The Counselor
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When an honest criminal lawyer is tempted by a lucrative one time drug deal only to have it go sour, he must fight to save the woman he loves from the revenge of a merciless cartel.
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I haven’t seen or heard of this film until your logline, possibly for a reason…
It sounds as if the MC is mostly a reactive character instead of pro active one, and that’s possibly why it didn’t work very well.
One would think they would have made sure to adapt the story to work better for the screen.
Guess not.
This is the best salvage job I could do on the plot of the movie.?IMHO, this is a film that might have benefited from some serious pre-production logline vetting.
The script was written by Cormac McCarthy, the author of “No Country for Old Men”, a brilliant novel, superbly adapted for the screen by the Coen brothers. ??So “The Counselor” ?was a sure thing, right? ? Look at the roster of A-list talent who apparently thought so: ?Ridley Scott, Michael Fassbender, Penelope Cruz, Javier Bardem, Penelope Cruz, Brad Pitt.
Actually, my logline is a puff piece. ?The protagonist doesn’t put up a fight when the deal goes sour. ? Nor do his “business associates”– they all flee for their lives. ? He tries to talk (aka: beg) his way out, while trying to get his fiancee out of town before the cartel takes out their revenge on him by killing the person he loves most.