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Usenet Posted 19 years ago
Screenwriting

Logline of the Day

"Have you ever had one of those experiences where you wake up in the morning after a night of partying and you don't know where you are, or who the person in bed next to you is, or why they're dead...."

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[nq:1]"Have you ever had one of those experiences where you wake up in the morning after a night of partying and you don't know where you are, or who the person in bed next to you is,[/nq] Rumor has it, you have.

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  • [nq:1]"Have you ever had one of those experiences where you wake up in the morning after a night of partying and you don't know where you are, or who the person in bed next to you is,[/nq] Rumor has it, you have.
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[nq:1]"Have you ever had one of those experiences where you wake up in the morning after a night of partying and you don't know where you are, or who the person in bed next to you is,[/nq]
Rumor has it, you have.
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[nq:1]"Have you ever had one of those experiences where you wake up in the morning after a night of partying and you don't know where you are, or who the person in bed next to you is, or why they're dead.."[/nq]
Isn't that an old Jane Fonda movie?
Joe Myers
"Starring, of course, a younger Jane Fonda."
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[nq:2]"Have you ever had one of those experiences where you ... in bed next to you is, or why they're dead...."[/nq]
[nq:1]Isn't that an old Jane Fonda movie?[/nq]
With Jeff Bridges? Rings a distant bell.
In any event, I thought it might be an interesting idea to actually have MWSM people submit loglines real or imagined, serious or silly just for the **** of it.
But of course the
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[nq:1]In any event, I thought it might be an interesting idea to actually have MWSM people submit loglines real or imagined, serious or silly just for the **** of it.[/nq]
The last time I constructed a logline just for yucks to post on this group, I made it as ridiculous as I could, then just as I was about to submit it, I re-read it and thought, by gum that's a Bruce Willis flick.

So
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[nq:1]The last time I constructed a logline just for yucks to post on this group, I made it as ridiculous ... the winners/finalists/semis and quaterfinalists: http://www.zoetrope.com/contests/index.cgi?show=res2). So, now I don't post ridiculous loglines. They have a way of turning into things...[/nq]
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[nq:1]So, what *is* the logline to 'Diamond District'?[/nq]
"While filling in at his dad¹s hotdog cart in New York¹s diamond district an off-duty FBI agent interferes in a police operation, and is pulled into a plot to violently overthrow the DeBeers diamond cartel."

I just had another producer read it, and she said that while it's not for her company, it's great and I should be pushi
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[nq:1]"Have you ever had one of those experiences where you wake up in the morning after a night of partying and you don't know where you are, or who the person in bed next to you is, or why they're dead.."[/nq]
Barton Fink.
Blair
"Only you missed the part about
how they got dead..."
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