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A “guinea pig” A US Infantry division, formed immediately after Pearl Harbor and populated with middle-aged draftees, becomes the most respected, effective and feared unit in the Pacific Theater, earning the nickname “The Old Bastards”.
If it's based on real historical events, that element needs to be incorporated into the logline; to wit, this is story is based upon strange but true events.
If it’s based on real historical events, that element needs to be incorporated into the logline; to wit, this is story is based upon strange but true events.
See lessWhen his parents leave the house for the weekend, a teenager and his friends decide to throw the most legendary party ever.
Is this a logline for the movie "Risky Business"? Or...?
Is this a logline for the movie “Risky Business”? Or…?
See lessWhen his arm gets trapped under a giant rock in the Grand Canyon, a man must decide how much he values his own life and how far he will go to preserve it.
127 Hours (2010). The movie was based upon a real life incident. Noting that in the logline strengthens the hook of the logline. The hook of the logline is that it's a true story of a man who faces an awful dilemma: he must cut off his arm -- or die. It's a do or die plot predicament -- and that's wRead more
127 Hours (2010). The movie was based upon a real life incident. Noting that in the logline strengthens the hook of the logline.
The hook of the logline is that it’s a true story of a man who faces an awful dilemma: he must cut off his arm — or die. It’s a do or die plot predicament — and that’s what the logline should focus on. That predicament was the story hook that attracted the interest of acclaimed director Danny Boyle.
So, maybe:
The true life story of a mountain climber who, when his hand gets trapped under a boulder in a remote canyon, must cut it off or die.
(27 words versus 33 words for the logline posted. With loglines, less is more.)
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