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I am a small independent film maker and I need some new ideas and I am wondering if someone could help me.

try writing a novel.

how about a zombie movie, but instead of zombies you have vampire tortoises. and the hero can be a 4-wheel-drive fruit bat, and it's got these friends, right, who have no ears like those cats whose ears fold down, except they have no ears at all. and they hole up in an amusement arcade, okay, and then the tortoises find them but they can't get in. but then it turns out the tortoises can fly, cuz they're vampires and that's what vampirism will do for you, so these tortoises get in through the skylights. but the deaf guys don't hear them but they certainly know when they get bitten cuz then they turn into vampire tortoises too. but then meanwhile the 4-wheel-drive fruitbat has been busy tuning his engine and fitting new shocks and chunky tires and all sorts of added extras like subwoofers and an MP3 adapter and rocket boosters and a gattling gun until he's ready to fuck shit up big style. so he wastes everyone and then zooms off into the night running down tortoises and taking potshots at the ones that get out of the way. the end. i think it has potential, what do you think?

Given that this would sooooooooo open you to idea theft charges... But, honestly I would say, RUN! RUN YOU FOOL! YOU KNOW NOT WHAT YOU ASK HERE! RUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUN!

it does have potiental but it may be a little hard to make. its interesting that you came up with somthing so fast

how about a zombie movie, but instead of zombies you have vampire tortoises. and the hero can be a 4-wheel-drive fruit bat, and it's got these friends, right, who have no ears like those cats whose ears fold down, except they have no ears at all. and they hole up in an amusement arcade, okay, and then the tortoises find them but they can't get in. but then it turns out the tortoises can fly, cuz they're vampires and that's what vampirism will do for you, so these tortoises get in through the skylights. but the deaf guys don't hear them but they certainly know when they get bitten cuz then they turn into vampire tortoises too. but then meanwhile the 4-wheel-drive fruitbat has been busy tuning his engine and fitting new shocks and chunky tires and all sorts of added extras like subwoofers and an MP3 adapter and rocket boosters and a gattling gun until he's ready to fuck shit up big style. so he wastes everyone and then zooms off into the night running down tortoises and taking potshots at the ones that get out of the way. the end. i think it has potential, what do you think?

I'd go watch it...

It'd certainly be more interesting than a lot of the tripe that's in theaters now.

I am a small independent film maker and I need some new ideas and I am wondering if someone could help me.

You should make a movie about someone who discovers the NationStates forums and starts to post there... but being unable to tear him/herself away they start to form an addiction... they shun their friends and loved ones, spend too much time posting even at work and eventually lose their job, life and family.

In Act II, they get help and are able to stop posting, and start to return to a normal life. New job, new romance, new friends

But then someone mentions that they had posted on nationstates and it turns out to be a bitter arch-enemy on the forums, and they fall in love and have an affair, but it doesn't work out and they split up again, returning to the old flame war

Act III is return to the addiction where he posts about his experience, and then gets involved in a debate over whose fault it was

You should make a movie about someone who discovers the NationStates forums and starts to post there... but being unable to tear him/herself away they start to form an addiction... they shun their friends and loved ones, spend too much time posting even at work and eventually lose their job, life and family.

In Act II, they get help and are able to stop posting, and start to return to a normal life. New job, new romance, new friends

But then someone mentions that they had posted on nationstates and it turns out to be a bitter arch-enemy on the forums, and they fall in love and have an affair, but it doesn't work out and they split up again, returning to the old flame war

Act III is return to the addiction where he posts about his experience, and then gets involved in a debate over whose fault it was

That helps alot I will most likely use obsession in my next flim thanks

I am a small independent film maker and I need some new ideas and I am wondering if someone could help me.

Offer to make a movie based on what happens in an NS international incident RP.

Offer to make a movie based on what happens in an NS international incident RP.

fill me in what did happen

This isn't really a direct story, but more general advice: Murder. Lots and lots of murders. Whenever the plot starts to slow down, have one major character bash another one's head in with a tire iron or run over a DHL delivery guy in a FedEx truck.
And if anyone complains that it is stupid for their to be at least one casualty every 4 or 5 minutes, you can just point out how stupid it is that everyone in Rent should have AIDS, but that didn't stop it from becoming critically acclaimed.

fill me in what did happen

Well find an interesting RP and make a movie based on it. Hey I might ask you to make a movie on the Grace wars I was involved in for a game I'm trying to make based on it.

Edit: Here's (http://www.freewebs.com/lizasaurs/tank%20wars%20demo.exe) one of them. (note that its still being worked on.)

Talk to Terry Pratchett and get him to let you make one of the Discworld books into a live action movie.

Talk to Terry Pratchett and get him to let you make one of the Discworld books into a live action movie.

What are those books about

...alternatively, you could try coming up with an idea for your film class on your own.

*blank stare*

...alternatively, you could try coming up with an idea for your film class on your own.

*blank stare*

This is not for flim class I actually make movies.

What are those books about

wikipedia.org

This is not for flim class I actually make movies.

Yet you can't come up with your own, original idea??

I find it hard to believe that anyone who has to come onto an online forum for "ideas" for "movies" has anything approaching the creative skill to be a filmmaker.

But don't let me stop your fun.

*wanders off*

Yet you can't come up with your own, original idea??

I find it hard to believe that anyone who has to come onto an online forum for "ideas" for "movies" has anything approaching the creative skill to be a filmmaker.

But don't let me stop your fun.

*wanders off*

Writers block it happens after 8 movies you begin to run out of ideas

Read the novel "Ecotopia" by Ernest Callenbach

I would like to see a modern interpretation of Genesis.

Bible stories in general have alot of interesting material.

everyone does modern interpretations. why not a medieval interpretation of something modern, like a gangsta rap feud or something. wandering minstrels and jesters doing ride-bys and garroting one another with lute strings or pummeling with juggling balls. could be entertaining. or if you want to be really minimalist, take it back to the paeleolithic - a feud between those who say ugg and those who say ogg. with clubs and shit. and they could ride wooly mammoths and sabre toothed tigers. fuckin' a i tell you. i heard once that the best cinema was when the actors said nothing, this'd be perfect - not much dialogue in ancient troglodyte societies, not vocal anyway.

It should be something like the movie I did extra work for. Really low-budget, ridiculous horror crap. All I know is that my acting teacher plays a one-eyed hunter, an evil monster/worm thingy attacks people through the naval, and there's this crazy dude with lot's of tatoos whose infected and has a loose jaw and terrorizes people in a mall. People who look really tired, because we filmed the running scene at quarter after one in the morning, on a school day.
But that's copyrighted, so don't do exactly that. Just make it completely ridiculous, and have lot's of gory effects.


And for Christ's Sake, pay your f.cking actors, or, at the very least, give them a donut!

how about a zombie movie, but instead of zombies you have vampire tortoises. and the hero can be a 4-wheel-drive fruit bat, and it's got these friends, right, who have no ears like those cats whose ears fold down, except they have no ears at all. and they hole up in an amusement arcade, okay, and then the tortoises find them but they can't get in. but then it turns out the tortoises can fly, cuz they're vampires and that's what vampirism will do for you, so these tortoises get in through the skylights. but the deaf guys don't hear them but they certainly know when they get bitten cuz then they turn into vampire tortoises too. but then meanwhile the 4-wheel-drive fruitbat has been busy tuning his engine and fitting new shocks and chunky tires and all sorts of added extras like subwoofers and an MP3 adapter and rocket boosters and a gattling gun until he's ready to fuck shit up big style. so he wastes everyone and then zooms off into the night running down tortoises and taking potshots at the ones that get out of the way. the end. i think it has potential, what do you think?

This is my Oscar prediction for next year.

Given that this would sooooooooo open you to idea theft charges... But, honestly I would say, RUN! RUN YOU FOOL! YOU KNOW NOT WHAT YOU ASK HERE! RUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUN!

Nah, let's give him an idea. Then he can take all the risks, and, if it works, we'll just sue him for everything.

Make a movie about NSG.
You know, portray it as this dysfunctional town or something.