A lost vegan food critic at the centre of two primitive competitive tribes must convince them all into “one big happy vegetarian village” before the next bounty fest, where they compete over their rights to eat him..
37 words!! *sigh*
some description:
1. He teaches them his modern ways of food and family (disappointed in their ways of total meat diet)
they feed him vegan-food with a confused indifference, which our protagonist relishes through the first half of the film,
2. at the midpoint “false victory” every one cooks for him, their “experiments with veggies”
3. with the onset of page 55/120 he discoveres he is being fed for the bounty fest where the tribes will compete over him amongst other collected farm animals..
the stakes are raised in a possible comic event when for our protagonist, when asks them…
why would they eat him after he proved earlier (in the fun and games section) how “just the non veg diet would dumb their minds and shorten their lifespan”
They reply we don’t have SAT’s here
and without Netflix the life span seems long enough..
“A lost vegan food critic at the centre of two primitive competitive tribes must convince them all into ?one big happy vegetarian village? before the next bounty fest, where they compete over their rights to eat him..”
This premise seems too much like a white savior trope.? Where the primitive and unintelligent savages who have their own culture are “saved” by the foreigner who comes in and teaches them their?own living style, and somehow in the process they learn the culture of the people better than they know it.
This also runs into the problem where the story seems to want these tribes to be primitive and ignorant of modern society, yet they know about standardized testing in modern education institutions, yet they are confused with the concept of eating plants?
Cannibalism is certainly real and it is still what some people around the world do.(from a simple Google search it seems most don’t kill the humans they consume unless it is an enemy intruder, but many eat corpses for religious practices.) My point being that there are nuanced reasons why cannibals consume human flesh, but this logline presents a “these dumb savages don’t know how to farm” situation.
Look at Hannibal, the NBC series, and other iterations of Hannibal Lecter. (Hannibal is the only version I am familiar with, though I do plan to watch “Silence of the Lambs”) Hannibal is extremely intelligent, a well adjusted human being who knows that other people find his dining desires disgusting. He is a nuanced and developed character.
That’s just my take. I get it’s a comedy, but that doesn’t mean it can’t have complex characters with interesting and developed motivations and goals. Going along with that, what is the motivation and goal for these tribes? Why do they want to eat this man?
I hope this helps.
The two tribes is not needed in the Logline because it doesn?t impact on the line itself and if you drop it you get a bit more room.
A vegan food critic lost in the jungle and is rescue by a cannibal tribe that he must convince to become vegetarian before he is the main course at an upcoming festival.
When he is captured by cannibals, a lost food critic has one month to teach the tribe the joy’s of vegetarianism, or be the main course at the summer solstice.