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As Nir Shelter said.
When you're as established and commercially successful as Tarantino, you won't have to write a logline. The name on the title page will suffice to get a reading.
(And when he was a nobody, Tarantino worked the Hollywood social circuit to meet the right people to get a reading. And how many of us live in Tinsel town? How many of us have fewer than 18 degrees of separation between us and somebody who can green light a script?)
Until then...
As Nir Shelter said.
When you're as established and commercially successful as Tarantino, you won't have to write a logline. The name on the title page will suffice to get a reading.
(And when he was a nobody, Tarantino worked the Hollywood social circuit to meet the right people to get a reading. And how many of us live in Tinsel town? How many of us have fewer than 18 degrees of separation between us and somebody who can green light a script?)
Until then...
We often have this discussion on Logline.it when a writer tries to justify as a creative choice the lack of clarity, logic, or a goal, stakes, antagonist and a journey.
Alas the answer is always; a resounding yes! They are needed in most cases.
Look at Tarantino's films closely and analyse them (I have) liner story lines or not the MC in most cases had clear goals, high stakes antagonists and journeys.
Bottom line is if you want to sell a story to a producer he or she will have to see financial merit in it majority of audiences wanting to watch them as appose to the minority. For them to do so the story will have to comply with story conventions in order to reach a large enough audience. These conventions have been established and researched for a little over 3500 years so best to use them instead of reject them.
If you are inventing a new world you can invent more provocative rules and also more interesting obstacles and goals. If the goal is to reunite with her lover, make the world and rules very complex, and the stakes very high for example in Romeo and Juliet the stakes were high. In your movie make the world interesting and invent the dangers.
Perhaps a discussion larger than this logline. Isn't it possible that the concept of not reaching your goal also the Stakes? Must find food, would imply or you starve. Can the antagonist be society or the environment, I think of "Castaway", Tom Hanks all alone.
Loglines sell the story, not tell the story. I acknowledge that these should be in a logline, but sometimes you can only stand out by being different. Tarantino was Tarantino from his first script.
I think Nir Shelter has put his finger on it: the premise as currently presented raises too many questions about its internal logic that distracts from the story itself.
But I think the premise has promise. In these more tolerant and accepting times (in some cultures, anyway), there is more open mindedness to same-sex relationship stories.
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