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27 Dec 2005, 4:47 pm
I can't help but recall that recently in another anonymous forum, I had just shown some of my ideas for potential movies to other people.
Here's what I wrote:
-A thriller similar to Hamlet, only more modern. It's about a young man who struggles to take back his late father's abandoned prison from his uncle, who may or may not really be an escaped convict.
-A comedy about a college student with a dull life, who unexpectedly starts temporarily sharing his dorm with a famous celebrity after a fight with her ex. It turns out however she isn't all she's cracked up to be.
-A stop motion animation film similar to Corpse Bride. This one stars a mad genius who spent his whole life creating his own planet. In fact, his creation gets in the way of his education that he is granted a trust fund to in order to pay for his parents' house and his fiance, which he ignores as well. One day a bolt of lightning strikes his planet and he is transported, to which he is hailed as a supreme ruler.
-A thriller about a girl who is killed, but the twist is that she starts the movie in the killer's body. (S)he needs to find out what caused her to switch bodies, among other mysteries. (S)he later finds out some really strange things about the killer's life.....
-A comedy about a college student with a dull life, who unexpectedly starts temporarily sharing his dorm with a famous celebrity after a fight with her ex. It turns out however she isn't all she's cracked up to be.
-A stop motion animation film similar to Corpse Bride. This one stars a mad genius who spent his whole life creating his own planet. In fact, his creation gets in the way of his education that he is granted a trust fund to in order to pay for his parents' house and his fiance, which he ignores as well. One day a bolt of lightning strikes his planet and he is transported, to which he is hailed as a supreme ruler.
-A thriller about a girl who is killed, but the twist is that she starts the movie in the killer's body. (S)he needs to find out what caused her to switch bodies, among other mysteries. (S)he later finds out some really strange things about the killer's life.....
The response? A little photoshop-made poster saying "Somebody Needs To Get Laid!" I've never been more insulted in my life. Sure these aren't the best ideas but as a newcomer I was flamed like a house put on fire. Now I'm never going back to that forum again. Besides these guys write like they spend their majority of time smoking pot while making their films.
So anyway, has any other writer ever been "laughed at" when showing their movies? I'm sure it's happened several times. Heck even David Lynch had to start somewhere.....
27 Dec 2005, 4:52 pm
27 Dec 2005, 5:07 pm
Relyt wrote:
what does "you need to get laid" imply? that script writers don't get the ladies? what is this guy on???
You cracked me up.
No seriously. Thanks, I really needed that. 
Well what he's implying is that my ideas are so bad that I need to get out more, except in a really perverted way.
27 Dec 2005, 8:35 pm
27 Dec 2005, 10:57 pm
beentheredonethat wrote:
Never never never show your writing ideas to anyone else.
You just gave em away.
You just gave em away.
Well that's why I can make more. Those are just examples.
28 Dec 2005, 11:01 am
29 Dec 2005, 11:09 am
Seanybaby wrote:
A thriller similar to Hamlet, only more modern. It's about a young man who struggles to take back his late father's abandoned prison from his uncle, who may or may not really be an escaped convict.
Sharp and interesting ideas imo!
Interesting with a modernization of Hamlet, though. Here it is already: http://imdb.com/title/tt0171359/
I like those modern adaptations. Iv'e seen the version of Titus as well and I liked that one much more, but it's very brutal though.
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