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An idealistic young couple travelling by train on their honeymoon encounter a cynical elderly couple who turn out to be them in later life.
Genial!!! Perfecta historia y enganche!!!!
Genial!!! Perfecta historia y enganche!!!!
See lessWhen he wins a basketball championship, a young man suffers an accident becoming paraplegic and must accept his new status in an adapted basketball club before falling into depression.
I think the logline needs to be clearer and more specific on some elements."Basketball championship" and"Young man": Is he a high school or college athlete?Did the accident occur during the championship game or afterwards?? And if the latter, what happened? Was he involved in an auto accident?? Or..Read more
I think the logline needs to be clearer and more specific on some elements.
“Basketball championship” and”Young man”: Is he a high school or college athlete?
Did the accident occur during the championship game or afterwards?? And if the latter, what happened? Was he involved in an auto accident?? Or…?
Film is a visual medium.? Ever plot element in a logline must be concrete, must map to something that can be seen on the? screen?? What’s the visual for “must accept”?? What is the concrete, screen event that will signal to the audience that he has “accepted his new status”?
See lessA timid taxi driver must foil a contract killer’s plan to kill five people in one night after being forced to transport him around L.A.
Paul Clarke:You raised an interesting point.? Yes, it's a great twist for Max, the taxi driver, to discover that Annie, the attorney he flirted with, is on the hit list.But...With one exception, the general rule is that the logline focuses on events up to the transition into Act 2.? That is, the eveRead more
Paul Clarke:
You raised an interesting point.? Yes, it’s a great twist for Max, the taxi driver, to discover that Annie, the attorney he flirted with, is on the hit list.
But…
With one exception, the general rule is that the logline focuses on events up to the transition into Act 2.? That is, the events that can quickly hook an audience’s interest.? In this age of multitasking minds, when people have so many options for entertainment so many distractions, I think it’s accurate to say that it’s more imperative than ever that a film quickly grab and hold attention.? Before something else does.
The exception is that sometimes (space permitting) it’s good to include the MPR (Midpoint Reversal), when it entails? a cool twist that “sweetens” the initial hook.
However, Max doesn’t discover Annie is on the hit list until 94 minutes into the film.? That’s f-a-r too late to qualify as the MPR.? Indeed, the discovery can be said to be the inciting incident of the last act.
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