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A Shakespearian actor becomes unable to tell reality from a play. When his character Mercutio dies he wanders through what he believes is the afterlife distressing his family and friends. Title : A grave man
Good points made by DPG and Dkpough1.Aaron Sorkin says that he doesn't know his characters before he figures out their intentions and obstacles. Point is, you can choose an interesting time period, subject matter or theme, but without knowing what a character wants and what's stopping them from gettRead more
Good points made by DPG and Dkpough1.
Aaron Sorkin says that he doesn’t know his characters before he figures out their intentions and obstacles. Point is, you can choose an interesting time period, subject matter or theme, but without knowing what a character wants and what’s stopping them from getting it you don’t have a story.
In answer to your question, the best advice I can give is work it in reverse. If you have a character but don’t know what actions they will take or stakes they will face, reverse engineer them from the end. This will force you to think in a goal orientated way.
In the case of your logline you have an actor, what do actors want more than anything? I would say praise. He could want to win a Tony, score the lead in the next big Broadway hit or finally get approval from his parents. That said, his ‘want’ could be unrelated to his profession, he could want to preserve the natural beauty of the East African coastline and have to fight pirates to do so, or travel to Estonia to see his long lost brother before he dies of cancer, etc…
If you can’t think of an external to himself objective need for your character, you could research other films made about theater actors to see what goals those characters had.
See lessWhen he starts visualizing the sexual fantasies of anyone he touches, a love-struck freshman has one week to find true love or be doomed to rule hell. Title: SixSixSix
The inciting incident is him visualizing the sexual fantasies of someone he touches, but that doesn't have a cause and effect relationship with him being made to take over hell. More so, him needing to find true love doesn't connect with him being made to take over hell. I like a good comedy, but thRead more
The inciting incident is him visualizing the sexual fantasies of someone he touches, but that doesn’t have a cause and effect relationship with him being made to take over hell. More so, him needing to find true love doesn’t connect with him being made to take over hell.
I like a good comedy, but the cause and effect connections here are tenuous. Why not broaden the type of visions he gets and have him visualize the sins of all those he touches. He then touches the girl he loves and sees the worst of them all – she’s a sweetheart on the outside but a chainsaw wielding serial killer on the inside.
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.
Nouveaustudios. You should care what other people think, seeing as they are going to be your audience in the end. Point is, there is a film about the same character already in production and so a second one, based on fiction or truth, will likely have a hard time getting sold. All feedback can be usRead more
Nouveaustudios.
You should care what other people think, seeing as they are going to be your audience in the end. Point is, there is a film about the same character already in production and so a second one, based on fiction or truth, will likely have a hard time getting sold. All feedback can be useful if you CARE to study it.
On a side note. This is a community of members who help each other, if the help is not appreciated you are welcome to search elsewhere. I find your comments to DPG, our most prolific member who goes well and truly out of his way to HELP many of our members, inappropriate. You can disagree with someone’s opinion, but at the same time please refrain from adding such comments as “…then there?s no need to comment.” It’s petty and?comes across as derogatory towards a comment made to you in good faith.
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