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(First revision) When townsfolk reject an attention-craving man by magically transforming him into a ghost, he must seek the help of other rejected ghosts in order to find a way to break the curse before it becomes permanent.
Scott: Suggestion: go Kafkaesque with your premise. In Franz Kafka's "The Trial", Joseph K. is arrested and put on a trial.? But he doesn't why, what he is accused of doing, what he is supposed to be guilty.? And no one will tell him even as he's found guilty and sentenced to death. So have a modernRead more
Scott:
Suggestion: go Kafkaesque with your premise. In Franz Kafka’s “The Trial”, Joseph K. is arrested and put on a trial.? But he doesn’t why, what he is accused of doing, what he is supposed to be guilty.? And no one will tell him even as he’s found guilty and sentenced to death.
So have a modern day Joseph K.? He’s popular,? lots of friends on Facebook, followers on Twitter, etc.? Maybe he’s even a celebrity, a social influencer on the internet.? Whatever.
Then the inciting incident:? he wakes up one day to find he has been ghosted.? By the whole world.? No one will respond to him on social media or email; no one reads his Twitters or “likes” anything he posts on Facebook or on Instagram.? No one emails him or responds to emails; no one calls or return his calls.? He doesn’t know why, what he has done wrong, and no one will tell him.
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See less(First revision) When townsfolk reject an attention-craving man by magically transforming him into a ghost, he must seek the help of other rejected ghosts in order to find a way to break the curse before it becomes permanent.
Scott: >>at least let me ask why you think the premise doesn?t work? Not even in a fantasy? Viewers will suspend disbelief for factual fabulism, for fantasy story worlds that are untethered from how things are in the real world.? But they will never suspend disbelief for emotional fabulism, foRead more
Scott:
>>at least let me ask why you think the premise doesn?t work? Not even in a fantasy?
Viewers will suspend disbelief for factual fabulism, for fantasy story worlds that are untethered from how things are in the real world.? But they will never suspend disbelief for emotional fabulism, for motivations and feelings that are untethered from how people feel and are motivated to act in the real world.
I have no problem believing that the protagonist in your premise covets attention.? That’s an all too human motivation.? But I am unable to suspend disbelief that the response of the ruling elite is to imprison him in some kind of ghost costume.? All. They.? Have. To. Do. Is. Ignore. Him.? For a narcissist, to be ignored is a living hell.? He becomes a ghost simply being ignored.
Furthermore, there is nothing in the logline, nor have you offered any reason in the discussion thread why I should sympathize with him.? He’s done nothing in the reel world of the story to earn the attention he craves.? Nor to earn my attention as a movie viewer in the real world.
Again, my 2.5 cents worth.
See lessMary believes that she is having a cryptic pregnancy, but her doctor and her boyfriend don?t believe her. After she gives birth at home her child is taken from her by mysterious government organization, Mary has to fight her own self doubt to recover her child and prove her sanity.
As the others have said. If I think I understand what the unnatural "horror" aspect of the story is, it would seem to me that she would become pregnant in spite of being a 100% celibate, authentic virgin.? No man has gotten so far as to 1st base with her.? So of course, she would think it's cryptic.Read more
As the others have said.
If I think I understand what the unnatural “horror” aspect of the story is, it would seem to me that she would become pregnant in spite of being a 100% celibate, authentic virgin.? No man has gotten so far as to 1st base with her.? So of course, she would think it’s cryptic.
And then she delivers.
And then the child is kidnapped.
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