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When he skips his migraine medication, a long term sufferer starts perceiving reality differently from others and must use different perceptive to find out which reality is real: His or the Rest of the World’s.
Might work better if the inciting incident entails his skipping his meds for schizophrenia.And it might work better to frame the theme of reality perception around a specific dramatic problem. ?Like did he really witness a murder (or commit one) while he skipped his meds -- or did he hallucinate it?Read more
Might work better if the inciting incident entails his skipping his meds for schizophrenia.
And it might work better to frame the theme of reality perception around a specific dramatic problem. ?Like did he really witness a murder (or commit one) while he skipped his meds — or did he hallucinate it?
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See lessIn a future when clones are a trillion-dollar corporate secret, an LA homicide detective falsely accused of murder must track down her duplicate to prove her innocence. (UPDATED)
This will not be the first (or last) I disagree with my compatriots. Let's look at the colour your details have given. LA where beauty is king and it has its own look and feel. Think how different it would be if it was NYC. Trillion dollar secret. So we know who is the big bad behind the clone. NowRead more
This will not be the first (or last) I disagree with my compatriots. Let’s look at the colour your details have given.
LA where beauty is king and it has its own look and feel. Think how different it would be if it was NYC.
Trillion dollar secret. So we know who is the big bad behind the clone.
Now the clone, someone who is you. Who knows you etc.
The only question I have is why would a trillion dollar industry have a cop clone?
Otherwise I can see a cross between Blade Runner and LA Confidential.
See lessAliens in need of a battlefield chose earth for their war, now in the remnant of the devastating war; a suicidal man must find a reason to save humanity, which is facing extinction.
In defining the protagonist as "suicidal" you're portraying him as a "least likely" hero. ?Which is a bona fide dramatic gimmick.Well, wouldn't casting the protagonist as a "least likely" woman also do the job? ?Make her a liberal arts major, a wannabe poet :-).Then send her on a "Hero's Journey" toRead more
In defining the protagonist as “suicidal” you’re portraying him as a “least likely” hero. ?Which is a bona fide dramatic gimmick.
Well, wouldn’t casting the protagonist as a “least likely” woman also do the job? ?Make her a liberal arts major, a wannabe poet :-).
Then send her on a “Hero’s Journey” to discover and develop her latent abilities, ?save humanity, save the planet. ? The most likely?candidate for a “Hero’s Journey” is a character whom everyone else in the story thinks is “least likely”.
Whatever, I suggest you develop the plot such that it unravels through a series of movies –a franchise. ?Franchise potential is the honey pot. (And’s is why I give the concept a thumbs up, though it needs polishing.)
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