If you wrote and directed an LGBT themed movie, how would it be like?

I think the title is self explanatory: I would love to see the creativity in elaborating good stories many of you posess. On the same day, I've got two ideas that may give good films:

-A transgender boy (male to female) who always loved classical music and wants to be an opera singer. However, he knows that even if he transitions, his voice won't change, making him unsuitable to sing female roles. This causes him to train desperately and go to a speech class to change his speaking voice, until he decides to join an opera house but is kicked out when his true identity is discovered (by that point, he was all-female except for the penis). He starts singing in recitals and his androgynous voice attracts the attention of an opera manager who happens to be gay, and befriends him. The two get closer and eventually form a relationship, and this director accepts him into the opera house. She (from that moment onward I'll call the main character this) is cast into contralto (deep female singing voice) parts, because they were the only ones she could get all the notes without falsetto. However, she only sings in small, supporting roles. Finally, after the revelation of her gender upsets other managers of the house, and the director has to bribe them to make her stay, the main character receives her chance to shine. She is cast as the female lead in "the barber of sevilla", and truly impresses the audience with her performance of the aria "una voce poco fa". After the opera is over, she receives a standing ovation, the result of uncountable years of training, vocal class, and perseverance. A bouquet of flowers is trown on his arms as he smiles and the film ends.

What did you think of this story? Please post your own too!

 

Wow, this guy has a very impressive voice! But the voice I imagine for the trans singer is not really like this. He uses a lot of falsetto (although it is good falsetto) to hit the notes, and in my case the singer sounds deeper than he does, but also more natural. I imagine him with the same voice as the legendery Polish contralto Ewa Podles (maybe you know her, she is quite famous), who besides being mistaken for a guy in her low notes has such a good vocal range that she can even hit high C. This is a video of her singing una voce poco fa (in other words, how the transwoman sounds like in my film).

The "Una voce poco fa" Contest - Ewa Podles - YouTube

 

This is the other idea for an LGBT movie that I have.

Warning: tearjerker.

This is the story of two boys, aged 17 and facing the challenges of high school. They are perfectly average in every sense: both look ok and their behavior is neither at the extreme of masculinity or belongs to effeminacy. They also belong to different social classes, from a family who's above than average wealthy to one that is often in debt. Let's call them Nick and Max. Nick plays in a band with his friends. Max, more dedicated to social causes, is often doing community service, and secretly has a passion for singing.
The main difference between the two is that Nick is straight while Max is gay. Nick has an on and off girlfriend, whom he's often breaking up with and coming back to. Max, meanwhile, is unable to control his sexual impulses and urges, and rumors of his sexuality roam the school, due to unthought actions and words he regretfully said. Max isn't in love with his best friend, but often wonders how great they would be in a relationship, if they get along so well together. But he's also not in a hurry to come out to anybody: he believes his family to be homophobic, and plans to wait until college to come out. However, life isn't that simple, and after a week of sudden abdominal pains, irregular defecation and fever, Max receives the worst of all news from his doctor. He is diagnosed with stomach cancer.
Devastated, Max is instructed by his parents to hide his illness from the rest of his peers. Things go estable for a few weeks, with Max dropping hints to Nick about his sexuality, hoping that his best friend will eventually learn his secret before a possible death. Nick reunites his band and sets a date for their first public concert in a bar, where supposedly his whole grade will be at. However, they need a lead singer, and none of their vocal abilities is good enough for the songs composed by themselves and their covers. Max decides to audition for the lead part, and impresses his peers with his gentle, beautiful voice. On the day of the concert, however, Max's illness worsens and a lot of pain brings him back to the hospital, and it's announced that the cancer has spread. In the concert, the absence of Max causes Nick to lose his focus on the show and miss the notes on his guitar, turning the concert into a disaster. Disappointed by his friend, Nick enters Max's house and is told by the boys grandmother off out the disease. Shocked, Nick decided to visit his sick friend at the hospital every time he can, which leads to a drastic reduction in his social life. During Nick's hospital visits, always with his guitar in hand, the friendship between the two boys deepens even more, and rumors roam the school about a relationship between the two. Nick's girlfriend feels neglected and starts having an affair with a fellow band member. One day, both boys do a rendition of the 70's hit "Loving You", by Minnie Riperton. Inspired by the beauty of the lyrics, Max asks Nick to lean closer and tells him that he loves him, and kisses his friend softly. Both repulsed and confused, Nick runs away from the hospital, unable to believe in what just happened. The day after, he decides to finally tell the truth to his girlfriend about why he has ignoring her for so long. She pretends to be supportive, but after they have sex, Nick finds out about her affair while reading her cell phone texts. Angrily interrogating her about it, he gets the answer: "I had to do it; it's not my fault that you and Max have decided to become two fags". Enraged, Nick is unable to control himself and hits her several times, and leaves. The girl calls the domestic violence service, which puts Nick temporary juvenile detention until he turns eighteen. Meanwhile, Max believes hell never see his love again, and his mental depression causes the cancer to worsen. Until the day when Nick is released, Max undergoes five operations, to his parents horror, loses his hair to chemotherapy and loses weight tremendously. When Nick finally steals his father's car to arrive at his friends hospital room, Max is barely recognizable and sentenced to die very soon. Max parents stop visiting because they don't want to see their only soon die. Only Nick remains going there, doing nothing but playing music and casually talking to his dying friend about things not related to his sexuality. Finally, when Max knows the end has come, he orders the staff to leave him alone with Nick. He says "Loving you is easy cause youre beautiful. Now that I know you won't kiss me back, at least hold my hand." Nick does as Max says, and, in tears, replies that he loves Max as well, kissing his forehead. Max happily falls asleep and finally dies. Nick refuses to go to his friends funeral, but after a few weeks of grief and solitude, receives a packet with a tape recorder of all the songs they had played and sung together during Max's time at the hospital. Nick decides to expose the songs on the Internet, and they quickly become hits. Nick becomes a well known omline celebrity, but always states that all the music is not his, but Max's. The movie ends as Nick stares at a picture of him with his lost friend, smiling and seeming to have overcome the loss. "Loving You", the love song from a phenomenal talent who also died of cancer, plays during the end credits.

 

Wow, I believe this is a very interesting story! It kinda reminds me of snow flower and the secret fan... maybe its only because part of the story is set in china?

Yes, ladies and gentlemen, this thread has been revived. Now please keep posting your ideas! :eusa_danc