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A Man Dies by Anonymous - Short, Drama, Sci Fi - A technophobe confronts his fear of the privately owned "UtiliCabs" that have become a staple of urban transportation. - pdf, format
I'm not sure exactly how low budget this is, if we were to try and create the world suggested, but maybe it's possible.
Nice tone and atmosphere. Writing is mainly good, though the author suffers from trying too hard to impress at times.
The soul of the piece was there...a man trying to preserve his soul/humanity in a sanitised world, and the script's heart was in the right place. I enjoyed the read.
It's the first I've read so far that really tried to tell a complete story, rather than just a scene.
I don't think it quite reached it's goal, but not for the want of trying. I think I just have a feeling that the ending, a man desperately trying to keep some legacy, some knowledge of himself alive somehow didn't feel like it came organically from the bulk of the story. I think we'd need to see more about him, more about his writing, his thoughts, his solitude in a world he doesn't belong and is becoming ever more sanitised for us to really appreciate what he's doing at the end.
As it is it's still good, I still felt something, but it felt a little overblown.
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Sorry, not for me. As I read, my thoughts drifted to other things, so I put it down. Cindy
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The overwriting is distracting, some of it's on target but some of the verbosity is over the top i.e., the word 'insatiable' in that context. Scale it back you have a solid story and I liked the world you chose for the setting. Met the challenge and great potential. Get rid of extraneous stuff like the girls with the ball, and delete the intro and just have him in the street and then in the cab, is my advice.
Lots to work with here and love the future world you created but a bit too meandering.
Seems like an interesting concept but the writing is so overblown, it's way too much of a hassle to get any further than Page 2.
You seriously need to simplify your writing and descriptions and cut way down on your use of adjectives. Just seems like you're trying to impress with your knowledge and use of the English language, but the result is the opposite and I can't see many enjoying the read.
I thought the writing was very good. Yes, it is overwritten, but impressively so. If you had cut down on the descriptions you could've easily saved a half page or so. However, I feel this may have been written this way because, while you have a decent story, it's one dimensional. Meaning, Emmet dies and says he has a manuscript to a work that's "all me" or something to that effect. I think if you'd taken it a step further, where this manuscript could have been important, world saving documents then we might have been able to pull for your protagonist . As is, I didn't feel much for him. Kinda meh. If he got out he was gonna infect the world with plague. But, maybe if he had a real good reason to leave the cab... You get what I'm saying.
Overall, I thought this was pretty good, just can use some toning down and some touching up. Nice job!
'Past the implacable deadness of her monochromatic visor'
You obviously know you're a good writer but this is ridiculous. It's at the point were i'm lost in the story because of the over writing in nearly all of your descriptions.
Sorry but this needs to be toned down a lot and I stopped short... I'm sure there's probably a good story in there
I can tell already this one isn’t my speed. The writing feels too smart for its own good… but I could admittedly just be a moron. I’ll never rule that out. It just reeks of “look how smart I am” try hard style writing I don’t personally enjoy in a screenplay.
It’s just preference. I don’t want to watch something where a character talks like this:
Retreated to the heart of public infrastructure and left its extremities to the numbing cold of private enterprise.
Saying that type of wording is “pretentious” isn’t a fair thing to say, but I honestly think “ick” multiple times while reading this type of writing. I’m the asshole here, let that be clear.
This reads like sci-fi that I’m sure the majority will like. … I’m just not a big fan of the genre.
Again, I’m a dummy, I will say that 9 times in this “review,” but I just don’t enjoy this prose style. I have no doubt the writing is well done, and I’m sure a lot of people will praise you for it, but I just want to read the story without stopping every 2 lines to think “man, lighten up a little.” “Oh come on, did you have to use THAT word?” No one is going to accuse you of being a poor writer if you take a line or 2 off. I know this reads “beautifully” to many people… just not this guy. I won’t comment on that anymore, b/c I’m sure I’m already making a fool out of myself.
The story was interesting, I won’t deny it, I just felt like I had to push through a bunch of other stuff to get to the nitty gritty. This will do well, I’m just not the target audience for this type of script.
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Really nice idea, but the writing is so thick it's hard to cut through. It might just be me being a simpleton, but I found it hard to concentrate after a few pages.
Anyway, it's original in concept, but just a bit of a tough read
Sorry to sound like a broken record, but, man, is this over-written. It was a task to read it all. It felt like 30 pages.
And I really didn't get it. So, he's trapped in the cab till he dies? No food, no water, nada? That seems harsh. And how could the taxi have known he's a
SPOILER
carrier for that disease? I was confused and all the overwriting was hard to get past.
Still, he was trapped, and that was part of the task. However, it seemed high budget to create this world.
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I thought the writing was good overall, but it's a lot to pack in a ten pager. I kind of feel that it went over a few pages but you had to slice n dice to squeeze as uch as you can in ten. It feels like a slightly bigger story. As it is, there's a lot of info here to take and soak in. Will soe have the patience for it?
Carefully written, with a heartfelt message: "I am...important." A bit flowery sometimes, e.g. "He gathers the ensuing silence in for a yell." With the theme, this reads to me as a novelist doing a screenplay. A short story, more than a short film.