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Two incompetent, drunken corporate video producers toil aimlessly at the bottom of a barrel no-one wants to scrape and, as they owe money to a sadistic, Ealing comedy-loving, international crime boss, they have to take increasingly frantic measures to save their lives and reproductive organs.
What is their specific objective goal, their m.o. to ensure mere survival? They owe money --- and they have absolutely no plan, no hair-brained scheme whatsoever to get out from under the debt? Can you point to one classic comedy feature film in which the character has absolutely no objective goal wRead more
What is their specific objective goal, their m.o. to ensure mere survival? They owe money — and they have absolutely no plan, no hair-brained scheme whatsoever to get out from under the debt? Can you point to one classic comedy feature film in which the character has absolutely no objective goal whatsoever in the face of a serious problem? And it’s hilarious from FADE IN to FADE OUT?
To sustain comedy for the length of a feature film depends on a character conceiving a plan to do something, get something. That sets up audience expectations. And then the antagonist , life and other characters subvert those expectations. No goal —>no expectations —> little or no comedy.
And what are the stakes? What is the worse thing that will happen to them if they don’t pay it off?
See lessWhen a veteran and a rookie contract killer takes a shortcut, it results in killing the wrong guy for a mafia kingpin. They race against time as they try to replace the intended target with another body before ending up next on the hit-list: A real killer story.
The intended target is still alive. So how will replacing the body of wrong victim with the body of another wrong victim change the situation? How will that fool the mafia kingpin? And who is the protagonist, the pov character, the veteran or the rookie?
The intended target is still alive. So how will replacing the body of wrong victim with the body of another wrong victim change the situation? How will that fool the mafia kingpin?
And who is the protagonist, the pov character, the veteran or the rookie?
See lessA despondent social media planner weighted with a newfound ability to see past lives is forced to confront her karma and that of everyone she knows or remain condemned to repeat their same mistakes for an eternity.
I like Mike Pedley's version. Being despondent is a state of mind, not a character flaw. The task the logline proposes for the main character should be related to some deeply entrenched character flaw that she needs to overcome to avoid bad karma in her own life as well as enable her to overcome badRead more
I like Mike Pedley’s version.
Being despondent is a state of mind, not a character flaw. The task the logline proposes for the main character should be related to some deeply entrenched character flaw that she needs to overcome to avoid bad karma in her own life as well as enable her to overcome bad karma in others.
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