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When a top assassin falls for her latest target, she must switch from killer to bodyguard to stay alive long enough to turn the tables.
So... she gets the job, meets her target, falls in love, does an almost instant 180 degree flip and switches sides -- all the? time span of 30? minutes?Well, that's a quickie character arc and if you can pull it off in the sense of making it believable more power to you.? And emotionally satisfying:Read more
So… she gets the job, meets her target, falls in love, does an almost instant 180 degree flip and switches sides — all the? time span of 30? minutes?
Well, that’s a quickie character arc and if you can pull it off in the sense of making it believable more power to you.? And emotionally satisfying: half or more of which is generated in 180 degree character flips, especially in comedy, by watching the character struggle? on the horns of her dilemma? for more than a few minutes before circumstances (the climax) compel her to make a fateful choice.
There should be a compelling reason why initially she MUST kill him.? Like she desperately needs the money.? Or she’s given a Hobson’s choice:? either kill the guy or be killed herself.??And in spite of the MUST hanging over head like? the sword of Damocles, she falls in love with him.? Which creates a genuine dilemma that she must wrestle with and finally resolve by making a fateful choice.
My takeaway is that changes in attitude and goals that flip a character and plot 180 degrees should be hard for a protagonist to? arrive at — not? quick and easy.
Just saying.
If the binary option to either kill or rescue the guy is not the central dilemma, the hardest decision the protagonist will have to make — what is?
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Only in your comment, do I get a glimpse of? the story hook, the gimmick, that the date is conducted entirely on line through an app.? That story hook needs to be in the logline. And only a date she won't forget?? He doesn't want to marry his "dream girl"?
Only in your comment, do I get a glimpse of? the story hook, the gimmick, that the date is conducted entirely on line through an app.? That story hook needs to be in the logline.
And only a date she won’t forget?? He doesn’t want to marry his “dream girl”?
See lessWhen a top assassin falls for her latest target, she must switch from killer to bodyguard to stay alive long enough to turn the tables.
Turn the tables on whom?Who becomes her antagonist as a result of her switching roles?The standard formula is that? the inciting incident should occur midway, mas o menos,? into the 1st Act.? But "switching from killer to bodyguard" seems to? be an event that occurs well into Act 2 .? It seems to coRead more
Turn the tables on whom?
Who becomes her antagonist as a result of her switching roles?
The standard formula is that? the inciting incident should occur midway, mas o menos,? into the 1st Act.? But “switching from killer to bodyguard” seems to? be an event that occurs well into Act 2 .? It seems to constitute the MPR — the midpoint reversal plot point.? Because it is necessary to take that much film time to get the audience to buy into the switch; that is to understand? why she reverses her role and to become emotionally invested in? the stakes character as she has.
IMHO,? this departure from the standard formula can be justified in the rare cases where the MPR is the story hook.? Because the story hook is the most important feature of a logline. And the story hook, the twist, in this concept is that the protagonist falls in love with her prey. For some further thoughts, I offer for you consideration the discussion thread on a logline for the? film “Dances with Wolves”.
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