1. Posted: August 22, 2019In:

    1950, blackmail and threats of outing a closeted gay detective when he is tasked with ?investigating the murder of his lover that appear to have been committed during a gay encounter.

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    >>as late as the 80?s with it still being a crimeYep, so why set it? the 50's?? (I'm thinking of production costs: props and costumes for the 50's will be harder/more expensive to replicate.)If the setting is in the US, with the exception of San Francisco, virulent homophobia was pervasive inRead more

    >>as late as the 80?s with it still being a crime

    Yep, so why set it? the 50’s?? (I’m thinking of production costs: props and costumes for the 50’s will be harder/more expensive to replicate.)

    If the setting is in the US, with the exception of San Francisco, virulent homophobia was pervasive in law enforcement into the 90’s. ? I used to work for the LAPD.? Heard many stories from old timers about the “good old days” (70’s and 80’s)? when they regularly raided gay bars, could come down hard with impunity on bun boys and drag queens .

    >>McCarthy….

    And McCarthy’s chief legal counsel, Roy Cohen, was gay; he eventually died of AIDS. (As dramatized in “Angels in America”.)? Talk about irony… (Cohen was also an influential mentor of Trump.? The one who told him to never admit to a mistake, never apologize, always counter punch.)

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  2. Posted: August 21, 2019In:

    When a wonder drug makes sleep obsolete, a morally conflicted TV hypnotist decides to help police investigations in a new world where criminals exploit a more fragile and easily manipulated human mind. (1 Hour Crime/SciFi TV Show)

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    >>>I guess I see it more that these waking dreams, Recals, are a side effect of not sleeping as apposed to the drug.And that has happened in experiments where volunteers are deprived of sleep for days.? They start hallucinating; eventually their minds will automatically flip into R.E.M. modRead more

    >>>I guess I see it more that these waking dreams, Recals, are a side effect of not sleeping as apposed to the drug.

    And that has happened in experiments where volunteers are deprived of sleep for days.? They start hallucinating; eventually their minds will automatically flip into R.E.M. mode.? Because? R.E.M. sleep is how the brain edits the contents of short term memory, organizes and files what’s left into long term memory.

    As I said earlier, I think the premise has interesting possibilities.? I suggest an alternate option might be to develop it as a film franchise.? Like the first film could be the origin story that sets up the premise and the story world, solves a dramatic question but leaves it open ended for further cases, further episodes. (Open ended in that the overarching problem of a 24/7/365 economic system that makes taking the drug a matter of Darwinian survival hasn’t been solved.)

    Whatever. Best wishes with your writing.

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  3. Posted: August 23, 2019In:

    In the midst of the swinging sixties, a racist, yet charismatic con man inexplicably befriends a black jewel thief and decides to steal a four million dollar painting from a heavily guarded and elaborate art museum.

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    I agree with you, mikepedley85, that a con artist and a thief are only doing what comes naturally for them.? But their behavior is transgressive, it violates collective norms.? So why would a movie audience embracing (more or less) those norms want to root for them??? Even want to buy a movie ticketRead more

    I agree with you, mikepedley85, that a con artist and a thief are only doing what comes naturally for them.? But their behavior is transgressive, it violates collective norms.? So why would a movie audience embracing (more or less) those norms want to root for them??? Even want to buy a movie ticket to watch them pull off the heist, get away with violating those collective norms?

    One of the few heist movies I can think of one movie where the initial motivation to pull off a heist is pure, unadulterated greed is “Sexy Beast” (2000)? But in that one, the protagonist has retired; he doesn’t want to do another job.

    However, a vicious, vile gangster (wonderfully played by Ben Kingsley) demands he come out of retirement and do another job — or else the gangster will kill him.? So he does the job? — but only after he kills the gangster. The way the plot is constructed, now he MUST do the job in order to cover up the killing, remove all suspicion as to why the gangster has mysteriously disappeared? otherwise another gangster will seek revenge.

    Also, why THAT objective goal and why NOW?? Why of all the possible paintings he could steal does he want to steal that specific painting??? And why must he steal it now?

    This is a movie where the protagonist enjoys the benefit of the 2nd criteria I mentioned: invidious comparison.? He’s a likeable bloke in contrast to the vicious, ruthless gangster.? And in contrast to another ruthless gangster he has to deal with while doing the job.? He’s a robber, but the least awful one compared to all the others.

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