When a genie in a pill bottle grants him his wish to be an action hero, a meek civil servant suffering from high anxiety must survive his mundane day job that magically transformed into a series of spectacular action sequences.
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When a genie in a pill bottle grants him his wish to be an action hero, a meek civil servant suffering from high anxiety must survive his mundane day job that magically transformed into a series of spectacular action sequences.
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lol, what if it turns out it was just the pills all along, there was no genie…
I’m hooked on the premise of a genie in a pill bottle — that’s a good one.? But? I’m not particularly intrigued by the story line that follows.
I suggest brainstorming the premise, digging for a deeper and richer story.? Like what kind of pills were in the bottle?? Pain killers, anti-depressants, sleeping pills?? And how could the kind of medication in the pill bottle relate thematically to his subjective problem?? And what if the genie’s only has the power to grant wishes offer the kind of relief the medication is supposed to provide?? And what if the small print — the warning about side effects — applies to whatever wish the genie grants as well as.
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What will the civil servant do in the story?
Genie appears, but now what? The series of “…spectacular action sequences…” are not a plot they are gags – granted, a nice premise for a comedy but this doesn’t describe a story.
Survive and Mundane don?t really work as mundane doesn?t need to be survived.
A genie grants a bored office workers dream to be a super hero by transforming his job into a series of spectacular action sequences.
It occurs to me that? the genie can’t just pitch spectacular action sequences at the worker and, voila!, he instantly becomes a super hero who knocks them out of the park. The genie also has to endow him with commensurate super hero powers to meet the challenges.? What are those super powers?