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A desperate African King of 1890s must unite independent neighboring warlords, who are conspiring against him; to save their common country from upcoming European colonial invaders and to fulfill the revolutionary dreams of a patriotic Emperor whom he has betrayed to death
A logline ?is a pithy statement of the spine of the story, ?the spine stripped bare of all the meat and other skeletal bones. ?And the spine seems to be:In the 1890's, an Ethiopian king struggles to unite feuding tribes to defend the independence of his ancient kingdom against an invading Italian arRead more
A logline ?is a pithy statement of the spine of the story, ?the spine stripped bare of all the meat and other skeletal bones. ?And the spine seems to be:
In the 1890’s, an Ethiopian king struggles to unite feuding tribes to defend the independence of his ancient kingdom against an invading Italian army.
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All the rest is backstory and complication (skeleton and meat). ?Based on what I know about the history of that troubled country, there is no lack of material to flesh out a fantastic story. ? This is a film I want to see. So I give this story idea an enthusiastic thumbs up. ?Best wishes with your script.
P.S. ?I would ID the country as “Ethiopia” because it is a more familiar term than Abyssinia.
fwiw
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DylanK The logline I wrote is for the same 1981 film. ?What you cited from IMDB is the blurb. ?Blurbs are targeted at movie viewers. ?Loglines are targeted ?at movie makers, the money men and producers who finance and package movie projects. ?Different audiences with different interests. (And althouRead more
DylanK
The logline I wrote is for the same 1981 film. ?What you cited from IMDB is the blurb. ?Blurbs are targeted at movie viewers. ?Loglines are targeted ?at movie makers, the money men and producers who finance and package movie projects. ?Different audiences with different interests.
(And although ?Mel Gibson was the up and coming star, ?Mark Lee actually had the role of the main character; the film is framed around his story arc.)
Blurbs are designed to tease movie viewers into investing a couple of hours and ?$12-$15 dollars in watching the film. ?Loglines are designed to interest movie makers in investing 2 ?(or more) years of the lives and millions of dollars in producing the film.
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