Thread: Brainstorm for my screenplay!

Okay I'll write a brief overview then explain exactly where I need ideas. I don't care if you guys comes up with bad ones or good ones, I just need help overcoming the writer's block.

It's a satirical piece on the united state government, but I don't put a stand-up comedian in office or anything, two random guys that go together like peanut butter and tuna fatefully end up robbing a bank together and get hired by the government in a parody of Triple X. They're told they're doing what's good for the country but actually they're staging either a terrorist attack in the country or some event overseas in order to justify some greedy scheme or another. It's kind of like a parody of Shooter, Dog Day Afternoon and some other movies.

So character one, Chris Finster, is a passive-aggrssive pushover. (Remember the mumbling guy from Office Space, he doesnt mumble but everyone treats him like that guy) He works at a bank where his employees pick on him and take advantage of him, his boss doesn't appreciate him and to top it off he overhears that he's going to get fired at the end of the day.

Enter Bobby Stokes, who takes life like a grain of salt and just sort of sails through off his own luck and materialistic goals. He robs the bank Chris works at with two guys, but one ditches out right at the beginning which gives the other a Dog Day Afternoon image and he gets afraid of getting shot in the head, so he leaves, too. Bobby is forced to carry out the robbery all alone. He brings Chris to the back to empty the vault and Chris, having enough of his hum-drum life of servitude to the assertive, volunteers to help Bobby after a little convincing. With an inside man pretty much hired just then, even though Bobby is a little unprofessional he still manages to carry out the robbery and the escape from the police with flying colors.

A successful bank robbery alone isn't enough to get them hired by the government. I need something to set them apart from criminals so the government wants them. It doesn't have to be that realistic, though, because I'm plan to play off the government as a bunch of dwights and michael scotts from "The Office." That means they'll all be petty, immature and over-dramatic. It can be something stupid, like a misevaluation of skill or mistaken identidy because the government isn't really going to listen to explanations anyway.

So after the government recruits them, they need a job, and it's hard to weigh the pros and cons for this. It's a non-shooter, not a single bullet goes off in the bank except maybe as a joke, and it's cheap, so staging something in this country would be easier for me because otherwise I'd have to think of a poor country that looks like Oregon or Northern California. However, staging a terrorist attack would be difficult without any bombs. One idea is that their job is to catalyze the removal of some democratically elected leader who's kicking out multinational companies that use the WTO to stay in the country in the first place. It'd probably be easier to figure out once I figure out what will set them apart for the government to want them for this job in the first place.

Anyway I'll start with that. All help is appreciated.