
Originally Posted by
nekobun
I'll admit this was in part inspired by Muddy Buddy, particularly the bits re: Innerspace and Willem wanting to totally fuck Mila Kunis' character, but I think, in the end, it stands well enough on its own. Here goes:
Zooey Deschanel plays an up-and-coming young songstress, with Willem Dafoe as her kind-hearted but protective and slightly domineering manager. Zooey's character is diagnosed with malignant, incurable throat cancer, and the only way to save her life is emergency surgery that would destroy her vocal chords, and subsequently, her career. Her manager, upon hearing this news via a cell phone call, is furious, to the point he stops paying attention to the road and is killed in a horrible accident.
Following the initial surgery, Zooey awakens, mute, but presented with a new ray of hope - an organ donor's voicebox was recovered, intact, and an experimental technique could possibly restore her ability to speak, and possibly even sing, once more. She agrees, singing being her entire life, not knowing that the donor in question was her manager, played by Willem. She also has no idea that, by some miracle, his soul survived and is still bound to those same vocal chords, and upon the surgery's success, has found a new home sharing her body.
After learning of her manager and mentor's death and following a period of mourning, Zooey starts to realize she is not alone in her body, and while her voice is starting to regain its original range, it suddenly becomes prone to jumping to much deeper tones without warning or intent. Slowly, through dreams and later, more intense internal dialogues, the truth is revealed, and Willem and Zooey must learn to harmonize (PUNS, BITCHES) in order to rebuild her career, and to take it even further with her effective vocal range now doubled thanks to Willem's presence.
And while we're at it, I may suggest throwing in Huey Lewis and Gwyneth Paltrow, subbing the singing career for moonlighting in karaoke, and effectively making a sequel to Duets. Either way, the title of this cinematic triumph?
(wait for it)
Who's In My Mouth?