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After peeing on a stick, an aging party girl who has it all: the fiance, the house, the job .. and the crippling anxiety ? must decide if she?s ?old enough? to have her baby.
When a character discovers she's pregnant, a ticking clock goes into effect.? She has X amount of time to go forward and work out the immediate problems it creates or have an abortion. So I suggest the logline reflect that ticking clock, the sense of urgency.? The protagonist does not have the luxurRead more
When a character discovers she’s pregnant, a ticking clock goes into effect.? She has X amount of time to go forward and work out the immediate problems it creates or have an abortion. So I suggest the logline reflect that ticking clock, the sense of urgency.? The protagonist does not have the luxury of time to bond with her mother, overcome her doubts, commit to carrying the baby to term and raising it.
(In Juno, after considering and then rejecting abortion, at the end of Act 1 the teenage protagonist decides to go full term, put her infant up for an adoption and she’s decided who the adopting family will be.)
However, bonding with her mom seems to be her subjective need.? But loglines are about objective goals, not subjective needs.? An objective goal is what a character intentionally wants.? A subjective need is not intentionally the focus of a protagonist’s struggle because the last thing a person wants to admit is that she has a subjective problem? and that she must change.? Must change in order to achieve her objective goal.? It seems to me that if the mother-to-be had a bad relationship before her mother before her pregnancy, then the pregnancy would initially? exacerbate that relationship.
I am more inclined toward yqwertz’s suggestion that her objective issue concerns the radical changes to her lifestyle becoming a mother will entail.? Because that is where you place the emphasis in describing her character (“party girl who has it all: the fiance, the house, the job”).? So having “it all” no longer should play prominently her dramatic struggle.
Further it is my observation, that if parents-to-be had bad relationships with their own parents, then their? primary concern is not to bond with their lousy parents, but to vow not to be like their parents, to be the good parents their own were not.
Also what does “bonding” look like.? Film is a visual medium.? Therefore the objective goal has to be an object or event that can be visualized, seen on the screen.? What will the “bonding”? event look like?? What will the camera show to the audience that says they’ve finally bonded?
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See less1950, blackmail and threats of outing a closeted gay detective when he is tasked with ?investigating the murder of his lover that appear to have been committed during a gay encounter.
>>as late as the 80?s with it still being a crimeYep, so why set it? the 50's?? (I'm thinking of production costs: props and costumes for the 50's will be harder/more expensive to replicate.)If the setting is in the US, with the exception of San Francisco, virulent homophobia was pervasive inRead more
>>as late as the 80?s with it still being a crime
Yep, so why set it? the 50’s?? (I’m thinking of production costs: props and costumes for the 50’s will be harder/more expensive to replicate.)
If the setting is in the US, with the exception of San Francisco, virulent homophobia was pervasive in law enforcement into the 90’s. ? I used to work for the LAPD.? Heard many stories from old timers about the “good old days” (70’s and 80’s)? when they regularly raided gay bars, could come down hard with impunity on bun boys and drag queens .
>>McCarthy….
And McCarthy’s chief legal counsel, Roy Cohen, was gay; he eventually died of AIDS. (As dramatized in “Angels in America”.)? Talk about irony… (Cohen was also an influential mentor of Trump.? The one who told him to never admit to a mistake, never apologize, always counter punch.)
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See less1950, blackmail and threats of outing a closeted gay detective when he is tasked with ?investigating the murder of his lover that appear to have been committed during a gay encounter.
So if he does bring the perpetrator to justice,? he will be outed which in that era amounts to career suicide?? If he doesn't , he can stay in the closet, but justice won't be done? And? the threat of blackmail will continue to hang over his life as long as the blackmailer lives? Have you figured ouRead more
So if he does bring the perpetrator to justice,? he will be outed which in that era amounts to career suicide?? If he doesn’t , he can stay in the closet, but justice won’t be done? And? the threat of blackmail will continue to hang over his life as long as the blackmailer lives?
Have you figured out a way for the protagonist to cut through that Gordian knot?? (I”m don’t want to know what that is, just whether you’ve devised a way for him to do it.)
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