an idea 4 script

[nate_dog]

I have an idea for a movie which I want to make this summer. It's a little messed up and complicated but here it goes. I'll try to be breif.

Danielle finds herself at a party at 2:30 in the morning and has an overwhelming feeling that she is alone. Even though she is surrounded by her friends and boyfriend, she still feels like she doesn't belong there for some reason.

She's a little drunk and decides to leave without telling anyone. She sees the a bus coming down the road. Danielle has never seen this bus before but decides to wave it down and take it.

The driver is some f*cked up old guy who speaks nonsense and riddles. Danielle can hardly understand what he is saying. Everything appears to be strange and twisted.

The bus makes a few stops, where Danielle gets out and explores areas in the city where she has never been before. She has short encounters with characters who are not quite normal and experiences and witnesses bizzare events.

Most of the movie will follow Danielle as she makes 3-4 different stops and meeting strange and twisted people. Each stop will have a meaning and explore dark areas about human behavior. By the end, she will come to a realization about herself. She is returned to the party hours later to find her friends despetely worried about her.

By the end Danielle no longer feels alone and becomes content about herself.

I'm not trying to make some kind of deep, philsophical film here or anything. I just want to try something different. I want to make semi-surreal by using odd camera work combined with various filters.

What think you? [img]graemlins/film.gif[/img]

[soulfilms]

maybe the deep philosophical thing is the way to go...?

or otherwise, you could have it that she was tripping on illicit substances and the people she met were really quite normal but she saw them differently and consequently, comes up with a different perspective on humanity and that's how it changes her as an individual.


--just my two cents--

[redlum]

"or otherwise, you could have it that she was tripping on illicit substances and the people she met were really quite normal"

I was waiting for that. Don't do that.

Your idea sounds good, write it. Hard thing will be to not make the bus stops repetitive.

When she comes back, it cant be that she's had a revelation and now she's just fine, it needs only to be a small turn. This would actually make a very good music video I think.

[Generic Skinhead]

Not bad. However I find myself asking why any of this is happening. And yes you MUST stay away from the drugs angle.

Also instead of making the charachters "twisted", why not just make them unusual? Perhaps fairly normal, but with one curious aspect to them. Each of them could have their own unique idiosyncracy.

S' what I reckon anyway.

[ac_01]

I agree - go with the philosophical thing. Otherwise whats the point? Its a great idea. You've got a lot of 'feelings' within this idea and it would be interesting to see how these come off and how you show them.

[SoulJacker]

Erm, what is the point?

Argh, **** it. Make it dude.

[SoulJacker]

Oh, and where's my second little star gone eh?


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[soulfilms]

<BLOCKQUOTE><font size=2 face="Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif">quote:</font><table border="0" width="90%" bgcolor="#333333" cellspacing="1" cellpadding="0"><tr><td width="100%"><table border="0" width="100%" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="2" bgcolor="#FF9900"><tr><td width="100%" bgcolor="#DDDDDD"><font size=2 face="Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif">Originally posted by Generic Skinhead:

Also instead of making the charachters "twisted", why not just make them unusual? Perhaps fairly normal, but with one curious aspect to them. Each of them could have their own unique idiosyncracy.

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that makes them stereotypical. if each character she meets is a unique, fully fleshed out character, you would have a really good film.

[Generic Skinhead]

Erm, thats not what I was getting at. The whole point is that they would be completly different from each other. Anti-stereotypes if you will.

[Rar]

Sounds thematically similar to "Wizard of Oz". ie. Dorothy confronting different aspects of her personality (intelect[Scarecrow], emotions [Tinman], courage [Lion]) following the death of her parents.