a key to something else that was in the ruins. The crew chases after the thief, hoping to catch them before they make it out of the area, but they sadly cannot make it.
Distraught and angry, the archaeologist goes out of her way to buy a bunch of cheap pots, and breaks them one after another, thoroughly annoyed with this turn of events. After calming down, the expedition group sits down to think what to do next. They hear about there being a party in the city, which will have the wife of a local business man present something.
The archaeologist ends up infiltrating the party in a dre- no she doesn't, however one of the guys absolutely rocks the look and as the item presented turns out to be the stolen thing, he points it out to the people present. The archaeologist and the assistant then proceed to walk in wearing suits, explaining what the item is and that while it may look pretty and like something anyone would want, it's actually a key that'll open something on the site. She then proceeds to inform the people that the item was also found laced in something that could only be assumed to be poisonous and thus shouldn't have been handled without the necessary equipment. The thief pales and attempts to escape, only for the assistant to knock them out, clearly impressing the archaeologist.
In the end the thing opens up to two hidden rooms joined by a hallway, clearly built for the two lovers to have the ability to spend some me time whenever needed.
The archaeologist and the assistant see this and they decide to buy an entirely new, larger house.
The final scene shows the two step out of a car, while carrying boxes towards a house.
Would there be a post credit scene, I'd imagine it just panning over some of the items that were shown in the previous movies, along with some paintings and books, over to the side where we get to see the two much older, looking at one another and smiling lovingly.
By the way the main reason why I am not going to write these myself is because I am not a romance writer, nor a woman, nor do I know how archaeology works. I only know that I'd love to see 3 movies long story about two adult women developing a relationship, talking, learning about one another and looking into history while having an adventure.
Sometimes, a writer/artist would rather see someone else take the challenge and what they'll make with a prompt.
*flings the idea into the orbit for someone else to catch it and make it theirs*
This thing has no copyright, I am just yearning for a good story, take this and run with it. And most of all...
I hope that you'll have fun while you're at it!
