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A documentary about the walrus.

sci-fi dystopia, or black-and-white expimental piece

FUCK YEA

A black and white sci-fi mockumentary about walruses in the future.

A BLACK AND WHITE EXPERIMENTAL SCI-FI DYSTOPIA WITH WALRUS'...

LOTS OF WALRUS'

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>>543497
>>543499
combinemind

>>543497
>>543499

blackandwhitescifiwalrusmind

>>543489
I've done a sci-fi dystopia before...they're pretty fun. What do you suggest specifically? Also, no walruses.

>>543502
>>543503

mindmind

>>543504

Why not? Did you know they are nature's most majestic animal?

>>543507
Oh of course, but I've already written 4 screenplays on walruses and I'm ready to move on.

>>543515
I don't like a writer who can't commit to the Walrus Challenge, your previous walruswriting experience will only stand you in better stead.

>>543515
Do a movie that chronicles the war between a tribe of walruses and a tribe of elephant seals.

>>543499
sheeet, I love this thread.

OP, I don't farm out cool ideas to just anybody. But this thread is win, take a rough outline for a cool short story that can be adapted into a screenplay

"Setting: cyberpunk. Theme:family drama/surreal story

lower class family tries to keep-it-together and live the american dream while the world grows increasingly orwellian. fungus infections begin to take over the kitchen while father retreats into virtual reality and mother becomes compulsive lier. peaks when Son dies of a drug overdose and comes back from the dead to inhabit the mushroom jungle in the kitchen. Sister ventures inside to discover a gigantic eye and that demons have posessed her brother. Kills brother with a kitchen knife and is then accused of homicide while father and mother begin to worship th jungle. In a penitenturary, sister notices that the fungus has followed her, and struggles through a newly-opened hole in the floor to reach her family. Mother and father have danced themselves to death while high on drugs, and the fungus is no longer malevolent. realizing she just doesn't care any more, sister commits suicide."

>>543529
ELEPHANT SEALS?!

Write about a screenwriter who finds his ideas online. He feels like shit for not being able to come up with anything good and having to source his stuff online.

M Night Shamlyamanan twist: He actually has split personality disorder and the other personalities are the ones posting online, giving him the ideas.

>>543550
Just so you know, I don't actually think I'm going to get ideas from 4chan. I already know what I will be writing about, but I needed to be entertained. Besides, "Adaptation" is already a movie about a man failing to write a screenplay.

>>543567

Yeah, and it rocks. So do most films about screenwriting and filmmaking now that I think of it (8 1/2, etc.), so just do something in the same vein and it is bound to be awesome.

>>543567
what will you be writing about?

>>543582
So I'm writing a film about a woman's unlikely rise to power in a Yakuza clan. Her husband is killed (he's the boss of the family) and she is forced to take over. Obviously her rise to power isn't received well due to Japanese customs. That's the main premise.

>>543610
sounds dumb

>>543610

Sounds like a Tarantino rip-off.

>>543610
Good luck with that

I'm still commissioning these;
>>543529
>>543499

>>543613
If you're talking about the part in Kill Bill, other than the fact that she is indeed a woman yakuza, they're not remotely in the same vain of work.
>>543614
Thank you.

What are the rest of your class writing about?
Whats a creative writing class like I might be tempted. Are they well subscribed?

>>543610
are you sure you mean Japanese customs, and not just the fact that the entire world is fucking misogynistic and bites its thumb whenever it sees a woman in a position of authority?

Kind of sick of this lolol AZn so patriarchal bullshit.

>>543632
But they are so patriarchal.

Ask Phillip Taylor, OP.

Of course I can always go the route of retarded comedy (Bill and Ted style) where 2 guys are magically sucked into the internet and must find their way out. If you guys help me with the narrative arc, I will actually write that screenplay and include walruses.

I've always been of the opinion that Asian filmmaking is best left to Asians.

>>543644
Good luck with all the Burger King applications next year OP

>>543626
Any thoughts OP?

>>543650
Don't worry dawg, I'm not actually going to be a screenwriter for a living. I'm actually studying business, but me and a few buddies thought screenwriting would be fun. And it is.

>>543669
yea..well... good for you... bitch!

>>543653

>>543653
Mm, I know one guy is doing a film noir detective film (overused by amateurs I think), I know some girl doing a classic romantic comedy. There's not much original stuff going on. But there is this one guy who's writing this really interesting film that all takes place on a train. It's really meta and hard to describe, but very interesting.

>>543686
Screenwriting a good uni experience then?? Its a major option for me atm after a couple of failed year outs.

>>543694
Yeah, I'd definitely give it a shot. I'm having a lot of fun. And if your course doesn't have Robert McKee's book "Story" as a required text, you should go pick that up. It's fascinating and really useful.

>>543742
Cheers