Hi guys,
I think I might be in a mess and I would like to know what this is a sign of:
My protag is basically a king who thinks he doesn't deserve to be the king.
His kingdom is under attack.
He has smart mentors, who try to influence him differently.
He's trusting one, then trusting the other, while making death-or-life-decisions.
He's happy with those decisions, until he loses everything because of them.
When he loses his kingdom, the protag has his speech, wanting to die for having taken the wrong approach. If only he had had somebody smarter to guide him! Now he has nobody. Now he can die.
For the first time one of the mentors understands the psychological problem the protag is in, tells him he should believe in himself and the protag is able to get out of this mess alive by believing in himself. He doesn't get his kingdom back, it's too late for that, but maybe another kingdom will come one day.
This is a violent comedy in a small-time-criminal-world. Character- & Dialogue-driven. It's a movie about changing your view of yourself and the world.
And I don't understand why this structure sucks. Because it does. Because it means that had the protag and mentor talked this honestly earlier, this whole movie could have been avoided. It feels like cheating to not have the mentor understand this in the beginning, you know?
Thank you for sharing your thoughts.
os
I think I might be in a mess and I would like to know what this is a sign of:
My protag is basically a king who thinks he doesn't deserve to be the king.
His kingdom is under attack.
He has smart mentors, who try to influence him differently.
He's trusting one, then trusting the other, while making death-or-life-decisions.
He's happy with those decisions, until he loses everything because of them.
When he loses his kingdom, the protag has his speech, wanting to die for having taken the wrong approach. If only he had had somebody smarter to guide him! Now he has nobody. Now he can die.
For the first time one of the mentors understands the psychological problem the protag is in, tells him he should believe in himself and the protag is able to get out of this mess alive by believing in himself. He doesn't get his kingdom back, it's too late for that, but maybe another kingdom will come one day.
This is a violent comedy in a small-time-criminal-world. Character- & Dialogue-driven. It's a movie about changing your view of yourself and the world.
And I don't understand why this structure sucks. Because it does. Because it means that had the protag and mentor talked this honestly earlier, this whole movie could have been avoided. It feels like cheating to not have the mentor understand this in the beginning, you know?
Thank you for sharing your thoughts.
os
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