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When a young climber becomes paraplegic after an accident. In the rehabilitation center, she must accept her reality and find a new motivation for her life before choosing suicide.
IMHO: these stories seems to work better when they are based on upon the struggle of real people recovering from real life accidents.? Like the new independent movie, "The Rider" about an Indian rodeo rider's struggle to recover from a nearly fatal head injury after being thrown from a horse.? TruthRead more
IMHO: these stories seems to work better when they are based on upon the struggle of real people recovering from real life accidents.? Like the new independent movie, “The Rider” about an Indian rodeo rider’s struggle to recover from a nearly fatal head injury after being thrown from a horse.? Truth is not only stranger than fiction — it is also more compelling because the people, the situations, the emotions are authentic — not made up.
For this premise to be marketable, the script needs a unique twist, a strong story hook. And I just don’t see one.
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See lessWhen a disillusioned married woman is absorbed by a surrealist painting, she struggles to develop the power to free herself from the painting before becoming part of it, while falling in love with a man of painting.
If she's unhappily married in real life and falling in love with some one more appealing in the fantastic world of the painting, why would she want to go back to reality?? What is her motivation, her dramatic need?? As currently framed, the premise gives her every reason to stay in the painting.
If she’s unhappily married in real life and falling in love with some one more appealing in the fantastic world of the painting, why would she want to go back to reality?? What is her motivation, her dramatic need?? As currently framed, the premise gives her every reason to stay in the painting.
See lessAfter murdering an immigrant, he convinces his psychiatrist to declare him insane so as not to be put on trial, but a detective will follow his steps to lock him up.
Unfortunately, the premise is flawed.? Being declared insane won't get him off the legal hook.? ?He? will still be arrested. tried and convicted.? That's the way it works.? All that being declared insane might do is mitigate his sentence.? He might get a life sentence instead of the death penalty.
Unfortunately, the premise is flawed.? Being declared insane won’t get him off the legal hook.? ?He? will still be arrested. tried and convicted.? That’s the way it works.? All that being declared insane might do is mitigate his sentence.? He might get a life sentence instead of the death penalty.
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