Would this be a good movie idea?
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Archived from the IMDb Discussion Forums — Shop Talk Directors
-- wot -- — 1 year ago(December 19, 2024 09:19 PM)
If it is not a movie or book already.
A child born with advantages goes on to become a judge, he is one of them judges who does not care at all about outside criteria, the type of judge who will throw the book at someone for stealing baby food to feed a starving kid, even if it is a first and only offence, just because he can. A reddit mod type judge.
One day he jails a teenager for a crime, the crime it's self is victimless but because the judge CAN give him 5 years, he does, even though most other judges would not go that hard on him.
The teen ( who only JUST qualifies for adult prison by age but is still a skinny little teen surrounded by hardened criminals ) has a terrible time in prison for those years and ends up getting killed a few weeks before his release.
That's the set up.
The rest of the film could be about the family and friends of this teen, they abduct the judge, give him one of the kangaroo court style trials where they blame him for the death of their kid, make him beg for his freedom even tho they all knew he was not going to win.
Then they imprison him for years, they feed him but it is just basic ****ty food like in jail, and they often bully him, he is often forced to shower with his bullies ( lol )
they basically recreate prison life for him, only it is much more ****tier because they are just a bunch of people making do.
And while watching you will start to realise that the teenager never made it out of prison but came so close, so will the judge make it out?
DUN DUN DUUUUUUN.
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The Ghost of Aaron Spelling — 1 year ago(December 19, 2024 09:35 PM)
Can you write a logline? Preferably 30 words or less, but you might hit 50 if your story is complex. Once you can do that, you've got something that will help steer your writing and keep it on course.
Make sure you include your protagonist, any other key characters, the inciting incident, the protagonist's goal, the core conflict preventing them achieving their goal, and what's at stake.
I don't really see all of that in the above.
Why did you feel the need to tell us a child is born, but then immediately leap to their career as a judge? Is there something of importance that happened when they were a child? -
-- wot -- — 1 year ago(December 19, 2024 09:39 PM)
Why did you feel the need to tell us a child is born, but then immediately leap to their career as a judge? Is there something of importance that happened when they were a child?
No Aaron, it is social com on how people born with no experience of the common folk often get raised to positions where they judge over them. A kid born into a wealthy family will never know what it is like to be desperate enough to steal, yet he is who is judging them for it years later. That kinds thing. I want my movie to be woke and preachy and gay. -
-- wot -- — 1 year ago(December 19, 2024 10:36 PM)
The judge will be white and old and the teen and his family will be black, so black they are almost blue at certain times of the day. The ultimate message of the movie will be that white people are the worst and minorities should now take over.
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ZolotoyRetriever — 1 year ago(December 20, 2024 07:19 AM)
the crime is victimless but because the judge CAN give him 5 years, he does, even though most other judges would not go that hard on him.
Possible plot hole: irl, if those were the prevailing conditions behind his sentencing, seems to me the kid could easily find a lawyer to appeal the sentence. He might spend some time in the klink, and yeah, it'd probably not be pleasant, but a convicted person does have the right to appeal a sentence even after they've gone to prison. If, as you say, it was a victimless crime, and most other judges wouldn't have gone that hard on him, this sounds like it'd be an easy one to get reduced on appeal to a higher court. IOW the bit about him having to endure the whole 5 years in prison just doesn't seem plausible, the way the Justice system works nowadays.
Schrodinger's Cat walks into a bar, and doesn't. 