1. Posted: October 2, 2014In:

    After the legalization of marijuana leads to a dishonest pot-dealer receiving a huge tax bill, the de-motivated must become motivated before he can lead a one man crusade against a clean-cut district attorney to have the drug 're-criminalized'. (Am VERY interested in hearing some alternate titles for this. The punnier the better!)

    Tony Edward Samurai

    I agree with both posts above -- the premise has a lot of promise -- but the logical issues raised by Nir would need to be dealt with. Dpg's take loses the logical issues, delivers the juicy part of the story, and also makes a subtle yet potentially powerful twist as describing the hero as a pot HEARead more

    I agree with both posts above — the premise has a lot of promise — but the logical issues raised by Nir would need to be dealt with. Dpg’s take loses the logical issues, delivers the juicy part of the story, and also makes a subtle yet potentially powerful twist as describing the hero as a pot HEAD as opposed to DEALER… more potential for dramatic and comedic depth, imo…

    ATM your hero has two goals — he must “…become motivated” and must “lead a one man crusade against a clean cut district attorney ….” — it’s too spoon-fed — set him up as lazy/ unmotivated through his character description and then you only need to tell us that he must “lead a one man crusade against etc etc etc…” Let the audience join the dots…

    Best of luck with it — as Nir said, lots of examples of great pothead MC’s, they make great MC’s because they are immediately flawed through the fact they have a dependency on an drug … Their is something about themselves that they are hiding from through the use of the drug (any drug…) — and typically are their own worst enemy as they keep f#cking up, their problem is self inflicted — ripe for good drama even if the film is full of laughs…(take Bill Murray’s character in The Life Aquatic as an example…)

    Regards.

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  2. Posted: July 24, 2014In:

    After finding fame with a stolen screenplay of a recently deceased unsigned screenwriter a movie studio’s script reader turns to murdering his backlog of budding screenwriters for their movie ideas.

    Tony Edward Samurai

    Great ideas Valentin and dpg... We're definitely on the same page. I think the common thread with the aforementioned films with an anti-hero at the helm is that it's a steady decline in moral ground as the story progresses, until the end, where they either repent and in turn save themselves -- SalieRead more

    Great ideas Valentin and dpg… We’re definitely on the same page.

    I think the common thread with the aforementioned films with an anti-hero at the helm is that it’s a steady decline in moral ground as the story progresses, until the end, where they either repent and in turn save themselves — Salieri (the whole movie is a confession…) in Amadues, and even Henry Hill in Goodfellas/ Jordan Belfort The Wolf of Wall Street (albeit both giving up the criminal life begrudgingly — Hill with his “Noodles and Ketchup.”, Belfort with his “Sell me this pen… Sell me this pen… Sell me this pen…) or choose not to repent and get way with murder/ the immoral act, but lose themselves — Ripley, Bateman, and Griffin Mill…

    Not sure which way my guy would go, but I foresee the possibility of a culminating scene at an awards night… For good or for ill…

    Thanks for the feedback.

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  3. Posted: July 24, 2014In:

    After finding fame with a stolen screenplay of a recently deceased unsigned screenwriter a movie studio’s script reader turns to murdering his backlog of budding screenwriters for their movie ideas.

    Tony Edward Samurai

    Great ideas Valentin and dpg... We're definitely on the same page. I think the common thread with the aforementioned films with an anti-hero at the helm is that it's a steady decline in moral ground as the story progresses, until the end, where they either repent and in turn save themselves -- SalieRead more

    Great ideas Valentin and dpg… We’re definitely on the same page.

    I think the common thread with the aforementioned films with an anti-hero at the helm is that it’s a steady decline in moral ground as the story progresses, until the end, where they either repent and in turn save themselves — Salieri (the whole movie is a confession…) in Amadues, and even Henry Hill in Goodfellas/ Jordan Belfort The Wolf of Wall Street (albeit both giving up the criminal life begrudgingly — Hill with his “Noodles and Ketchup.”, Belfort with his “Sell me this pen… Sell me this pen… Sell me this pen…) or choose not to repent and get way with murder/ the immoral act, but lose themselves — Ripley, Bateman, and Griffin Mill…

    Not sure which way my guy would go, but I foresee the possibility of a culminating scene at an awards night… For good or for ill…

    Thanks for the feedback.

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