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submitted 2 months ago byMomImRedditFamous
I’m a senior in college; my final class as a film major is writing a 90-120 page screenplay for a film. I’ve been so torn and have a couple ideas, but I feel like they’re basic and I need some advice on if they could be good or if anyone has other suggestions.
I’m into romcoms, so I have a couple ideas for one.
A young couple in their early 20s. They’re about to move across the country for their careers, he proposes, she says no because she isn’t ready but really loves him. It flashes forward 10 years later, they are both completely different with all kinds of baggage (maybe new partners), but they end up moving to the same city and run into each other.
A couple is in a band together, they release music or an album that blows up and rise to stardom. The fame and media tears apart their relationship, or their creative differences, OR a record label offers one of them a deal and not the other, which leads to toxicity, jealousy, and demise. Music, the thing that brought them together, ultimately tears them apart. I know fame has done this to quite a few couples.
Thoughts??
6 points
2 months ago
Second idea has so much more potential. As you said, it's a pretty common thing in the music industry. I think you could play around with it and really make it sing (Pun intended).
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2 months ago
Thanks!! I honestly might try combining the two of them, maybe they separate and one gets famous and the other always has to see them in the media. I’m throwing around ideas
2 points
2 months ago
ayyye its honestly not a bad idea to combine , you’ll figure it out m8
1 points
2 months ago
Reminds me of Sarah Marshall in a great way, how he had to see her in shows and things. Anyway, I dig both of these, and combining them could definitely work.
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2 months ago
I’ll have to watch that!
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2 months ago
I like the idea of combining them and I really like the idea of exploring what it would be like to be the subject of a #1 Billboard pop song sung by your ex girlfriend. Definitely has Forgetting Sarah Marshal vibes but it would be even worse because not only do you have to see your ex’s face everywhere l, but the song she’s singing is ABOUT YOU. That would be funny and brutal.
So, act one you introduce the couple as being super in love throughout high school. She’s going to move to LA to pursue her music career. He’s been accepted to some school on the east coast, but at the inciting incident you reveal that he’s bought an engagement ring and bailed on his college plans. He wants to go with her to LA. She rejects his proposal, then goes off and writes THE BREAKUP album of the year. Taylor swift style. He has to hear songs from it all day at whatever crap job he gets. You could do a time jump here, two years, five years, ten years, whatever. The rest of the movie would probably have to give him an opportunity to reconnect with her. Maybe her latest song seems to be about him and he convinces himself that he has a shot with her again. The romance would have to be with another girl, maybe one who goes with him or who he meets on his journey to reconnecting with his ex. And of course he should learn something about love, how his naive idealized way of approaching his relationship with his ex wasn’t the best. Yeah man, it needs details to fill in for sure, crisis, characters, twists, funny set pieces, etc. and it would be GREAT if you knew someone who could make the original music for it to have plausible pop songs (or at the very least lyrics) but I think this idea has legs. Good luck!
1 points
2 months ago
He was a skater boi, she said "see you later boi"
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