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A serial killer taxi driver takes revenge on behalf of victimised passengers while trying to avoid detection.
Agreed with DPG I actually thought this was a logline for Taxi Driver until I realised it wasn't in the classics section. "...a person doing bad things for good reasons..." describes most antagonists throughout time, you basically want to tell the story of an anti hero. Stories about anti heroes wilRead more
Agreed with DPG I actually thought this was a logline for Taxi Driver until I realised it wasn’t in the classics section.
“…a person doing bad things for good reasons…” describes most antagonists throughout time, you basically want to tell the story of an anti hero. Stories about anti heroes will always have an audience, but best to research the genres and types of characters that have been done already – Taxi Driver, Dexter, Psycho (half of…), The Sopranos, Breaking Bad, etc…
Secondly in regards to the logline it self, it doesn’t describe a plot rather a situation.
See lessWhat ever direction you choose to develop the concept in, best to focus on specific events and actions i.e inciting incident and goal.
When his mentor, a terrorist in disguise set’s him up with a bomb in a train terror attack, a Norwegian dropout, must evacuate the potential victims which will be killed in his name before the bomb kills them all.
Perhaps re consider the concept by leaving the mentor on the train as an accomplice and placing the MC's change of heart in the middle of act two. This way you give the MC an antagonist (driven by ideology), a literal ticking time bomb and a goal. Other wise, as mentioned in the above comments, theRead more
Perhaps re consider the concept by leaving the mentor on the train as an accomplice and placing the MC’s change of heart in the middle of act two. This way you give the MC an antagonist (driven by ideology), a literal ticking time bomb and a goal.
Other wise, as mentioned in the above comments, the scope for plot development is limited. Him changing his mind (i.e learning his lesson and achieving his inner goal) should come about later in the story. What if him and his mentor intended to kill a bunch of politicians on the train, but a group of school kids get on and the mentor wants to kill them all. Now the MC realises that killing innocent people for ideology is wrong and turns on the mentor.
See lessA 30-something man is frustrated with his life and family and seems unable to make sense of it all until he meets a lady that wants to end it all.
Agreed with the above comments, this logline lacks a goal and therefore doesn't convey a plot - the primary intention of a logline. Secondly general descriptions such as "...30 something man..." should not be used in a logline, as they are too general and lack detail. It is therefore hard to understRead more
Agreed with the above comments, this logline lacks a goal and therefore doesn’t convey a plot – the primary intention of a logline.
Secondly general descriptions such as “…30 something man…” should not be used in a logline, as they are too general and lack detail. It is therefore hard to understand who the MC is, what he does in life and to that matter how he would handle the situation in your story.
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