When there's nothing left
 

What would you create as a new genre of film? When all the ideas for what we have now have been tired out, not that most haven't already.

What an interesting idea for a thread...

2nd person movies, where you go through the plot having everything explained to you, like a recipe book.

Actually, that sounds like it would be awful. But different.

Isn't that just like narrration?

Not eactly. narration can also be 3rd person, but 2nd person is instructional, like a recipe or a diagram for setting up a home entertainment system. I think some people have tried this kind of thing in the past, and it would just end up being annoying.

You mean like the Five obstructions, with Lars Von Trier?

maybe a hip hop abstarct horror

I thought it might be a nice idea to have a film from one of the other characters' points of view - so rather than the whole film focusing on the protagonist/hero, it's the story of how the surrounding characters see what's going on. It would be hard to write, though.

I've thought alot about this with music but not so much with movies.I don't think we'll see anything original in our lifetime.

like hip hop musical horror?

i have had an idea bouncing around in my head for years about a movie about 2 characters on opposite sides of a conflict. tehre are two version, each one centering around a single character, and the movies run in line together, same timeline, and overlapping events, but shot from the other's perspective.

Imagine how cool it would be to see trailers for a movie, people go to seperate theaters to see it, and different theaters play a different "side" of the movie, so you techically watched the same movie as the guy across town, but he saw the other side of it.

if it didnyt piss off too many people, it would make a buttload of money. because peopel would be watching it twice, at least.

I want to see a horror ballet.

That's more or less the exact concept I was trying to get across. The fact that there is never one single story, and it all depends on whose side you tell it from.

In fact, it could quite easily develop further, using more characters. What debate it would encourage if we were shown a series from the point of view of all the different characters - it would completely blur the usually well-defined 'Good guy / bad guy scenario. Conceivably you could have different groups of viewers who always watch their favourite character's point of view - it would be brilliant, and the potential for character development is enormous. Sadly it's probably a logistical nightmare, if not impossibility, however.

Even if it is doable, i seriously doubt a major production company would ever pony up the dough for something like that. it would have to be indie.


Piers Anthony did something similar to this in the Incarnations of Immortality series, where portions of all of the books overlapped, and you got to see things from different perspectives. in most of the books, the Devil is evil, but in the devil's book, he is just doing a job that is needed by the cosmos. Pretty interesting.

I'll have to keep an eye out for those books. I must admit, I don't read a lot of horror - it tends to be sci-fi or non-fiction, but I'd be interested to check out what that particular style of writing looks like. Thanks for the info.

No problem. Piers Anthony is more fantasy than anything, but he does some sci fi too. He is huge on clever word games. In "On a Pale Horse", the first book in the series (about Death), there is a part where death fights a preying mantis. He has a book where the characters need to go to hell, and the only way to get there is a handbasket...

in the same world, there are centipedes: pennypedes, dimeapedes, nicklepedes.. you get the idea.