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Inspired by true events, a 90-year old man becomes a drug mule for a Mexican cartel after his horticulture business fails.
The movie was inspired by a New York Times story about a 90 year old horticulturist who got busted for transporting heroin for the Sinaloa cartel. A 90-year old drug mule -- that's the story hook in every way.? It's what hooked the screenwriter into? writing the script.? It's what hooked Clint EastwRead more
The movie was inspired by a New York Times story about a 90 year old horticulturist who got busted for transporting heroin for the Sinaloa cartel.
A 90-year old drug mule — that’s the story hook in every way.? It’s what hooked the screenwriter into? writing the script.? It’s what hooked Clint Eastwood’s interest, got him attached to the project; it’s what attracted the money needed to finance the movie..? Which is why I chose to lead off with the hook, not the inciting incident.
About the inciting incident:? In? real life there was none.? As the Times article points out, no one knows what particular combination of circumstances and events caused the man to become a drug mule.? So the reel life of the? film has a manufactured one:? the bank forecloses on his flower business and home.
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While re-viewing this film, the obvious? (finally) occurred to me.? Rocky doesn't get "The Call", the offer to fight the champ , until the 55th minute of the film of the 2 hour film.? The inciting incident occurs where the MPR (Midpoint Reversal) usually occurs.This reckless breaking of "the rules",Read more
While re-viewing this film, the obvious? (finally) occurred to me.? Rocky doesn’t get “The Call”, the offer to fight the champ , until the 55th minute of the film of the 2 hour film.? The inciting incident occurs where the MPR (Midpoint Reversal) usually occurs.
This reckless breaking of “the rules”,? the wanton violation of all the standard plot paradigms explains, of course,? why the movie bombed at the box office and failed to spawn five sequels.? ?
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Karel:The logline I posted is the marketing version? featuring the story hook.? I have come to believe that to be the most important element in a spec script.And based upon my understanding? of how the film came to be,? that is how the project got going.? The star/director,. John Krasinski, got invoRead more
Karel:
The logline I posted is the marketing version? featuring the story hook.? I have come to believe that to be the most important element in a spec script.
And based upon my understanding? of how the film came to be,? that is how the project got going.? The star/director,. John Krasinski, got involved on the basis of the hook .? But he was not satisfied with the spec script.? So he undertook a number of rewrites before arriving at the version that was shot. Hence, why he got the lead writing credit.
So I see this as an instance of a movie project that got going? more on the strength of the story hook than on the strength of the? plot of the original spec script.
As for a development version of the logline that sets out the inciting incident for the shooting script — good question!
The film opens in media res, sort of,? the monsters are already there.? And they kill a son.? Which creates a subjective problem, the daughter’s sense of guilt for her brother’s death and her relationship with her father.? And embedded in that is a theme?
Whatever, a development logline is supposed to focus one the objective problem and goal, not the subjective.
So, the story jumps forward to more than a year later.? The wife is pregnant, has almost comes to term.? Which raises the objective dramatic problem:? infants cry.? It could take years to train the child to remain silent.? Which raises the dramatic question: will she be able to safely deliver and raise the baby in such a hostile environment?
I throw the question back to you:? what do you think to be the inciting incident of the plot of the film that got made?
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