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Articles: screenwriting blues |
Posted by
dubclerk on Monday, October 15, 2001 - 04:02 AM PST
Hello All, I'm new to your world but I thought this would be the best place for advice on this little screenplay I'm attempting.
Basically, I'm wanting to capture some enriching Goth culture in the movie for the female lead. I haven't been to impressed with what Hollywood has done so far. So now it's my (and your) turn.
In a nutshell - Boy (slight agoraphobic) works in cemetery wants to fall in love with new girl on the scene. Her sister has just died and she wants to lead the life her sister was pursuing - enveloped in Goth culture. She's not to sure how and makes some big mistakes along the way.
I'm planning plenty of club scenes and a few graveyard romps.
My wife has been a Goth-Girl ever since high school but suggested I check out what might be recently happening in the Goth world.I need modern Goth do's and don't's but want some grounding culture history too.
Any advice will be appreciated and, who knows, maybe we can all make a movie together.
Between my wife and me we have a couple low budget films already done so this isn't just a passing fancy.
Thanks for your comments - Rick Steele - dubclerk
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Re: screenwriting blues
by callei (plyn@plynlymon.com)
on Oct 15, 2001 - 11:23 AM
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black condom jokes are new to me, tho probly old by now. I think it depends on what city your are basing it in actually. there are major regional diffferences. I saw a "pictures of goth" book that had pix all lumped together and you felt that lack of understanding when you looked thru it.
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Re: screenwriting blues
by Devin (devin-at-vibechild-dot-com)
on Oct 15, 2001 - 01:31 PM
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I think to get a realistic "Goth Scene" in a movie, you'd have to make it all surrealistic. A bunch of punks in eyeliner's not gonna cut it - except maybe for your character's "mistake scenes". If I were looking for stylistic stuff for those kind of scenes, I'd be looking at the transformation scene from interview with the vampire, some of the imagination scenes from heavenly creatures, and maybe some of the background ambiance from natural born killers (especially for the club scenes). It seems like what you're going for is for the girl to 'not get it' so having the background all surreal and her not seeing it would be good. And then she gets it - so make the foreground all magical and the background maybe a mall or something... Maybe watch some david lynch movies for a refresher. The idea is that weird beautiful stuff is everyday life, and normal suburban life is just sick and wrong...
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