Later that week, Victoria goes into his cubicle while Dan is away, during which time she discovers that the edits he’s made match the changes that have taken place on the celebrities as well as on her. She confiscates his computer and figures out what’s been happening. Upon request, Dan comes to her office, where she threatens to reveal his secret unless he leaves the magazine. The next day, Dan comes to work and everyone stares at him. He goes to his now-empty cubicle and looks around, confused. Chuck walks up behind him and tells him that Victoria wants to see him in her office. In Victoria’s glass-walled corner office, she tells Dan that he is fired. She tells him not to bother applying for jobs at other advertising agencies, as she refuses to give him a reference. She will also be taking his computer, and he will not be allowed to retrieve any of the photos or his editing program before he goes. Dan is furious, and storms out of her office. About a month has passed. We see Dan and Chuck’s apartment in disarray. There are dirty dishes everywhere and crumpled resumes and job applications litter the floor. Dan looks just as disheveled as his apartment as he walks out of his bedroom to greet Chuck. Chuck has had enough and tells him that he’s got to do something to break his depression. Chuck tells him that he’s stolen the specific computer that Dan had been using, and now he can do something profitable with it. Both look thoughtful. We see a large billboard that talks about the latest plastic surgery craze in LA: computerized “retouching”. We now see a busy waiting room of what looks like a doctor’s office. Chuck is checking in patients, and Dan is in the back room with his computer. Men and women walk in, and five minutes later come out looking completely different. Everyone, especially Dan, looks happy. Except Victoria; on the news, we see that she has been fired for demanding ultra-thin cover models. She looks miserable. Dan and Chuck are successful and happy and look exactly the same as they always have.
"Retouched" Movie Proposal
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