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A secretly gay detective in the 1940’s must investigate the murder of the man with whom he had a love affair with.
I think CraigDGriffiths makes an important point. ?His superiors and peers think it's a routine case, expect him to wrap it up quickly after a pro forma inquiry because, as CraigDGriffiths says, the victim was "only a fag, why do you care?" ?But he won't, he can't for reasons he can't confess to anyRead more
I think CraigDGriffiths makes an important point. ?His superiors and peers think it’s a routine case, expect him to wrap it up quickly after a pro forma inquiry because, as CraigDGriffiths says, the victim was “only a fag, why do you care?” ?But he won’t, he can’t for reasons he can’t confess to anyone.
And I always thought it would work better if they were still lovers, not ex-lovers. And both of them could be married, too.
Whatever. The appeal of the premise is that there is no lack of ingredients to stir into the plot.
See lessOn the verge of quitting his job to get married, a presumptuous man gets curiously rejected when proposing to his girlfriend and therefore hires a private investigator to investigate her reasons; but when he discovers that the PI has been following the wrong girl all along and feeding him false information, he must learn to listen to others selflessly before his girlfriend discovers that she’s being investigated.
This sounds more like a synopsis. Dwindle it down to its bare story which I presume is a man hiring a detective to investigate his girlfriend. I think the last part of it makes it seem too much like a synopsis: "when he discovers that the PI has been following the wrong girl all along and feeding hiRead more
This sounds more like a synopsis. Dwindle it down to its bare story which I presume is a man hiring a detective to investigate his girlfriend. I think the last part of it makes it seem too much like a synopsis:
“when he discovers that the PI has been following the wrong girl all along and feeding him false information, he must learn to listen to others selflessly before his girlfriend discovers that she?s being investigated.”
there’s a simpler way to say this. it isn’t a complex idea so I don’t think it needs a complex logline. See less
When a man?s marriage proposal is curiously rejected, he secretly hires a private investigator to investigate; but when the PI ends up following the wrong girl, the man must learn to differentiate fact from fiction to get to the truth.
I like the twist, that the PI follows the wrong guy, so the jilted man is reacting to the wrong information. I suggest the question the logline needs to answer is: ?how does he react to the wrong news? ?What becomes his objective goal in response to the wrong information? You classify the genre as nRead more
I like the twist, that the PI follows the wrong guy, so the jilted man is reacting to the wrong information.
I suggest the question the logline needs to answer is: ?how does he react to the wrong news? ?What becomes his objective goal in response to the wrong information?
You classify the genre as noir. ?Have you thought about making it a comedy, a comedy of errors? ?As a comedy of errors, the incompetent PI would work just fine.
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