mistymacallister: I’ve been working on screenplays lately, entered my first in film contests… and la
mistymacallister: I’ve been working on screenplays lately, entered my first in film contests… and last month I found out that my screenplay made it in the quarter finals of the BLUE CAT Contest. YAY, ME! A little success but a big deal for me. Didn’t advance, oh, well… but I entered contests mostly because I wanted to see what people in the industry thought about my movie idea, and I got lots of reviews that have been so helpful, constructive… I learned so much! I even went back and tweaked/changed things if I thought it was a good idea. Great experience all in all. ••• Some reviews I agreed with, some I didn’t, I mean, that’s how it works. Here are some opinions I didn’t necessarily agree with - scroll to see some of them - I took out the names of my characters, title, etc. ••• Someone said my script’s reminiscent of ‘The Purge’ meets ‘Black Mirror’, and I’m flattered - love 'Black Mirror’!!! - but no. My script is 'The Purge’ meets 'John Wick’. So in the end, they complained that I’ve written another run-of-the mill action film. Hell, yeah, that’s what I wanted to write, another run-of-the-mill revenge flick but with a female lead, not 'Black Mirror’, which would have been different. ••• Another criticism: that my female lead doesn’t show enough emotion, like when her boyfriend gets killed. Well, maybe, the boyfriend is more of a device - you see it all the time in movies, the wife is killed, doesn’t matter… But here’s how my female lead reacts to his murder: right then and there she becomes a fierce beast, like Nausicaa of the Valley of the Wind, and kills his killers in the most brutal way, really violent stuff, so I think she’s feeling a lot. ••• Or that there’s too much focus on the antagonist and not enough on the protagonist. It’s true, let’s face it, bad guys are fun to write. My ‘bad guy’ talks a lot, much fluff, no substance. The protagonist speaks through actions - she’s a lot of substance - and she has the last line in the movie, like all heroes should. I mean let’s think of the iconic action movie hero, Clint Eastwood in those spaghetti westerns, he hardly ever speaks, there’s just a lot of shots of his blue gaze, and that’s enough to get the point.https://www.instagram.com/p/COtH-2eHfG4/?igshid=17282tqw398xy -- source link