Stone Age Romeo is an animated short film written and created by Jamal Pollack, Maureen Rode, and Kelly McElwain.
Characters
Our Hero – Gawp
The Girl – Loola
Setting
Pre-historic Earth, in a clearing next to a pond, and with a cave carved into the hill. All of the action takes place outside the cave.
Gawp, a sort of goofy, awkward sort of caveman, who just isn’t that good at the regular types of caveman things, has his sights set on Loola, the most beautiful, smartest, and certainly, the most capable cavewoman in the whole clan. She knows it too, and has the aloof, distant attitude of a cavewoman of this sort. Needless to say, she’s way out of his league. This isn’t going to deter Gawp, though. He just can’t live without her. So, he sets out to impress and dazzle Loola with his caveman skills. Did I mention, she’s WAAAAY out of his league?
In the first scene, we see Gawp glance longingly at Loola who is collecting some firewood at the edge of the clearing. He furrows his brow, and sets to rubbing a couple of sticks together to start a fire for her. Surely she’ll be impressed if he can provide her with fire to cook her dinner! He manages to get a small spark that doesn’t take… Shortly, some smoke mingled with a wonderful scent of grilled beast wafts his way from an unknown source, and Gawp lifts his head and sniffs the air. He turns his head in the direction of the smoke and sees that Loola has not only gathered her firewood, but has started her fire, and begun cooking some mammoth steaks for her dinner. Gawp’s jaw drops, as do the sticks he was holding in his hands to light his fire.
In the next scene, Gawp has decided to make a wheel for Loola. Really smart cavemen know how to make wheels, and wheels are cool! He glances longingly in her direction again, where she is sizing up a rock. Gawp turns and chisels away at his wheel, cursing here and there as he lops off a chunk of rock in the wrong place, or slips with the hammer and strikes his finger instead. After a bit, the camera angle changes to reveal Loola in the background attaching the final pedal to the unicycle she has built. She gets on, rides in a couple of circles, and then zips off past Gawp. He looks up as she goes by, blinks in disbelief, and throws his tools up in the air. As the rule goes: He who throws his tools up in the air shall have one hit him on the head, and the other land on his big toe.
Well, despite all his faults, Gawp doesn’t give up that easily, and in the next scene, he is making a wall painting for Loola. Loola is crushing berries and flowers to make some pigments when Gawp looks in her direction. He turns to the wall and begins painting a woolly mammoth. Ok, so, it’s not a very good woolly mammoth. In fact, it’s barely recognisable. He notices that he’s running out of paint, and turns around to get some more. He falls to the ground when he sees Loola’s painting, which resembles something like the Sistine Chapel. Gawp is more than discouraged, so he gets himself up and drags himself off toward the pond. Is there nothing he can do to impress this girl? He walks, not really thinking about where he’s going, dragging his feet along the ground. As often happens with awkward cavemen of the sort that Gawp is, when he approaches the pond, he trips on a pebble and falls headlong, straight into the pond.
Meanwhile, Loola has turned around to go to the pond and wash the paint off of her hands. When she reaches the edge of the pond, Gawp surfaces, whipping his hair back in slow motion, looking all clean, and smelling great. Loola looks at him as if seeing him for the first time, wipes her hands on her dress, and offers to help Gawp up. She then starts smiling at him adoringly and making big, blinky doe-eyes at him. Under all that hair, he’s actually kind of cute! Gawp is stunned by this change in his situation for a second, but he’s not the kind of guy to question a good thing, so he smiles back, and the two walk off hand in hand into the Stone Age sunset together.
Stone Age Romeo 