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The Devil at My Door. A young woman is visited by a messenger with news about the death of her husband. The messenger, she perceives is the Devil himself. Everything she knows about the fighting in the Middle East was grizzly and tragic. From the media and her husband?s letters, she learned to have nothing but contempt and hatred for these tyrants who had no regard for their own people. And now, one of these people were at her door.
As written, the logline sets up a situation and an inciting incident.? The clarification lays out a plot, sort of.? The plot needs to be incorporated in the logline.? Specifically, as a result of being informed of her husband's death. what does the woman do? Based on the clarification, the best frieRead more
As written, the logline sets up a situation and an inciting incident.? The clarification lays out a plot, sort of.? The plot needs to be incorporated in the logline.? Specifically, as a result of being informed of her husband’s death. what does the woman do?
Based on the clarification, the best friend appears to be the more proactive character.? He’s makes the effort to seek her out, explain what happened.? He’s “determined to prove to the widow that not all ‘his people’ are martyrs.”? In contrast, the woman seems more of a reactive character.? She reacts to the initial news by striking the husband’s friend.? And then she doesn’t seem to do anything until she hears the news that he died from friendly fire.? Then she reacts again and confronts her husband’s friend.
Whose story is it?? Who is the protagonist?
See lessThe Devil’s Cruise – On a family vacation cruise a father lost his daughter thru Somalian pirates and will now choose between saving her daughter or his business.
I agree with Richiev and Nir Shelter.? Any guy who would vacillate between saving his business and saving his daughter is unworthy of the audience's sympathy, admiration or interest.And I really?like Richiev's idea of?a ?gender switch.? It's a great idea:? the father?wimps out ?-- so it's up to momRead more
I agree with Richiev and Nir Shelter.? Any guy who would vacillate between saving his business and saving his daughter is unworthy of the audience’s sympathy, admiration or interest.
And I really?like Richiev’s idea of?a ?gender switch.? It’s a great idea:? the father?wimps out ?– so it’s up to mom to? “man up” and save the daughter.? Now that could make for a great story.
See lessA single career woman takes in her distant relative, a child Holocaust survivor, in post- war Sydney. As each others’ only family left alive, they must form a new life together but secrets and long-buried betrayals threaten to finish the work the Nazis started.
The?seems to be a story about??ghosts from the past haunting the present and?threatening ?the future.? It implies to me a lot of flashbacks? - how else to bring the ghosts from the past into the present? The first hurdle this concept has to clear in my mind?is the one created by the? myriad -- dareRead more
The?seems to be a story about??ghosts from the past haunting the present and?threatening ?the future.? It implies to me a lot of flashbacks? – how else to bring the ghosts from the past into the present?
The first hurdle this concept has to clear in my mind?is the one created by the? myriad — dare I say glut — of?Holocaust stories already made into movies.?? Most of which are based on real?people, real events.? Is this one based on real events, real people?? ?Truth is stranger than fiction and some Holocaust stories would never been made it no?as movies if they?weren’t based on actual historical events.? Like “Schindler’s List” — you can’t make up a fictional ?story like that up.? And if you could, who would believe it, want to make it into a movie?
So is it based on true events, real characters?? And what does this story have to say about the consequences of the Holocaust that hasn’t already been said in all the other Holocaust based films?? I just don’t see a unique story hook, here, a detail or twist that grabs my interest that suggests a new, a fresh, a?unique take on the Holocaust. (Others’ mileage may vary.)
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