It was getting closer to December and hence the Mid year exams. So we didn't have much time for the Film Opening and instead began to prioritize other subjects and the written paper itself.
Then it turns out that schools went on lockdown so either the exams were cancelled or postponed. In any case that gave me time to relax for a bit and work on the script.
Sometimes I wonder how I found the script writing to be relaxing because it probably ended up being the most difficult part of the entire project.
Originally I wanted to try an Action Comedy. Like Deadpool. Or Kingsman: The Secret Service. Or Shazam. Or Thor: Ragnarok. Or The Man From U.N.C.L.E. Action and comedy are 2 of my favorite genres, ever. Though I'm a fan of a lot of genres. Or actually, all of them. Except horror. I quite disliked horror. I've never once seen a horror film. Or played a horror game. And have no intention to. The last thing I'd want is to make some kind of horror opening.
Edit from Future me: Those words aged like fine...milk.
So I began to write a script trying to figure out what the plot should be about.
Eventually it settled on a robbery. The inspiration was taken from Home Alone and Fast Five. Or, well, certain elements. I wanted to have a smart and a dumb character try and rob something but everything goes wrong. And it was originally called Fox and Sloth. And it could also have been called Mind Heist because they didn't know what they were stealing and it ended up being the brain of some really smart person and I just wanted to put a pun in the title.
But
Of course there's a but there's always a but.
It was too much to fit into 2 minutes of opening. The plan was to put an entire robbery from planning to executing to finishing the heist into that and realizing that the thing they stole was empty as a plot twist to 'Hook the audience'. But it was just. Too much. So it was scrapped.
When I threw that piece of paper into the garbage bin so too did I feel like a part of my soul went in there.
But enough dwelling. New script. Let's experiment. What to do.
Mind blank. I've no ideas. I'm like a robot. Tell me to make something specific and I'll do it perfectly. Tell me to just make something good I'll have no idea what to do.
So I just. Slept on it. Literally. While writing and thinking of ideas I fell asleep at my desk.
And had a nightmare.
Then it hit me the next morning. What about a film where someone's having nightmares but the nightmares aren't actually nightmares but instead memories of someone else. And some other someone else is hunting him for this.
Then it was the question on what personality to give what character and other things. But the foundation had been laid.
We're working on an action film with a couple of tense parts.
That's what I told myself. I kept telling myself it wasn't horror and I don't have to watch any such films to know what to do. But I couldn't keep lying to myself. Eventually it was fully embraced to be horror thriller.