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BOY NAMED SOO – when an awkward Korean boy from an uncaring family is bullied mercilessly in school he turns to his alcoholic neighbor whose “get tough or die” mantra threatens to turn the impressionable young man into a mass murderer.
The proposed plot is a real downer. ?Why would an audience root for him to become a mass murderer? ?What's the target demographic for this movie?
The proposed plot is a real downer. ?Why would an audience root for him to become a mass murderer? ?What’s the target demographic for this movie?
See lessTHE EGG AND I- A blindly driven 40-year-old woman is told she’s too old to have a baby but may have a shot if she finds sperm in a week, she finds a fortuitous donor, while her ex-bestie manipulates him, attempting to block her from finding unexpected love and one good egg.
What's the real problem that prevents her from becoming a mother?Is it that biologically she can't conceive by natural means, so she must resort tp extraordinary medical measures?Or that she can conceive but she's can't find the right donor?Or that can conceive and she has found the right donor, butRead more
What’s the real problem that prevents her from becoming a mother?
Is it that biologically she can’t conceive by natural means, so she must resort tp extraordinary medical measures?
Or that she can conceive but she’s can’t find the right donor?
Or that can conceive and she has found the right donor, but ?another woman is blocking the consummation?
Of course, a story must have a series of ever greater complications. ?But a logline describe a?unity of action, one –not two ?or three– one initial and sustained ?problem the kicks off and drives the plot to the denouement. ?What is it?
>>>finding love and one good egg.
That’s two goals. ?On relates to her subjective need (for the love of ?amn); the other relates to her objective want, a baby. ?Loglines are about the struggle to obtain a?objective goal, not the satisfaction of a subjective need.
(Yes, she can have ?a Hollyweird ending where she gets both, but the love would come as an unexpected dividend of her quest for her objective goal, to have a baby. ?That’s the standard formula, anyway)
And “self-sabotaging” is a vague shotgun term. ?It can mean she’s too timid. Or too assertive, Too insecure. Or overly confident. ? Too reckless. Or too cautious.
Which one is it? ?Or is it none of the above, something else?
See lessPOOL PARTY – When the humiliating pranking of an overweight loser during a high school pep rally goes viral, he decides to face his insecurities and his bullies in 3 months at the annual summer pool party hosted by the most popular girl in school.
A protagonist can, like Hamlet, suffer the slings and arrows of outrageous fortune on multiple fronts. ?But it strengthens a logline and a script if there is a designated primary antagonist, one character who, more than any other, is the source of the the protagonist's woes. ? For the character of HRead more
A protagonist can, like Hamlet, suffer the slings and arrows of outrageous fortune on multiple fronts. ?But it strengthens a logline and a script if there is a designated primary antagonist, one character who, more than any other, is the source of the the protagonist’s woes. ? For the character of Hamlet, ?Shakespeare assigned that role to his uncle, the usurping king.
So who gets the nod for that role in this story?
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