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A young Thomas Edison must win the top invention prize at the Worlds Fair to prove to his dream girl and her disapproving father that he is worthy before she marries a wealthy suitor.
Nouveaustudios: My takeaway is that the story you propose to tell is inevitably doing to be compared to "The Last Days of Night". ? That's an inconvenient truth.And the primary question anyone who reads your script will ask is why is your story which plays loose and fancy free with fact is as good oRead more
Nouveaustudios:
My takeaway is that the story you propose to tell is inevitably doing to be compared to “The Last Days of Night”. ? That’s an inconvenient truth.
And the primary question anyone who reads your script will ask is why is your story which plays loose and fancy free with fact is as good or better than “The Last Days of Night” which adheres fairly faithfully to actual historical events and personages. “The Last Days of Night” doesn’t need to improvise and embellish (much) because the truth is compelling enough.
What hook does your story have that’s equal to or better than the one for “The Last Days of Night”?
Just saying.
See lessA young Thomas Edison must win the top invention prize at the Worlds Fair to prove to his dream girl and her disapproving father that he is worthy before she marries a wealthy suitor.
>>>And I should care because?? I am not interested in writing a historical or faithful version of Edison?s life.Then?don't ?characterize it as "historical" when ?by your own statement it isn't. ?Loglines should inform, not mislead.You can certain liberties with ?historical characters, but sRead more
>>>And I should care because?? I am not interested in writing a historical or faithful version of Edison?s life.
Then?don’t ?characterize it as “historical” when ?by your own statement it isn’t. ?Loglines should inform, not mislead.
You can certain liberties with ?historical characters, but stories loosely based on them have to ?reckon with inconvenient historical facts. ?In this case, an inconvenient fact is that the first major World’s Fair in the US ?worthy of the appellation was the Centennial Exposition of 1876. ?Which would make Edison almost 30 years old — hardly a “young man”. ?And another inconvenient fact was that he had been married since 1871 and by 1876 ?would have been a father. ?(And he met her when she was working in one of his labs.)
One factor “Shakespeare in Love” had in its favor is that there is so little known about Shakespeare; consequently, the screenwriters had a broad and empty canvas on which to paint a plot as suited their imaginations and dramatic purpose. ?In contrast, we know quite a bit about Edison which constrains any story that presumes to improvise on the man and the legend.
I think the more appropriate reference for the tack you wish to take is the smash hit musical “Hamilton”,?lyrics and book by Lin-Manuel Miranda. ?Yes, it takes creative liberties, but it stays fairly faithful to the chronology and the actual rivalries and conflicts Hamilton encountered. ?No synthesizing of an entirely fictional plot was necessary.
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See lessA young Thomas Edison must win the top invention prize at the Worlds Fair to prove to his dream girl and her disapproving father that he is worthy before she marries a wealthy suitor.
There's already a film in the works about Edison, "The Last Days of Night", ?adapted from the best-selling a book of the same name, a film that with a plot more faithful to historical events.
There’s already a film in the works about Edison, “The Last Days of Night”, ?adapted from the best-selling a book of the same name, a film that with a plot more faithful to historical events.
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