Monday, July 18, 2011

How do you think this new movie "plot" will go over?

A group of friends and I have been mulling over this film for several years now. We are all involved with the film industry in some way, mostly special effects and post-production people. We have most of the backing we need to get started. A few of us are champing at the but to get this film going but others are reluctant. The dissension is because the film is more or less nothing but a non-stop sequence of blood, gore and violence. It's set in an undefined, post-apocalyptic near future where laws and societal values are non-existent. It opens with a guy running down a road. A vehicle speeds up behind him. Someone leans out of it and wacks off his head with a machete. It goes on like that, from one scene to another, very quick cuts to people being killed in grizzly ways, impaled on forklift forks, thrown feet first into wood chippers, various fight sequences involving people of all sizes and both sexes fighting with and without weapons - chainsaws, axes, all kinds of knives, all kinds of guns, blunt objects. Lots of vehicle chases (cars, trucks airplanes, helicopters) with lots of explosions. Not unlike the Mad Max films. All very quick cuts, non-stop action. There is no plot to speak of and there is no lead role. All the characters are anonymous, very little dialog. We figure 3-D is the way to go. The dissenters in our group say we should tone it down, give it some kind of plot but the majority of us don't think so. This is the kind of stuff that people want. Plot just gets in the way. It will be a big hit and we'll end up making a whole series of sequels.

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