Dramatic Love
"SOMETIMES LOVE" A man with little direction, falls in love with the woman who saves his life, but they have to overcome her drug addiction and past horrors in order to survive.
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Nothing wrong with my script, it’s just the way I’m wording my logline, and it has been rewritten from scratch because my Protagonist did not have a goal, and my structure was not the best. That has all been fixed, and all though the logline is important, you can give me an Oscar winning script, and I still won’t do the logline justice…. So by saying that… I need work on the proper way of constructing a logline. I agree to certain extent about the logline should come before the script, and your ending should be first… and all else… but sometimes it is what it is, and I’m not going to let this logline dictate if should start from scratch on my script…. So, I will get this logline down to have a better visual of my screenplay… And thanks for all the advice, I truly appreciate it, and hopefully I can improve this logline because it’s evident I’m leaving off something, or not focusing on… who knows… 🙂
Sometimes the logline is indeed the best representation of the story and in fact the concept is more of an ‘inner journey’.
The logline you posted here is definitely better than having ‘the couple’ as the main characters.
When you say ‘a man with little direction’, it sounds like you have a great opportunity for a character journey for both characters. He needs to find direction and she needs to overcome her addiction.
If there is no real ‘outer goal’, it is good to acknowledge this. If you want to improve the chance of selling the script, you may need to re-conceptualize it (and rewrite it from scratch).
Alternatively you can write the best version you can and consider it a writing sample.
I called myself trying to enhance the logline that was provided to me by Screenplayreaders.com (in November), but it sounds like I didn’t do a good job. “A couple falls in love but have to overcome the woman?s drug addiction and past horrors in order to survive.” My screenplay has changed a lot since that review, but their logline still is sufficient to the story. Before Screenplayreaders review/logline, my story did not have a premise, nor was it structured properly… I guess I will keep at it.
What seems most appealing to me in this logline is what happened in the past: her saving his life + the past horrors.
“Overcoming her drug addiction…” points at an inner journey, one of psychological transformation. There is no promise of a visual story or cinematic concept in this.
The question is now: is the story flawed or is the logline misrepresenting how the story is told…