It's the 1960s in a small English village. The sort of place where everyone knows each other by name, says hello when they see each other in the morning and meet for a pint in the evening.
Rob is a park ranger looking after a large part of one of Britain's national parks. He's been doing it for just over 20 years now and he couldn't be more proud of his work! Surrounded by nature, kind people and a loving wife, there's nothing more he could want from life.
Life if great, and there's nothing that could get in the way of it.
Rob's first lightning strike was in April 1966. He was hiding from a thunderstorm in a log cabin. The cabin was newly built and had no lightning rod at the time; it had been struck seven to eight times setting it ablaze. As Rob made his escape out of the burning tower he only made it a few feet before being struck! 
It burned a half-inch strip all along his right leg, hit his toe, and left a hole in his shoe.

He was hit again in July 1968. Unusually, he was hit while in his car, driving on a country road – the metal body of a vehicle normally protects people from lightning strikes by acting as a Faraday cage. The lightning first hit nearby trees and was deflected into the open window of the car.
The strike knocked Rob unconscious, burned off his eyebrows and eyelashes, and set his hair on fire.
On a weekend in May 1969 Rob's wife was hanging laundry out in the garden when a storm appeared out of nowhere. Rob ran out to help bring in the clothes. His wife was hit by a lightning bolt only a few feet in from of him.
Rob was was not hit by lightning that day.
In July 1970, Rob was struck while in his garden. The lightning hit a nearby power transformer and from there jumped to his left shoulder, searing it.
In the spring of 1972, Rob was working inside a ranger station when he was struck again. It set his hair on fire; he tried to smother the flames with his jacket. He then rushed to the restroom, but could not fit under the water tap and so used a wet towel instead.
Although he never was a fearful man, after the fourth strike he began to believe that some force was trying to destroy him and he acquired a fear of death.
For months, whenever he was caught in a storm while driving his truck, he would pull over and lie down on the front seat until the storm passed. He also began to believe that he would somehow attract lightning even if he stood in a crowd of people, and carried a can of water with him in case his hair was set on fire.
On August 7, 1973, while he was out on patrol in the park, Rob saw a storm cloud forming and drove away quickly. But the cloud seemed to be following him. When he finally thought he had outrun it, he decided it was safe to leave his car.
Soon after, he was struck by a lightning bolt. The lightning moved down his left arm and left leg and knocked off his shoe. It then crossed over to his right leg just below the knee. Still conscious, Rob crawled to his car and poured the bottle of water, which he always kept there, over his head, which was on fire.
The next strike, on June 5, 1976, injured his ankle. He saw a cloud following him, tried to run away, but was struck anyway. 
His hair also caught fire.
On June 25, 1977, Rob was struck while fishing in a freshwater pool. The lightning hit the top of his head, set his hair on fire, traveled down, and burnt his chest and stomach.
Rob turned to his car when something unexpected occurred – a badger approached the pond and tried to steal the bait from his fishing line. Rob had the strength and courage to strike the badger with a tree branch, despite the fact that his hair was on fire. This was the twenty-second time he hit a badger with a stick in his lifetime.
Rob started being avoided by people during the later years of his life, owing to fears of being struck by lightning, and that saddened him.

On the morning of September 28, 1980, Rob died at the age of 51 from a self-inflicted gunshot wound to the head.
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Notes:


It's very important to get start off the film with a cheerful, happy, funny mood. I want the audience to think that they know what's about to happen and then fuck with it. They need to almost feel bad about laughing at the scenes at the start once they see the impact this has on Rob.

We need to show how he goes from being popular to being alone and avoided by others. This should be subtle at first, then very obvious. 

That transition from comedy to tragedy is key.

We could start the film in 16:9 and slowly go to 4:3 to show Rob's world closing in on him. A 4:3 ratio would also emphasise the sky.

The sky needs feel like a character in itself.

If we want to show him shoot himself, we could do it by setting up the fact that he has a gun at the beginning of the story. At the end, we could show an empty spot where the gun was, then cut to a wide of the house, cut to black, use audio that sounds like it could be lightning or a gun shot.