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When a gang member’s girl scout kid sister threatens to disown him after he was convicted for vandalism yet again, he promises to help her make the entire town litter-free during his remaining days of freedom.
Scott: My response to your premise is also informed by my experiences picking up trash. Specifically, I volunteered to be responsible on a regular basis for cleaning up litter on a segment of the C&O Canal, one of the more heavily visited segments. I, too, have been thanked by passerby's for picRead more
Scott:
My response to your premise is also informed by my experiences picking up trash. Specifically, I volunteered to be responsible on a regular basis for cleaning up litter on a segment of the C&O Canal, one of the more heavily visited segments.
I, too, have been thanked by passerby’s for picking up trash. But over time it morphed into a “Groundhog Day” ordeal. Because no matter how thoroughly I clean up my segment, the next time I walk my beat the trash will be back. There has not been and never will be a t-shirt solution, a happy Hollyweird ending where the mass of humanity get the message and pitch in to clean up litter. Or even better, people just stop littering.
Anyway, the dramatic question I would pose for your consideration is this:
If your protagonist were to go through similar stages of frustration, anger, depression as Phil Connor did in “Groundhog Day” , and arrives at the final stage of acceptance, what would that scene look like? Specifically, when he’s served out his sentence of community service, when he no longer has to pick up trash– will he continue to pick it up anyway?
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See lessWhen a gang member’s girl scout kid sister threatens to disown him after he was convicted for vandalism yet again, he promises to help her make the entire town litter-free during his remaining days of freedom.
What if the guy is sentenced to a period of restorative justice instead of punitive justice? That is instead of having to do, say, a year of hard time in jail, he has to do a year of picking up litter in the neighborhood (or small town) he vandalized. And what if that punishment into a never-endingRead more
What if the guy is sentenced to a period of restorative justice instead of punitive justice? That is instead of having to do, say, a year of hard time in jail, he has to do a year of picking up litter in the neighborhood (or small town) he vandalized.
And what if that punishment into a never-ending “Groundhog Day” scenario. At first he thinks he’s getting off easy. But then he discovers that It doesn’t matter how thoroughly he cleans up the area one day, sure enough, it will as badly littered the next… And the next… And the next…
See lessWhen a dead beat accidentally gets injected with an experimental brain implant giving him the ability to learn anything instantly, he must use his new abilities to take down the nefarious group who’ll stop at nothing to get the implant back
I have another issue with this logline. One of my pet peeves is a plot contrived to depend on an accident, somebody doing something incredibly stupid or reckless. Like a mega-powerful device "accidently" being planted in someone. In a dead beat no less. How could anyone be so stupid, so careless, soRead more
I have another issue with this logline. One of my pet peeves is a plot contrived to depend on an accident, somebody doing something incredibly stupid or reckless.
Like a mega-powerful device “accidently” being planted in someone. In a dead beat no less. How could anyone be so stupid, so careless, so incompetent as to do that?
Now if they *deliberately *implanted the gizmo in his brain.
Because they were using him as an expendable human guinea pig.
Because no one was sure it would work or what the side effects were.
Because no one would miss the dead beat if he died from the implant.
Because they could dispose of the body with no legal consequences
That is a plot setup I for which I could suspend disbelief.
My 2.5 cents worth
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