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When a 17 year old?s father is imprisoned she must outwit cops and criminals to get him out, whilst fooling social services into believing she can raise a previously estranged 11 year old brother.
"When a 17 year old?s father is imprisoned she must outwit cops and criminals to get him out, whilst fooling social services into believing she can raise a previously estranged 11 year old brother." This logline raises multiple questions about the credibility of the concept. For example, why does thRead more
“When a 17 year old?s father is imprisoned she must outwit cops and criminals to get him out, whilst fooling social services into believing she can raise a previously estranged 11 year old brother.”
This logline raises multiple questions about the credibility of the concept.
For example, why does the father deserve to be broken out? Is he innocent, framed? How does a teenager have the skills and ability to outwit cops who are trained and have experience dealing with smart criminals, and then criminals? Are the criminals in prison? If they aren’t how does she manage to outwit criminals who are smart enough to not be in prison?
The logline also presents two objective goals. For the logline only the main plot should be described. Once again, the second plot described raises credibility issues. How does a 17 year old outwit social workers who have to deal with adults using their own tricks and such in order to keep their children?
The main problem with the premise is that it seems all of the adults, the antagonists, are turned into dumb idiots so this teenager can outwit them and do whatever she wants. The concept may work better as a comedy rather than a drama.
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Craig, all anyone is saying is that any new storyteller should learn about storytelling, and by doing that they will be able to effectively twist conventions. "Pulp Fiction" wasn't Tarantino's first movie. And while "Reservoir Dogs" doesn't exactly follow the usual template either, it still has theRead more
Craig, all anyone is saying is that any new storyteller should learn about storytelling, and by doing that they will be able to effectively twist conventions. “Pulp Fiction” wasn’t Tarantino’s first movie. And while “Reservoir Dogs” doesn’t exactly follow the usual template either, it still has the storytelling elements that are used.
See lessAnd also films aren’t that old compared to other storytelling mediums, so most of the conventions in film came from already established story conventions. It might be fair to say that great plays, not screenplays, were written before the “rules”. Besides, back then stories were different. In the modern world we have so many years of stories that we can look back on that we have seen what works and what doesn’t, and thus we use those elements to create new stories.
An Amature Drug-dealer decides to sell drugs by Dark Web, But he realizes it is not like he thought.
Well, I can't disagree with there being a stigma against drug dealers and that it won't be the easiest sell. Even though there are a number of fictional, and non-fictional characters in films, television, and books who deal drugs yet are very popular. Just saying that all drug dealers are bad peopleRead more
Well, I can’t disagree with there being a stigma against drug dealers and that it won’t be the easiest sell. Even though there are a number of fictional, and non-fictional characters in films, television, and books who deal drugs yet are very popular.
Just saying that all drug dealers are bad people is simplifying people to one trait. No one is just one thing, and they shouldn’t be defined by one unsavory thing. They’re human beings, with good and bad. They just made a bad decision.
I know people who have dealt and used drugs. They were high school kids. Are they terrible people? What about pharmacists, they technically deal drugs, are they terrible people? ?People abuse prescription drugs just like illegal ones.
There are multiple loglines featuring other types of criminals, including assassins and other people who have no qualms about killing. I haven’t seen you react like this to any of those concepts. Are people who are (exclusively) drug dealers really worse than murderers? High school kids?
I’m not saying they don’t need a goal that an audience can’t cheer on. I don’t know what experiences you’ve had that have shaped your opinion on this, but dealing drugs is hardly the worst thing in the world, and the people who deal them are people, too.
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