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Johnny Mountain (The Treatment)

A simple ten second commercial for the Health and Wellness Channel should not take too long. The setting is the edge of a forest. The director and crew expect the shot to take perhaps a minute. However, the director never planned on an actor who makes up extra lines, embelishes the lines given, forgets lines and then needs a ritual to get ready. The director becomes more and more frustrated until he is ready to give up. Just then the actor gets it correct and everything works smoothly. Or does it?



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