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Waiting For McGuffin

Well in spite of some slacking in other areas of my life, a story idea popped into my head yesterday. It's a genre piece, I suppose. It would be along the lines of a crime, noir, pulp, heist films, and in my head right now it's also a period piece. I don't know how I'd film it - the costumes, the exteriors, etc. - that's all way out of my league at this point. It all depends on how much I write for it. This could be the best thing we could film, or it could be something I hold off on for a while until our operation gets more professional. Really, there's no sense in worrying about it until we decide to do it. I'm just happy that I've got an idea, and I'm writing.

As stories go for the genre, it's nothing spectacular, but it doesn't suck either at least so far, so good. I've got the premise, now I just need to flesh out a plot and some twists and turns that happen in the meantime. Really what I need is an object to start, a McGuffin of sorts. Something to get the ball rolling, maybe it turns out to be what the movie's about, maybe it isn't. Perhaps I could pull a Maltese Falcon and make the entire plot and the happenings inconsequential because they never find what they're looking for.

I'm going to try to not get ahead of myself, because out-clevering myself is probably the worst thing I can do. That will make everything absurd and melodramatic ... it'd be like the ending of Murder By Death, only purposefully funny. Well, in the meantime, if anyone reading this (Maybe I should rephrase that as "If there is anyone that reads this.") has an idea, feel free to let me know, the worst thing I can say is, "No, I'm not going to use that! That's a fucking horrible idea, you mindless twat!!!"

posted by bumbletbw @ 5:35 AM