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Cuando una madre muere de c?ncer, su hija queda al cuidado de su padre y su calculadora t?a, que acaba convirti?ndose en su madrastra y la maltrata duramente. La hija descubre como liberarse y acabar con ella gracias a un libro que dej? su madre.
[Ingl?s traducido al espa?ol por Google] As? es como entiendo la historia reducida a lo b?sico: Una joven debe aprender a usar un libro m?gico dejado por su amada pero ahora muerta madre para liberarse de su cruel padre y su t?a intrigante. Supongo que el libro es m?gico. No s? qu? m?s podr?a proporRead more
[Ingl?s traducido al espa?ol por Google]
As? es como entiendo la historia reducida a lo b?sico:
Una joven debe aprender a usar un libro m?gico dejado por su amada pero ahora muerta madre para liberarse de su cruel padre y su t?a intrigante.
Supongo que el libro es m?gico. No s? qu? m?s podr?a proporcionar para liberarla de sus opresores.
Saludos
English:
Here is how I understand the story reduced to its basics:
A young woman must learn how to use a magical book left by her beloved but now dead mother in order to break free of her cruel father and scheming aunt.
I assume the book is magical.I do not know what else it could provide to liberate her from her oppressors.
regards
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Maybe something like:After all modern medical treatments have failed, a Papuan native must convince her rich, sophisticated boyfriend that his only hope for healing a mysterious ailment is to try an ancient holistic treatment.Save how she meets him, how they hook up for the script.? That is? extraneRead more
Maybe something like:
After all modern medical treatments have failed, a Papuan native must convince her rich, sophisticated boyfriend that his only hope for healing a mysterious ailment is to try an ancient holistic treatment.
Save how she meets him, how they hook up for the script.? That is? extraneous for the purpose of a logline. The logline? needs to cut to the chase, to the core of the dramatic issue:? he’s dying; she has a remedy. (Which, btw, satisfies Max Millimeter’s 6 word story concept test. Something I strongly recommend.? Distill your concept down to its essence in? 6 words– then expand into a logline.)
Further, I think it’s important to indicate in the logline that all other options have been exhausted.? Only then is it credible that an oh-so-modern, Western educated guy? would consider “primitive” traditional medicine.
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Mermaid.... mere woman -- get it?Compare the logline with the IMDB summary: When a man is reunited with a woman who saved him from drowning as a boy, he falls in love with her, not knowing she is a mermaid.The IMDB summary frames the story from the guy's pov.? For the purpose of mapping the basic plRead more
Mermaid…. mere woman — get it?
Compare the logline with the IMDB summary: When a man is reunited with a woman who saved him from drowning as a boy, he falls in love with her, not knowing she is a mermaid.
The IMDB summary frames the story from the guy’s pov.? For the purpose of mapping the basic plot, I opted to frame the logline from the mermaid’s pov.
Why?
Because she is the more assertive, more proactive character for 3/4 of the film. Until the last act when the guy, finally, mans up and rescues her.
She is proactive in saving the guy (twice); She is proactive in getting a 6 day dispensation to visit him on land. (The scene was cut from the original release. You have to see the outtakes to find that out.) She’s the one who walks ashore naked on Liberty Island in New York City. She’s the one who in almost every scene, in almost every way takes the initiative in their romantic relationship.
Purists will note that the logline doesn’t specify a concrete objective goal.? (And I am second to none when it comes to obsessing about objective goals.) Well, that’s the way the script was written, the movie was shot.? All that is given is a ticking clock.? She has 6 days to spend with him.? After that she must return to the sea.? The plot establishes no hope, no expectation, no way that she can remain on land with him or that he can join her in the sea.
(The movie has a number of plot holes.? And it relies on magic rules and moments thrown out without explanation– you just have to suspend disbelief and roll with the story.? But who is going? to notice plot holes, care about the story logic after the 1st scene with Daryl Hannah on the beach?)
The movie was a box office hit, grossing nearly $70 million against an $8 million production budget.? For the next several years “Madison” was in the top 10 list of popular names for girls.? Yet producer/writer Brian Glazer shopped the script around Hollywood for 7 seven years. All the major studios passed.? Finally, Disney’s new production company for non-G rated films, Buena Vista, hungry for original scripts, bought the script, green lighted the movie.
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