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When a top assassin falls for her latest target, she must switch from killer to bodyguard to stay alive long enough to turn the tables.
I was unsure how much value I'd get from a review of a logline, but this is great! All really valid and insightful points being made. Thanks everyone. The more I develop the story, the more I veer away from comedy and stray into action with romance. Romaction?!? But comedy, in my humble opinion, isRead more
I was unsure how much value I’d get from a review of a logline, but this is great! All really valid and insightful points being made. Thanks everyone.
The more I develop the story, the more I veer away from comedy and stray into action with romance. Romaction?!? But comedy, in my humble opinion, is spawned from conflict. It is the trichotomy of two well defined characters in a strange situation and how the dynamics play off each other. This story has plenty of that so there’s great scope for comedy, as long as it’s not too dark what with all the killin’!!
dpg – Great points. In my head, and I’ve obviously not put this onto the comments here in depth, is that she switches to keeping him alive not because she falls in love with him by the end of Act 1, but because of why he has a price on his head in the first place. That meshes with her character driving force. She certainly enjoys his company, they get on well with each other, but she doesn’t notice the growing love until the end of Act 2b when she believes him to be dead (spoiler, he’s not!).
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These are all very good points dpg. I think I need to add further detail to her back story that does allow for a quick turn around like that. After the suspicious death of her family when she was a teenager (I know it's a stereotype, but it's meant to be a comedy), she is taken in by an assassin andRead more
These are all very good points dpg. I think I need to add further detail to her back story that does allow for a quick turn around like that.
After the suspicious death of her family when she was a teenager (I know it’s a stereotype, but it’s meant to be a comedy), she is taken in by an assassin and learns the trade. But her upbringing fights against the skills she has gained and she reconciles this by agreeing to only kill bad people – those that deserve it. The movie opens on her on a ‘gig’ to take out the general of a military junta somewhere in Asia. She takes the contract but after researching her new target, and accidentally getting into a speed dating event with him, she concludes he’s not a bad guy, but is in fact quite nice. She then get’s to know him better and starts to actually like him, then her ‘boss’ (that gives her the contract) opens it up to any contract killer to get the job done. That’s when she turns into a bodyguard to keep them both alive long enough to discover the person that wants him dead and why. There are reasons, but none that change how she has come to feel about him.
So she’s not emotionally doing an instant 180 degree flip. She’s just keeping with her principles of only killing bad people.
Then other stuff happens, irony creeps into situations to provide humour, we follow them as they link together the target’s past and the contract on this life, the person behind the contract, the assassin’s employer and their connection to the death of the assassin’s family.
this is not Oscar bait by any stretch of the imagination!! It’s more like a run of the mill RomCom that is aiming to reverse the gender stereotypes of heroic Spy man and feeble blonde woman (Knight and Day), or strong male lead and weak female love interest (The Bountyhunter) etc.
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This is my first logline here. Should we also post a short synopsis so people can seek answers in there too, or is it all about the logline? I'm intending for a RomCom with this. I can imagine two people getting to know each other and falling in love while hordes of assassins try to make good on theRead more
This is my first logline here. Should we also post a short synopsis so people can seek answers in there too, or is it all about the logline?
I’m intending for a RomCom with this. I can imagine two people getting to know each other and falling in love while hordes of assassins try to make good on the contract. Then, working together as a team, they unravel the mystery behind the owner of the contract (I don’t quite know how to word that? The person that paid for the other guy to get killed etc.?).
To the questions:
I went and read the Dances with Wolves thread, very interesting. MPR in a log line!?? ok, that’s tough!
After falling in love with her latest target, a top assassin switches from killer to bodyguard to keep him alive and hunt for whoever wants her man dead ??
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