Penpusher
Posted: 2013-06-06T21:15:28+10:00 In:

Acting in concert, objects start to refuse to be a part of bad actions for no apparent reason

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    1. Penpusher

      HI friends,

      It is inspired by the previous post by Eakouri :

      “Arrogant postman of the year fights to keep his pride, when he comes across a stubborn mailbox that won?t accept his mail”

      and I just transposed the logline of “The Birds”.

      It would be funny if the objects decide not to function each time bad people want to use them, or we want to do it for bad reasons:
      – guns don’t fire
      – mailboxes don’t accept any mail from the arrogant Postman of the Year
      – bikes’ wheels of doped runners don’t want to turn
      – microphones and louspeakers of lying politicians keep mute
      -…

      It would be a great panic worldwide!

      The hell on earth for bad people! … and, after a time of surprise heaven for the others

      Comic version of “The birds”

      I replace “things” with “objects”.

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    2. Penpusher

      Thanks to eakouri for the inspiration

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    3. Hi Jean, more details, please. As it stands, I am not able to decipher your logline.

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    4. Singularity

      I’m curious, when you say ‘things,’ do you mean tables and chairs? Is this an Avent-garde movie?

      I agree with kuramo, as written it’s hard to make out what’s going on, you haven’t presented a lead character or an antagonist which makes me wonder if this is sort of a surreal ‘Eraserhead’ type movie.

      just curious, hope that helped,

      Good luck with this!

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    5. Samurai

      I see ‘Koyaanisqatsi’ Directed by M. Night Shyamalan…

      😉

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    6. Penpusher

      Good point to Tony Edward,

      It could be close to ?Koyaanisqatsi? – but with a story- and directed by M. Night Shyamalan?

      The pitch could be ?Koyaanisqatsi? meets “Mars Attacks”

      Before the movie was projected, Hitchcok made an advertising campaign saying something like “Warning! the birds reach”

      Here, it could be “Warning! the things are taking power!”

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    7. Samurai

      I think you’ve got an interesting concept — but I think you still need a character and a plot that an audience can experience this unique situation through… otherwise the logline is nonsensical and becomes a collection of images (hence my post in regards to Koyaanisqatsi)

      A point of reference — ‘Rhinoceros’ by Eugene Lonesco, fittingly belonging to the theater of the absurd (got turned into a film in 1974…), with every person in a town, one by one, turning into Rhinos — We still have a hero who witnesses the phenomenon so that we the audience can…

      Anyway — good luck… I do like the cut of your jib!

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    8. Samurai

      “…It could be close to ?Koyaanisqatsi? ? but with a story…” …

      The story is what is lacking, which is what the logline should communicate — what we’ve got at the moment is a pitch… and really just the concept.

      Good luck!

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    9. Penpusher

      You’re right Tony,

      This is not a logline. It was just to introduce a funny idea.

      I find it interesting and I think I’ll work a little more on this concept.

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    10. Samurai

      Definitely original and a very funny idea — best of luck with weaving a story through it (but for the life of me I can’t see Mars Attacks meets Koyaanisqatsi…?!)

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    11. Penpusher

      – “Mars Attacks” because it would be a simultaneous worldwide phenomenon narrated in a comic way,
      – and ” Koyaanisqatsi” because of some pictures’ esthetic, because doing this way, things protect us from the advent of the three prophecies, and because it is related to something more important than just a comic trip.

      I see the end, or the beginning, on september 11, 2001, with the two planes that refuse to crash the World Trade Center and return to their airports with their safe passengers.

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    12. Samurai

      OK…

      One question — with all this random good stuff just ‘happening for no apparent reason’… where’s the drama?

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    13. Penpusher

      Hi Tony,

      What drama? 🙂

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    14. Singularity

      Hey Jean, I think what Tony is saying is, you started by being inspired by Eakouri, But Eakouri begins with a lead character and a goal, A postman wants to deliver a letter but can’t because the mailbox won’t cooperate. That is drama, a lead character with a goal and something (Mailbox) stands in the way.

      So you should start with a specific individual who wants to do something immoral then have the object not cooperate.

      Hope that helped!

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    15. Penpusher

      Hello you two,

      I just wanted to tell that this post is about an idea and I did’nt work on.
      I have to focus on “Who scanned XX” to enter some contests this summer.

      My first intention was to do something with several threads like “Mars Attacks”, because it would be a worldwide phenomenon.

      Are you interested in the development of this idea?

      All the best.

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    16. Samurai

      Hey Jean:

      Found this logline for ‘The Birds’

      A wealthy San Francisco socialite pursues a potential boyfriend to a small Northern California town that slowly takes a turn for the bizarre when birds of all kinds suddenly begin to attack people there in increasing numbers and with increasing viciousness.

      http://www.savvyauthors.com/members/admin/event.cfm?EventID=728

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    17. Penpusher

      Hi kb,

      Thanks.

      This is nice.
      I don’t know if it is by Hitchcock, but many of his were as long, and it sounds better as a selling logline than the “official” one wich sounds rather as a tagline:
      “Acting in concert, birds start attacking people for no apparent reason”

      An other of my favorite movies is “To catch a thief”: +++
      “When a reformed jewel thief is suspected of returning to his former occupation, he must ferret out the real thief in order to prove his innocence.”
      We need the poster in addition to understand that it is a romance!

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