Lethal Revenge(formally My Reward) – revised 4
A devoted wife suspecting infidelity poisons her children to hurt her husband and now she must right her wrong and conceal the truth when she later realizes her mistake.
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Thanks jjb, I’ve taken some hints from your suggestion and actually come out with something different and hopefully better. at least i know now the concept of the story is realistic and that’s a starting point for me. I learned today that the standard for a log-line is 25 words,sounds impossible when you have a lot of descriptions to give.
Timmyelliot, thanks for clearing my doubts, now i am confident i have a different story altogether.
*new*
Have a read of ‘A Fraction of the Whole’, a novel by Steve Tolz. Not only is it a ripping and hilarious black comedy, there is a sub plot that has similar executional elements to your idea.
I dare say the tone, characters etc would be very different, but the author pulls it off.
Re your log line, I like the concept, but I reckon the sub text of certain plot elements mean you can leave out some elements that are currently stated, and may be bogging down the log line… maybe something like:
Suspecting infidelity, a devoted wife slowly poisons her children to hurt her husband, on discovering his innocence, she must conceal the truth to save her family and stay out of jail.
But I’m knew to this… so feel free to disregard completely!
I find it believable. The Medea Complex is well documented.
So, when I read the logline, I just saw a story about “a mother tries to hide her psychiatric complex (the Medea Complex).” I wasn’t hooked yet. People often try to hide psychiatric issues, how is this different?
Besides, the logline didn’t really give any indication how the story would really be different than other versions of the Medea story.
(The “Medea Complex” is “Murderous hatred by a mother for her child, often driven by the desire for revenge on her husband.”)
I know you have a unique story. Personally, I just didn’t see it in the logline.
As far as the film, Medea MIracle, I don’t remember.
Actually the story line talks about the woman giving little doses of arsenic which actually causes slow death, since the victims will get sick gradually. I intend to make correction on her part, a situation where she starts asking around for expert help when she finally realizes her mistake and in the process still tries to conceal the fact that she is responsible. Jeez i don’t know if this is believable! Then the word devoted, some say it will sound better if it’s “obsessed” or “deranged” or whatever. I feel like leaving it as devoted.
Timmyelliot, i think Medea Miracle is actually similar to my story in many ways. Did she poison the kids after her madness or what? I could just change my plot. I don’t want something that similar, i want a unique story.
It could be just a misunderstanding on my part. When you identify that she poisons her children and then must right her wrong for me, I found it hard to be able to reverse what I would expect to be a lethal poisoning unless she is unskilled in field in medicine. Concealing the truth about her actions….the “how” will truly be a mystery and stir intrigue. Hope this helps.
Finally… i’m gradually getting there…
I have to disagree with some of the comments, I believe this logline is better than previous attempts because the others were vague, you are finally getting into specifics. It still feels like it rambles a bit, If you could find a way to make it just a little tighter you should be there.
Thanks for the link timmyelliot, i’ll surely check it out and bryson, i remember you said earlier on, you can’t truly please everybody, lol, you can start from explaining the “element of believability” that’s missing. I’ll probably be able to “find it” and if you can’t i guess then i’m getting close to perfection. The revision is actually a suggestion from someone, just want to see how it’ll work. Thanks for reading the post all the same.
I think you went the opposite direction that you wanted to go with this logline. I actually like your other submissions over this one. In this one you removed the element of believability. Not sure how to give some good feedback to help you improve on this one.
For me, while well-written, your logline doesn’t sound different than a version of the Classic Medea.
I think your story would be unique, but, for me, it wasn’t obvious in the logline.
As a possible example of a unique take on the story, Medea Miracle. It modernizes the story, putting it a night-club, http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1094262/
I don’t think I’ve heard of what you’ve just mentioned, so can you pls give a suggestion of the ” unique twist”. Even similar stories can be told differently having it own uniqueness. Thanks
It doesn’t work for me. This feels like a literal retelling of Euripides’ Medea. If you’re going to give me the Classics, then show me you have a unique twist.
Finally i’ve been able to bring this down to 29 words, hopefully I’m now on track. Please post ALL your reviews even if i still don’t get it. All I’m after is a perfect or near perfect logline. Thanks