Max Watman's "Harvest," the movie

Featured at My Book, The Movie: Harvest: Field Notes from a Far-Flung Pursuit of Real Food by Max Watman.

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Harvest: Field Notes from a Far-Flung Pursuit of Real Food, the movie, would go something like this:

INT. Office. Overflowing bookshelves, a farm table desk, notes and scraps of paper pinned to the walls next to paintings and bull horns. MAX WATMAN sits at a desk piled with books and notebooks. He’s typing. We see the screen and it says, “Can I raise a steer in my yard?” He rocks back in his desk chair and laughs, pours himself a drink and walks out the door.

EXT. Backyard of a small house in a quaint village. Max squints across his tenth of an acre as if it were a ranch. He proceeds to pace off the yard, making notes.

Then the credits roll. Max is sticking wire flags in the ground. I would like the music to be loud. It’s probably quite costly and not an easy thing to buy songs from the Rolling Stones, but since this is imaginary, let’s just go ahead and blast “Can’t You Hear Me Knocking.”

The credits would be in a simple font, in a bright color that leaps off the grass background of the yard, shot from above.

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My Book, The Movie: Harvest.

--Marshal Zeringue