1. Posted: August 20, 2019In: ,

    In order to clear her brother of a wrongful murder conviction, an unemployed single mother puts herself through high school, college and law school.

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    giannisgerogiou:The movie was based on an actual legal case in the state of Massachusetts.?? Kenny Waters was convicted of murder and given a life sentence in? 1983.? So she had the rest of his life to achieve her objective goal.? There was no ticking clock.It took his sister Betty 12 years to get hRead more

    giannisgerogiou:

    The movie was based on an actual legal case in the state of Massachusetts.?? Kenny Waters was convicted of murder and given a life sentence in? 1983.? So she had the rest of his life to achieve her objective goal.? There was no ticking clock.

    It took his sister Betty 12 years to get her law degree so that she could represent him in court.? It took her 6 more years of challenges to the validity of DNA evidence used to convict him. (It was not a matter of corrupt cops so much as incompetent ones.)? He was finally released in 2001 — 18 years after being wrongly convicted.

    The main conflict is her battle against the local law enforcement agency and in the courts to prove her brother was innocent — that’s her objective goal.? Getting the necessary education was the means to achieving that goal.

    I didn’t see the need to add “in order to represent him in court”.? It’s obvious, goes without saying.? (Why else would she want to get a law degree?) So it need not be said in a logline.

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  2. Posted: August 14, 2019In:

    Sex Magic, witchcraft, pornography charges, tabloid headlines ? In 1950s Sydney, Rosaleen Norton was extremely naughty, but did the scandals overshadow an artistic genius?

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    girlbad:Thanks for the clarification.? So you are making a factual documentary, not a fictionalized dramatization of her life? (Unfortunately, documentary? currently is not in the list of genres)? If so, I suggest framing the narrative? not in terms of "was notorious"? because that's inert in termsRead more

    girlbad:

    Thanks for the clarification.? So you are making a factual documentary, not a fictionalized dramatization of her life? (Unfortunately, documentary? currently is not in the list of genres)? If so, I suggest framing the narrative? not in terms of “was notorious”? because that’s inert in terms evoking a sense of dramatic conflict and casts her in the role a passive victim of a bad press.

    Well, she was the? victim of bad publicity, but she was not passive.? She was the protagonist of her own life story, and in any documentary or drama, the protagonist is by definition proactive. So she needs to be portrayed as such, as a rebel who defied conventional norms, an outsider who practiced her art (and her beliefs) in spite of the controversies that swirled around her.

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  3. Posted: July 22, 2019In: ,

    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.

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    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.?

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