ST: The Movie!

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My book is about 1/2 finished so time to put that down (possibly forever) and start a new project ending in the same result.

Please feel free to help write any scenes and/ or finance the entire endeavor.

The Protagonist is me. I am the forgotten warrior on a new journey.

The Antagonist is an American named Jerome. He tries to take my land from me. He will stop at nothing including murder via hitman/ men.

The conflict is my struggle to first carve a farm out of the jungle, to turn a profit, and protect my life and labor from the evil Jerome.

I suspect the ‘conflict’ needs some work. As this is based on a true story the Protag & Antag are pretty well set in stone. Although the Antagon could remain a mystery. I never knew for sure who the force/s were behind the threats so that could be an honest to God angle as well. Hmmm?

Your thoughts?

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  2. For lots of reasons, one of them being, if we know who the antagonist is and develop him as a character, he will take a lot of the focus from you and others. It depends, though, on what kind of movie you want this to be: if you want to go in an Indiana Jones or James Bond type of direction, then knowing who the protagonist is would be a good thing. If you want to be more realistic, and keep things down to earth, then I would leave the identity of the protagonist a mystery.

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  4. Why does Roger Moore (sorry, Sean) come to mind? And, what of the great woman beside/behind the great man? Diana Rigg’s “Emma Peel”, perhaps? Concentrating on types for casting, because writing could get slightly out of hand. (I know my limits, after all -smile-)

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  5. Oh, and leaving the Antag a mystery opens up a Patrick McGoohan “The Prisoner” *is* “Number One” potential scenario; that could lead to audience dissatisfaction, though.

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  10. “Which ‘scenes’ should definitely be in the movie? Which bits should not see the light of day?”

    It depends on whether you wanna go totes porcus Rambo? Totes porcus Bond? Do you want your audience “shaken, not stirred” or vice versa? I vote for some rompin’ with the sidekick – and/or the ladies – stompin’ the bad guys, and whuppin’ the wildlife – if there *have* to be snakes.

    Scenes that shouldn’t see the light of day: Anything involving the leading man being violently ill. (I recall the beginning of a certain serialized book [Virga Joy, actually] – and the climax – at which I gasped aloud, scaring my sweet niece out of her wits.) If you must include such things, for realism’s sake, however, don’t mind me, I’ll be brave.

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      1. Rambo was suggested in case you wanted to broaden your audience a tad; my first choice is Bond-like, too; he can kick brass – and always leaves the ladies wanting more: Poor “Moneypenny”! (You know who my favorite Bond is, right?)

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  12. “Yes ma’am, it is the Scot.”

    ‘Fraid not, sir. I didn’t start watching the films with the family until Mr. Moore took the reins. My folks even used “For Your Eyes Only” and “Octopussy” as dinner-and-a-movie nights — without us. (Imagine that.) So, “The Saintly Mr. Bond” ’twas, and is…

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    1. “I regret to inform you that you are wrong.”

      I shall persist in my non-conformism in this instance, without regret. (I enjoy Sir Roger’s tongue-in-cheekiness about the whole thing; and, I find him quite irresistibly delectable, so there is that.)

      I will say, though, that the Scot illustrated my reading of my Dad’s collection of the early novels.

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