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Original question by @0_0j@lemmy.world
This might seem as counter intuitive, as there are folks that hijack ideas for a living, But hey, F*IT; lets hear your craziest plots you can concoct. We’ll be the judge of them.
I’m down for a good laugh.
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I think originality is overrated. Hear me out.
Example 1: Star Wars should plagiarize more. Original Star Wars is Hidden Fortress in space, plus a bit of WW2 dogfighting and some car culture flavor. Late period Star Wars has been taking original Star Wars, blending it up, and pouring it back out again. Not enough plagiarism. Top Gun, but make it Star Wars and call it Rogue Squadron. Three Musketeers, but make it Star Wars and call it Three Jedi. Take your pick of old detective noir stories, set it on Coruscant, and call it the The Dantooine Falcon. Stop ripping off Star Wars in Star Wars, and go back to ripping off other properties, and it’s a license to print money.
Example 2: Stop trying to make movie franchises progress forward in time; continuity and originality are overrated. James Bond has been making virtually the same movie for over sixty years, and people still love it! Bond goes to exotic locale meets and beds some number of beautiful women, engages in a bit of extreme sports, foils the plan of some flamboyant villain. The actors are regularly changed without comment. The movie is always set “right now.” Bond has (almost) always been 007 for “a while.” Continuity virtually never spans more than a couple of movies until it gets reset to zero again. And it’s still going strong as a franchise! Pirates of the Caribbean could have used this pattern and just kept making crazy pirate adventure movies forever, but they got wrapped around the axle trying to keep a continuous plot going forward. Should have gone the James Bond route.
Stop trying to make original movies that advance an overarching plot across a franchise. Make movies that have already been made and that don’t take the franchise anywhere. You can’t go wrong.
Star Trek: Quark’s Venture on Risa
Adam Sanders wakes up with magical farts that cure cancer.
Oh I’d watch that! 😂
A mummie movie from the perspective of the mummy, who is a highly educated scholar. The archelogists and military chase him and think he’s a monster, while he has to figure out how the modern age works and why he was resurrected. Also he has severe PTSD and flashbacks from being killed in an intrigue at the Pharao’s palace.
Edit: So I’ve been thinking about it and I think he should eventually figure out that the people who killed him wanted to test the ressurection spell and if it worked, thought they could make an invincible mummie army and control all of ancient egypt. They thought the ressurection would be instantaneous after being mummified, not ~4000 years later.
Ok this is super good! I would love if he woke up in a museum (the British museum would an extra layer of confusion) and was caught on camera by the visitors. Some people think it’s just a way to advertise the museum but archeologists/military are using it to figure out what happened.
I’m on board
I am determined to remake The Final Countdown. Except in my version, the battle the whole movie builds up to actually fucking happens in the movie, and 45 F18s and F35s absolutely fuck up 353 Japanese fighters in an epic battle. Then the American aircraft carrier captain chooses not to go back through the wormhole, and stays in 1941, and uses modern technology and knowledge to improve the world. Also the song “The Final Countdown” is in the movie.
Ya, the ending of that movie was a big disappointment to me.
That sounds sick!
Right?!?!
Me and some friends wrote an outline for a zombie movie years ago from the viewpoint of the zombies. They see themselves as cultured and “normal” while the living are viewed as savages who waste their lives working, keeping up with the Jones’ and addicted to stupid stuff like reality TV. It would have been done in the style of The Office/What We Do In the Shadows, with a film crew following around a small group of Zombies who explain their lives. The zombies would have a very close-knit socialist/utopia type lifestyle while us stupid living lived in a right-wing 'murica hellscape.
My other idea around the same time actually made it into a TV series years after I wrote out an outline, too. I wanted to do an Office Space/Waiting style show but set in the big box retail world. About 10 years later, Superstore came out.
For that to work, the zombies would need to talk more than just grunting. Subtitles would get annoying very quickly. Maybe the documentary crew could have some Google Translate thingy to accommodate this? Maybe less talking and more showing could be what makes this a hit?
the zombies would need to talk more than just grunting.
The grunting is just media propaganda so the general public see the zombies as feral.
Or they give an in universe explaination like: if the corpos knew we can talk and reason they would abduct us into labor camps
Me and some friends wrote an outline for a zombie movie years ago from the viewpoint of the zombies. They see themselves as cultured and “normal” while the living are viewed as savages who waste their lives working, keeping up with the Jones’ and addicted to stupid stuff like reality TV. It would have been done in the style of The Office/What We Do In the Shadows, with a film crew following around a small group of Zombies who explain their lives. The zombies would have a very close-knit socialist/utopia type lifestyle while us stupid living lived in a right-wing 'murica hellscape.
If I was rich, I would be signing over a 500M budget over to you right now
Sadly, I’m just a Lemming :'(
I wanted to do an Office Space/Waiting style show but set in the big box retail world.
At university my roommate was in a media, and one of the things they had to do was to come up with a show and actually produce an episode of it. Anyway his idea was comedy set in ikea, I genuinely think it would have worked.
Check out “Borta bäst”; a Swedish kids’ show that works for adults and is what you describe. :)
Instead of making remakes of everything forever, they should use the Miyazaki way for writing scenarios. You take random words and make a story, like:
It’s a raccoon that lives in a shed, he meets a magical butterfly, and they both fight against the evil dictator who happens to be a horse that enslaved magical cardboard boxes.
Boom, $millions!
This is definitely where AI can come in handy. Continuously pluck a few words from wikipedia and tell the AI to come up with a few plot lines, then go from there.
Or just use your own creativity if you have it, and don’t if you don’t.
Why are people so afraid of AI?
Humans have patterns and that is why they can be recognised by them. Authors have a certain writing style, their book are often about very similar things, musicians sing and act in a specific manner that makes the recognisable and few are able to truly reinvent themselves or their style. Is that a “lack of creativity”? Are they just inferior beings unable to break out of their bubble?
AI is a tool. It can be used for good, bad and everything in between. If you see it as something one should fear, loathe, or despise, that requires a meme quip as a kneejerk reaction to anybody mentioning it positively, maybe use your own reasoning to come with a thoughtful answer, or if you can’t then maybe don’t.
I did some short storys like mentioned (maybe like 2 pages long) and it really would have slowed me down to ask an ai
Also it mas way simpler to just ask another person for a random word or come up with one myself
I mean you could expect the spanish inquisition but the sudden appereance of a broom could be way more shocking
For me emotionally it also was better to get the random words without ai because else i would have thought that part of the story is fabricated and that is not what i wantThere must be a misunderstanding. I’m not saying “AI should write the short story”. AI can act as the spark and you can provide the material to make the fire.
Sorry that its so long, if you dont want to read it please dont make a summary out of it and instead ignore it
I dont mean that ai writes the story, i meant that ai is not the best way to get input/sparks
AI in that case is an over the top solution for something that already has (in my perspective) better solutions
Want a random word/concept: look at urbandictionary/wikipedia/??? and press a buttot with “random” on it
Costs even less energy/precious ressources and it from the webWant a random word from another entity: ask another person, if you dont have friends you could ask passerbys nicely (thats then a random but likely pleasant encounter for them) or if you stay at home ask some forum
Want to have it instanhly: think yourself, faster than anything, asking an ai would probably take enough time to come up with something yourself
I personally would not like an ai to get the easy and enjoyable job making the sparks.
If i use any other way i would me happy to continue the story but getting answers from an ai would feel wrong, taking the fun out of writing and making me finish early, stopping halfway or not even starting.
I want to express myself and not the ideas of something i cant relate toI dont know how better do describe it
Sorry that its so long, if you dont want to read it please dont make a summary out of it and instead ignore it
Was the sass really necessary? 🙄
The way you answer: no, which i am happy about
Explaination (not excuse):
thinking about ai makes me grumpy and your suggestion of delegating a simple task to ai sparked the idea that you could also delegate the task of reading and comprehension to an aiAnd at least in this case: i am wrong
Starcraft series based on the games and official books around it. It’s such a big universe with a lot of stories. Just don’t pull a Marvel and oversaturate the market with your stuff.
But for something original, see what China is doing with their 5 minute episodes on their TikTok alternative Douyin.
Nice try movie executive!
Nice try, J. J. Abrams! I’m not going to give you my brilliant ideas for free so you can turn them into yet another shitty movie.
A modern 3D rendered Team Fortress 2 movie
Fast and Furious n +1
I’m writing an autobiography, although I have writers block atm, I havent been able to recall much more than yesterday. I know tho, when I do remember my life, it will have been fantastic, well worth a million bucks for the rights.
As a concepts, that’s not half bad. I’d give it a small budget to develop it and circle back in four months.
I’m not sober enough to tell if my funny idea is funny or actually derogatory. Maybe I’ll come back tomorrow if I remebe it.
