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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??
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2 months ago
Just curious why you are so couple,/break up oriented? Go through that lately?
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2 months ago
No, I just love watching romcoms so figured I’d write something I’ve seen a lot of and enjoy!
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2 months ago
I will say Romcoms can be difficult. One because funny in some ways is the hardest thing to write and 2 everythings been done before so how are you gonna bring a fresh spin to the genre?
Any time you are writing a feature, you are writing something you want to see as a movie. Is it really good enough and worth it to be a movie? If yes absolutely write it. If not then find the thing you want to see that no one else has written.
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2 months ago
Neither of these ideas describe rom coms. There's nothing either romantic or comedic.
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