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In His House - QC (currently 2576 views) |
Don |
Posted: August 20th, 2017, 11:16pm |
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LocationVirginia Posts16426 Posts Per Day 1.93 |
In His House by Cary GiBax - Short, Drama - After a Priest discovers gaming dice, an Altar Boy tries to show him and his fellow priests that role-playing isn't evil. 3 pages - pdf, format
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Cooper |
Posted: August 21st, 2017, 2:10am |
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Personally I would have preferred if you kept the titles in the character lines. Also Bob's dialogue just didn't ring true for me. Is this supposed to be a comedy? |
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Warren |
Posted: August 21st, 2017, 4:29am |
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Of The Ancients A man who has taught his mind to misbehave
LocationSydney, Australia Posts3897 Posts Per Day 1.35 |
Hi,
I think I know what you were going for, I think.
The dialogue is off. Grown men wouldn't talk like this.
Not for me, sorry |
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MarkRenshaw |
Posted: August 21st, 2017, 5:36am |
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LocationUK Posts2335 Posts Per Day 0.58 |
Awkward dialogue, reads more like a scene than a story. Doesn't really work for me but you met all the criteria.
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PrussianMosby |
Posted: August 21st, 2017, 6:29am |
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Posts1399 Posts Per Day 0.36 |
I found this really good up until the ending. Not everybody knows what d and d is I believe, had to google it myself. Also there's a final punch missing.
Still, this is a very good concept.
@ Needs a better title fitting the role-game concept... very important here |
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khamanna |
Posted: August 21st, 2017, 7:56am |
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Another one that went over my head and I'm starting to think it's me and something is wrong with my understanding. It was hard to read their dialog - I wish you kept the character lines as FATHER ZACK FATHER STAN. And they are playing with the kids? Also, all four characters sound the same to me.
I don't understand the dice game, not just here, in every other entry. I think that's why I don't get them. |
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Dreamscale |
Posted: August 21st, 2017, 1:45pm |
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OK, I know who wrote this and I'm going to try and be nice.
Dialogue is very poor and unrealistic.
There is zero story and plot here.
Characters change names throughout - stick with 1 and never stray from it.
Not for me.
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DustinBowcot |
Posted: August 21st, 2017, 1:51pm |
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An extremely crappy infomercial for dungeons and dragons. Should we play this weekly? No effing chance! |
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MarkItZero |
Posted: August 21st, 2017, 2:23pm |
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An interesting idea but the execution isn't there. The dialogue needs a lot of work as has been mentioned. I think you really need more space for this story. Have this curmudgeon Father Stan slowly get into the game and start to love it. His D&D character can end up being an extension of himself, who he really wants to be, something like that. Do you watch Community? There's a great D&D episode. |
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JEStaats |
Posted: August 21st, 2017, 2:45pm |
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Old Timer No sh*t, there I was....
LocationTucson, AZ Posts1735 Posts Per Day 0.62 |
We found Stan!
Although I've never played D&D, I understood what was going on here. It just didn't work for me. The ending was just so "Gee Whiz". |
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Gary in Houston |
Posted: August 21st, 2017, 3:15pm |
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LocationTexas Posts1306 Posts Per Day 0.31 |
yeah, not exactly in my wheelhouse. I know about D&D and how it's played, but that doesn't make it interesting to me to hear (or read) a snippet of one of the adventures. I'm guessing the story is about how D&D isn't really bad and that religious leaders could empathize with those who play it by playing it themselves. But to me, that's not much of a story to just see them playing the game. This would need to be part of a much longer story to get into all that. The dialogue needs some work here as well, for sure.
Best of luck, Gary |
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SAC |
Posted: August 21st, 2017, 8:09pm |
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Of The Ancients … but some dreams do
LocationUpstate NY Posts3208 Posts Per Day 0.78 |
Writer,
Didn't really get this, and I'm not quite sure if the game you mention is even a real game. I'm out of the loop. Anyway, this just didn't work for me as a drama or a story, as well as the name ALTAR BOY BOB - seemed funny to me.
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ajr |
Posted: August 22nd, 2017, 6:35am |
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Not a D&D fan myself, but this could have been interesting, if I had understood the revelation the priests had while playing the game. |
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Sandra Elstree. |
Posted: August 22nd, 2017, 11:11am |
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Of The Ancients What if the Hokey Pokey, IS what it's all about?
LocationBowden, Alberta Posts3664 Posts Per Day 0.60 |
I guess you have to know about role playing games to understand this.
The idea of it was good, but it's amiss. Kind of feels blah somehow.
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Grandma Bear |
Posted: August 22nd, 2017, 11:13am |
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LocationThe Swamp... Posts7961 Posts Per Day 1.35 |
I didn't get this one at all. Maybe because I'm old? I had absolutely no clue what went on. At first I thought it would have something to do with current events. Mob, protesters... As far as I could tell, there wasn't much of a story here. I'm really sorry if I'm too dense to appreciate your effort here. |
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DanC |
Posted: August 22nd, 2017, 3:21pm |
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LocationBuffalo NY Posts1131 Posts Per Day 0.34 |
It seemed unfocused to me. The dialog was okay, but, far from great.
No one seemed different. They were generic stock characters.
Perhaps cut a character or 3 and make it simpler.
This didn't work for me.
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stevie |
Posted: August 22nd, 2017, 4:06pm |
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Of The Ancients
LocationDown Under Posts3441 Posts Per Day 0.61 |
Could've been a neat little script but the dialogue was so unrealistic for priests and altar boys - unless you meant to have the genre as comedy rather drama. |
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Stumpzian |
Posted: August 22nd, 2017, 5:35pm |
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LocationNorth Carolina Posts662 Posts Per Day 0.18 |
There's not enough here to get a handle on. It's written as if we're all in the know about this game; you can't assume everyone will understand the reference to "d and d." Frankly, I don't see a story here.
P.S. The name Altar Boy Bob made me laugh, which I'm sure was not the intent.
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Talldave |
Posted: August 23rd, 2017, 3:09pm |
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You had a good theme, comparing dungeons and dragons with life and the chances involved in our daily decisions and their consequences. Interesting shot at it.
The only problem was nothing felt like it matched up. The dialogue had no personality, the characters names all had the same short pop to them making it like there was no difference between them.
Would be a fine commercial for D and D, but it just seemed like this theme didn't belong in this story. Also, an altar boy straight out throwing child molestation in his pastors face over his opinion on D and D might be the most outlandish thing I've read in a while. |
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Michael |
Posted: August 23rd, 2017, 7:27pm |
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LocationVirginia Posts68 Posts Per Day 0.03 |
A script of nothingness. Seems pointless. |
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Pale Yellow |
Posted: August 23rd, 2017, 7:46pm |
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The opening of just throwing so many characters at a reader is a bit of a turn off. I would consider him finding the dice at the beginning maybe where some kids had just left instead of saying everything in dialogue. Show us him suspect of a kid or a church member for gambling. Ok I do like the concept a little of someone convincing the Fathers to try something they think is evil but I'm not sure this delivers. First you have a problem.. the father finds dice...thinks someone in his church is gambling. That part is good. Sets up for conflict. But then you make it too easy. Why not have him judge the one he thinks is gambling and after he does ... we find out that it wasn't a church member at all but one of his other priests. With something this short you need a problem...an obstacle add some conflict... and then a twist ending... that seems to work best even though I did not manage to pull it over either. Good story just needs some work... gotta good concept in there though. Gambling in a church. Irony. Good job. |
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Abe from LA |
Posted: August 27th, 2017, 7:58pm |
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LocationDowney, California Posts556 Posts Per Day 0.08 |
Doesn't work as written. The irony of the situation is missing. If there was a parellel piece of reality that could be related to the game, I could buy into that. A reviewer mentioned dumping one of the Characters. Amen. Cut Drew.
What I thought was okay was Alter Boy Bob laying down the rules of D&D. Taking control over something the priests know nothing about. And then the Fathers getting hooked on the game.
I thought Bob set up the whole thing. His dice, his rules. Well, D&D rules. Still not enough. Smells like a comedy buries in this script. Hmm. |
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