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-TAKE #2- After being fired for accidentally killing the Hero, a disgraced 'minion of the warlord' is conscripted by the local village to become their champion and face his former evil boss.
The Chinese movie market is too big for Hollywood to ignore. BUT China restricts the number of non-native (read: Hollywood) films that can be shown in its domestic market in favor of home-grown productions. BUT there is serious money coming to Hollywood from China looking for movies to invest it. ItRead more
The Chinese movie market is too big for Hollywood to ignore. BUT China restricts the number of non-native (read: Hollywood) films that can be shown in its domestic market in favor of home-grown productions. BUT there is serious money coming to Hollywood from China looking for movies to invest it.
It’s a complicated economic/cross-cultural situation. But a potentially lucrative one for the right scripts.
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Jean-Marie: Your insights into the lawyer character of "Liar, Liar" has been simmering on the front and back burners of my mind every since. The more they simmer, the more I have thought of others movies where the character seems to be his own primary antagonist, his own worst enemy. The external opRead more
Jean-Marie:
Your insights into the lawyer character of “Liar, Liar” has been simmering on the front and back burners of my mind every since.
The more they simmer, the more I have thought of others movies where the character seems to be his own primary antagonist, his own worst enemy. The external opposition are mere foils, minor-antagonists at best.
Citizen Kane — Charles Foster Kane has character flaws and obstacles. He make many enemies along the way, but is there one continuous antagonist he is up against through entire arc of the movie?
Groundhog Day – Phil, the weather reporter, is his own worst enemy. His character flaw is his narcissism and selfishness. He has a worthy love interest — but where’s his external antagonist?
Adaptation – Charlie Kaufman, the screenwriter, is riddled with self-doubt and insecurity. He doesn’t need an external antagonist hell-bent on destroying his career because he is own worst enemy.
Taking it a step further who is Juno’s antagonist? She obviously made a major mistake, but is that spunky kid her own worst enemy throughout the movie?
In light of the above (and other examples that could be cited) it seems to me we may have to rethink our discussion of some loglines. There may be perfectly righteous plots that are exceptions to the standard formula we keep trying to impose on the corresponding loglines: when something happens, a protagonist must struggle against an antagonist in order to…
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Gotta agree with Jean-Marie. Kind of a mismatch. Also, trying to read it as if for the first time, as if I know nothing about the story or previous iterations, my eyeballs -- Occidental (and myopic) eyeballs -- stumble over "the Hero". What Hero? Whose Hero? Reading on I deduce it's the hero of a viRead more
Gotta agree with Jean-Marie. Kind of a mismatch.
Also, trying to read it as if for the first time, as if I know nothing about the story or previous iterations, my eyeballs — Occidental (and myopic) eyeballs — stumble over “the Hero”.
What Hero? Whose Hero? Reading on I deduce it’s the hero of a village. I deduce because it’s not explicitly stated.
And then my Occidental eyeballs stumble again over ‘minion of the Warlord’. Well, I expressed my concern about that in the other thread. Enough said.
You have a challenge explaining and hooking Occidental minds on a story set in the Orient with Oriental cultural concepts and relationships.
Although, come to think about it, this is a movie that whose natural target is a Chinese production company and audience. So who do you conceive as the target for the money and production of your script?
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