Three women and a man are trapped in an apartment. Freedom is theirs for the taking a long as they abide by just one condition: the man must have sex with at least one woman.
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Three women and a man are trapped in an apartment. Freedom is theirs for the taking a long as they abide by just one condition: the man must have sex with at least one woman.
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Need to know how this facilities their release?
Work that into the story.
The story is vague.
Who is the main character?
Why only if the man has sex with one of the women? Why not the women have sex without him?
As it stands, the premise is a bit crazy in a not good way. Can you explain the stakes?
Unrelated, but as an example, what if an alien race trapped them there and they want to bread humans? This way there is a semi-logical premise, albeit out of this word (pardon the pun…) but it establishes a basic logic that makes the story coherent.
Reading the original language glide, I am confused with what genre the movies belong to. Is this some kind of enclosed horror psychological movies? A la Saw.
all the people are given conflicting tasks to execute before sunrise otherwise they die or somebody they love die or suffer some horrific pain. The man a lawyer who got a rapist off on a technicality, must now succeed in seducing or rape one of the women otherwise his own daughter is raped. The first woman a staunch racist and homophobe must seduce one of the other two women a Muslim and a black lesbian. The Muslim woman who said nothing when her terrorist brother plotted his attack, must now find a bomb in the building and defuse it. The last woman, a black lesbian activist who outed a housewife resulting in her suicide must now run interference on all other three others without revealing anything.
Somebody ala Jigsaw then watches them running around in the building/flat.
New reality TV show: survivor meet the task master meet big brother the Task survivor.
You are missing an element or two, why don’t they just use their cell phones and call for help? What are the stakes? Why can’t they just leave? Are they trapped, or are they held against their will? These are not in your logline.
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“When a die-hard?conservative jerk is kidnapped along with three man-hating feminists, they are informed by their cruel captor their only road to freedom is if the man has sex with one of the women.”
Sex complete. People freed. They live happily ever after.
I’d watch it.
OP here. This has all been extremely helpful! Thanks! The logline definitely does have some gaping holes and all your feedback has been really helpful in taking this forward. Thanks!
The original intent was basically to write a one room film that could take on the ideas of society and patriarchy. Will work on this some more.
So what was the intended genre?
Psychological horror, intellectual play?
if you have an one room film, then all the tension has to come from the dialogue.
Phonebooth is one of the recent movie based on the one room concept.
but despite the dialogue, the initial setup has to make sense.
having sex to get free does not sound like a good setup for me.
Why can’t they just have sex and get freed?
That is why I wanted to know whether each participant had been given conflicting tasks.
Each hour participant does have conflicting personalities. Since the stakes aren’t that high to begin with, they’re just absurd, they don’t even entertain the one condition. That us until they realize that they’re on some sort of a reality show and they start getting instructions that raise the stakes.
The film, in a way, was in the vein of Bunuel’s Exterminating Angel.