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When a decorated cop discovers his wife is dying of cancer he sets out to rob a bank to give her the holiday of a lifetime.
I routinely do that. My character flaw. :-( The cop in this logline breaks bad. If you can translate that into an interesting series or compelling movie, bravo.
I routinely do that. My character flaw.
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The cop in this logline breaks bad. If you can translate that into an interesting series or compelling movie, bravo.
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"The Godfather" is based upon a tried and true dramatic formula -- one worked out by the great Greek playwrights Sophocles, Euripides and Aeschylus over 2,500 years ago. (See Aristotle's Poetics for the details.) It is a classic tragedy with a universal theme, the story of the downfall of a good manRead more
“The Godfather” is based upon a tried and true dramatic formula — one worked out by the great Greek playwrights Sophocles, Euripides and Aeschylus over 2,500 years ago. (See Aristotle’s Poetics for the details.) It is a classic tragedy with a universal theme, the story of the downfall of a good man who, like Oedipus Rex in Greek mythology, is driven to make an error in judgement and consequently cannot escape his fate.
And this logline?
The movie was based upon a best-selling book. IOW, the concept had already been tested and proven to be extremely lucrative in the marketplace of publishing before being adapted to a movie.
Is this logline based upon a best-seller? Is the concept a proven money maker?
And btw, the stakes in “The Godfather” were infinitely greater than what appears to be at stake in this logline. To wit, what was at stake was not just the life of Don Corleone, but also the survival of the powerful Corleone crime family, its various businesses and the lives of all the Corleone men (and their associates and allies).
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>>All this is copyrighted mat?rial of course. Which means you are writing a script that IF it is bought will have to go through a protracted and very expensive legal quagmire before one frame of film can be shot. Because "Who Framed Roger Rabbit" was a big hit, it's going to cost millions of URead more
>>All this is copyrighted mat?rial of course.
Which means you are writing a script that IF it is bought will have to go through a protracted and very expensive legal quagmire before one frame of film can be shot.
Because “Who Framed Roger Rabbit” was a big hit, it’s going to cost millions of US dollars for clearances and licensing fees for EVER character from EVERY studio that holds a copyright on the character.
IF — the owners of each individual copyright are willing to come to terms.
Unestablished writers are strongly discouraged from writing scripts contingent on copyrighted material.
Just saying.
Good luck.
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