Lesson 4

[David Penn]

David’s 10 Most Interesting Things

1. Go through your project and see which of these specific hooks you have:

A. What is most unique about your villain and hero? Sports crazed fan who chooses a team over his girlfriend. A swindling broker who’s all about image. Russian mobster/bodyguard who’ll do anything to protect his client.

B. Major hook of your opening scene? Charlie’s so engrossed in the hockey game he forgets his and his girlfriend’s anniversary. Also, an ex-player scores the winning goal, much to Charlie’s angst.

C. Any turning points? Decide to go to New York to steal the Stanley Cup. Victor shows a stripper the Cup; she comes back to take it and the guys flee. Car breaks down in Amish country. Reward for the Cup. Kate’s kidnapped. Roski assaulted for losing Cup. Charlie sees all the Rangers fan waiting for the parade.

D. Emotional dilemma? Should Charlie take the $3 million or give the Cup back? Should they save a kidnap Kate or keep going to NYC?

E. Major twists? Plot to steal the Cup. Fleeing from stripper. Reward for Cup- everyone’s after them. Roski assaulted. Charlie rips up the check.

F. Reversals? Amish kid tries to steal their car. Fenix backs out of the $1 million payment, then Victor cons him into making it $3 million. Kate outwits the kidnapper.

G. Character betrayals? Victor nearly bails on Charlie and sells the Cup. Victor lies to Charlie about wanting to help Charlie- only doing it for money. Charlie rips up check. betraying Victor

H. Or any big surprises? Ripping up check. Stripper coming back armed. Amish kid trying to steal car.

2. Make a list of any other things in your script that could interest a producer. The arc of the characters. The theme of life priorities. The parody of sports obsessed fans.

3. Organize both and select the 10 most interesting things. Post those to the forums.

* Steal the Stanley Cup

* $1 million reward, nationwide manhunt

* Charlie’s dad needs surgery- can’t afford

* Rich collector will pay $3 million

* Roski assaulted

* Kate kidnapped

* Lose heartbreaker game- Roski scores winning goal

* Charlie forgets anniversary

* Russian mobster chases them to NYC

* Charlie rips up $3 million check, gives Cup back

4. Answer the question “What I learned doing this assignment is…?” and post it at the top of your work. I learned the importance of being concise with your pitch and only telling the most interesting events in the script.

[Jalynn Venis]

Jalynn’s 10 Most Interesting Things

What I learned doing this assignment is there are all kinds of hooks and it’s not hard to identify them.

Specific Hooks:

a. Unique about the villain: Hunter’s “dead” father returns to his life as an ex-con.

Unique about the hero: The first time Hunter “acts out” he gets caught by police and thrown in juvie court.

b. Major hook of opening scene: Hunter’s “dead” father comes home.

c. Turning points: When he sees his dad, Hunter realizes his mother has been lying to him all his life and has an emotional breakdown.

d. Emotional dilemma?

-Hunter confronts his father who tracks him to a state fair and has to decide whether or not to kill him for killing his mother.

e. Major twists:

-This violin-playing “A” student gets angry and is recruited by a thief to assist in a robbery.

-Hunter falls for a horse, then gets his first crush on a girl who’s a better cowboy than he is.

f. Reversals: When an angry Hunter gets to Promise Ranch, the connection he has with the mustang inspires him, mellows him, and gives him something new and important to live for.

g. Character betrayals:

-Hunter’s father terrorizes his mother and eventually kills her.

h. Big surprises:

–Hunter’s horse alerts him to a rattlesnake before it strikes.

[Jon Scheide]

Jon C. Scheide 10 Most Interesting Things

“What I learned doing this assignment is…” the hidden marketable elements that were already in the story, but I had not yet identified.

1. The story revolves around celebrity crime, sports betting and corrupt cops.
2. The Detective HERO is perceived as having fallen from grace, but is actually honest and honorable. While the pro football player VILLAIN is perceived as honorable and heroic but is actually corrupt<font color=”#343434″ face=”Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif” size=”2″>.</font>
3. The female characters are strong, smart and capable
4. Marty, the detective, a decorated MP, disgraced cop now turned PI, opens by serving a subpoena on a dead-beat dad that has just had a vasectomy.
5. Claire, the HEROINE, is not only the victim of Spousal Abuse but also a threat to the crooked gamblers manipulating her husband.
6. Even though Marty was a “stand up guy” took the fall for his cop family, he realizes that they are never going to have his back and that he is on his own.
7. Marty’s own reputation for helping people disappear backfires when the football player husband tries to hire him, but then realizes that Marty was the one who helped his wife in the first place.\
8. Claire begins to wonder if she is falling for with Marty, but she knows the smart move is to choose safety over love.
9. Marty knows that he has fallen for Claire, but helps her disappear because, to him, her safety is more important that his happiness.
10. When a mysterious plane ticket arrives Marty knows, in his gut, that it’s a one time offer, one way and maybe his one chance a true love, he just has to walk away from everything else.

[Jack Sherry]

LESSON 4 – THE 10 MOST INTERESTING THINGS

What I learned from this lesson is that I better have 10 interesting things in the story.

Logline: When an unsuccessful, fast-talking Alabama TV product pitch man who is also a great chess player comes to L.A., he finds that he can’t relate to the California ladies. The other members of his chess club have the same problem but the only female member of their club, a dog groomer, comes to their rescue by secretly renting them the dogs she grooms so they can walk them to meet women. Hitch meets Cheers at the dog park.

1. In this RomCom, the male protagonist, THATCHER, 30’s, is interesting because he rents time on local TV stations to promote his own unusual, crazy products, such as his Alien Abduction Kit. His female counterpart, DANA, 20’s, who has a strong distrust of men, is interesting because she is the only female member of the local chess club and is also a dog whisperer in the vein of Cesar Millan.

2. The opening hook is a chess game in which the two protagonists meet and play each other with lightning speed while engaging in an otherwise normal conversation, ending with the TV product pitch man using his fast-talking pitch voice to take her off her game.

3. The first turning point is when the female protagonist loses the chess game, but then uses her own fast-talking pitch voice to convince the chess players of her club to rent the dogs she grooms so they can walk them to meet women, with her as their dating coach.

4. Another turning point comes when Thatcher declines her offer to rent a dog but instead gets a dog from the animal shelter, but fails miserably and then decides to join the “Kennel Club”.

5. Another turning point comes when he fails with the rented dogs but finds that some homeless men enjoy the pets. He rents them anyway so Dana will think he is a lady’s man. When she discovers the truth, she uses her coaching skills to take him off his game and this time she wins the match.

6. Dana has an emotional dilemma when she realizes she is attracted to Thatcher, allows him to use her own dog, ECHO, to leave with the homeless people he has met, but Echo has been trained to find women and finds CHELSEA, 20’s for Thatcher.

7. A major twist occurs when Dana, who coaches the men to learn about the dogs of the women they are interested in because the dogs can teach them about the women’s personalities, finds out her own dog Echo wants her to be with her nemesis, Thatcher.

8. A Major Betrayal occurs when her partner, DESHON, 30’s, an Uber driver who takes the men away from the grooming business so the owners won’t find out their dogs are being rented out by Dana, spills the beans when caught transporting one of the dogs.

9. Faced with going out of business, Thatcher saves the day for Dana with an interesting new invention, the “Scoop N’ Seal, a cross between a Car Vac and a Seal A Meal meant to pick up dog poop with no fuss or muss, which he successfully sells on TV after Dana tells him it’s ridiculous.

10. When Thatcher once again wants to use Echo to find a woman, Echo refuses to go and instead gets behind Thatcher and pushes him to Dana, showing Thatcher that the dog knows best, that he should be with Dana.

[George Schwimmer]

George Schwimmer’s 10 Most Interesting Things

What I learned doing this assignment is not to give book reports but to cherry pick the most interesting aspects of my screenplays.

10 Hooks (most interesting things)

Most unique about hero and villain

1. The hero, Adam, a falsely discharged former CIA agent, becomes able to travel through time. The villain, once a renegade CIA assassin, now an eighty-year-old U.S. Senator, is a key member of a murderous cabal.

Major hook of opening scene

2. Dreaming he is King Arthur fighting a dragon, Adam is symbolically shown he soon will be confronted with human ‘dragons’, with Death and with the long ago tragic deaths of his parents.

Turning point

3. Adam’s close friend Lance is murdered, and Adam is arrested for the murder.

Emotional dilemma

4. Adam is now on the razor’s edge: either he stands back and does nothing about Lance’s murder and a cabal’s assassination plot or else he re-enters the world of intrigue he had put behind him six months earlier.

5. Legendary Merlin the Magician appears to Adam as a flamboyant young Black man, who is able to change any aspect of his appearance at will and to appear and disappear.

Reversal

6. Adam is captured and physically abused but escapes with the help of three street kids he has befriended.

Turning points

7. Taught time travel by Merlin, Adam goes to the past, is shot, almost dies but travels to the year 3023 to be healed by a future—and even more frenetic—self of Merlin,

Big surprises

8. Searching out his own far past, Adam meets his five-year-old self.

9. Adam discovers a former Soviet spy who knew his father—and learns his father also had been a CIA operative and had been murdered by the villain fifty years earlier.

Major twist

10. Adam’s love interest, Jenny, is shot and killed but is healed and revived by the future Merlin.

And other twists, turns and surprises, which often are layered with humor and verbal fireworks between Merlin and Adam.

[Peter Saltzman]

Peter Saltzman’s 10 most interesting Things

What I learned: since I’m redoing my series, starting in what was the 2nd season (which I’ve only outlined), I’m finding a lot of missing “data.” That includes interesting things. I thought I had plenty. I needed more. So I went ahead and created some…

1. The entire universe is comprised of a piano bar enclosed in a mega-grocery and a parking lot where everything is broken. The year is 1974; the date is always August 7th.
2. Jacob’s sole purpose is to play entertaining music in the piano bar, but he only plays dark, twisted music for himself.
3. Inventory manager Bobo tracks and scores everyone’s actions. It seems like a game. People with lower rankings begin to lose their tangibility and must “outscore” another patron or worker to get it back.
4. As the store dwellers become more focused inward, they gain powers, but the universe shrinks to the size of a 7/11. When they work together for the common good, the universe expands but loses its stability.
5. Odd corollaries to modern tech: People are absorbed in their tablets, meaning notebooks they keep writing stuff in, tearing out pages, and throwing them in the trash. Throwing notes at each other. Characters have handheld mirrors they pull out to look at themselves.
   
6. Mike is ephemeral, not real. But he’s the one that can save them from oblivion. But can they trust a “ghost” from another universe?
7. Characters oddly invent things that didn’t exist in 1974. Barb invents hip-hop, which everyone rejects.
8. It looks like we’re in a 1970s grocery store, but then a customer grabs some detergent, and it disappears in his hand. He complains to an employee and then moves on.
9. Mike has special powers, but they are, for us, just normal. Regular physics applies to him, and the other characters distrust him because of it.
10. The entire first season is a setup. When the ensemble finally escapes the bubble universe, it is revealed that we have been watching a TV show in 2099. The stars are characters on the real show.

[Duane T Basham]

Tom’s 10 Most Interesting Things

What I learned about this is a better way to organize the pitch.

1. A story about the way most people feels on New Years Eve.

2. A young man programmed to work to be happy has to be reprogrammed to allow himself to be happy.

3. A young man makes a wish on New Years Eve to leap forward a year when he knows he will be successful and happy – but is only half right.

4. Rick meets a Monk can make a wish a self-fulfilling prophecy.

5. Now to stay present he must find out who and what gives him true happiness, or his life and everyone he loves will pass him by.

6. Rick has money but he’s not happy.

7. How many people swear, “I’ll be happy when – – – “

8. The journey to find happiness is different than the journey to find success.

9. Rick’s so involved in his quest for success he’s not there for his best friend, or his father and the results are tragic.

10. Rick does not know what it takes to change his programming.

[Camilla Erlandsdotter]

What I’ve learned.

There’s twists and interesting things in each A-plot, B-plot and C-plot. Here, I focussed on the love story (B-plot in pilot).

10 most interesting things:

Unique protagonist(s):

Samuel: The broken man. Full of contradictions. He’s a hitman and deeply religious – so won’t
kill on Sabbath. He’s quiet and withdrawn and shows his emotions, but also a cold blooded killer that instills fear in his victims. A family man, that leaves a family and friends dinner
“to go for a walk”.

Anna (his love interest): turns from the quiet, obedient daughter who ignores her own emotions and ambitions into a rebel with a voice.

From the Pilot:

Turning Points:

Samuel and his blood brother and partner in crime – Jacob – robs the worn speakeasy. Now they have a blood thirty local gang lord after them.

Samuel
and Anna fall in love.

Emotional Dilemma: Both Anna and Samuel knows this love cannot be.

Major twists: Just as the double date is going great – the protagonist, Nathan, disrupts it and Samuel is in deadly peril.

Reversals: The obedient Anna hears her father is arranging her wedding with a stranger and decides to go out on a double date with Samuel – who she initially turned down – and lie to her parents about it.

Character betrayal: Jacob
abandons Samuel when he only has money to bribe the dirty coppers for himself.

Other things:

· Authentic description of battle – from inside of a World War I tank!

· A Needle Union representative is chased by company guards in the Garment factory when she’s calling for a strike.

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[Ian Patrick Williams]

Ian Patrick’s 10 Most Interesting Things

What I learned doing this assignment is to focus on the things that will sell the pitch.

A. What is unique about your villain and hero

Hero: Miles Broussard

New to the detective squad, he’s impatient with the bureaucracy to the point of going against the orders of his Lieutenant and the consulting FBI agent in order to stop the coming attack..

Villain: Carl Tilson

Ex-military and radicalized by the American Storm Troopers, he will use his sniper training to try and bring about a new Civil War

B. Major hook of the opening scene

Broussard and his senior partner are assigned to witness a Neo-Nazi march where a car deliberately strikes one of the marchers, who then falsely blames it on the Black Lives Matter protesters.

C. Any turning points

After a long distance shooting death, Broussard turns to an old Army buddy at the VA to let him go through records that might identify radicalized sharp-shooters who have recently been discharged.

Broussard finds emptied fertilizer bags in the garage of the AST leader, leading him to conclude that they’re planning another Oklahoma City bombing.

D. Emotional dilemma

After being pulled off the case, Broussard starts drinking heavily and abandons his new girlfriend.

E. Major twist

Broussard’s hunch causes the FBI to follow the AST leader’s truck. Allegedly loaded with the explosive fertilizer, it barrels toward City Hall where the visiting Governor will be giving a speech on the front steps. The stop and search shows the truck to be empty and Broussard realizes he’s been set up by the AST to fail.

F. Reversals

Convinced that a plot will still go forward, Broussard deduces that the Governor is still the target but from the sniper posted half a mile away.

G. Character betrayal

Brossard’s Lieutenant pulls him off the case despite all of his work in disclosing the identities and plans of the AST members.

H. Big surprises

Broussard is captured by the sniper who informs him that he’s going to be framed for the assassination, followed by his ‘suicide’.

[Kathleen Martin]

Kathy’s 10 Most Interesting Things

What I learned doing this assignment is thinking about my story and finding the most interesting things that would attract a producer.

A. The most unique thing about my villain and hero is that it’s a Love Story. Young Newlyweds moving to a different country and the man uses the cultural to abuse his new wife.

B. The major hook of my opening scene is that they are in Saudi Arabia, and the hero learns her world is changing by abuse. Her new husband starts verbally abusing her.

C. The turning points are when she starts to stand up to him, it gets worse.

D. The emotional dilemma is the hero is at a disadvantage living in Saud Arabia because the culture is different than America.

E. The Major Twists are the hero finds a support system in Saudi Arabia.

F. The Reversals are people are seeing his abuse towards her.

G. The Character Betrayals are the villain is not the loving supportive husband the hero thought he was. He is selfish and only thinks about himself.

H. The big surprise is the hero eventually leaves and comes back home and goes into marriage counseling where she is told he is abusive and a psychotic.

10 most interesting things:

1. It’s a true story.

2. Saudi Arabia is in the news today.

3. Women Rights are changing.

4. Domestic Violence is a concerning cause.

5. Saudi Arabia is a country where women are second class citizens.

6. America is slowly becoming like Saudi Arabia with losing women’s rights and the fight over religion.

7. One can fight back with the proper support system.

8. Things are not what they think they are.

9. People change.

10. Domestic Violence is more common than people want to believe. Knowing the signs can help others before they get involved in with an abusive partner.

[Lindy Baker]

Lindy Baker’s 10 Most Interesting Things

What I learned doing this assignment is to look for specific items to brainstorm and choose the most exciting ones that will help convince a producer that I have a movie that will sell. I had to dig deep into what my script contains that would be of high interest to a producer and an audience.

A.
What is most unique about your villain and hero

The hero resents her ability and refutes its value for herself. She’s an intelligent, educated and elegant person with a sense of humor but highly frustrated in not being able to stop events before they happen. She appears totally together, but she is hanging psychologically on the edge.

The Antagonist is not shown as a specific individual. The story has to unravel suspect by suspect. We think it is the mother, then the beauty shop owner, and then major terrifying evidence is found and a series of life-threatening events occur that indicate this is a collection of faceless people running a child trafficking ring.

B.
Major hook of your opening scene

A woman watches the Twin Towers as they are bombed by planes and she envisioned it, but could not stop it even though she sought the help of the Secret Service and FBI.
Twenty years later, she is still trying to find a way to stop or at least change events that she envisions by working on cases to find missing children and the perverts who took them. This case in particular is very important because of the reluctance of police to believe her in a prior case.

C. Any turning points
1) The mother of the missing child lies about the child’s whereabouts, and then meets the press as if she is modeling for them so her behavior is suspect.

2) After a man has reported seeing a woman lead the child away, the beauty shop owner is caught dressed with a wig and uniform looking very much like a woman.

3) A clue of rainbow placards, rainbow dreams, is found to be a city instead, or so we think.

4) A second child is missing with the same sequence of events, so this appears to be a serial killer, but later evidence proves this wrong.

D. Emotional dilemma

The main emotional dilemma is that the Protagonist must decide if she is to continue on this dangerous path of faceless criminals with the possibility of being killed, or to walk away without finding the child.

E. Major twists
1) After a meltdown, finding herself without a GPS for directions, the psychic stops in the middle of nowhere for directions and uncovers a mobile home packed with shocking evidence.
2) Upon the arrival of the friend from Los Angeles, who is a cop, the evidence is completely, impossibly gone.

3) Although her cellphone is stolen, she has photo evidence anyway, and it is NOT on the cloud.

2. Make a list of any other things in your script that could interest a producer.

– This story is inspired by a true story

– The Protagonist does not fit pre-conceived notions of what a psychic should be, feel or believe.
– This is a low to mid-budget movie.
– It is a contained movie in that it is a smaller cast with few locations.
– It is a strong female lead that could fit Amanda Tosch, Elizabeth Chambers
– Main characters have varied ethnic backgrounds.
– Westerns like Yellowstone and 1883 are hits right now, so the Warner Stallion Ranch adds a bit of cowboy.

[Rita Roberts]

Rita’s 10 Most Interesting Things

What I learned doing this assignment:

This sounded hard at first but reading through the assignment, the 10 things aren’t skillfully written to captivate at this point, they’re just listed. Phew!

1. A lonely professor teaches about honesty and mental health… and then tells a massive lie to get a date.
2. Dawn pretends to have a painting company when she meets a handsome contractor.
3. A ramshackle crew crew of colorful characters is assembled at random from a parking lot.
4. Dilemma — Does Dawn come clean, stop the charade and lose her chance at dating Tom or does she continue the charade, date Tom, but lose him when he finds out?
5. Tom finds out Dawn lied to him about having a painting company — AFTER he asks her on a date AND she signs a contract with him to paint a house.
6. Dawn and Tom’s mom get together by accident which turns Tom around to heal his relationship with his mother.
7. Tom, the antagonist, has a series of betrayals in his life, Dawn’s lie about being a painting contractor is just the latest.
8. Zak falls from a ladder, bringing everyone together and all unspoken conflicts exposed.
9. Dawn’s tru love shows up because Zak is in the hospital. He’s looking for work because Blue Moon has taken all the painting jobs in town.
10. Instead of dating, Tom and Dawn go into business together. (Is this a reversal when it’s at the end?)

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[L.D.Janakos]

LD – 10 most interesting things

What I learned: Listing these has helped me refine and reframe the story for the second draft.

What is most unique about two RomCom characters? Jaxon suffers from multiple social phobias but is a very popular podcast and radio host; Angela, an outspoken public speaker on animal rights, can smell trauma and suffers from the fear of small and closed places and heights.

· Major hook of your opening scene? Jaxon interviews 3 people on his podcast. He plays three different roles and operates all equipment or sound effects himself. Think a highly competent, confident and dexterous Woody Allen at work. He does everything at superior quality except for one thing, which makes for a comedic moment. End of show, end of confidence.

· Any turning points: 1. Jaxon tries to return support pets. But instead he gets pulled into Angela’s world of boycotting the pet store where he’s taking back the way too social support dog and the support turtle that won’t come out its shell. . His support dog is the hero, and both Jaxon and his dog have Angela’s attention. 2. Angela’s house gets burned down and she has to temporarily move in with Jaxon.

Emotional dilemma? Angela wants Jaxon to go to a phobia support group with her. Jaxon resists

.Reversals? Angela discovers pet sleeping pills in Jaxon’s kitchen drawer and breaks off her friendship with Jaxon.Major twists? Angela gets kidnapped moments before she is to speak at a conference and name pet stores that are drugging animals for an easy sale. Emotional dilemma? 1 Jaxon wants to help rescue Angela from kidnappers but his social anxiety holds him back. 2. Angela wants to get romantic but worries that Jaxon’s social phobias and her own phobia will sabotage them. Character betrayals? 1. Teapot a kidnapper betrays the other kidnappers to help Jaxon and Angela. 2. Angela’s nemesis reveals to the kidnappers that Angela has a fear of heights.Big surprises? The kidnappers are actually illegally selling exotic animals.

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[David Holloway]

Dave’s 10 Most interesting things

What I learned in this assignment is that my story seems to have a good number of interesting aspects, and also that I need to give the antagonist a more rounded, fully developed personality.

1. Story takes place 50 years in the future, when America has divided into a series of independent states based on ideology (an environmental state, an evangelical Christian state), primary source of income (business state, mining state) or identity (Native-American state).

2. Different states are in vastly different shape due to their central focus (business state is heavily polluted and its working class is rebelling against it because of terrible wages and working conditions)

3. The protagonist and his best friend undertake a long and very hazardous journey together. Though they’re good friends, they’re temperamentally very different: one is intellectual, somewhat timid, very moral, while the other is physical, enjoys getting into fights, and lives a much more physical than cerebral life.

4. The protagonist has never even been in a fist fight but must resort to violence several times during the course of the story, including in the climactic scenes.

5. The other protagonist is a 25-year-old woman journalist who displays great courage under the most harrowing circumstances, as she is imprisoned in a military state by a sadistic warden and scheduled for execution.

6. The two young men travel from a business state that is very polluted to an adjoining environmental state that is thriving with healthy flora and fauns.

7. They meet three young Native-American men on a train and end up taking part in a gun battle between Native-Americans and hunters unwilling to recognize the rights of the Native-Americans.

8. One state is run by the Mafia and has been allowed to have few laws, which the other states agreed to because they hoped it would draw criminals away from their states.

9. The young woman is imprisoned in a military state that is fascist and repressive of individual rights.

10 The protagonist is shot at in four different states and wounded in one of them.

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[Michael HARRIS]

Michael L Harris – 10 most Interesting Things

Today I Learned That finding the most interesting parts of the script is the starting point for constructing a good pitch.

The 10 Most Interesting Things in My Script

1. Six-year-old, Simon is psychic.

2. Elise, struggling with feelings of inferiority and inadequacy, decides to foster a child.

3. Simon appears from out of the woods and hands, Elise, a stranger, a button.

4. Simon sees a vison of the man who knows what happened to his mother.

5. Simon’s explanation of his abilities using a puppet.

6. The “man,” Dr. Whitcombe is a world-renowned leader in organ transplants he’s also Simon mother’s killer.

7. … And is Simon’s father.

8. Dr. Whitcombe runs a nursing home for children with unusual medical challenges, and he is using them as stock for his organ farm, He deals on the black market.

9. Simon and Elise’s escape through a rat-infested tunnel at the end of which they find Tommy, Whitcombe’s son and Simon’s twin brother.

10. Simon has a twin brother, who was in a serious car accident, Whitcombe created the organ farm to keep him alive.

[Mario Garcia]

Jani’s Ten Most Interesting Things

1. Unique: My hero, Becky, is mildly autistic and towards the end of LIVE FOREVER, she kills the antagonist, Jet, with a garrote.

2. Intrigue: In the opening scene, Joe sees his dead father’s ghost and wonders, will he be next?

3. Turning point #1: Jet shows up at Joe’s Serpentarium Show and let’s all of his poisonous snakes loose.

4. Turning Point #2: Becky decides to move in with Joe and join him as a vigilante.

5. Twist: At first, it looks like Jet’s going to kill Becky and instead she winds up killing him with a garrote instead.

6. Surprise: Three months after Joe dies, Becky goes back to New York City. While she’s in Central Park, Becky sees a baby that has the same beauty mark under his left eye, like Joe had.

7. Reveal: The baby turns out to be the reincarnation of Joe and it’s revealed in the sequel.

8. Emotional Dilemma: In the sequel, Jet reincarnates and turns out to be Joe’s girlfriend, Tej.

9. Intrigue: While Becky’s crossing the street in New York City, she gets hit by a van with a picture of a large, green snake on it and dies.

10. Surprise: Becky reincarnates and meets Joe in another lifetime and they fall in love again.