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When a flippant prankster is ripped off by crazy scammer he seeks compensation but inadvertently starts a relationship with the scammer?s even crazier assistant.
Agreed with the others - the B plot love interest shouldn't be in the logline. It would hep the logline if you were to elaborate on how he will get his compensation.
Agreed with the others – the B plot love interest shouldn’t be in the logline.
See lessIt would hep the logline if you were to elaborate on how he will get his compensation.
English teacher John Keating inspires his students to look at poetry with a different perspective of authentic knowledge and feeling.
I ?was under the impression that the main character in Dead Poets Society was the Ethan Hawk character,?I'll confess that I had to look up the character name on IMDB it's Todd. Agreed that some films may be an exception in their structure and archetype characters, however I don't know if that's trueRead more
I ?was under the impression that the main character in Dead Poets Society was the Ethan Hawk character,?I’ll confess that I had to look up the character name on IMDB it’s Todd.
Agreed that some films may be an exception in their structure and archetype characters, however I don’t know if that’s true in this instance about the role of the main character. An actor can be a part of the main cast but not the main character, therefore I believe Robin Williams received the award for best actor without being the main character.
The way I see it is?that the teacher/mentor, Keating, inspired the main character, Todd, to change his perception and subsequently to make a choice – conform to the narrow minded ways of old or be enlightened. After the death of his mentor (with strong symbolic references in the suicide) Todd choses to defy the institution and shouts out the truth, for which he gets expelled.
In essence I agree with what your saying about the mentor?coaching from the side line, and in my mind Keating does this. I think the inciting incident is the other student Neil, that kills himself, starting up the Dead Poets Society – Todd is given the opportunity to venture off on the journey to enlightenment and thanks to the teacher’s encouragement he does.
See lessInflicted with PTSD from a young age, a mute street performer is abandoned by his troupe as France becomes occupied by the Nazi Wehrmacht. Faced with the choice to escape to neutral Switzerland or fight, he joins the French Resistance as a code-breaker and infiltrates the Nazi regime. His tactics shift when he learns what?s happening to the countless civilians going missing.
Inciting incident = abandoned by his troupe. Goal = put an end to Nazi war crimes. Flaw = Post Traumatic Stress Disorder.In the last draft of the logline there appears to be no cause and effect between the inciting incident and the goal, the goal is vague and the flaw seems to have no bearing on hisRead more
Inciting incident = abandoned by his troupe.
Goal = put an end to Nazi war crimes.
Flaw = Post Traumatic Stress Disorder.
In the last draft of the logline there appears to be no cause and effect between the inciting incident and the goal, the goal is vague and the flaw seems to have no bearing on his ordeal.
Being abandoned by his troupe doesn’t logically mean he will then need to prevent the Nazi regime from committing war crimes – the two just don’t connect as the one event simply doesn’t motivate the other. What else could have happened to him that would clearly motivate him to need to fight the Nazis? As you didn’t seem to appreciate my last suggestions at all, I won’t make any further.
Which war crime in particular does the MC need to stop the Nazi’s from doing? According to the logline it’s all their war crimes, however to do this he would have to defeat the entire Third Reich, such an unrealistic goal makes him a delusional or crazy MC. Why not specify a particular individual, high up in the Nazi ranks, as his primary target?
Lastly the flaw description of PTSD would make sens if he was a soldier and suffered PTSD as a result of a war, this would mean that in order to enter a war zone again he would have to over come a big obstacle. However if he were a civilian and suffered PTSD from an event in civilian life, such as a car accident, entering a war zone isn’t that big a deal for him. What other flaw would provide him with a major obstacle to overcome before achieving his outer goal against the Nazis?
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