I Love You Now
An extroverted overweight attorney-turned-actress falls in love with an introverted younger personal trainer and embarks on a life-changing romance. Even though they both know from the beginning that they want different things in life and their time together is limited, they risk their hearts to learn from each other until it is time to say goodbye.
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All your comments have been so helpful, thank you so much. I very much agree with TOAST- this story is the struggle between settling for something that is good, even great and letting go to really reach for something that is extraordinary. And not just in terms of a relationship, but in terms of life. These characters want different things in life and if they hold onto each other, they will eventually not be staying true to themselves. In our society, we are often taught to put someone else’s happiness ahead of ours, but I believe in the air mask philosophy- if I don’t put my air mask on first during a crash, I will not be any good to anyone else.
I also want to show how all relationships are valuable and teach us about ourselves and what we want in the world. I love the saying “People come into our lives for a reason, a season or a lifetime.” Too often, especially in movies, we want something to wrap up nicely into “And they lived happily ever after” but that is not how things always work. And just because a relationship only lasts a season does not make it any less meaningful than one that lasts a lifetime. This story is an illustration of that.
Of course, goodbyes are always tough and therein lies the drama. So yes, TOAST, I am visiting the dark places and going deep…and loving every minute of it!!!!
Is that not the cougar version of Friends with Benefit film and the ‘The rebound’ with Zeta-Jones?
That may be just a slice of life, but movies based on the same concept have been made.
Richie: Sure, it’s a “slice of life”, but there’s TRUE tension and conflict here.
It’s a struggle as large as any life-or-death decision.
To stay on a “steady, secure, known” path, or to risk it all on a roll of a dice, into the unknown.
The red pill, or the blue pill.
Mr. Right vs. Mr. Right-Now.
And if the main female character is of the right age, there’s the tick-tick-tick biological clock.
Sure, it’s not Arnold Schwarzenegger screaming “GET TO ZAH CHOPPER!!!!!!!!”, but there is DRAMA, and CONFLICT (inner and outer) and DRAMA, and TENSION and DILEMMA in this story.
In fact, it’s STRONGER. I can only *imagine* a predator chasing me. I *know* what it is to have to decide whether to stick with a “stable but secure” or “maybe it’s not working out” relationship.
eshaules: Go in deep. Visit the dark places. The places that give you a knot in your stomach. The places that make you sick even to think about.
That’s what people will pay good money to see.
Sophies Choice.
Sophie doesn’t pick a card.
Sophie chooses to pull her liver our through her chest, or pull a kidney out through her chest.
And the whole time the audience watches, in horror, through their fingers.
And talk about it for DECADES afterwards.
I’m guessing you have a good concept, but need to work on your logline. Tighten, tighten.
Extrovert / introvert are good character traits, indeed, but see if you can think of a “fatal flaw”. Even something with dramatic irony if you can manage it.
A “Christian Baptist Choir Singing” republican woman, meets a “stuttering-to-the-point-of-shyness” vegan environmentalilst man…
Stronger contrast. Indeed, I’m sure it’s in your characters, the hard part is making this come across in 25 words or less 🙂
Hell, just focus on what makes them different that the audience can get. Is one holden and one ford?
“An holden-loving attorney-turned-actress falls in love with an younger ford-loving man. Knowing from the beginning that neither wants same things in life, can they ever say goodbye?. ”
(That was awful. But you get the idea).
I wonder if this is a script that should have a traditional style logline. It seems more of a slice of life piece than a movie with a plot.
>>>but fall so deeply in love
How can it be that falling “so deeply in love” means it is “best for them” to split?
Thank you so much for your comments. I am going to edit the logline to make the characters more specific. As to drama, neither want “’til death do us part” but fall so deeply in love the idea of parting (even though it is best for both of them) is too painful to consider. I will work that in as well. Would love your feedback after the edits!
It’s an interesting initial situation. So they have no initial expectations of “till death do us part”. And then what? What’s the complication, the problem that drives the story? One of them decides he/she does want to make it “till death do us part”, but other wants to break up and move on?
A good set up for a film. room for drama
As for the logline, you should pick one friend as the lead character and give us a hint on why the character came to bee jaded.