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NiK
Posted: September 7th, 2008, 2:57am Report to Moderator
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I have been thinking about anthology films about a long time, but somehow I got involved in other projects. This thought started to come again at my mind…
A friend gave me a DVD "Cannes Shorts", which is about 2 hours long with 32 short films, from some of the greatest directors, let me name some of them: Coen Brothers, Roman Polanski, Takeshi Kitano, Wallter Sales, Gus Van Sant, Jane Campion etc.,

All the short films deal with the theme of "Cinema" and I loved the way every director managed to do it. The shorts together made the feature film. I'm not really sure how to call this kind of genre, some call them Anthology film.

The reason why I started this thread is because I thought we could try something like this, this board has such great writers that I believe we could pull it off.
We could decide on the main theme, and write our scripts. To make it more interesting i think some of this stories could intercut with each other. This brings me to my mind Nine Lives (not the Wesley Snipes flick).

There is another film "Paris Je T'Aime" with top directors, dealing with Paris. There will be even a "New York I Love You". Still I believe that the intercut of the stories would add more value to all of them.
Let me know guys.
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Hey Nik

Interesting idea. I'll give it a shot.


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Glad you think its interesting.

Well more writers have to come, so we talk about what we're going to do.

C'mon guys!!!



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There is already Scarefest and Soul Shadows.  I'm sure there were more in the past; I just can't recall thm.

If you do plan ondoing this, I would recommend not doing a horror anthology.


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An anthology, eh? Sounds interesting. Count me in.


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I'll throw an idea out there and it is kind of based on the theme of the novel 'The Diceman'.

Luke Rhinehart claims that in order to be truly happy people must place all of their beliefs in one person or thing. This could be religion, a job, a wife/husband or even just someone who is so sure of themselves that they never ever doubt themselves.

Maybe short stories based on this could work? How their lives untangle as their one true God is questioned.

Lets get the ideas rolling.


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Well glad, you guys respond to this...

Phil - No horror, not at all, but if a short could be horror there is no problem. As i mentioned this will be a feature composed from several shorts, they could be in different genres.

If you got any other advice please write it

Benjam - welcome to the project

Ste - that's actually good. I just thought if we could make a hero, and have him/her go through different situations in life. But this looks more like a series mmm....
My main point to make this more interesting would be to have the stories intercut with each other???

Also my suggestion would be to keep it simple, with few locations and no sci-fi, so they can be cheap to produce.



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Hello Nik,

Good idea,

I think SteBrown's idea could be a winner.  I've not read this novel.  But with people looking into a faith and taking what they like out of it to fit into there way of living.  You can have varies stories which stem from this Diceman.  One character that stays, and varies other characters that interlink because they have found a new faith that they follow.

But as an alternative.  You could possible have an elder who is full of wisdom.  Gives advice, etc...  And as a result, people have turned this person into a religion.

This could be a drama/thriller.

What do you think?


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I like what Ste proposed offered. Let us put more ideas and then decide on which one we go through. Javier, so, you're up for the project or just commenting hehe

Beside having to decide on which theme to put our finger, i thought it would be good, if we could make some rules first.
So we all know what we're going to do.

Here are some of my suggestions (obviously, we will discuss about this):



- No Sci-fi script*
- The script's length should be from 10 pages. Title page is not included.
- Try to not include, visual and special effects of any kind, e.g: She transforms  herself into a bat, or the ship successfully landed on Moon. I think you get my point.
- Properly formatted script.
- The script might even have no dialogue.
- Classic horror scripts are welcome, but try to put gore out of it.
- Be creative

Hope i haven't gone too far with my suggestions here. Let me know what do you think, if we should add more rules, or cancel one of them.

Still there is a "rule", if i can call it rule, that i think we all should agree with. To make this project as interesting as we can, i think we should try and have the stories intercut with each other. So, there won't be just a bunch of shorts merged together. I totally believe we should apply this, don't know what do you think about it.

One more thing, after a writer is done writing his/her script, he/she should send it to the writers of the project for reviews and suggestions. After that, the script will be submitted for further reviews by the board members.

Now, one more question, and a difficult one. We should agree in the number of the scripts included. Let's just say for the moment that each script somehow has a 10 minute length in film. So this makes it clear that will be no more than 10 scripts, i think there could be less?



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Sounds pretty sensible rules Nik, based on the fact to make this as cheap to produce as possible.

One other thing I was thinking yesterday, based on the same idea;

The main setting of this is either pergatory, a cult (mass suicide) or another idea based on the same circumstances.

We have the scene in whereever this is and pick out a character, we then find out why that character is here. (Again, based on the one thing that character believes in letting him down.) There could be a character in each mini-story that either appears to them (a spirit...death?) that can tie all the stories together.

I have an idea about an ageing businessman who has always been correct in his beliefs and dealings developing alzheimer's disease. He can't cope with it and is lost because he doesn't know what to believe in anymore.

Only thing is this could be a tad depressing haha, anyway let me know what you folks think.

On your question about number of stories and length, I'd say upto 10 pages. The important thing is to have enough room to develop the characters.


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I've been keeping tabs on this thread to see what ideas you come up with.

Ste, are you suggesting something like a group or cult who meet and discuss their beliefs,?  This could give you the opportunity to then follow each character through their own story of how they interpreted the group meeting.

Nik, I like the fact that you want to keep this low budget, are you planning on filming this or getting someone to do so?


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I'm more on about the how they ended up there Alffy. Maybe a good example is 'Lost'. We have the scenes on the island but then interlinked with those scenes are scenes from their everyday life, explaining how they ended up on the flight.

The pergatory (sp?lol) would work if we went with a suicide angle. You then have stories of why some of these people commited suicide and maybe the end story is how they can escape it?


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Oh got ya.  Why they decided to kill themselves, leading to the one location.


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As I already like the idea SteBrown mentioned regarding the Diceman.

I would suggest that Ste writes the first script.  Everyone else reads it and writes on the minor characters.  We then read those scripts, and maybe write a further script to try and tie these short stories together.  This last short.  We can all have a go to rewrite and maybe we can look back at previous scripts and rewrite them.

What do you think?


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One thing I thought of while reading this is maybe start off with the leader of the cult giving a speech, and then show several people each taking away something completely different from the same speech.

Then they could all culminate back at the cult house to go through with the suicide each has either decided to do or stop based on what each individual submission's character chooses.

Just a thought, and I'd be interested in helping out with this time permitting. Good luck NiK!
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