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In order to progress through heaven’s gates,? ghosts must pay penance by returning to earth and helping the people they hurt.
An interesting idea for a plot.? Now it needs to be fleshed it out with the essential ingredients for a plot:? A singular protagonist who has X amount of time to complete a specific act of restorative justice or else. And the act he must perform must not only be the last thing he wants to do but alsRead more
An interesting idea for a plot.? Now it needs to be fleshed it out with the essential ingredients for a plot:? A singular protagonist who has X amount of time to complete a specific act of restorative justice or else. And the act he must perform must not only be the last thing he wants to do but also the hardest, one where the odds are against him.
See lessA selfish millionaire, widowed to a radical terrorist academic that collected torture porn, attempts to teach her children the merits of assertiveness skills and socialist feminism
Clarification please:? did the woman know while he was alive that her husband collected torture porn?? Or is that something she discovered after he died?? (If the latter, it could qualify as the inciting incident for the purpose of framing the narrative of real life events into a dramatic structure.Read more
Clarification please:? did the woman know while he was alive that her husband collected torture porn?? Or is that something she discovered after he died?? (If the latter, it could qualify as the inciting incident for the purpose of framing the narrative of real life events into a dramatic structure.)
>>Based on true events, its rather unclear why the protagonist does these things, or whether she has an ultimate goal.
This is where drama “improves” on real life. As the director Alfred Hitchcock said: “I don?t want to film a ‘slice of life’ because people can get that at home.”? Most people don’t watch a movie to see a faithful recreation of real life events.? They want to view something that’s better than quotidian life.? Or that’s real life with all the boring parts cut out — that’s a paraphrase of another quote from one of the great masters of cinema.
See lessDuring a solo expedition through the Australian outback, a lonely female scientist befriends a mysterious traveller via her long-range UHF radio, but things turn sinister when he insists on meeting up in the middle of nowhere.
This logline reminds me of something Woody Allen said about setups for movies: "The world is strewn with very good ideas that don't go anyplace?It happens all the time, to me, and everybody. They get a great idea. A guy walks down the street and finds a wallet and he goes to a house and there's a deRead more
This logline reminds me of something Woody Allen said about setups for movies: “The world is strewn with very good ideas that don’t go anyplace?It happens all the time, to me, and everybody. They get a great idea. A guy walks down the street and finds a wallet and he goes to a house and there’s a dead body on the floor. Then what? It’s the ‘then what?’ that kills you.” (Start to Finish: Woody Allen and the Art of Moviemaking, p 13)
So she meets up with a guy in the middle of the Outback. Actually, the logline only says he insists on meeting her.? It doesn’t say she agrees, that they actually meet.? Anyway,? he insists on meeting her.
Then what?
What is the plot that arises from this setup?? “Things turn sinister” is vague, uninformative, doesn’t go anyplace. It doesn’t tell us what becomes the woman’s objective goa, what the dramatic question is.
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