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Round 2 Topic & Discussion Thread. (currently 11477 views)
FrankM
Posted: June 10th, 2019, 10:36am
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eldave1
Posted: June 10th, 2019, 10:42am
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Indeed
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jayrex
Posted: June 10th, 2019, 10:51am
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Cut to three weeks earlier
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I’m just expecting shit jokes.
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khamanna
Posted: June 10th, 2019, 10:55am
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I’m just expecting shit jokes.
Or people playing shitball. You know, like snowball
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FrankM
Posted: June 10th, 2019, 10:59am
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INT. LIVING ROOM - NIGHT Sean scans the first round of entries on a laptop. SEAN My God, all of their minds are in the gutter. A little ANGEL poofs into existence over Sean's left shoulder. A little DEVIL over the right. ANGEL Tsk, tsk. What are you going to do about this? Sean looks up in thought. SEAN If that's where they want to go... push them further! Gutter... to sewer! Devil fist-pumps in triumph.
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ReneC
Posted: June 10th, 2019, 11:11am
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There was so much whining about comedy in the last round I also wonder if anyone will dare say a script doesn't meet the genre. Comedy is specific. It's about tone, tropes, surprise, setups and payoffs, callbacks, repetition, and humour, be it jokes or physical. Jokes are the most difficult, they're often culturally relevant or taste specific. I was very forgiving for the fusion round. I only gave 4 scripts a didn't meet. This round I'm going to be looking for something that specifically fits the genre. It should be easy.
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ReneC
Posted: June 10th, 2019, 11:12am
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I'll laugh if the riffs coming up in this thread are the funnier than the entries.
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khamanna
Posted: June 10th, 2019, 11:14am
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So how many jokes per a 5-pager will make it a comedy?
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khamanna
Posted: June 10th, 2019, 11:15am
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I just realized you can fart in a sewer and no one will notice
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JEStaats
Posted: June 10th, 2019, 11:28am
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No sh*t, there I was....
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I just realized you can fart in a sewer and no one will notice
You forgot about the echo factor!
Logged
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ReneC
Posted: June 10th, 2019, 11:33am
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I just realized you can fart in a sewer and no one will notice
It might smell better.
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Gary in Houston
Posted: June 10th, 2019, 11:33am
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What would be original would be to set a comedy inside a sewer and not have one joke about the shit or the smell. Like, I had an idea about a marching band rehearsing in a sewer for the acoustics, but realized I couldn’t go a full page without making some reference to the surroundings, so I just abandoned it. Plus the idea was just ridiculous to begin with.
Some of my scripts: Bounty (TV Pilot) -- Top 1% of discoverable screenplays on Coverfly I'll Be Seeing You (short) - OWC winner The Gambler (short) - OWC winner Skip (short) - filmed Country Road 12 (short) - filmed The Family Man (short) - filmed The Journeyers (feature) - optioned
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khamanna
Posted: June 10th, 2019, 11:35am
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You forgot about the echo factor!
You can always say it's fireworks from the outside
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khamanna
Posted: June 10th, 2019, 11:37am
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What would be original would be to set a comedy inside a sewer and not have one joke about the shit or the smell. Like, I had an idea about a marching band rehearsing in a sewer for the acoustics, but realized I couldn’t go a full page without making some reference to the surroundings, so I just abandoned it. Plus the idea was just ridiculous to begin with.
You think it's ridiculous until someone like Wes Anderson films about it.
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ReneC
Posted: June 10th, 2019, 11:41am
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You know, not every sewer is for waste matter...but who can resist?
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