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Re: Bad loglines
Ask ANY 20 y/o male what's a good idea for a movie and he'll say "The story of my life."
And he'll be serious.
Ask ANY 20 y/o male what's a good idea for a movie and he'll say "The story of my life."
And he'll be serious.
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wcmartell,
You're scaring me.
I read your article :INDEPENDENTS: Dog Juice" and took it to heart. I figured my current project was for the indie market and I crammed as much "juice" in as I could. Then I remembered your remark, "If I wonder whether I've gone far enough, I probably haven't," or something to that effect. And I crammed even more juice into the damned script.
At this point the script is, well, juicy. Very juicy.
A couple quotes from your opening comment in this thread are in order:
"If your scipt is too different than other movies, the audience won't want to see it".
"If you can't think of any recent films like your script, there may be a very good reason... they don't make movies like that... start looking for similar stories in other media."
I can put together a logline for my script. It would take the form "Movie X meets Movie Y meets Movie Z". So in that way, I don't feel off the deep end. And yet, we're talking lots of dog juice here.
Then I think, well, "Being John Malkovich" was weird, original, funny, juicy.
Question: Is it possible to have too much dog juice for even the indies?
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