1/14/2024 0 Comments Cool reader blurryAmy, Liam, Lydia, and Bobby just sit around and complain about their lives.īased on this director, here’s what I know. Lester in American Beauty was ACTIVELY pursuing his dream of living life on his terms. It covered the same themes as Blur but it did so in a way that was much more active and entertaining. A guy was unhappy with his life and so he made a drastic change to stop doing what the world told him to do and, instead, do whatever he wanted. At least with a plot, we’d have something to look forward to.Īmerican Beauty is a movie that played with unhappiness. Who wants to watch that? Especially when you don’t have a plot to fall back on. Why wouldn’t we be? THEY DON’T DO ANYTHING AND THEY’RE ALL MISERABLE. Even if that’s the point you’re trying to make – that life is unfulfilling – there’s a high probability we’re going to be bored by your characters. Be wary of writing a story where characters have miserable lives and don’t do anything interesting. It’s disappointing because this is the second script in two days that didn’t exploit its premise. In a movie, things need to escalate and evolve, not stay the same. They should get either more intense or more dangerous. If you’re crafting a movie that’s all about sexual VR experiences, then each time you go in, the experiences should escalate. But somehow even that storyline is stillborn. Liam is technically being active by using it. There isn’t a single active character or plot event pushing anything forward. Then watching characters use the Tryst headset. Will Tryst VR destroy these two couples? Or is it actually solving their relationship issues?Īs much as I wanted this script to work it just doesn’t.įor starters, there’s no plot – nothing moving anything forward here. And the next thing you know, he’s rage-banging Liam, although neither of them are aware of it. ![]() But not guilty enough to stop! Meanwhile, Bobby secretly discovers Lydia’s Tryst VR and hops on it to see who she’s virtually banging. Liam obviously feels guilty about the whole thing. Liam begins to re-request this girl, named Eve in the program, and they engage in a myriad of sexual acts. He meets another virtual person in the program and she rocks his world. The experience is particularly intense for Liam, who’s had a limited sex life. The two each secretly buy a Tryst, keeping it from their significant others. Independently, Liam and Lydia learn about this thing called Tryst VR where you can participate in realistic VR sex. And the group is close enough that Bobby and Amy had a brief fling before Liam and Amy got together.īobby has now brought his latest girlfriend, Lydia – who you could buy a diamond ring for while walking a puppy as the two of you were experiencing Disney World for the first time and she would still find a way to be bored – to spend some couples time together. Liam and Amy, both on the verge of 30, are married and have known each other since college. And there’s hot but detached from life Lydia. There’s ladies-man who’s never had a job in his life Bobby. There’s TV editor and self-esteem poor Liam. You have to write about people in bad situations but you have to present them in a good enough way that we like them. That’s another tricky thing with writing. Why? Because I don’t like the characters. These are people with problems which SHOULD MEAN that I want to see their problems get resolved. You watched that movie and just felt… depressed.Ī little of the same thing is happening with Blur. Did anybody see that Mike Nichols movie, Closer? It didn’t do very well for that specific reason. However, if you aren’t careful with the way you present the problems with your characters, you risk things feeling depressing or sad. ![]() If the marriage is fine, there’s no reason for us to stick around. That means when you write about a marriage, it typically has to be a marriage in disarray so that we want to keep reading to see the problems resolved. This is a necessity because if everything is okay, it wouldn’t be interesting. You can watch his short film, Controller, here.īecause whenever you write a story, you’re writing about problems. ![]() I don’t know anything about the writer other than he made the Hit List in 2018 with this script. One of the best unknown directors out there is making his directorial debut with this film. Secrets and lies come to the surface, jeopardizing both relationships in the process.Ībout: I’m SUPER PUMPED about this script. Premise: (from Hit List) When new technology allows people to have realistic sex in virtual reality, a man begins to suspect that the avatar he’s been digitally hooking up with behind his girlfriend’s back might belong to his best friend’s girlfriend. What? A new feature on Scriptshadow? A full 10 years after the site started? How does that even happen?
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