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Or, now how about this, we have "The Silverback Complex."
That's the one where you go back to the year 1937, write a one pager (about gorillas, no less) on an old Smith-Corona typewriter. Then, after that, you have a sudden realization that it really doesn't matter what year you're in because nobody knew what the hell it was about in the first place.
Or, now how about this, we have "The Silverback Complex."
That's the one where you go back to the year 1937, write a one pager (about gorillas, no less) on an old Smith-Corona typewriter. Then, after that, you have a sudden realization that it really doesn't matter what year you're in because nobody knew what the hell it was about in the first place.
Ha.
I deleted my pitch for The Clark Complex because it was so good I'm gonna write it myself and turn it into a feature.
Of course I'll change names to protect the innocent.
One question: is it necessary to include the time travel method (show it, describe it), or can it just be a given? One minute the protagonist is one time frame and then...
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...another time frame.
The method could be part of the mystery of the story.
I don't think it is wise to go into too much detail on how it is actually done. That was exactly what stopped me finishing my time travel story 20 years ago. Travelling to the past is illogical. Cause and effect... you cannot break that rule.
It's still fucking with me now. If it was the future I could work with that, by travelling close to light speed. They do believe that if you travelled faster than light then travelling backwards may be theoretically possible. However we still run into the cause and effect rule.
Anyway, I'm still thinking about it but I'm not sure I will be able to think of anything worthwhile. Still got a few days to think, I suppose.
With the help of a wacky scientist, a young teen travels back to 1955 in a Delorean turned time-machine. Once there, he meets his parents, still teenagers, but his presence throws things out-of-whack and he must ensure they fall in love and get married or else he'll never come to exist.
Maybe the Delorean can be a Volkswagon Beetle? what do you ya think peeps? I was also thinking about using a "Flux Capacitor" as the core component to make time travel possible
With the help of a wacky scientist, a young teen travels back to 1955 in a Delorean turned time-machine. Once there, he meets his parents, still teenagers, but his presence throws things out-of-whack and he must ensure they fall in love and get married or else he'll never come to exist.
Maybe the Delorean can be a Volkswagon Beetle? what do you ya think peeps? I was also thinking about using a "Flux Capacitor" as the core component to make time travel possible
It's just an idea at the moment
Mark
Actually, I *did* have one idea: an avid movie-goer is disheartened, because no SF films have measured up to his standards since the 80s. He goes back in time to stop his younger self from seeing Back to the Future, to save himself future comparative heartbreak... While there, his interaction with two budding teen writers inadvertently inspires Looper and Twelve Monkeys...
Actually, I *did* have one idea: an avid movie-goer is disheartened, because no SF films have measured up to his standards since the 80s. He goes back in time to stop his younger self from seeing Back to the Future, to save himself future comparative heartbreak... While there, his interaction with two budding teen writers inadvertently inspires Looper and Twelve Monkeys...
"Back to the Future" That's a great name... think i'll use that one
One question: is it necessary to include the time travel method (show it, describe it), or can it just be a given? One minute the protagonist is one time frame and then...
CUT TO:
...another time frame.
The method could be part of the mystery of the story.
Lemme know...
I'd say that situationally-speaking, it should be (at the bare minimum) hinted at how they traveled back in time. If there's no description, it almost feels like cheating by the writer. However, that's for the reader to decide. As long as a person travels to a point in the past and we see the results and how they affect the present, you don't have to show how they did it.
Quoted from NickSedario
Is there a link?
Last time I checked the above does not work.
It probably isn't. I took Don's instructions on the last OWC and Mad Libbed them into fitting the rules on that one, so that link may be old. Hopefully Don will update us with a new one, but if he doesn't, just enter the script in the way you normally would, but in the Comments section, indicate that it is part of the January 2014 OWC, so he will know.