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When her estranged country singing father witnesses a murder, the teenage ballet dancer must save him from getting killed.
This sounds interesting but I'm just not sure how a teenage ballet dancer can save a grown man from a killer. Does she have any special skills? Could she be perhaps a martial artist instead of ballet dancer?
This sounds interesting but I’m just not sure how a teenage ballet dancer can save a grown man from a killer. Does she have any special skills? Could she be perhaps a martial artist instead of ballet dancer?
See lessA retired cop who?s vowed never to hold another gun must rescue her troubled son from a heavily-armed weapons cult.
Too much information, too many words. Trim it down to the basics in one sentence, 25 words max, no commas whenever possible. Just tell us what we need to know to make the story compelling, and put the more detailed bits of interest in a synopsis. A retired cop who's vowed never to hold another gun mRead more
Too much information, too many words. Trim it down to the basics in one sentence, 25 words max, no commas whenever possible. Just tell us what we need to know to make the story compelling, and put the more detailed bits of interest in a synopsis.
A retired cop who’s vowed never to hold another gun must rescue her troubled son from a heavily-armed weapons cult.
Protagonist, antagonist, conflict, stakes. Plus it highlights the irony inherent in your concept, and raises questions about how she’s going to succeed…questions a reader will want to see the script to have answered.
See lessWhen a petty criminal encounters a “nightcrawler”, he will stop at nothing to become the most successful nightcrawler himself. – NIGHTCRAWLER
>>Why?The script was written by Dan Gilroy, one of the most connected and successful writer/directors in the biz.? ?Even so, he had hard time getting the script filmed because the protagonist is? an anti-hero character.? He succeeds by subverting? conventional ethics.? The encounter with a "niRead more
>>Why?
The script was written by Dan Gilroy, one of the most connected and successful writer/directors in the biz.? ?Even so, he had hard time getting the script filmed because the protagonist is? an anti-hero character.? He succeeds by subverting? conventional ethics.? The encounter with a “nightcrawler” is the inciting incident in that he discovers a profession he thinks he could be good at and one that would be far more lucrative than being a petty thief.
And (spoiler) he is successful.? There is no reversal of fortune that leads to his downfall.? He doesn’t get his just desserts, doesn’t to pay for his misdeeds, his crimes.
He’s not a sympathetic character.? But he is an intriguing one.? He’s pathologically perfect for the profession. for operating? in a working milieu, a fiercely competitive, cutthroat business.?
And through the pathology of the character, Gilroy explores the pathology of? the profession.
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