Hello, CS here with a reminder about our latest edition of the Pitch the LAMB series.
Movie Genre: Mystery
Examples of the Genre: The Maltese Falcon; Memento; Dirty Harry; The Pink Panther, Se7en, Chinatown, Gosford Park, Charade, L.A. Confidential, Murder on the Orient Express; The Conversation; Rear Window; Blue Velvet; The Fugitive; The Big Lebowski; In the Heat of the Night; The Usual Suspects.
10 words/phrases to get you started:
- Odd time of night to be making house calls…
- You’re holding back Ricardo…
- Clifford
- What was the value of the item?
- Shallow Grave
- Something smells fishy and it’s not the tuna casserole …
- Suspects
- The clues do not add up…
- Fingerprints
- How come there is no body?
As always, your job is to come up with an idea for a film using some of the words/phrases listed above. Once you have a plot idea, post it on your blog in any fashion you choose (e.g. plot synopsis, excerpt of a script, fictional trailer, fictional film review, movie poster, etc.) and email the link to bigthoughtssmallmind@hotmail.com. Simple as that! The deadline for submissions is Tuesday November 16, 2010.
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