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Right again!
"Based on real events near the end of the second world war in Burma, an enemy artillery station has severed aerial supply routes, forcing a narrow-minded co-pilot to deploy an unconventional weapon on the station."
mop1011:
Good! Therefore, IMHO: the logline ought to ?say so with words like "The true story of..." , "Inspired by... " or "Based upon true events...." or some such. ?Truth is stranger than fiction and also a stronger selling point for the concept. ?
Particularly for a story set in the distant past , like WW2. ?Yes ?WW2 is in the distant past now, two generations removed . ?So the only way to engage the interest of a contemporary audience in war story from that period is if it's based on events that really happened, people who actually lived.
IOW: ?I don't think a fictional WW2 ?story is marketable anymore. ?The sole exception to that economic reality is if the name on the script is Quentin Tarantino ("Inglourious Basterds") ?- he has ascended to a difference universe where the ?rules the rest of us have to play by don't apply. ? I could be wrong, but Tarantino's flick excepted, I can't recall another ?commercially successful film with a fictional story set in WW2 that has been made in the this century. ?Or any fictional WW2 film made in this century other than "Inglourious Basterds". ?Can you?
My default assumption was that your story is totally fictional. And I suspect my assumption is typical. So I think logline readers are more likely to be interested in the script if they know it's based on actual historical events.
fwiw
DPG-
This story is based on my father's service as a pilot flying prototype AWACs planes in Burma during WWII, however, the protagonist is the co-pilot.
Ninety percent of the script is historically accurate.