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A bounty hunter and a renegade race against the power-hungry to find an utopia lost in time.
Your rewrites are heading in the right direction but you need to focus the logline on the 'outer journey' and only indicate the 'inner' one by describing his or her flaw - if you describe the MC as 'selfish' or 'greedy' it is clear they will have to learn generosity during the course of the story. TRead more
Your rewrites are heading in the right direction but you need to focus the logline on the ‘outer journey’ and only indicate the ‘inner’ one by describing his or her flaw – if you describe the MC as ‘selfish’ or ‘greedy’ it is clear they will have to learn generosity during the course of the story. Therefore there is no reason to write that he or she must learn.
The whole interaction between the bounty hunter and renegade is complicating the story – it’s a subplot that’s been given an ‘A’ plot status. The main conflict in the story will come from the clash between the MC (bounty hunter) and the bad guys/gals, so the sooner you can describe why and how the bounty hunter has to fight them the better.
I’m seeing many similarities between this and the second Mad Max film. The big difference is that in Mad Max the MC is hired by a group of ‘good’ people to fight a bunch of bad guys/gals and deliver them to a utopia in a post-apocalypse world. At the same time, the MC is selfish and will only do it for some form of pay but by the end of it he cares about the good people and helps them regardless.
I wonder if you could do something similar in your story?
What if the MC is hired to deliver a sick child (pardon the cliche…) or [fill the gap – important person that can save the rest of humanity somehow] and by the end of the story he or she figures out that they won’t get paid but decide to finish the job anyhow for the greater good.
For example:
In a post-apocalypse wasteland, a selfish bounty hunter is hired to deliver the engineer of the world’s first cold fusion generator to a utopian oasis, and he must fight gangs of outlaws on their way to save humanity.
Not necessarily your story but it’s an example.
See lessWhen a medieval princess releases an evil spirit that intends to murder her husband, she must find a way to destroy the spirit and save her husband.
I'm inclined to go with something like:Based on an ancient folk tale, when a medieval princess accidentally releases an evil spirit, she must find a way to destroy it before it kills her husband. (28 words)>>> Based on an ancient folk taleThe fact that it's a tale that's endured for centuriRead more
I’m inclined to go with something like:
Based on an ancient folk tale, when a medieval princess accidentally releases an evil spirit, she must find a way to destroy it before it kills her husband.
(28 words)
>>> Based on an ancient folk tale
The fact that it’s a tale that’s endured for centuries suggests it has “commercial legs”; if it’s endured all this time, it might be a timeless (and profitable) story worth telling to a contemporary audience.
>>accidentally
It was accidental, right?? Or if she intentionally released it, she didn’t know what evil she was unleashing?Whatever, I suggest insert the appropriate adverb to clarify her lack of malevolent intent.
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See lesspossible fiction-thriller “the quarry” (MITH)
>>>3) the Sin: __________(that?s where I am confused)Implicit in Blake Snyder's description of the MITH trope is the notion that the monster fulfills the classic role of Nemesis, the retributive, pay back character/force/entity? for some original sin by the protagonist and/or? group to whicRead more
>>>3) the Sin: __________(that?s where I am confused)
Implicit in Blake Snyder’s description of the MITH trope is the notion that the monster fulfills the classic role of Nemesis, the retributive, pay back character/force/entity? for some original sin by the protagonist and/or? group to which he? is associated.? IOW, the manifestation of the? MITH in the plot is causal, not coincidental.? The cause lies in the backstory which the protagonist must eventually discover and deal with in order to defeat the MITH.
Take the case of two of the very best MITH films: “Alien” and “Aliens”.? In both cases, the original sin is the Big Bad Corporation ‘s profit motive.? The willingness to intentionally put the lives of the protagonist (and crew) in jeopardy in order to? cash in on the Alien’s military potential, it’s unique offensive and defensive attributes.
And in both movies, that’s the Big Discovery for Ripley, the moment when she realizes she’s being “fucked over for a goddamm percentage” of the profits.
fwiw
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