Task: Story Composition
Input (English): Fact1: successful weatherman at Chicago news program garners little respect from people in area, Fact2: Dave takes up archery finding activity way to build focus and calm nerves, Fact3: David remembers conversation between himself and father, Fact4: America Hello invites him to New York, Fact5: Spritz takes daughter with him and bonds with her by helping shop for more suitable wardrobe
Output (English): A successful weatherman at a Chicago news program, David Spritz Nicolas Cage is well paid but garners little respect from people in the area who throw fast food at him, David suspects, because theyre resentful of how easy his highpaying job is. Dave also feels overshadowed by his father, Pulitzer Prizewinning author Robert Spritzel Michael Caine, who is disappointed in Daves apparent inability to grow up and deal with his two children. The situation worsens when Robert is diagnosed with lymphoma and given only a few months to live. As he becomes more and more depressed, Dave takes up archery, finding the activity a way to build his focus and calm his nerves. David later remembers a conversation between himself and his father, where his father explains to him that the hardest thing to do and the right thing to do are often the same thing and that nothing that has meaning is easy. David appreciates this advice but struggles to implement it. To prove himself to his father and possibly reconcile with Noreen Hope Davis, his estranged wife, Dave pursues a weatherman position with a national talk show called Hello America. The job would nearly quadruple his salary, but means relocating to New York City. When Hello America invites him to New York, he takes his daughter, Shelly Gemmenne de la Pena, with him and bonds with her by helping her shop for a more suitable wardrobe. While away, Dave learns that his son Mike Nicholas Hoult attacked his counselor, Don Bowden Gil Bellows, claiming that the man wanted to perform oral sex on him. Despite this stress and an allnight drinking binge, Dave impresses the Hello America interviewers and is eventually offered the job. When he returns, Dave slaps Russ Michael Rispoli, Noreens boyfriend, when he finds him dealing with his sons predicament. Dave later confronts the counselor at his home, beating him up and warning him that he is in store for worse. The family holds a living funeral for Robert organised by Daves mother, Lauren, played by Judith McConnell, in which Dave asks Noreen to reconcile and move to New York, but she has decided to marry Russ. Dave and Robert have one final talk, in which Dave breaks down in tears, unsure of his lifes choices. Robert consoles him, telling him that he has time to chuck the garbage of his life. Robert dies soon after. The film ends several months later, after Dave has accepted the job and moved to New York. People have ceased throwing things at him though, he muses, this may be a pleasant sideeffect of his archery hobby, for which he carries a bow.