And speaking of Blake Snyder and loglines… he’s having a contest on his blog. The deadline is Feb 18.
The idea is that you have to change one letter in the title of a famous movie, and write the logline for that film.
For Example:
GONE WITH THE WINE — Scarlett “Merlot” O’Hara is a southern belle and lightweight drinker, whose fierce ambition to save her ante-bellum home changes to a mumbled “fiddle-dee-dee” whenever she has more than one glass of “Tara-ble” table wine.
One of his readers named Gary has come up with some good ones:
Nightmare on Elf Street – A killer is targeting the happy helpers of the North Pole threatening to kill Christmas. Ho, ho horror.
and
The Fridges of Madison County – When called to fix an ice maker a Maytag repairman falls in love with a married woman.
Here are my entries:
AMERICAN PIG
Four young hogs make a pact to sew their wild oats before they become breakfast sausages.
NO COUNTRY FOR OLD YEN
A hunter is pursued by Yakuza after he stumbles across a pile of heroin and Japanese cash.
Hi!
Can you post this on Blakes’ blog for me please? I cant get the link working on his Contest page. Moreover the link is on the bottom of his website and each time i try to scroll down my PC is hanging up. We will share the spoils…!!
Austrelia, 20 year old billionaire entreprener gambles on outwitting Google as the richest company in the world and succceeds by establishing a toy manufacturing company in Pennsylvania. The company sells toys named Google to millions of children all over the world and becomes the richest company in the world.
Done.
although, I’m nnot sure if I get the “austrelia” title. But there you go.
Thanks Friend!
Australia is Nicole Kidman’s movie. I have replaced ‘a’ with ‘e’ to turn it into Austrelia.
i’m quite good in witing but i have not yet signed up on a writing contest ”
last time, i joined a writing contests on the internet and i won a small price for writing a nice piece of writing `~,