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Oh, man, this is going to come about 3 weeks too soon! I've missed a few and I'm really pumped to jump back in. But, I've got to clean up a new script for the latest Imagine Impact challenge. Can I possibly do both?!
Considers stall tactics...
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I've been posted missing the past few months, work has been kicking my arse around one way and another but I'm on holiday now so it's me time for the next couple of weeks. Glad to be doing something that totally is not work related. Looking forward to writing again and to the February challenge. Hope everyone is staying safe in this crazy world.
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I've been posted missing the past few months, work has been kicking my arse around one way and another but I'm on holiday now so it's me time for the next couple of weeks. Glad to be doing something that totally is not work related. Looking forward to writing again and to the February challenge. Hope everyone is staying safe in this crazy world.
Good to see you, mate!
Speaking of crazy, this challenge is sure to produce some.
More clues will follow in good time... I just have to make sure I'm not too obvious with them.
Libby's trying to lure us in so she can set the hook and reel us in and kill us. Sounds like something Libby would do.
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"A femme fatale French: [fam fatal], literally "lethal woman"), sometimes called a maneater[1] or vamp, is a stock character of a mysterious, beautiful, and seductive woman whose charms ensnare her lovers, often leading them into compromising, deadly traps. She is an archetype of literature and art. Her ability to enchant, entice and hypnotize her victim with a spell was in the earliest stories seen as verging on supernatural; hence, the femme fatale today is still often described as having a power akin to an enchantress, seductress, witch, having power over men. "
Just a curious analysis of all the info. Unless I’m way off, lol.
Could be a lure, or it could be a hook. Libby's trying to lure us in so she can set the hook and reel us in and kill us. Sounds like something Libby would do.
Yes, write five pages with the setting a glossy magazine publishing house with a tyrant at the helm.
Lol, might need 6 pages for that. Actually, now I’m thinking more along the lines of “a Suave Gumshoe Detective falls for an animated Femme Fatale” type thing.
Then (shameless plug) Johnny Nutso and I did a similar one for an OWC back in the day, called ‘Bangkok, U.S.A.’… for this OWC, I’ll do a ‘part deux’, cause Johnny is inconspicuously missing from the board.
Unless there’s no Gumshoe Detective, or Femme Fatale… then I’m still lost.
The allure of a snow globe. Or it could be the city written on the snow globe -- Chicago. Or, perhaps a reference to a type of blues named after the windy city.
Hmm… curious you said that. The names Pink and Floyd, as in ‘Pink Floyd’ come from two of Syd Barrett’s favourite Carolina ‘bluesmen’, Pink Anderson and Floyd Council.
Chorus from ‘Wish You Were Here’:
How I wish, how I wish you were here We're just two lost souls swimming in a fishbowl year after year Running over the same old ground, what have we found? The same old fears, wish you were here…
Again, we have ‘fishbowl’ a ‘snow globe’ and a snow globe is also similar to purchasing a postcard, or memorabilia from a place you visit with the intent on giving it to someone as a basic greeting of; “Wish you were here”…
Finally finished the TV pilot i've been working on for 6 months and a re-write of an optioned script. So I may be 'lured' into this - depending on what it is.
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What do a Steve Madden stiletto, a fishing lure, and a Chicago snowglobe all have in common?...
... illusion. (I started that as a joke, but gave no satisfying punchline...my bad)
stilettos give the illusion of longer legs and taller height, the lure an illusion of an injured fish ready for the eating and the snowglobe the illusion of a scene in a snowstorm...
The globe suggests a contained environment, in an alley in a city (one way in, one way out), wherein a person is lured into said alley (the contained place) - as Matthew stated, under the context or illusion of another pretext, by a woman or femme fatale type stalker, in stilettos, and, via clever deductive reasoning, that trapped person must find a way out of the situation. Theme is contained crime drama.
However, the ‘red stiletto’ or simply ‘one red shoe’ has carried a deep archetypal meaning throughout the ages and is featured as the underlying or hidden (archetypal) message in many movies/stories, but I’m not sure what it could mean here, if any.
That’s what I got from the clues, unless the next clue throws a wrench into the mechanics of that analysis… if there’s another clue?
Easy. Three candles = Three Wicks = John Wick 3 + One red shoe = John Wick 4: John goes in drag to sneak into the Corporation office on a snowy Chicago night because, dammit, they killed his dog!
so, 66.5 is .5 away from 666. The other clue has "DEVIL" in it. So we're talking about something related to Devil. And since you have a fish with hooks there, it's a Devil hooking up with someone and having a baby!
Depends, Kham... It might be in the mix of what you write, but strictly speaking, no. The Devil Wears Prada was not a clue of mine (only the red stiletto) - that was Rick's deviation.
The podiatrist who was accidentally put in charge of design of a high end shoe line and got a frosty reception at the fashion show is given 66.5 days to correct the design from a Birkenstock look-a-like to a Louboutin copycat.
Nice quote, Rick. Off base with the measurement though.
Lol, the comic writer P.G. Wodehouse’s original quote is:
“She looked as if she had been poured into her clothes and had forgotten to say "when". ”
The modified version I honestly can’t remember where I heard it, but it’s always stuck with me. It’s either from Shane Black’s mystery/noir ‘Kiss Kiss Bang Bang’, or from a gumshoe character called ‘Chick Hazard’ that Phil Hartman used to do on SNL back in the 80’s.
And yes… that ‘66.5’ clue has totally thrown a wrench into the machine… for me that is, others might already know what’s in store, but they’re "Mum's the word". Is this OWC reveal for this Friday? Typically it's a Friday... hopefully.
North (66.5) as Geezis and Stevie pointed out got me musing here a bit.
Saul Bass (lure), grandfather of motion graphics did some really cool title sequences back in the day for many film noir movies, and spawned an entire generation of copycat players, cause, well… it’s just cool looking. Here’s two of my favs:
Oh, Saul Bass also did the intro sequence for Hitchcock’s spy thriller ‘North by Northwest’ … just saying.
Close? Non… Oui? Think we’re out of clues, I’ll just have to wait n’ see
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