Thursday, February 4, 2010

Movie scripts -2009 - heading for saturation. No , not again

Hero in Villain's house by interval and with a interval caption " Enjoy the Game " - we are tired to see this again and again and again. Its enough ... almost evey movie in the last year had boringly same screenplay.

A summary on script patterns-1

Vocabulary is knowledge:
Example Go back to rock age where people don’t have vocabulary. How will say “I am hungry”…say How will he say “ I am hungry but my throat is bad so I will only have something hot?” ….just imagine if they have to talk little deep you need some ideas to be captured as “vocabulary”/ “Words” – which might be a feeling, an object, an idea or a sequence. Then they can talk and think deep.

So we have to create a vocabulary – means collection of concepts identified with some hints, so that we can think at next level on top of it. At the same time we all should understand these concepts in the same way. Otherwise will start every time from scratch. What do you say?

Say if we 3 accept something 100% after brain storming, we have to capture that with a hint (or new word if possible)…..just in the previous mail Nani was saying Suresh Krishna way? What does that mean …. A concept similar to Bhasha, right? Those kind of words has to be introduced consciously for all those ideas, concepts and observations. It is not only just scripts to be captured it is also important to keep that thinking along with it. We should not re-invent the wheel whenever you want to roll.
I always try to summarize the takeaways in any discussion but end of the day we don’t even remember the summary as well.

About current scripts and current thinking, we will definitely need the plots and extended scripts also. Only thing I am try to say is we need to build the skill on Characterization and Emotions as well so that we can be more complementary. Everybody will have some plot, some kind of characterizations and emotions and some cues from current trends. Only thing where is stressing or spending more time, decides his output. Take GodFather, which has excellent plot and characterization, we don’t know how trendy it is.

Arya2 album is awesome even Cherry likes so much. The song “Guppedantha gundeki ….” Was the best in terms of lyrics.

From here on…please try to bring your idea with an identifier so that we will only brainstorm once.
I will try to name the yesterdays discussion.

Thread based movies:
These are typically weaved upon some comedy, action threads. Story will get complicated to show the difference not the characters. Character are more or less normal.
Like Magadheera, Vikramarkudu, Student No1, Ready and Dhee after that he became trendy.
Plot based – Create a story or plot or scenario for Action/Comedy/ Sentiment. Like “English Paper – Gundu” in Preminchukundam raa for comedy.
And the characterization is simple like anybody else in the society..it is just story/sequence/plot decides the emotions typically.
The Raja Mouli/Seenu Vytla way


Offbeat Movies:
Happydays – he just wanted to show different emotion of student life, the story automatically demanded huge no if characters, esp some strange characters like Tyson (a Einstein brother) etc.
VVVinayakudu, Manmadudu, Malleswari as I already explained, Asta Chemma – A general youth suffering to act as PedaRayudu, a lady who is desperate for Mahesh (at least as a name)
Characterization and Emotions based: Create a characters with specific emotions in mind and rotate the story to extract his character and emotions. Again true for Comedy/Action/Sentiment.
This is Sekhar Kammula/Trivikram way.

Trendy Movies:-
Follows a particular trend. Ex After Samara- The Narasimha Naidu, Adi, Samba, Indra etc all follows sumlime first half in hero exile and faction based power second half …hero returns seema kind.
All Puri Jaannath movies how a “careless macho man” reacts for love (Idiot), reacts to family (Amma nana…), reacts mafia (Pokiri) etc with different sequences.
Any parody comedy etc.
Extend Audience Pulse: Accept the audience pulse like Ravi Teja is careless macho man and try something different scenario inside a framework. This is fit the bill anywhere, even the bits and pieces.
The Puri Jagannath/ VV Vinayak way

Rest of them obviously are routine movies as they don’t fit in anywhere.

- Rama Thippavajjala

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