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Cacutshaw
Posted: June 3rd, 2021, 1:48pm Report to Moderator
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Being a coward is one of the worst traits one can have in a movie. We are willing to follow a serial killer, but a coward appalls us.
A nice story about a coward who seeks redemption not through violence ala Coward of the County but through courage.
Well done!
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As I've mentioned on some other scripts, the audience can't see the sluglines. Telling WW2 from the present day is easy, but "earlier in the same day" requires a SUPER or some other on-screen hint. Maybe make Thomas's injuries obvious in the aftermath scenes, and obviously absent in the temporally-prior scenes.

Confusing switch from PASSENGER to INJURED SOLDIER. May be best to give him a generic name like CORPORAL.

I liked this use of the nonlinear storytelling.

Good job!


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That was pretty cool. Think about it, a story like that can only be told in a non-linear structure. Well done.
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Pretty clever. Thomas is reminiscent of Johnny in SK's The Dead Zone, for me at least. Not a bad thing.

As with a few of these the atmosphere is very cleverly laid out to evoke dread.
Nice when one line of description jumps out and you clearly visualise :

Blood stains dot the Chaplain’s flak jacket.

Not just that line...
This was beautifully written to evoke the place and the action.
Whew! Made an impression for sure.

Some of it's confusing. Did he get to change the course of events, save Vince's life after all? Or are they alternate timelines?

Doesn't matter. It got me, regardless.
As Christopher implied, (Heroes are a dime a dozen) a coward's story is very real and interesting, especially if the character can be redeemed.

V.Nice work.


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Reincarnation - a good way to work in a non-linear structure.

Might need something in that opening scene to better highlight the WW2 setting and better distinguish it from the present day scenes.

Not a big fan of the title.  Feels a bit like a placeholder.

The visions starting at the age of six threw me off.  At first I thought it was WW2 Thomas talking about the visions - not present day. Maybe a problem on the page rather than the screen but something that you might able to work in a little more clarity on.

Nicely done.  Simple and effective and well contained within the page count.  Almost wonder if the final foxhole scene where we discover the truth about Thomas leaving Vince to die would be better re-worked as the final scene? If you want that darker tone…

Not much to say. I enjoyed the read.  Good work.


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