Camus meets Heinlein
Consider this synopsis for a screenplay in the traditions of fantasy and existentialism.
A foreigner, a stranger in a strange land, tries to eat other people. He mopes to makes himself better than the other strangers in the land they all call home.
His logic is that swallowing them will take them out of competition. Then, he can digest them and assimilate their value by osmosis. And he can purge what he can't digest.
Because this scenario is common in human life, it couldn't bore without appropriate montage. So the play displays biographical details, showing how the character becomes so lonely, failing in all his productive efforts to be better than he feels he is.
His mentors encourage him, but he does not find his imagination to create what they encourage. So no one welcomes him in circumstances he learns might be ideal.
The hero's names, for contrast with American marketing, might be French for "jack" and "mouth", alluding to his dedication to having his ass kissed.
Jacques Bouchard might work to show the mediocrity of some existence.
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[/nq] Hardly any work at all, you've been doing it to yourself all along. jaybee
- [/nq] Hardly any work at all, you've been doing it to yourself all along.
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Hardly any work at all, you've been doing it to yourself all along.
jaybee
0personal request, could you leave out snide personal attacks whenever possible? I've been pimping this site on mws but can't do so with clean conscience if folks come over here just to find petty sniping.
Just a request from a fellow netizen,
Mysti
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[nq:1]Consider this synopsis for a screenplay in the traditions of fantasy and existentialism. A foreigner, a stranger in a strange ... the thing yourself, doesn't matter. But if you're going to produce and shoot it yourself, why bother writing a synopsis?[/nq]
If you're trying to sell it or trying to find co-producers, then this synopsis will work against you. Other people can't see
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[nq:1]Whatever.[/nq]
Weren't you snorfling up to Jay/Jai's **** when we last met on misc.writing.screenplays?
That didn't work out?
Paulo Joe Jingy
Sometimes some things just ain't right.
0[nq:1]More noir than existential, Costa-Gavras just made this film (The Axe). personal request, could you leave out snide personal attacks ... with clean conscience if folks come over here just to find petty sniping. Just a request from a fellow netizen,[/nq]
Hey, get your own homage!
jaybee
0Or the mediocrity of "avant-garde" film-making notions. Your "description" certainly doesn't make me want to go spend ti
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[nq:2]Consider this synopsis for a screenplay in the traditions of ... I haven't the faintest idea what the film is about,[/nq]
"which, if you're going to produce and shoot the thing yourself, doesn't matter. But if you're going to produce and ... with an Underwood Nothing happens and nothing happens. Then, finally, nothing happens.
I was taught to type on remingtons in highschool
0[nq:1]Or the mediocrity of "avant-garde" film-making notions. Your "description" certainly doesn't make me want to go spend time and money to see this film. Crow[/nq]
Not avant garde. Quite cliche.
www.star.net/silence
0Mysti, I couldn't agree more, and I am disappointed that the moderation here doesn't do more to prevent such, as I am dissapointed that
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[nq:1]I was taught to type on remingtons in highschool, but I learned to type on Underwoods in the Army.[/nq]
That's funny, most people use Remingtons in the Army and Underwoods at school.
[nq:1]And I share your wish to unite colloliquialism with etymology.[/nq]
Surely, you mean colonialism and entymology.
Alan Brooks
A with an Underwood
Language burier.
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