Trannsexual film script

[giovanni_hotel]

LOL.
THis thread.

[nysprod]

If you're coming at this as a parody, or are planning to have an underlying message about the hypocrisy being an anti LGBT activist while secretly taking it up the ass from multiple TGirl pornstars, ok.

If you're coming at this straight, forget it.

[Castor_Troy05]

You'd be better off posting that on fictionmania dude, seems more in style with what you're writing

[Stavros]

I think you need to decide if you want to make a film about transexuals, or a film that features transexuals -Ken Russell and the Miike Takashi have transexuals and transvestes in their films as part of the cast and it works.

Or you could try and create a script from the novels of Severo Sarduy, the Cuban author who not only features transexual characters but used them to explore the diversity of Cuban life while also playing with and criticising inherited concepts of gender and sexuality:

Firefly:
http://www.ebooks.com/1080054/firefl...ed-mark-trans/

Cobra, and Maitreya
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I think one of his transvesite characters is a detective which ought to fit in with today's obsession with crime.

But as Prospero also suggests, some lessons in how to make a film from the start would help -

Here is one of many of Robert McKee's lessons:



And a simplified version of Mckee's concepts from another source, for a whole film using Good Will Hunting as an example (short and informtive0

[g@meb0y]

Almodovar used a forced sex change as the central theme of a movie he made two years ago. But there was no porn element. The procedure was conducted by a plastic surgeon for purposes of revenge. It was called The Skin I Live In.

My suggestion is read a book on story construction or on film writing. Screenplay by Sid Field is a classic one.

I've actually read quite a bit of books on screenwriting, as well as two years of film school at UT austin, and hundreds of hours of youtube videos about both writing and filmmaking in general.

Also, none of you have actually read the script yet, you are all basing your comments on an extended summary, which leaves out many details of the story. I would prefer it if you guys actually gave it a shot and read it before you start telling me how it won't work or how I should post in on fictionmania or whatever. And there isn't a porn element in this story either, it's a superhero tale. And yes, the forced sex change is original because it has been rarely used in cinema and never used in superhero narratives. And the film is about transsexuals, the main character is a transsexual

[Prospero]

Well old buddy, you pitched it here as if this were a panel of funders - and they don't much like your synopsis. Post a link to the full screenplay.

[Stavros]

Supernova
TONY was a normal, everyday college student until, one day, his life was turned upside down by a bizarre lab accident. The accident as left him with the power to convert his potential energy into electrical energy which he can propel at foes in a variety of ways. His roommate, CARL, convinces him to become a superhero, which Tony reluctantly agrees too. Everything goes well at first, until the disgraced professor responsible for the lab accident comes back to exact his revenge on our hero. He kidnaps Tony and performs a forced sex change operation on him, turning Tony into Tina. She manages to escape before he completes the process by removing her cock and balls. Unfortunately, the process has gone too far to reverse, and now Tina must comes to grip with being transsexual, and stop the Professor before he can hurt anyone else.

As far as pitches go, you haven't opened with one line that explains the theme, such as: This is a film about a reluctant transexual superheroine; you haven't made it clear in the pitch that the Professor (a mad professor?) has caused the accident, and why, in disgrace and looking for revenge, he doesn't just kill Tony/Tina and make it look like another accident.
Characrers who discover, or are given special powers are by now a stock-in-trade of generations of poems, novels, operas, films and so on, from Achilles to Harry Potter; there is nothing wrong with making transexuality something special, as a plot device, but for this to work I think you need some angle that is different from what can be found in Harriet Potter or Jingle Unchained. Being given a trans-sexual identity as a form of punishment may be risky...but I can see how redeeming the concept by doing good could work -it all depends on the quality of the script, the structure of the story, and whether or not it would work as a film.

I am not dismissing your project, but I don't see mainstream cinema putting money into any film in which the main character is transexualised, unless it is a comedy along the lines of He's a girl! The Hangovers, or Oy Vay, my son is Gay! (which may actually be a good film, if it is full of stereotypes, sort of...)

[GroobyKrissy]

As far as pitches go, you haven't opened with one line that explains the theme, such as: This is a film about a reluctant transexual superheroine; you haven't made it clear in the pitch that the Professor (a mad professor?) has caused the accident, and why, in disgrace and looking for revenge, he doesn't just kill Tony/Tina and make it look like another accident.
Characrers who discover, or are given special powers are by now a stock-in-trade of generations of poems, novels, operas, films and so on, from Achilles to Harry Potter; there is nothing wrong with making transexuality something special, as a plot device, but for this to work I think you need some angle that is different from what can be found in Harriet Potter or Jingle Unchained. Being given a trans-sexual identity as a form of punishment may be risky...but I can see how redeeming the concept by doing good could work -it all depends on the quality of the script, the structure of the story, and whether or not it would work as a film.

I am not dismissing your project, but I don't see mainstream cinema putting money into any film in which the main character is transexualised, unless it is a comedy along the lines of He's a girl! The Hangovers, or Oy Vay, my son is Gay! (which may actually be a good film, if it is full of stereotypes, sort of...)

That film, Jingle Unchained was awesome!

[francisfkudrow]

OK, I have a better idea. Part of the consequences of the "bizarre lab accident" is that every time he uses his powers, he becomes slightly more feminine. He tries to cover it up as he uses his powers to resolve small crises, but then when a big crisis occurs, he is faced with the decision of whether to use his powers to a great degree to resolve the crisis, knowing that he'll be totally, irrevocably be a woman when it's over.

[Prospero]

Nice thought Mr Kudrow