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A vengeful young woman with a grudge about being conceived by anonymous sperm donation tracks down her biological father, who is now a successful gynaecologist, and plots with her scheming mother to take the place of his wife and daughter.
A protagonist doesn't' have to be sympathetic.? But she has to be interesting.? ?The character has to draw you into her world, her wild and crazy pov.??I? suggest that the character in this story be described for what she is, that your logline be an invitation for a script reader to go on a journeyRead more
A protagonist doesn’t’ have to be sympathetic.? But she has to be interesting.? ?The character has to draw you into her world, her wild and crazy pov.??I? suggest that the character in this story be described for what she is, that your logline be an invitation for a script reader to go on a journey into a heart of darkness of a psychopath.
My first response was to try to normalize the story — hence, I tilted toward reworking it from the victim’s point of view.? But if you? are intent on telling? with her as the protagonist, then I think any attempt to normalize the story would only dilute the character.? ?What made “America Psycho” so? compelling is that? the story is told entirely from the pov of the psycho.? We enter his mind, his custom styled insane asylum.
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See lessRevision: When a timid, undocumented student gets abducted, she must find the courage to escape a bleak island with four other strangers who aren’t all who they seem.
dpg is right, If your answer to "...was she abducted because she was undocumented?..." Is NO, then drop it from the logline Other than that, it should not contain "she must find the courage to..." even if you describe her as "timid" Your goal MUST be front and center
dpg is right,
If your answer to “…was she abducted because she was undocumented?…” Is NO, then drop it from the logline
Other than that, it should not contain “she must find the courage to…” even if you describe her as “timid” Your goal MUST be front and center
See lessRe-edit When two girls are kidnapped a psychology student believes it is the same man who took her and her sister fourteen years before. Fixated on a witness to the crime she follows and kills him.
When a kidnapping survivor, convinced of rescuing others from the same perpetrator, instead kills an innocent, she must.... Or depending on how your story goes When a kidnapping survivor is convinced of being the only one able to rescue others from the same perpetrator, she must chase down and killRead more
When a kidnapping survivor, convinced of rescuing others from the same perpetrator, instead kills an innocent, she must….
Or depending on how your story goes
When a kidnapping survivor is convinced of being the only one able to rescue others from the same perpetrator, she must chase down and kill him.
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