Romance/Romantic Comedy
Speed Dating
hey romancers
(DISCLOSURE: i am actually attempting to write a sci fi script!)
Good idea?
i had an idea for a romantic comedy where the guy and girl keep meeting at speed dating nights in their town. I thought there could be lots of comedy in the actual speed dating, when they meet other people and how these odd characters are, have them saying all kinds of ridiculous things. The boy/girl would notice each other at these events and it would become like their own private joke, but really they are going in hope of seeing each other. And obviously they end up together.
A new twist on Cinderella
Ok, ok, you're probably thinking that this is so overdone, but I'm going off the Cinderella idea and changing it.
You meet this guy who is a serving boy, and is in love with his best friend for years. The girl is in the "cinderella" roll: has an "evil stepmother" and two "evil stepsisters". Well, Eli is trying ot earn more money, and gets a temp job as a server at the prince's ball, into which he gets the girl and her sisters, unintentionally setting her up with the prince himself...
Bacha's Bear
I want my screenplay to be about a poor, rural Georgian (Eastern European) kid with a bear and a get-rich-quick-scheme involving smuggling the bear across Europe into Germany in order to raise money for law school. It will be a comedy, and he will have to overcome border difficulties and car problems and language issues, and maybe even dress the bear as his grandmother, or hide the bear in funny places (like the library)... And of course the kid will fall in love along the way, and he will have some change of heart about the fate of the bear. In the end, there will be a big party...
Is the Westboro Baptist Church an acceptable topic for a romantic comedy?
In case you haven't heard of the Westboro Baptist Church, they're an anti-gay hate group based in Kansas. They picket funerals of soldiers, and perform other despicable deeds. My story focuses around a girl who was raised in the church (although some names have been switched around). She meets a college student, who teaches her how to leave her hate behind. In return, she teaches him how to leave his pain behind, that he acquired after his little brother fell into a coma.
Essentially, it's a story about growing up, and finding out what love is. What do you think?
