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After her attorney husband shows her an obscure tax law discriminating against men, future Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg uses it to challenge laws that discriminate against women.
Mikepedley85:I can see your point on "tax law case" , but I think "challenge" does the job in terms of the target audience to whom the premise might appeal.Ginsburg was playing a long game. She used the case to (short term) establish a precedent to (long term) take down laws that discriminated againRead more
Mikepedley85:
I can see your point on “tax law case” , but I think “challenge” does the job in terms of the target audience to whom the premise might appeal.
Ginsburg was playing a long game. She used the case to (short term) establish a precedent to (long term) take down laws that discriminated against women.? One law at a time –? that’s the way the legal system works.? The film focuses on the opening round of decades of trench warfare against laws that discriminate against women.
BTW: The inciting incident (her husband bring to the case to her attention) occurs in the 40th minute of the film.?
See lessA woman struggles to hike 1100 miles of the Pacific Crest Trail alone as her recovery program from drug abuse and family tragedy.
mikepedley85,I take your point about the wording, but I don't think her decision was impulsive.? She starts her hike staggering under a heavy backpack.? Heavy because she took some time to research and purchase items -- too much time, perhaps .? (The heavy backpack is a visual metaphor for the heavyRead more
mikepedley85,
I take your point about the wording, but I don’t think her decision was impulsive.? She starts her hike staggering under a heavy backpack.? Heavy because she took some time to research and purchase items — too much time, perhaps .? (The heavy backpack is a visual metaphor for the heavy psychological burden she’s carrying.)? Also, she had the foresight to make arrangements for care packages to be mailed at intervals to various pickup points.
The way the movie unfolds,? the “syuzhet” , there’s no definitive inciting incident.? She just commences her journey.? Only through the accumulation of backstory moments through flashbacks do we flesh out the “fabula” with the backstory, the personal tragedy and drug abuse problems that preceded and motivated the trek.
>> is the story known well enough? in the US to user her name.
The movie is an adaptation of a best-selling book by Cheryl Strayed.? But I think her feat is more widely known than her person.
Anyway, maybe as an alternate version:
With no hiking experience or companionship, a woman recovering from drug abuse and family tragedy struggles to hike 1100 miles of the Pacific Crest Trail.
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See lessAfter assassinating the German ambassador in wartime Casablanca, an intelligence officer marries his French Resistance partner. But when she is suspected of being a Nazi spy, he must find out her true identity.
What is interesting about this film in terms of loglining is that the second sentence constitutes the MPR (Midpoint Reversal)? that occurs an hour into the film.? The film is essentially the splicing together of two one hour episodes set in two? 2? locations.? The 1st hour is set in Casablanca, theRead more
What is interesting about this film in terms of loglining is that the second sentence constitutes the MPR (Midpoint Reversal)? that occurs an hour into the film.? The film is essentially the splicing together of two one hour episodes set in two? 2? locations.? The 1st hour is set in Casablanca, the 2nd in London.? Everything that happens in the 1st hour is prologue and setup for everything that happens in the 2nd hour.
It’s also worth noting? how the IMDB summary phrases the post-Casablanca episode:? “When they reunite in London, their relationship is tested by the pressures of war.”? Which is hiding the game ball,; it leaves the reader utterly clueless as to the main action of the 2nd half, the dramatic problem the protagonist must solve.? Something a logline should? not do.
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