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An ex-con sacrifices everything for true love after trying to go straight.
It goes without saying that it's SOP for a character to eventually have to sacrifice everything, to push all his chips into the poker pot in order to win his objective goal, find true love, whatever. ? So it need not be said in a logline.>>after trying to go straight.What does that mean? ?DoesRead more
It goes without saying that it’s SOP for a character to eventually have to sacrifice everything, to push all his chips into the poker pot in order to win his objective goal, find true love, whatever. ? So it need not be said in a logline.
>>after trying to go straight.
What does that mean? ?Does it mean he resume a life of crime? ?If so, say so. There may be kernel of an interesting story here, but I can only guess. ?I ?need more specific information.
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If it's not revealed to either the audience or the main character that the girl is the culprit responsible for stealing the fortune until the mid point of Act 2, then how can it qualify to be cited as the inciting incident in the logline. The inciting incident is the event and/or reveal by the mid pRead more
If it’s not revealed to either the audience or the main character that the girl is the culprit responsible for stealing the fortune until the mid point of Act 2, then how can it qualify to be cited as the inciting incident in the logline. The inciting incident is the event and/or reveal by the mid point of the 1st Act.
How about making the protagonist the character who attempts suicide but survives because — or he stops at the last moment? ?And then he decides to take his journey for the objective goal of…
Well, that’s still a problem. ?Learning how to forgive is a subjective need — not a objective want. ?The struggle for an objective goal is the therapeutic process by which a character?resolves his subjective problem, yes, but in drama that resolution is unintentional.
The logline is about what the character knows and pursues consciously and intentionally, not what he pursues unconsciously and resolves unintentionally.
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My version: A taxi driver struggles to foil a professional contract killer's plan to kill five people in one night after being forced to transport him around L.A. (26 words) Because merely surviving is not strong enough of an objective goal. ?When other people' s lives are at stake in a plot, the prRead more
My version:
A taxi driver struggles to foil a professional contract killer’s plan to kill five people in one night after being forced to transport him around L.A.
(26 words)
Because merely surviving is not strong enough of an objective goal. ?When other people’ s lives are at stake in a plot, the protagonist must??struggle to not merely save his life but also to save the lives of innocent others. ? No exceptions — that is, ?if the protagonist is to emerge with not only his life but his dignity and ?win the emotional support of the audience.
And in “Collateral”, ?the taxi driver’s character arc is to go being a risk-aversive wimp to a risk-taking hero. And the standard job definition of a hero is some one who puts his life ?on the line for the sake of someone else.
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