Best Hooks in TV and Movies

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  • Best Hooks in TV and Movies

    Not a TV guy at all, but watched the first episode of this show last night called The Affair.

    The main hook here is not really ingrained into the plot itself, although I'm only one episode in. It seems the hook is in the actual stoytelling method.

    For those who haven't seen it, it’s about this teacher/writer and his family who move to some little coastal town for the summer to visit his in-laws and give him space to write his next novel. He takes a liking to this one waitress. Boring ass concept.

    But then comes the hook. It recreates the same scenes, from different character perspectives. The main character went to this diner and his young daughter was choking and he ended up saving her with the waitress’s help. Then we shift to that waitress’s perspective, about halfway through or something, and the way the choking scene happened was completely different. Even the way she looks was slightly different, implying she sees herself differently than the main character does.

    It goes to show that sometimes memory is part fact and part imagination.

    If anyone has an interesting hook they'd like to share, it'd be nice to hear.

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    Re: Best Hooks in TV and Movies

    Killer shark, small town,summer.

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      Re: Best Hooks in TV and Movies

      Here's a similar "trick." If you go back and watch "Louie," the narrative story part of the show has NO jokes. It's just sad, pathetic, depressing stuff. I mean, maybe you laugh at his misfortune sometimes, but there aren't really any jokes.

      All the funny parts, all the jokes are just the 2-3 stand-up portions.

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        Re: Best Hooks in TV and Movies

        I thought we were talking opening hooks as in teasers. Oops. I'll still say the first thing that came to mind-that opening scene from Inglorious Bastards. The rest of the movie was ok but the opening was wild.

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          Re: Best Hooks in TV and Movies

          Opening scene of West wing S01 E01 where Sam Seabourne wakes up with the escort and gets the text about POTUS. Drops the viewer straight into the action and hooks them
          I heard the starting gun


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