The Concept: Getting back to basics and giving the anagram thing a rest. (Also, avoiding original plot summaries for a while.) However, these still count as bad film ideas.
Previous Fairy Tale Adaptations: Little Red Riding Hood
The Fairy Tale: Snow White
Key Elements: evil queen (villain), innocent girl (victim), stupidity (catalyst), red apple (conspicuous bit of symbolism), lonely cottage in the woods (danger zone), prince (hero)
Title: Wicked Stepmother
Genre: Psychological Thriller
Main Alteration: reversal of protagonist with antagonist
Plot Summary: Evelyn Quinn has a bad feeling about her teenage stepdaughter Bianca. She’s not quite sure what it is – Bianca is so sweet and polite, and she’s simply adorable with Roy, her father. But slowly Evelyn starts to realize that Bianca is not only doing everything she can to separate her from her new husband but also everything she can to make her go stark raving mad. From subtle hints that she’s losing her looks to sitting in Roy’s lap and purring like a kitten, Bianca brings Evelyn to contemplate suicide. And Bianca’s seven crazy cats seem to watch her wherever she goes! How will Evelyn survive?
Memorable Quote/Scene:
Bianca: Daaaaaaaaddy... [giggle]
Title: The Fairest of Them All
Genre: Comedy/Drama
Main Alteration: no clear protagonist or antagonist
Plot Summary: Eve, the former Evergreen Springs Beauty Queen (for five consecutive years until she wasn’t allowed to compete anymore because it wasn’t fair to the other town girls), doesn’t get along with her teenage stepdaughter. But what can you expect from a girl who’s silly mother (may she rest in peace) named her Snowflake. That would be a curse for any girl, much less a girl as frumpy and odd as Snowflake. But no matter – when Eve took Howard for better or for worse, she also took his daughter, and she’s on a mission to make the worse into better. Much better. What luck! There’ a local beauty pageant. What could be better than that to help boost Snowflake’s self-esteem and give them an opportunity to bond? Snowflake has other plans, however. Will the two women bond? Or will this be a nightmare that ends in hatred and despair?
Memorable Quote/Scene:
[Snowflake has to go before the seven try-out judges]
Eve: And pleeaase try to show some personality.
Snowflake: I was showing personality.
Eve: Without stomping down the runway like a sulky buffalo.
Stuck in Development: Something from one of the dwarves’ point of view, or maybe the magic mirror’s point of view.
Previous Fairy Tale Adaptations: Little Red Riding Hood
The Fairy Tale: Snow White
Key Elements: evil queen (villain), innocent girl (victim), stupidity (catalyst), red apple (conspicuous bit of symbolism), lonely cottage in the woods (danger zone), prince (hero)
Title: Wicked Stepmother
Genre: Psychological Thriller
Main Alteration: reversal of protagonist with antagonist
Plot Summary: Evelyn Quinn has a bad feeling about her teenage stepdaughter Bianca. She’s not quite sure what it is – Bianca is so sweet and polite, and she’s simply adorable with Roy, her father. But slowly Evelyn starts to realize that Bianca is not only doing everything she can to separate her from her new husband but also everything she can to make her go stark raving mad. From subtle hints that she’s losing her looks to sitting in Roy’s lap and purring like a kitten, Bianca brings Evelyn to contemplate suicide. And Bianca’s seven crazy cats seem to watch her wherever she goes! How will Evelyn survive?
Memorable Quote/Scene:
Bianca: Daaaaaaaaddy... [giggle]
Title: The Fairest of Them All
Genre: Comedy/Drama
Main Alteration: no clear protagonist or antagonist
Plot Summary: Eve, the former Evergreen Springs Beauty Queen (for five consecutive years until she wasn’t allowed to compete anymore because it wasn’t fair to the other town girls), doesn’t get along with her teenage stepdaughter. But what can you expect from a girl who’s silly mother (may she rest in peace) named her Snowflake. That would be a curse for any girl, much less a girl as frumpy and odd as Snowflake. But no matter – when Eve took Howard for better or for worse, she also took his daughter, and she’s on a mission to make the worse into better. Much better. What luck! There’ a local beauty pageant. What could be better than that to help boost Snowflake’s self-esteem and give them an opportunity to bond? Snowflake has other plans, however. Will the two women bond? Or will this be a nightmare that ends in hatred and despair?
Memorable Quote/Scene:
[Snowflake has to go before the seven try-out judges]
Eve: And pleeaase try to show some personality.
Snowflake: I was showing personality.
Eve: Without stomping down the runway like a sulky buffalo.
Stuck in Development: Something from one of the dwarves’ point of view, or maybe the magic mirror’s point of view.
4 comments:
Fascinating blog. I'm not 100% sure what it's all about but fascinating nonetheless!
Of course, I'm always interested in anything about plot.......
Thanks, Martha. This post is just a creative experiment in adaptation (part of a series I've been doing since last year). Every other Saturday I try to give some writing tips. The haikus are purely for fun.
*cough*Snowglassapples*cough*
Snowglassapples?
*googles*
Ohhhhhhhhh. Figures :)
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