This is my first post, joined two days ago so first of all, hello everyone, I must say this is a great community and I'm happy to be here.
Now on to business.
For some time now I was thinking about writing a screenplay. I tried a few times but I never really had the full story set before I started writing so you all know what happened, after a few pages (or a few dozen pages) I had no idea where to go with it so I ended up adding characters or subplots that would keep the story moving...it was, as you all know, bad, very bad.
I always had some great scenes in my head that I would love to see, that I think other people would pay to see but no script, no story.
It was impossible for me to make my little ideas, pieces of characters/plot/atmosphere that I had in my head in to a nice, logical story with acts I,II and III, plot points and all that.
So couple of days ago I started thinking a lot more and a lot harder, I wanted to come up with a great concept, great "tagline", something that can be produced more/less easily but still has a high concept behind it, something epic (not in terms of size), I figured that's the best way to go if I actually wanna sell something.
I switched a lot between quite a few ideas and then, one great idea hit me. One concept that I think it's a good one, and after a couple of hours and some tweaking everything got in to place with incredible easiness, ACT I, plot points, ACT II full of possibilities, plot going to the direction smart viewers/readers are probably expecting, plot switching up the way smart readers are probably expecting and then turning everything around, without cheating (main character was lying the whole time etc, there's no such thing here )
But now comes the possible problem.
Is it a big risk not to have a "hero" for a main character, to possibly expose him as being not such a good guy or to have the "more bad then good" character get away with...whatever it is etc.
I know there are quite a few movies that do that but what's the general opinion, are stories with "bad guy gets away with it" or possibly just slightly bittersweet endings not popular?
The story gives me a lot of room to improvise, it will still hold up, what do you guys think, should I change it to accommodate the "I wanna root for the good guy and I know he's not going to die" movie going public or not?
I'm writing a plot driven thriller, you all probably knew that already.
Thanks again.
Stefan
Now on to business.
For some time now I was thinking about writing a screenplay. I tried a few times but I never really had the full story set before I started writing so you all know what happened, after a few pages (or a few dozen pages) I had no idea where to go with it so I ended up adding characters or subplots that would keep the story moving...it was, as you all know, bad, very bad.
I always had some great scenes in my head that I would love to see, that I think other people would pay to see but no script, no story.
It was impossible for me to make my little ideas, pieces of characters/plot/atmosphere that I had in my head in to a nice, logical story with acts I,II and III, plot points and all that.
So couple of days ago I started thinking a lot more and a lot harder, I wanted to come up with a great concept, great "tagline", something that can be produced more/less easily but still has a high concept behind it, something epic (not in terms of size), I figured that's the best way to go if I actually wanna sell something.
I switched a lot between quite a few ideas and then, one great idea hit me. One concept that I think it's a good one, and after a couple of hours and some tweaking everything got in to place with incredible easiness, ACT I, plot points, ACT II full of possibilities, plot going to the direction smart viewers/readers are probably expecting, plot switching up the way smart readers are probably expecting and then turning everything around, without cheating (main character was lying the whole time etc, there's no such thing here )
But now comes the possible problem.
Is it a big risk not to have a "hero" for a main character, to possibly expose him as being not such a good guy or to have the "more bad then good" character get away with...whatever it is etc.
I know there are quite a few movies that do that but what's the general opinion, are stories with "bad guy gets away with it" or possibly just slightly bittersweet endings not popular?
The story gives me a lot of room to improvise, it will still hold up, what do you guys think, should I change it to accommodate the "I wanna root for the good guy and I know he's not going to die" movie going public or not?
I'm writing a plot driven thriller, you all probably knew that already.
Thanks again.
Stefan
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