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After being accidentally cryogenically frozen, four Brooklyn hipsters wake up 50 years later to find their neighborhood overtaken by corporations, and must fight to save the last standing bar from becoming a Starbucks.
Don't let the allure of an ensemble cast blind you to a good structure. Multi protagonist plots are notoriously difficult to pull off well, and subsequently to finance. Ask yourself, aside from the group dynamic, what do the multi protagonists give the story that it wouldn't have with one? As I don'Read more
Don’t let the allure of an ensemble cast blind you to a good structure. Multi protagonist plots are notoriously difficult to pull off well, and subsequently to finance.
Ask yourself, aside from the group dynamic, what do the multi protagonists give the story that it wouldn’t have with one? As I don’t see how having 4 main characters actually helps.
To that matter building high, and preferably personal, stakes for 4 separate characters is both very difficult and inefficient – it’s hard enough to do well with one.
Secondly I find that laughing at hipster’s “skewed” priorities has not only been done, but also likely to fill no more than a scene or two at most worth of comedy.? For a full length feature to be made out of it, you need more, hens the suggestion for more/higher/personal stakes.
See lessAfter being accidentally cryogenically frozen, four Brooklyn hipsters wake up 50 years later to find their neighborhood overtaken by corporations, and must fight to save the last standing bar from becoming a Starbucks.
Transported fifty years into the future spells many, potentially sad, out comes for a young person. Their friends and family may have moved away or died the world as they know it will be completely different - a bar turning into a Starbucks is mighty small chips in comparison. Are there any better gRead more
Transported fifty years into the future spells many, potentially sad, out comes for a young person. Their friends and family may have moved away or died the world as they know it will be completely different – a bar turning into a Starbucks is mighty small chips in comparison.
Are there any better goals with greater stakes at hand that could be used instead?
Look at the film Idiocracy for example, in this film the MC also gets frozen and is defrosted in the future, and he wants to get back home to his own time. Throughout the story he learns how the world turns out in the future and understands that humanity will likely not survive, so towards the end his goal changes from leaving to saving humanity. It’s an outrageous comedy and the stakes are pretty high.
See lessA young man, traumatized by his father’s death, must face his past when an institutionalized psychotic murderer escapes and preys upon his hometown.
Agreed with FFF and DPG, but also I can't see how the father's death relates to the plot, this description can be cut to free up, oh so precious, logline real-estate.
Agreed with FFF and DPG, but also I can’t see how the father’s death relates to the plot, this description can be cut to free up, oh so precious, logline real-estate.
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