You Know Me *(open to suggestions for better title)
Nicholas Andrew HallsSamurai
After switching bodies in a failed attempt to live out his sexual desires, a self-obsessed inventor must race to reverse the switch or face the rest of his life living someone else?s.
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I don’t know… plenty of classic films have morally deplorable protagonists.
Amen brother!
Argh! You guys are right on all accounts. This shit is hard, huh?
Timmyelliot may be right. You may be telling the wrong character’s story. If this is just the beginning of an idea maybe try telling the victim’s story and make the scientist the antagonist. It could be a super creepy story but in a good way.
If you want to stay with the scientist you need a better reason for him to want to switch back. If he WANTED this is the first place why does it matter if he never switches back? He would still have his superior mind and now in a superior body. Or is it? I don’t know your details but maybe there is something wrong with the body that isn’t overtly noticeable.. congenital defect? cancer? and now the old owner doesn’t want to give up the scientist’s body..
I do really like the creepy factor though.
I know the story has evolved. In previous versions, I was thinking this was a body-switching comedy.
In this version, the inventor is pretty creepy, stealing a person’s body out of some sexual perversion. The scientist’s dilemma doesn’t interest me (reverse switch or stay in body), because I’m no longer sympathetic with his plight. I’m empathizing for the unnamed victim (who got his body stolen) and how the scientist is going to get punished.