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When a submissive guy, working for the mafia, is caught by the police he must help them to put the mafia behind bars to get the girl he really wants.
Ultimately, he can't be trying to take down the mafia boss motivated exclusively by selfish love -- what's in it for him. He should be trying to rescue the girl he loves from the mafia boss (the boss has forced her to be his moll) She becomes the stakes character.
Ultimately, he can’t be trying to take down the mafia boss motivated exclusively by selfish love — what’s in it for him. He should be trying to rescue the girl he loves from the mafia boss (the boss has forced her to be his moll) She becomes the stakes character.
See lessAs Nazi forces ready a counterattack after the first wave of the Warsaw Uprising, a scrappy Polish courier must cross the occupied city with three boy-scouts turned soldiers to recruit their battalion for a dangerous mission — liberate a concentration camp before the SS can kill its inmates.
I think Aristotle's dictum in the "Poetics" of one plot in the forefront per drama is still good advice. So the plot should either about the uprising in the Warsaw ghetto or the boy scouts' attempt to liberate a concentration camp. Not both. (Although the Warsaw ghetto can be a background event.) SiRead more
I think Aristotle’s dictum in the “Poetics” of one plot in the forefront per drama is still good advice. So the plot should either about the uprising in the Warsaw ghetto or the boy scouts’ attempt to liberate a concentration camp. Not both. (Although the Warsaw ghetto can be a background event.)
Since the history of the Warsaw ghetto is familiar (to anyone familiar with the Holocaust) and has already been the subject of many books and dramas, but the liberation of a concentration camp by boy scouts probably isn’t, the strongest selling point of the concept is what is new, unfamiliar. Boy scouts trying to liberate a concentration camp is high concept.
See lessAs Nazi forces ready a counterattack after the first wave of the Warsaw Uprising, a scrappy Polish courier must cross the occupied city with three boy-scouts turned soldiers to recruit their battalion for a dangerous mission — liberate a concentration camp before the SS can kill its inmates.
I think Aristotle's dictum in the "Poetics" of one plot in the forefront per drama is still good advice. So the plot should either about the uprising in the Warsaw ghetto or the boy scouts' attempt to liberate a concentration camp. Not both. (Although the Warsaw ghetto can be a background event.) SiRead more
I think Aristotle’s dictum in the “Poetics” of one plot in the forefront per drama is still good advice. So the plot should either about the uprising in the Warsaw ghetto or the boy scouts’ attempt to liberate a concentration camp. Not both. (Although the Warsaw ghetto can be a background event.)
Since the history of the Warsaw ghetto is familiar (to anyone familiar with the Holocaust) and has already been the subject of many books and dramas, but the liberation of a concentration camp by boy scouts probably isn’t, the strongest selling point of the concept is what is new, unfamiliar. Boy scouts trying to liberate a concentration camp is high concept.
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