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A dangerous serial killer is the only survivor in a plane crash, when she was transported to a different prison, she is rescued by tibetans from remote high mountain village. After being treated from her injuries she faces a choice to leave the village or to merry 7 brothers of a family who took care of her, according to their matriarchal tradition.
Snail,The more I think about your story idea -- and the fact that I have been thinking about I take as a good sign that the idea has potential -- ?the more I think you've got a gold nugget of an idea for a comedy. ?As I see it, the hook of your concept is the situation, the setup, not the character.Read more
Snail,
The more I think about your story idea — and the fact that I have been thinking about I take as a good sign that the idea has potential — ?the more I think you’ve got a gold nugget of an idea for a comedy. ?
As I see it, the hook of your concept is the situation, the setup, not the character. ?And?I suggest the situation,might benefit from some tweaking.
Have you considered her crash landing in a remote Chinese village? ?The reason I say that is that because of China’s draconian one-child policy, only recently relaxed, ?there is a serious shortage of women. ?(An unintended consequence: because Chinese family culture prefers male babies, tens of millions of ?female fetuses have been aborted.) I just heard a story this morning?on the BBC?about a remote ?Chinese village of ?1,600 where there are 116 bachelors with no women around to marry. ? What if she crash-landed into a village like that?
IOW: ?you don’ t need to make up a tradition to start your story. ?Just have her rescued by bachelor men of the village (or a group of brothers within such a village) who are so desperate they decide to propose to her as a “package deal”, ?a polyandrous marriage with all them. ? They make her an offer she can’t refuse: lots of benefits, attention, respect, money, clothes, the guys (or their mothers) doing all the housework, etc.
In fact, she doesn’t need to crash land in the village. ?She could wander in as a tourist from another country. ?(A tourist fleeing from the frustration of another failed relationship or marriage because she didn’t the attention she expected, the respect she deserved.)
Whatever, the demographic imbalance of too many men, too few women in China (and other countries like India) creates a ripe opportunity for a story. ? It’s a script somebody’s going to write. ? For a film I want to see. ?I hope it’s you.
fwiw
See lessA reclusive but brilliant inventor takes on, and beats Thomas Edison in the race to electrify America, but loses his sanity and wealth along the way.
Yup, as soon as I read the logline I thought of several Tesla v Edison stories made already and others in the works - dem the brakes.
Yup, as soon as I read the logline I thought of several Tesla v Edison stories made already and others in the works – dem the brakes.
See lessDuring WWII, a segregated all Japanese Regimen, is forced to join forces with an all-Black Regimen on an impossible mission to save the racist General who trained them.
The wording complicates the read and makes the concept unclear.Also the stakes seem low, what's the worst that would happen should they fail? Is the general a mass murder killing at will? Or is he in control of nukes? There needs to be more than just a standard mission, it has to be an "or else" sitRead more
The wording complicates the read and makes the concept unclear.
Also the stakes seem low, what’s the worst that would happen should they fail?
See lessIs the general a mass murder killing at will? Or is he in control of nukes? There needs to be more than just a standard mission, it has to be an “or else” situation.