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A teenage Jewish boy Harles in a Nazi death camp sets out to prove his love to Hitler’s daughter Ida who once pretended to be Jewish.
On the matter of logline basics: >>>sets out to prove his loveHow? ?How does that translate into a specific objective goal? ?That objective goal needs to be what the logline is about.On the matter ?of credibility: The premise requires the audience to suspend disbelief on a number of elementRead more
On the matter of logline basics:
>>>sets out to prove his love
How? ?How does that translate into a specific objective goal? ?That objective goal needs to be what the logline is about.
On the matter ?of credibility:
The premise requires the audience to suspend disbelief on a number of elements. ?That Hitler had a daughter. ? That she pretended to be Jewish. (Why? What’s her motive?) That she ended up in a concentration camp. (Again, why would she put her life in peril pretending to be Jewish?)
That is too many elements for me. I, for one, am unable to suspend disbelief. ?Others’ mileage may vary.
And if I could suspend disbelief, I think that the story told from her pov would be more compelling, more dramatically interesting. ?IOW: she’s a ?more interesting character; she would make a better protagonist.
On the matter of marketability:
Fictional stories on the holocaust are a hard sell because the truth is so much stranger so much more compelling . ?Because there are so many true stories ?of heroism, suffering, and sacrifice.
The last movie that comes to my mind with a fictional take on the Holocaust ?that ?was ?both a critical and commercial success was “Life is Beautiful” (1997) ?And it succeeded because it was framed by a specific dramatic allegorical and controversial conceit — denial, intentionally, artfully deceiving a loved one about the truth. ?The plot is driven by the father having a very specific objective goal and modus operandi: ?to protect his son from the horrors of the Holocaust by pretending they are going on a holiday.
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See lessYOKO – Based on true events – Told from Japanese artist Yoko Ono’s perspective – The story of how she and Megastar John Lennon fell in love in 1966 and the incredibly powerful forces that tried to tear them apart.
Once again, I point out the costly and time consuming legal hurdles that have to be cleared to make a movie about a living celebrity. ?Particularly a story like this that presumes to tell the story from her point of view, as if to know her private thoughts and feelings.Without her legal consent andRead more
Once again, I point out the costly and time consuming legal hurdles that have to be cleared to make a movie about a living celebrity. ?Particularly a story like this that presumes to tell the story from her point of view, as if to know her private thoughts and feelings.
Without her legal consent and and active participation, I believe this project will be extremely difficult to launch.
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See lessWhen his wife becomes a Christian, a devout atheist who believes in truth, uses his journalistic skills to prove Jesus was a myth
"Devout atheist" strikes me as somewhat of an oxymoron, perhaps an ironic one, as "devout" is usually a tag given to believers, not non-believers. To whom is he trying to prove Jesus was a mythical character? ?If he's already an atheist, then isn't he trying to persuade his wife, to reason her out oRead more
“Devout atheist” strikes me as somewhat of an oxymoron, perhaps an ironic one, as “devout” is usually a tag given to believers, not non-believers.
To whom is he trying to prove Jesus was a mythical character? ?If he’s already an atheist, then isn’t he trying to persuade his wife, to reason her out of her new-found faith. So:
The true story of a journalist who, when his wife becomes a Christian, uses his investigative skills to convince her that Christ is a myth.
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And, of course, since the movie is targeted to a Christ-believing audience, his character arc is obvious and obligatory, what the genre requires.
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