Singularity
Posted: 2015-03-30T10:29:45+10:00 In:

"When an uptight accountant agrees to spend Christmas with his fiance' and her parents, he ends up in the last place he would ever want to be, a new age hippy commune, and must learn to accept their free spirit lifestyle or escape and risk losing his future bride."

Hippy Christmas

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    1. Singularity

      Good points all around, I think I could use ‘holidays’ instead of Christmas and have the title be ‘Hippy New Year’ instead of ‘Hippy Christmas’

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    2. Singularity

      The winter solstice could work. Xmas is the ancient Roman holiday Saturnalia baptized as a Christian holiday. (Nobody knows when Christ was actually born.) The Roman holiday celebrated the passage of the winter solstice; days would start getting longer instead of shorter. The Saturnalia was quite a time for booze and bawdy merriment.

      But most people won’t get the reference or will be confused. So for the sake of simplicity, I chose rite of spring.

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    3. Uberwriter

      If you decide to keep it Christmas, it could show his inflexibility as they were willing to celebrate something they thought was important to him.

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    4. Mentor

      It can be be the winter soltice, which is close to christmas (21-22 december). This can easily generate some gags and misunderstandings at the beginning of the movie.

      Please write this movie. I’m enthousiaste about your idea.

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    5. Singularity

      dpg, thanks for the impute. pretty solid re-write.

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    6. Singularity

      Good points FFF, I do think the logline would be stronger without he ends up in the last place he would ever want to be? I was debating whether to add that line or not.

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    7. Singularity

      A conservative, uptight accountant’s engagement to the daughter of hippies is in jeopardy when he attends their new age holiday, a ‘Rite of Spring’, drugs, sex and rock and roll orgy.

      Xmas is staid. And the stakes are higher than just whether he survives: can their relationship survive?

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    8. Mentor

      Hello,
      it could be funny. “Meet the [new age] parents”.

      besides you can avoid this kind of sentence : “he ends up in the last place he would ever want to be”= a lots of words for not so much. You said an “uptight” accountant, it’s clear enough that it would not be at ease in a hippie commune.

      What about:
      “An uptight accountant must survive a Christmas with his fiance’ and her parents in a new age hippy commune”.

      Must-it be christmas? (hippies may not be into christmas). Could it be a full moon solstice or something? I like the title anyway, so it must be christmas.

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