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A schizophrenic ex-serviceman wants to revenge his imaginary wife and her lover!
As Richiev said. The character, obviously, has a serious flaw. So what is the that plot arises out of his disorder? What becomes the primary conflict, the dramatic question that arises out this situation? ?What threat does he pose to himself or anyone else if his wife and her lover are imaginary? ?IRead more
As Richiev said.
The character, obviously, has a serious flaw. So what is the that plot arises out of his disorder?
What becomes the primary conflict, the dramatic question that arises out this situation? ?What threat does he pose to himself or anyone else if his wife and her lover are imaginary? ?Is there anyone trying to help him? ?Get him back on his medication? Get him to seek and stay in therapy?
And what’s at stake? ?Why would an audience be interested in spending $12-$15 and 2 hours of their time to watch someone act out a mental disorder?
See lessWhen a simple farmer?s daughter is forced to choose the love of a German prisoner or her country?s patriotism she confronts her neighbors’ prejudices in an effort to heal a divided American town.
Wow! ?Does this logline resonate.I grew up in a rural area where 2 generations of German-American ancestors had to wrestle with the conflict between their ancestry and their loyalty to the United States. ?The issue for them ?(in World War II) was the paranoid?perception of being pro-Nazi just becausRead more
Wow! ?Does this logline resonate.
I grew up in a rural area where 2 generations of German-American ancestors had to wrestle with the conflict between their ancestry and their loyalty to the United States. ?The issue for them ?(in World War II) was the paranoid?perception of being pro-Nazi just because their country of origin.
Unfortunately, there are hurdles to over in pitching the story beginning with the fact that most American don’t realize that over 400,000 German POW were shipped over to the U.S. ?for internment during World War II. ?That many of them found paying jobs on local farms and in small town businesses (which I presume to be the set up for how the ‘naive’ farmer’s daughter met the POW in the story.)
I would like some clarification on details.. Where and when is the story set? ?What is the ethnic makeup of the community? ?What is the objective goal of the lovers? ?To marry in spite of the war (was that legally possible?) or marry after the war? ?What about the ticking clock factor, the looming repatriation of the German once the war is over?
Finally, I think this story could be a candidate for dual protagonists because I think there is an equally compelling story to be told from the German POW’s pov.
See lessPressured into attending a frat party, an introverted college student must face-off with an aggressive frat boy to save herself from becoming a rape victim.
>>Also, in order to avoid making it look like I?m trying to capitalize on national headlines, I can nix the word ?rape.?You're needlessly handicapping yourself. ?I don't believe that there would be penalty points for capitalizing on a current event. ?It's SOP in the biz. ?It's a tried-and-trueRead more
>>Also, in order to avoid making it look like I?m trying to capitalize on national headlines, I can nix the word ?rape.?
You’re needlessly handicapping yourself. ?I don’t believe that there would be penalty points for capitalizing on a current event. ?It’s SOP in the biz. ?It’s a tried-and-true, time-honored way of promoting a script. (And you wrote the script well before the Stanford scandal, right?)
So name the threat. ?Don’t leave it up to a logline reader to guess.
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