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In the 1960?s, when her Greek village is devastated by drought, a teenage girl?s parents force her to migrate to Sydney Australia to marry a stranger and bring them prosperity but finds both racism and friendship, opportunities and mistreatment.
I find the forced marriage? entirely credible.? Because in traditional cultures that is still a SOP,? ?Marriages are business and social deals between? families.? Whether the bride and groom love each other is incidental, accidental.? Financial considerations are implied or explicit.She could be a cRead more
I find the forced marriage? entirely credible.? Because in traditional cultures that is still a SOP,? ?Marriages are business and social deals between? families.? Whether the bride and groom love each other is incidental, accidental.? Financial considerations are implied or explicit.
She could be a child bride who marries someone old enough to be her grandfather.? That still happens (a lot!) in some countries.? In this story, the groom could be a widow who wants to marry a young chick,? good lucking, still a virgin (mandatory) and potentially fecund. And he can afford to pay good money in return to her parents.
See lessSeries logline:?During the Great Die-Up of 1886, a frontiersman with a dark, shameful past must protect the family he?s taking refuge with from his old Civil War captain, now a deranged U.S. Marshal, who along with his posse is under orders from an unscrupulous company to take their land.
thedarkhorse:Thanks for the clarification.? ?Your clarification re-frames the story in my semi-deranged brain.On the aspect of the story involving the Native Americans, I presume your story deals with the irony and tragedy that the main? White characters are fighting over land that originally and riRead more
thedarkhorse:
Thanks for the clarification.? ?Your clarification re-frames the story in my semi-deranged brain.
On the aspect of the story involving the Native Americans, I presume your story deals with the irony and tragedy that the main? White characters are fighting over land that originally and rightfully belongs to the Native Americans.? The Whites are immigrant invaders, usurpers, squatters.
See lessWhen a prominent black surgeon in New York does a DNA test to find his family he finds out that he is from a small community of great hunters in ‘Arnhem Land. His life is thrust into chaos when he must cast off the silken symbols of civilization, to become the man, the hunter, the person he has been yearning for his entire life.
Ozymale59: Based upon? the additional information you provided, here is a 25 word version: When DNA testing reveals that a Black American is really descended from Australian aborigines, he abandons modern life to become a paleo-hunter in the Outback. As someone who gets hung up on the credibility ofRead more
Ozymale59:
Based upon? the additional information you provided, here is a 25 word version:
When DNA testing reveals that a Black American is really descended from Australian aborigines, he abandons modern life to become a paleo-hunter in the Outback.
As someone who gets hung up on the credibility of story ideas, I find it completely credible? that an Australian Aborigine could “pass” or be mistaken for a Black in the United States.
This is a movie I want to see.? Very best wishes with your script.
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