First Film

[Rankles]

Ok so I'm new here and have been getting into the idea of film making a lot recently so... I'll introduce myself with the idea behind the film I am currently writing.

Darren is a twenty something whos depression with the state of the people in his city is keeping him up at nights. The muggers, rapists, theiecves and thugs which roam the streets of Manchester constantly really angers him. One night he gets jumped by a group of teenagers as he minded his own business in town. However he awakes from the beating finding two of his attackers dead and sees a strange man spraypainting a bible verse onto the wall.
Later he meets this man who saved him that night. Under the twisted bible interpretations of this man Vic, Darren begins to think just like him and believe they are on common ground - that all the evil in the earth should be wiped out akin to something from Noahs Ark. As Darren gets more and more roped into Vics teachings and murders of criminals, he truly believse that he is some sort of savior of the human race, and Vic is his mentor.

The film begins with Darren having been arrested and seemingly not caring, as he recounts his story to a deeply religious detective, trying to pursuade him that everything he did was in line with bible teachings.

So yeah... pretty brief description there.

[belovedmonster]

the thing with pitching ideas is that a good idea can be terrible with bad writing and a bad idea can be entertaining if its done in the right way.

I would say i dont like the idea but really it would depend alot on the writing. At the moment it just makes me think of the cliche of some Buffy like film where a guy has a mentor whos an expert in old myths and his student goes round using kungfu on bad guys

that said i like the potential of the spin that he is already caught... if you made the piont of having tense interrogation scenes and not just used it as an excuse for a "6 months earlier" thing.

<font color="#a62a2a" size="1">[ November 30, 2003 07:28 AM: Message edited by: belovedmonster ]</font>

[Rankles]

Well yeah but it's more of a point that the bible and other religiou books (by the way im agnostic) can be twisted tomake someonetruly believ that what they are doing is in the name of their religion even though it can completely contradict it. Also theres no big choreographed fight scenes, it would generally be amateurish rage from the two characters due to their convictions. The other thing is that their mission is quite a strange one in that they only target criminals, but this vigilante thing doesnt go down too well. There will also be hints that perhaps Vic truly is God and hes training Darren as some kind ofJesus figure, of course theres numerous interpretations of this idea. The interrogation takes place like a night after Darrens arrest after the two storm a police awards ceremony to kill who Vic says is a corrupt officer. Guess it's all in the script and filming though. Cheers [img]smile.gif[/img]

[Rankles]

Sorry yes the fact that hes already caught as well leadds to Detective Meadows getting more and more enraged as being a Christian himself, hates that Darren keeps coming up with religious justification for his violence, and the detective seems to doubt his faith more and more or maybe begin to think like Darren.

[miker]

IMO all aspiring filmmakers should make a point of watching The Player.

25 words or less, or I for one can't be arsed to read your idea. Of course, that makes me sound like an a$$hole, but that's the point [img]wink.gif[/img]

[lowtek]

i like the idea but i would recomend that you watch the usual suspects before you do any thing how ever it sounds that it might be a very good [img]graemlins/film.gif[/img]

[Rankles]

The Usual Suspects is one of my faveourite films, and I think it's a bad idea to watch a film that someone says is similar to yours before you finish making it or you end up either copying from it or giving up.

[Kev Owens]

Hmm, not really sure what you want us to say about your idea. I'd just get on with writing it if I were you.

Welcome to the board.

[redlum]

I like the idea. Just gotta be careful how you write it. e.g. dont do a dream sequence follwed by him waking in a cold sweat, with a vision of himself as an avenging angel for the community.

<font color="#a62a2a" size="1">[ December 01, 2003 06:20 AM: Message edited by: redlum ]</font>

[Rankles]

Lol yeah don't worry ^^

Yeah well I guess I shouldv'e actually asked something heh. Anyways yeah cya around.