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  • #46
    Re: Cliche Concepts

    Thing is, drugs and prostitution or the sex trade as it's known are big business for the underworld. So yeah, it is a cliché that you see strip joint scenes in those type of movies yet at the same time it makes sense that a scene would be there.

    I guess it could come down to how you execute that scene, how you could put a different spin on it. Granted, your options may be limited but it does raise the argument of believability vs. cliché.

    Let's say you decide to go for something different like they hold a meeting at the back of a pet store. The pet store could be a front for one of the mafia's operations. Visually, it could be interesting that they hold meetings there and there could be some funny moments. But how realistic would that be? Also, as the pet store is just a front, it wouldn't be a big money earner. Like everything else, the underworld is about making money. Lots of it. So it stands to reason that at some point in the film you'll most likely have scenes that either involve strip joints, casinos, sex clubs, drug dens, a drug baron's villa, etc. It kinda goes with the territory.

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    • #47
      Re: Cliche Concepts

      I love it when a girl gives a guy her phone number by writing it on his hand, like it's the most original, quirky, charming, never-been-done-in-a-movie-before kind of move.

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      • #48
        Re: Cliche Concepts

        "I love it when a girl gives a guy her phone number by writing it on his hand, like it's the most original, quirky, charming, never-been-done-in-a-movie-before kind of move."

        Because it's a cool thing when it happens in real life.

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        • #49
          Re: Cliche Concepts

          Originally posted by Nat Palazzo View Post
          Thing is, drugs and prostitution or the sex trade as it's known are big business for the underworld. So yeah, it is a cliché that you see strip joint scenes in those type of movies yet at the same time it makes sense that a scene would be there.
          I'm just gonna throw this out for all my fellow scribes.

          Soapy Massage

          I haven't seen that setting used yet and it falls into the same category as strip clubs. Hot girls. Nudity. Nefarious underworld shenanigans. Doesn't every city have a questionable massage parlor packed with Asian women who speak very little English?
          Looks like I picked the wrong week to quit sniffing glue

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          • #50
            Re: Cliche Concepts

            Originally posted by WaitForIt View Post
            Maybe advertising is why I felt like I had maybe seen it more, but couldn't think of where, besides HITCH. That makes a lot of sense, actually. Thanks.

            There was the Date-a-Palooza scene in 40 Year Old Virgin, which I thought was great.

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            • #51
              Re: Cliche Concepts

              So many ideas are cliche, but I'll venture a cliche idea, that as writers we can subvert the cliches. We can turn them inside out by breaking them down and rebuilding them from stereotypical characters, scenarios, beginnings, endings.

              If we can do that and still achieve the emotional connections that those stories characters had before they were cliche, then that would be very un-cliche.
              #writinginaStarbucks #re-thinkingmyexistence #notanotherweaklogline #thinkingwhatwouldWilldo

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              • #52
                Re: Cliche Concepts

                How about:

                the big climactic scene where the protag and antag somehow find each other on a battlefield teeming with thousands of other soldiers

                Running up to the roof to escape whatever

                Hopping inside a car to escape whatever and the car won't start

                Hotwiring a car

                Car chase scenes that go on forever without a single cop in sight

                and how about hackneyed dialogue like:

                "She's gonna blow!"

                "It's just a flesh wound" and its cousin, "Go on without me"

                "Why you -- "

                Q: "Are you --------?"
                A: "That depends. Who wants to know?"

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