blip
Sr Member
Good idea, a little too bloody for my tastes.
Post your own ORIGINAL movie plots here.
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Good idea, a little too bloody for my tastes.
blip
Sr Member
A guy is interested in film nior, he tracks down the camera used to make the first nior film but is amazed that after looking through it for a while he starts to see flashes of real life in black and white and high contrast. He goes to France to track down the ebay seller who sold him the camera only to find that the seller died decades ago....and was murdered.
the camera when pointed at places and things show's objects of significance as black and white, he uses this to solve the crime, and gets a hot french girl also...maybe thet girl from the second Davinci Code film.
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PHArchivist
Master Member
Now there's a great song lyric - "Hey hey, you, you - get off of my thread!"
Wait a minute...
Actually, for me, (and I would venture others too, and certainly Hollywood lately) the idea is the hard part (hence the potential slippery slope of posting ideas publicly).
To come up with a tight, marketable, idea that has a clear through-line with discernable acts is tough.
"A mentally slow man is released from a psychiatric ward 25 years after killing his mother; he meets a 12-year old boy and fosters a loving bond; learns the boy is being abused by a pseudo step-father; sacrifices himself to release the boy by killing the step-father; returns to the ward"
Once the idea is laid down - or the basic framework - the writing (in my mind) simply fills in the blanks. Its "all down hill" once the (outline/framework/idea) is set down.
And yeah - critical to the writing is talent. A prospective writer may have a fabulous idea, but his writing may stink. Or you may have a person for whom writing is not that troublesome, but cannot come up with good ideas.
Again, for me, I'm not worried about the writing part. I have no idea if my writing is any good or not, but I have no real trouble in the writing area. If I already had the basic bulding blocks of a solid idea (grabber, first plot point, concept for each of the three acts, a character arc or two, possibly a sub-plot, effective resolutution), then the fleshing out of the script becomes the fun and easy part.
I just cannot seem to come up with any ideas that are not rooted in real-world history (like a docu-drama on the collision of two passenger planes over the Grand Canyon in the 1950s that resulted in the formation of the FAA), or connected to a previous property (like "Riskier Business", where the idiot Tom Cruise now has a college-aged kid who puts Cruise through hell with similar antics).
For me anyway, its the idea that is the hard part.
I have a few, and I don't think any would be either filmable or sellable, maybe not even writeable, as I don't have the patience, and no-one else would have the interest to bother since it's not their idea. This is one theat could work...
(If you decide to steal it, let me know, i need to do the concept art for the movie )
1. No title, maybe 'Race the sun' or 'Thunder Road' but it's allready used...
Plot: In either a post apocalyptic landscape or another planet, the break of dawn means an earth-scorching heat, while night time is ice cold winter. A team of drivers have to race the sun across a barren landscape to get supplies to the other side (other side of what?). To the experienced drivers this is just another day at work, to the new guy it's an adventure...
Pirates ,or whatever, waiting to loot them will show up
Original Idea: I just want to see loads of special built cars and trucks going across a landscape at near sound-barrier-breaking speeds.
You've never seen a high-speed chase or crash until you see this
Plot-holes:, Why don't they have planes? How do the society work if they have to hide from the sun all the time? Where do the pirates live? Why are there different 'sides'? Why don't they have tunnels?
(If you decide to steal it, let me know, i need to do the concept art for the movie
)1. No title, maybe 'Race the sun' or 'Thunder Road' but it's allready used...
Plot: In either a post apocalyptic landscape or another planet, the break of dawn means an earth-scorching heat, while night time is ice cold winter. A team of drivers have to race the sun across a barren landscape to get supplies to the other side (other side of what?). To the experienced drivers this is just another day at work, to the new guy it's an adventure...
Pirates ,or whatever, waiting to loot them will show up
Original Idea: I just want to see loads of special built cars and trucks going across a landscape at near sound-barrier-breaking speeds.
You've never seen a high-speed chase or crash until you see this
Plot-holes:, Why don't they have planes? How do the society work if they have to hide from the sun all the time? Where do the pirates live? Why are there different 'sides'? Why don't they have tunnels?
blip
Sr Member
Short Film, Family comedy.
Small personal story that lingers on small moments.
A father has been working on a sculpture in his garage. His wife indulges his passion. He has a small child who usually isn't allowed near the fragile soft clay replica of the venus de milo.
Finally after some negotion the child is allowed to watch but not touch.
Of course ond day while the father is out tending some local street emergency, the kid toddles down and while trying to "help" topples the clay into a blob.
final scene , dad returns to the garage to find the nervious looking child standing in front of a clay snowman like replecement.
The father looks at the two and says, You know, I've been trying to get that thing right, and I dont know what's changed, but it's better than ever.
longshot through window of the two working side by side with clay.
Get out that camera !
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PHArchivist
Master Member
Combining what I mentioned earlier about my ideas being connected pre-existing properties (and in support of the concept that sometimes I do come up with a marketable idea, albeit one owned by someone else), I submit:
--In the late 1980's I read Stephen Coonts' novel "Flight Of The Intruder"; I thought to myself that at that time (post-Top Gun and post-Platoon), Naval aviation and Viet Nam were both hot commodities, and this story combines them togther! Great idea for a film! Lo, a year or two later, the movie was made.
--In 1995 I read Walter Lord's "A Night To Remember", which read like an action novel though it was non-fictional account of the sinking. Again, my thoughts were to a film. I figured that there had been various films on the Titanic in the past, but none with today's (mid 90's) budgets and effects and production technologies, and how fantastic a film on the Titanic could look! Apparently I was not the only one thinking that at the time.
--In the late 1980's I read Stephen Coonts' novel "Flight Of The Intruder"; I thought to myself that at that time (post-Top Gun and post-Platoon), Naval aviation and Viet Nam were both hot commodities, and this story combines them togther! Great idea for a film! Lo, a year or two later, the movie was made.
--In 1995 I read Walter Lord's "A Night To Remember", which read like an action novel though it was non-fictional account of the sinking. Again, my thoughts were to a film. I figured that there had been various films on the Titanic in the past, but none with today's (mid 90's) budgets and effects and production technologies, and how fantastic a film on the Titanic could look! Apparently I was not the only one thinking that at the time.
nickytea
Master Member
There is no easy part.
PHArchivist
Master Member
The irony is that getting it protected, read, bought, and produced is truly the hardest part. Like winning the lottery.
nickytea
Master Member
It's difficult because of the amount of crap swimming around because people think it's easy. Writing something worth winning that "lottery" over is still incredibly difficult. Doing what it takes to write something of that quality tends to surround you with what is necessary to get it read.
BAK55
Well-Known Member
That is the point. While as nasty as it was -and had let the proverbial genie out of the bottle, in the end, it saved more lives than it took.
You guys obviously have NO idea that it isn't WHAT is writtein, it's who you KNOW that can get it produced.
So stop your armchair quarterback antics and let THOSE who have original idaes proceed.
It's interesting to me all the people that KNOW the industry but whom have never spent time writing, submitting or working in the industry that chime in knowing all....
Give it a rest you lackluster boners!
So stop your armchair quarterback antics and let THOSE who have original idaes proceed.
It's interesting to me all the people that KNOW the industry but whom have never spent time writing, submitting or working in the industry that chime in knowing all....
Give it a rest you lackluster boners!
A rural boy stumbles into some stuff and get the job done because he's special.
He has a magic ring given to him by a talking ardvark. His two friends can fly with magic sticks.
They travel through space on robot dinosaurs. The bad guy is the opposite of him, and yet he finds out it is an old him from the future sent into the past, to rescue his lost love, which his young self prevents from happening.
He is instructed in a complex magic/ ritualistic /artform /fighting style by an old guy who teaches him the whole thing in few days before he turns into a fire hydrant.
And boobs.
He has a magic ring given to him by a talking ardvark. His two friends can fly with magic sticks.
They travel through space on robot dinosaurs. The bad guy is the opposite of him, and yet he finds out it is an old him from the future sent into the past, to rescue his lost love, which his young self prevents from happening.
He is instructed in a complex magic/ ritualistic /artform /fighting style by an old guy who teaches him the whole thing in few days before he turns into a fire hydrant.
And boobs.
Thanks Terry, go back to your day job of doing nothing.
robn1
Master Member
That's my idea! :lol
blip
Sr Member
It's a political minefield. Good idea , risky idea.
blip
Sr Member
what bout adding a six pack for the ladies, think man, you don't want to miss half your market.
blip
Sr Member
What's the brief?
Did you want us to have written the whols screenplay then give you a brief rundown of the plot, or did you want us to generate some new ideas?
nickytea
Master Member
I don't think anyone would argue that there's a huge social aspect to making a sale. This is necessary, but not sufficient. (Therefore, WHAT is written can -- and does -- make a difference.)
I'm pretty sure this was aimed at me. I may not be a produced or optioned writer yet, but who's to say I'm not paying my dues? I'm still in the early stages of my writing career. I'm starting my seventh feature, outlining my eighth, and when I'm not doing that I'm either editing the short I produced and directed or studying up on the industry from those who are in the game right now. I may be a lackluster *****, but I'm trying.
Just as a point, almost everything I've posted in this thread came from the mouths of those who have a working career and extensive experience having their work produced. If you don't agree, that's fine, I'm just calling it as I see it from the perspective of those that have gone before me and are generous enough with their time to pass it along.
Lightning
Master Member
This was inspired by a comment I heard from a girl who wanted to "live in a musical"
It's a world where spontaneous musical numbers are common when something Hollywood appropriate happens. People just know what to sing and dance when one happens (remember the old SNL West Side Story spoof). Our Heroine has never had one of their own, and has only participated in ones for other people. She's a bit annoyed by that fact. There are a lots of musical numbers in the film that happen and she gets pulled into them as a background dancer. I don't actually have a plot its just a concept for the world. It ends either with her getting her big number or just as she's about to.
It's a world where spontaneous musical numbers are common when something Hollywood appropriate happens. People just know what to sing and dance when one happens (remember the old SNL West Side Story spoof). Our Heroine has never had one of their own, and has only participated in ones for other people. She's a bit annoyed by that fact. There are a lots of musical numbers in the film that happen and she gets pulled into them as a background dancer. I don't actually have a plot its just a concept for the world. It ends either with her getting her big number or just as she's about to.
