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Basically, I'm writing a short film about a gang of really violent squatters who hate society and I need help coming up with a good storyline even if it is a simple one. I know quite a lot of you avid NationStaters are into writing too so I thought I'd ask for some help. Any ideas accepted with open arms. *awaits sarcastic ideas to flood in*

Squatters are generally poor, right? So come up with some kind of antisocial scam for them to get involved in. Maybe they decide to pretend to be undercover cops and rip off street level drug dealers and end up pursued by the drug dealers and the police. Maybe some get carried away and use the undercover cop disguise to start robbing regular folks, committing rapes, or maybe they start killing people in the course of their robberies.

Basically, I'm writing a short film about a gang of really violent squatters who hate society and I need help coming up with a good storyline even if it is a simple one. I know quite a lot of you avid NationStaters are into writing too so I thought I'd ask for some help. Any ideas accepted with open arms. *awaits sarcastic ideas to flood in*

What about a really claustrophobic look at the run up to an attempt to evict them by the cops?

They could be midgets. That way they'd be hard to hate. Who would hate a midget?

You're meant to hate them by the way.

You're meant to hate them by the way.

Why not make them anti-heros?

Squatters are generally poor, right? So come up with some kind of antisocial scam for them to get involved in. Maybe they decide to pretend to be undercover cops and rip off street level drug dealers and end up pursued by the drug dealers and the police. Maybe some get carried away and use the undercover cop disguise to start robbing regular folks, committing rapes, or maybe they start killing people in the course of their robberies.

Not to mention fighting among themselves and generally causing mayhem everywhere until the cops and the drug dealers join forces to wipe them out. Yeah, that's the ticket. During their rise the Squatters gather a small army of sympathizers, some well-meaning but naive and silly liberals who believe they are oppressed poor people plus a lot more thugs, petty criminals and mentally unbalanced individuals who just share the Squatters' love of destruction. This would make the rampage all the more wide-spread, with more and better explosions, etc. (I hope you have a hell of a budget). Finally it gets so bad that the cops and the drug dealers are forced to combine against them, using tanks and heavy weaponry and all sorts of things. You could perform urban renewal on several square miles of the city.

Why not make them anti-heros?

Anti-heroes? How 20th century. :p

Squatters are generally poor, right? So come up with some kind of antisocial scam for them to get involved in. Maybe they decide to pretend to be undercover cops and rip off street level drug dealers and end up pursued by the drug dealers and the police. Maybe some get carried away and use the undercover cop disguise to start robbing regular folks, committing rapes, or maybe they start killing people in the course of their robberies.

how do you pretend to be an undercover cop? shouldn't that just be like pretending to be a gangster?

Basically, I'm writing a short film about a gang of really violent squatters who hate society and I need help coming up with a good storyline even if it is a simple one. I know quite a lot of you avid NationStaters are into writing too so I thought I'd ask for some help. Any ideas accepted with open arms. *awaits sarcastic ideas to flood in*

you could make it like Ruby Ridge, but twist it, say the squatters are so redneck, that even the redneck community thinks they're shallow.

they generally keep to themselves untill a hunting incident on land they say is theirs causes them to clash with the law.

Not to mention fighting among themselves and generally causing mayhem everywhere until the cops and the drug dealers join forces to wipe them out. Yeah, that's the ticket. During their rise the Squatters gather a small army of sympathizers, some well-meaning but naive and silly liberals who believe they are oppressed poor people plus a lot more thugs, petty criminals and mentally unbalanced individuals who just share the Squatters' love of destruction. This would make the rampage all the more wide-spread, with more and better explosions, etc. (I hope you have a hell of a budget). Finally it gets so bad that the cops and the drug dealers are forced to combine against them, using tanks and heavy weaponry and all sorts of things. You could perform urban renewal on several square miles of the city.

Hmm...the budget isn't massive. The mansion we'd be using would actually be an abandoned mansion once used by squatters but we have all the clothes and weapons and everything ready. No tanks though. :(

how do you pretend to be an undercover cop? shouldn't that just be like pretending to be a gangster?

I like the pretending to be an undercover cop idea. Suppose a drug bust went wrong and a couple of the cops got killed. The screw-up included failure of their back-up units to arrive promptly, and our squatters happened on the scene. They could take the badges and guns and run off, and then decide, hey, this could turn into something interesting.

Not to mention fighting among themselves and generally causing mayhem everywhere until the cops and the drug dealers join forces to wipe them out. Yeah, that's the ticket. During their rise the Squatters gather a small army of sympathizers, some well-meaning but naive and silly liberals who believe they are oppressed poor people plus a lot more thugs, petty criminals and mentally unbalanced individuals who just share the Squatters' love of destruction. This would make the rampage all the more wide-spread, with more and better explosions, etc. (I hope you have a hell of a budget). Finally it gets so bad that the cops and the drug dealers are forced to combine against them, using tanks and heavy weaponry and all sorts of things. You could perform urban renewal on several square miles of the city.

Why would the dealers join up with the cops? Surely they'd be a selling a great deal to this phycho group.

how do you pretend to be an undercover cop? shouldn't that just be like pretending to be a gangster?

Fake badge, pistol, what's so hard about it? People get arrested for pretending to be cops and pulling folks over every year. Sometimes it's because they've chosen an off-duty cop to pull over.

Why would the dealers join up with the cops? Surely they'd be a selling a great deal to this phycho group.

No, see, the Squatters are ripping off the street-level dealers, the retail merchants, so of course the ones higher up the food chain (drug chain) are pissed because the Squatters are cutting into their cash flow. And since the Squatters are pretending to be cops, the real cops are after them. I could see this working, the cops and the dealers having a meeting, lots of testosterone and posturing before they come to an agreement. It could be a buddy-picture kind of thing, one detective and one dealer assigned to take care of the problem.

Hey, if any of my ideas get used I want to be listed in the credits.

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Hey, if any of my ideas get used I want to be listed in the credits.
I say everyone who posted on this Thread should be given credit... :p

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There has to be more people with some ideas out there!

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There has to be more people with some ideas out there!

What about basing it on what you already know of sqautters? Just pickj out all of the bad traits.

Perhaps, the negboiurs don't like the rave parties every weekend. which in turn leads to the drugs that the sqauters have to supply, which ion turn leads to crime, and police involvent. Say why not just write a good detective novel? they seem to be seeling you know!