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After abandoning adoptive grandparents who later do not survive a crime he feels he instigated, a Texas senior must defeat hometown demons that follow him on his journey to find a place he can safely call home.
Robert Alto: For the purpose of discussion, is this "demon" a figment? My point is that a logline should frame the action in terms of what the character is running toward -- not running away from. ?What he wants to achieve and/or get -- aka: ?his Biggest Dream. ?Not the Biggest Nightmare he's fleeinRead more
Robert Alto:
For the purpose of discussion, is this “demon” a figment?
My point is that a logline should frame the action in terms of what the character is running toward — not running away from. ?What he wants to achieve and/or get — aka: ?his Biggest Dream. ?Not the Biggest Nightmare he’s fleeing from.
Nurse Betty runs toward her Biggest Dream. ?It’s a foolish dream, a delusion, but in the context of the film, it’s her Biggest Dream, the objective goal she wants more than anything else and is willing to do anything, to risk all to get.
What is your character’s Biggest Dream? ?In the context of the film, what does he want to achieve more than anything else? ?What is he willing to risk all to get?
See lessAfter witnessing his grandfather’s murder, a New Mexico high school senior has a nervous breakdown and travels to Taos to remake his life – assuming false personas that are inspired by magazines he collects – while being pursued by his grandfather’s killer, who he discovers is one of his best friends.
>>>a variation on the movie Nurse BettyThe movie "Nurse Betty" is about delusions and how people follow them with tragic-comedy consequences. ?The inciting incident in that movie is designed to set up the plot to play out her foolish obsession with a soap star that tips over to a full-blownRead more
>>>a variation on the movie Nurse Betty
The movie “Nurse Betty” is about delusions and how people follow them with tragic-comedy consequences. ?The inciting incident in that movie is designed to set up the plot to play out her foolish obsession with a soap star that tips over to a full-blown delusion.
What is your movie about thematically? ?What’s your point in sending him to Taos, instead of say ?Gallup or Roswell or Clovis? ?
For better or worse, what — better yet, who — exactly does your character hope to find in Taos that he?won’t find anywhere else? ?Exactly how does he want to do a makeover of his life? ?Does he want to become an artist? ?A musician? ?A Zen Buddhist? ?Why Taos?
See lessAfter abandoning adoptive grandparents who later do not survive a crime he feels he instigated, a Texas senior must defeat hometown demons that follow him on his journey to find a place he can safely call home.
>>>must defeat hometown demons How literally is this to be taken? ?Is he being followed by the person who murdered his grandparents? ? Or is he being pursued by his own feelings of guilt? Whatever, the logline seems to be about a character driving the vehicle of the plot by constantly lookiRead more
>>>must defeat hometown demons
How literally is this to be taken? ?Is he being followed by the person who murdered his grandparents? ? Or is he being pursued by his own feelings of guilt?
Whatever, the logline seems to be about a character driving the vehicle of the plot by constantly looking in the rear view mirror –by looking backwards to the past. ?Or fixing his attention on instrument panel of his feelings — rather than fixing his eyes ahead on the road to reach a postiive, specific objective.
Likewise, a ?logline should always have its eyes on the road looking forward, looking toward, focused on a specific destination — not back to the past, or inward to some subjective problem.
Where is this character going? ?IOW: what is his specific, objective goal?
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