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Wick3d
01-16-2005, 9:33 PM
so i need to write a 15~ page script of a movie. i have foormat and everything else down, but i need an IDEA.
rules- nothing involving gangsters, or when anybody dies. not that its not allowed, but i dont really feel like trying to be "cool"
winning idea gets posted here xD
EdvardMunch
01-16-2005, 10:32 PM
Gangsters killing people?
Now that that "joke" is out of the way, here's a few real ideas:
1. A paranoid conspiracy theorist watches half of a news report and then jumps to some wild conclusion, like the world is ending and every world government is in on it. We then watch for 12 minutes as he tries to prove his conspiracy theory... and he does (it ends up being true).
2. Someone attends a wedding for a family member in another country. Now, this person has to deal with the culture shock, language barrier, and shockingly bad clothing that go along with being out of your home.
3. Someone decides to download Exploding Fetus' latest album (only the best thing ever to come to country music) off of KaZaa and discovers it's all a setup... and now the MPAA are coming after them. You could switch out music downloading with any other petty crime. Shoplifting, cheating, jaywalking, etc. Just as long as the authorities are going to ridiculous lengths to catch our young criminal.
4. Someone gets locked in a museum filled with surreal art and it all comes to life...
There are tons of ideas a person could come up with. Do you have any preferrences to narrow things down?
Black.Ice
01-16-2005, 11:03 PM
What are your capabilities and what's the general genre that you're aiming for? If you can give me a bit of info, I'll give you a whole bunch of ideas.
Calibur
01-17-2005, 12:00 AM
How bout two people playing chess.
Or a baseball game.
Strolling through the park
Boring huh, well no one said that you couldn't dramatize it.
Jimmy: You sir have insulted my family my honor and my entire way of life, now prepare to be smiten.
Bob:Checkmate
Jimmy: NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO OOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO OOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO OOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO...
Sorry but I'm but I enjoy movies where people are killed, for a cause of course not those movies where some one just goes around shooting people for no reason. Such as war movies like saving Private Ryan for instance, or the God Father now those where good movies.
Wick3d
01-17-2005, 12:23 AM
acting pool of semi-talented actors up to age 18, all neccisarry equipment. looking for something lighthearted and funny, possibly witty. that downloading music thing was classic, i might have to do that.
MPAA
Musicians Putting you Ass Away
GrassDragon
01-17-2005, 8:34 AM
I like writing stuff that has some moral (and strangely ones that have a suicide in them... o_O). How about the "guy who gets picked on finally decides to kill himself, but some girl takes interest in him at the same time and saves him".
Nahotnoj
01-17-2005, 5:39 PM
"guy who gets picked on finally decides to kill himself, but some girl takes interest in him at the same time and saves him".
That sounds coincedentally similar to a prank my friend played on me this past weekend...
Wick3d
01-17-2005, 5:39 PM
looking for something SLIGHTLY more lighthearted ^_^
Kamikazie190
01-17-2005, 6:10 PM
Someone who get stuck in another country (Say, Croatia, or something) and has no idea how to speak the language or how to get a job. That person finally saves up enough money in that currency (say, Croation Sand Dollars) to buy a flight/train/bus/boat home, and ends up deciding to stay because of all the people who helped him/her out.
I like writing stuff that has some moral (and strangely ones that have a suicide in them... o_O). How about the "guy who gets picked on finally decides to kill himself, but some girl takes interest in him at the same time and saves him".
Romeo and Juliet comes to mind...
GrassDragon
01-17-2005, 7:09 PM
looking for something SLIGHTLY more lighthearted ^_^
Oh come on, stories with people that kill themselves (or are about to) are cool :P
EDIT: @TheBB: Yeah I guess, expect they end up killing themselves anyway...
Wick3d
01-17-2005, 7:34 PM
shakespeare stealer!
note- i will start writing this in 2 hours. you have until then ^_^
***idea needed- something MPAA could stand for that implies them hurting people somehow
like Musicians Putting your Ass Away
without swearing
Modred
01-17-2005, 10:17 PM
I like writing stuff that has some moral (and strangely ones that have a suicide in them... o_O). How about the "guy who gets picked on finally decides to kill himself, but some girl takes interest in him at the same time and saves him".
Sounds like something I would write...only without the saving part. If Black.Ice's "Real Life" RP hadn't died, you can bet that's how my character would have ended up. No hurt telling everyone now that that game is long gone.
Anyway, I'm more than 2 hours later, so I'll just leave. =D
Valjean
01-17-2005, 10:20 PM
shakespeare stealer!
note- i will start writing this in 2 hours. you have until then ^_^
***idea needed- something MPAA could stand for that implies them hurting people somehow
like Musicians Putting your Ass Away
without swearing
Ooooh, I know!
"The Motion Picture Association of America"
^_^
Wick3d
01-17-2005, 10:45 PM
instead of MPAA, go with RIAA
EdvardMunch
01-17-2005, 10:45 PM
Oh crap! I did write MPAA! I meant RIAA!
/me looks away in shame and changes his sig to match.
Kazansky
01-19-2005, 4:38 AM
Nobody dies?? WHAT KIND OF A MOVIE IS THAT??? Here at my university, we are encouraged to make scary horror films. :)
Here's a suggestion-- make a movie about the discrimination of... of... of... some race in some part of the world. Make it a story about a family.
LinkTheGameFreak
01-19-2005, 9:41 AM
What about a movie about a future TV show that is basically like a deranged version of all the reality shows on now? The name of the show would be "Maniac on Drugs" and heres how it would basically go:
You get a cargo van and stock it full of ammunition, artillary and lots of drugs.
You get a maniac, any maniac at all.
You clear it with the local PD to videotape everything the maniac does beforehand and then you unleash him and his cargo van onto New York City or Chicago.
You do this in two other cities with two other maniacs.
After a period of a week, you bring them back and have them fight it out in a every man for himself battle royale.
The winner gets to go to Disney World... with his cargo van :)
-Link
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