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When a newly arrived Papuan girl falls for a spoilt young man with a fatal illness she convinces him to escape his fiancé and allow her Medicine man grandfather to heal him and have him accepted by her people.
The logline puts the spotlight on the girl. Why? The guy owns the character arc, And he has by far more at risk, by far more at stake than she does. He has the harder decision to make. He has to take the longest intellectual and emotional journey to arrive at the decision *HE* -- not her -- must makRead more
The logline puts the spotlight on the girl. Why? The guy owns the character arc, And he has by far more at risk, by far more at stake than she does.
He has the harder decision to make. He has to take the longest intellectual and emotional journey to arrive at the decision *HE* — not her — must make, the decision on which the plot pivots. He must to do a complete 180 degree flip, giving up modern medicine, putting his faith in “primitive” medicine.
He’s putting his life in the hands of a man he has never met to perform some kind of medical “hocus pocus” that he has no rational , empirical reason to trust.
*HIS* life is at stake — not hers.
So why does the logline put the spotlight on her when it seems it ought to be on him?
See lessA former Special Ops Commando thought covert missions in the desert were rough. Then he married a spy who wants him dead.
As Richiev said. It sounds interesting but the logline is more of a teaser. It needs to be fleshed out with a brief sketch plot, the conflict his marriage to the spy embroils him in.
As Richiev said. It sounds interesting but the logline is more of a teaser. It needs to be fleshed out with a brief sketch plot, the conflict his marriage to the spy embroils him in.
See lessWhen he enrols in a strict prep school, a rebellious teen recruits a geek to help him graduate, which makes him a target for the geek’s bullies.
BTW, to elaborate on what you previously observed: None of the movies you mentioned in earlier threads were based solely on original spec scripts by Joe Nobodies (the likes of you and me). They were either developed and/or written by Hollyweird players, people who, one way or another, were already eRead more
BTW, to elaborate on what you previously observed:
None of the movies you mentioned in earlier threads were based solely on original spec scripts by Joe Nobodies (the likes of you and me).
They were either developed and/or written by Hollyweird players, people who, one way or another, were already established in the biz (The Dead Poet’s Society, Back to the Future, Her, Groundhog Day, Before Sunrise, Something’s Gotta Give, Harold and Maude, Moonstruck, My Best Friend’s Wedding, Big) …
Or they were movie adaptations from books or short stories — the premise and basic story was “pre-sold” (The Fight Club, Forrest Gump, The Shawshank Redemption, American Psycho).
fwiw
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