Sunday Picture Post 13 / Flaws
Image sources: Off Grid Living and Otherpower.
For The Sunday Picture Post, we are going to flip upside-down the saying: “A picture is worth a thousand words.” Thousands of words are great if you are writing a novel, but if you are writing a screenplay, you need to do the opposite and be as concise as possible.
Each Sunday I will post a picture. For your screenwriting practice in brevity, in the comments section, please post one or all of the following:
- 1 word describing the theme, mood, or scene
- 1 sentence to describe the scene
- A pitch to sell the entire movie
The more colorful and creative you are, the better! Use any genre.
A good screenwriter is laconic, using a few words to say a lot.
SCREENWRITING TIP OF THE DAY: ADD FLAWS
Add flaws to your hero.
Flaws make the hero believable and relatable. Your hero can and should make mistakes and blunders.
All superheros have weaknesses and failures.
I love the old James Bond movies starring Sean Connery, because even though he was super sexy, slick, and smart, he would trip on the sidewalk or get smacked by a lady, and that added believability and comedy.
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Baba Yaga’s Hut, crouched down to hide the chicken feet.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Baba_Yaga
This looks like a set for a remake of Heidi.
I’ve gotten as far as title suggestions:
Yert, the Musical.
or
Hut!
You all are funny!
Muzz, that is a great idea, I will add “title” as an option from now on!
Here we go:
Yert, the Musical. (a satire)
word: Bucolic?
sentence: The hills are alive, but darkness lurks.
pitch: It’s The Sound of Music, except with talking animals and invasive real estate developers instead of nuns and World War II.
Jaden, if you get any takers on this one, let’s collaborate!
Muzz — Laughing here! You got a deal on that.
How about a campy horror film parody of the Sound of Music… real estate developers with chain saws; Eddy Murphy plays every single character, animal and human, white and yellow and red, digital and live action. Any producers want to buy that one? Let us know. *laughing*
Notice the solar panels?
Mood: Panic
Scene: Gathering the herd to overthrow the mere humans.
An Inconvenient Truth II: Symphony no. Canine
When mother earth has had her landfill of overpopulation and global warming she will let the dogs out and tonight, they dine in isolated Nebraska. In 2012 dogs have developed such powerful hearing that they now pick up beams of control from solar panels operated by the willpower of Al Gore.
Living in a poorly constructed cabin, as they have no opposable thumbs which disables proper hammering techniques, Arfie and Pepe must learn to live amongst humans and their continual ravaging of the planet. The humans raise phenomenal numbers of felines, led by one uberkitty, that threatens to overtake the canine population. Will they survive or will neutered be the entire breed?
Starring the voice of:
Al Gore as The Voice
Sean Penn as Arfie the pitbull
Gael Garcia Bernal as Pepe the chihuahua
Gina Gershon as Kitty the persian cat
Shaner, OMG, holy mackeroly!! Too funny. The voices really take your pitch to a whole new level. Laughing here. Nice cast choices. Great visuals, I see the dogs trying to hammer with no thumbs. And the music composition?!
Musical composition?
I’d have to go with Johnny Greenwood from Radiohead. Something eerie along the lines of what he did for There Will Be Blood. Like how that loud obnoxious siren sorta sound pierced your eardrums for the five minutes that the derryck was ablaze. Then suddenly stopping when the fire was put out. Gives that kind of paranoid intensity you would expect if a dog were to battle a human and the human were to contract rabies.
Shane — Yeah, Blood, that was a crazy one. I was talking about your Canine Symphony though, that was funny.