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After allied bombing accidentally destroys her safehouse, a jew joins the dutch resistance, only to face a series of deception

“black book” or “zwartboek” (2006) is a dutch thriller by Paul Verhoeven

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      The web needs to be described better. What is the specific nature of this web, what’s her major problem and what specifically must she do?

      What’s her goal?

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      The logline? fails to? explicitly supply the protagonist with an objective goal. I haven’t seen the film (yet).? But gleaning from the IMBD summary and reviews, how about something like:

      After Allied bombing forces her to come out of hiding, a Jewish woman joins the Dutch resistance and weaves a web of deception to infiltrate the German high command and collect vital military?intelligence.
      (34 words)

      Longish,? but it establishes a clearer cause and effect relationship between the bombing and the resulting action.

      Or maybe;

      After Allied bombing forces her to come out of hiding, a Jewish woman joins the Dutch resistance and infiltrates the German high command to collect vital military?intelligence.
      (26 words)

      Obviously, she would have use deception and trickery to infiltrate.

      fwiw

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      Now that I have actually viewed the movie, here is my amended logline (version 2.0).

      After the Nazis kill her family while trying to flee Holland, a Jewish singer joins the resistance and infiltrates the German high command to collect vital military intelligence.
      ( 28 words)

      The accidental bombing of the house where she has been hiding out is what I call the Point of Attack, the 1st significant conflict in the story.? ?Usually, it’s dramatic significance is that it dramatizes what’s wrong with the status quo as far as the protagonist is concerned.? And that is certainly the case here.? She’s hiding from the Nazis and caught in the cross-fire as the Allies liberate the continent.

      But as dramatic as that scene is, it is not the inciting incident.? Why?? Because it does not motivate her to join the resistance.? Only after the Nazis ambush and kill her family while they are trying to flee Holland, does she join the resistance.? Now she’s motivated:? she’s getting involved not just out of a sense of patriotic duty but because it’s personal.? It’s her way of avenging the death of her family.

      A good inciting incident hooks into something personal in the mind, the life of the protagonist that compels her to respond, to do something radically different, something she would have never dared do before the incident. It’s an opportunity, a call to action disguised as a personal problem or, in this case, a personal tragedy.

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