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Your heading the right way. Digressing, i think what makes a good sci-fi is the characters in the story, the tech and future sci stuf is there to serve as a vehicle to get the plot rolling. I think what you should explore is the interactions between characters of the paintball team, on and especially of the field. and a little less of what paintball is. Furthuremore i think you should put in a parody sceene in there or two. I think whats important too, is not to write to a demographic, in terms of audience.
Clerks is a funny movie, and that general direction is sounds llike the way to go, its all about dialogue. Hey i know make it an Indie flick.
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Re: A Modest Proposal (On the Subject of a Paintball Movie)
I believe that was meOriginally posted by spantol
attempted, and I don't think it needs to be revisited any time soon. A paintball game just isn't all that interesting, particularly in a vacuum.
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Anyway, I do believe that this is a step in the right direction.
I saw the movie "In your Face" and the horrid acting wasn't the only thing that made the movie bad, and bad is an understatement. It lacked anything and everything that a non-paintballer would care about.
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just go the route of a cheesy hong kong action flck, like shaolin soccer. mmm, shaolin paintball.
As society and the problems that face it become more and more complex and machines become more and more intelligent, people will let machines make more of their decisions for them, simply because machine-made decisions will bring better results than man-made ones. Eventually a stage may be reached at which the decisions necessary to keep the system running will be so complex that human beings will be incapable of making them intelligently. At that stage the machines will be in effective control. People won't be able to just turn the machines off, because they will be so dependent on them that turning them off would amount to suicide
sometimes I just freaking hate people. which means the next day I will love them for the sake of balance, but right now I will just concentrate on the hating. Hate hate hate. Blaaaarg! ;)
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Very interesting. I agree totally--characters are everything. Good Sci-fi isn't about futuristic settings, it's about the characters in those situations. Similarly, my project wouldn't be about paintball, it would be about people that play paintball, with some focus on why they do so. The field will be a setting, certainly not the only one.
There will definitely be a parody or two involved. Also, one of the goals would be to develop a story that appeals to paintballers and non-paintballers alike. At the end of the day, this would be a movie featuring paintball, not a paintball movie. Regarding the "Indie Flick" suggestion, that's exactly what I had in mind. I'm not sure that I made that clear in the initial post--I fully intend to do this.
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Your heading the right way. Digressing, i think what makes a good sci-fi is the characters in the story, the tech and future sci stuf is there to serve as a vehicle to get the plot rolling. I think what you should explore is the interactions between characters of the paintball team, on and especially of the field. and a little less of what paintball is. Furthuremore i think you should put in a parody sceene in there or two. I think whats important too, is not to write to a demographic, in terms of audience.
Clerks is a funny movie, and that general direction is sounds llike the way to go, its all about dialogue. Hey i know make it an Indie flick.Comment
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