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B.A. MoFo(s) by David Ford Lewis III (czartim) - Comedy - In the not-so-distant future, President Jena Bush declares war on France after discovering a hair at the bottom of her Olive Garden take-out. A squad of B.A. MoFo(s) is tasked with defending the President's last remaining private spa behind enemy lines. 72 pages - pdf, format
Okay, the logline was so bizarre that I had to take a look at this...
I wish I hadn't. This is absolutely appalling. Character's with names of "dude", and editorializing and laughing ("haha") in your own narratives?
If you've got an inkling of a story here we'll never find it. Please read some scripts and stop addressing the audience in the narrative, and maybe then there'll be a shot for someone to uncover what you're driving at.
Thanks for at least attempting to read. I'd like to clarify that this was not meant to be a real screenplay, but more of a parody of the art of screen writing. So all breaking of the third-wall was intended as part of the experience.
I've written several other screen plays which I'm currently editing to post here. They abide by all proper standards.
So in short, this was written for its own audience, and shouldn't be taken too seriously.
As I mentioned, I believe it was written for its own audience. It was written purely for the enjoyment of people who have read far to many horrid screenplays. In that sense it is a very "wink, wink" style of writing. Lame character names, exposition-filled dialogue, plot holes. It's all part of the fiction.
So, yes, it's for fun. You have to go into it without any expectations of a true screenplay. And because comedy is subjective (and even more so on page), I don't expect a lot of praise. But it wan''t written for glory.
Unlike Kaufman's Adaptation, which attempted to fit many of the clich�s of movie writing into a movie, I attempted to write a screenplay with everything you aren't suppose to do. And I did it blatantly out in the open.
If you're going to lead with a screenplay on a site then you should lead with a screenplay that isn't quite so "innovative".
I cracked this open and I have to say I agree with AJ. You need better character names to keep our interest and the asides in the narrative are very distracting.
I would, honestly allow you to get away with the (haha) thing once. But I counted it at least three times in the first five pages and for the same joke. We already get it, you don't need to keep reminding us.
Same with the BLACK DUDE strike-through. You don't need to keep reminding us. Give him a real name and just do the strike-through once.