HOW YOU CAN GET AN IDEA FOR YOUR MOVIE?

Many movie goers and movie lovers always have a desire to develop a good story. These talents can be easily achieved, in a meanwhile many could have easily given up too.

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HOW YOU CAN GET AN IDEA FOR YOUR MOVIE?

The first thing as film screen writer, you are looking for is a really good "hook" idea for a movie. That memorable one-liner that everyone will tell their friends the next day after seeing your movie.

Get paper and a pencil. Here are some ways to find hooks.

Keep a journal. 
Most writers keep journals of their thoughts and ideas. Over time you will develop a rich storehouse of ideas that you can go back to again and again.

Practice.
You may not have exercised your "idea muscle" for years. The more you try to come up with ideas the more ideas you will come up with.

Write down the first thing that comes into your mind. 
Do it right now. Then keep writing. Give it at least five minutes, and write something. Most people give up much too quickly ... or never get started.

The daily newspaper. 
There are at least five good ideas in every single daily issue of any big city newspaper.

Read obituaries.
Newspapers try to include the occasional obituary of people who weren't famous but lived amazing or at least interesting lives.

Idea, An Ultimate Weapon

Look at cartoons.
I think the New Yorker is especially good. Their cartoons often have a delicious blend of irony, naivety and sophistication that can spark new ideas.

Listen to your family. 
Those funny and embarrassing old family stories might start you on your way to a funny family comedy.

Listen to your friends. 
One person's problems, issues, solutions and triumphs are interesting to all people.

Go for a walk. 
You might see something funny or ironic, along the way and just the act of getting out of the house may open your eyes to new things.

Take a shower. 
Relaxing in the shower or a bath is a great way to open the channels to your subconscious.

Turn off your inner critic. 
Your goal is to come up with lots of ideas and most of them won't be very good but if you start trying to sort out the good from the bad at this point you'll block all new ideas.

Find a time and place. 
If you set aside a time and place for writing your subconscious will start to automatically go into creative mode. You have the power to control some part of your time. Take the phone off the hook. Get up earlier. Stay up later. Explain to your children and spouse that you need some time to yourself. Stop doing something that isn't really important.
Turn off the television. You do not need to see the latest installment of whatever is your favorite TV show at the moment. Most people have been brainwashed into being compulsive consumers of entertainment. Time to shift gears into being a creator of entertainment.

Write words. 
Any words. The next word that pops into your head ... write it down. Keep doing it for a while then stop and look for patterns and themes.
Read the classics. Project Gutenberg has 17,000 literary works that are generally out of copyright and free to use. How many time has Romeo and Juliet been rewritten into a new book or movie? If you can't come up with an original idea, copy an old idea. It's done all the time.

Watch an old movie. 
You may not be able to get permission to remake the entire film, but ideas aren't protected. You can incorporate a few plot devices, concepts, character types and many other things from other works into yours. Just do it in an original way.

List the ten most important events in your life. 
What changed you? What made you the person you are? Pick the most interesting one.

Remember someone you hurt. 
Maybe you did it on purpose or maybe it was accidental. Put yourself in their shoes. What would you have done.

Think about someone you hate. 
This should be the most despicable human being you have ever run against. Make up a story of how they got to be that way.

Write what you know. 
Your world may seem pretty dull to you but it may seem very exotic to the rest of the world, especially if you can find offbeat characters and situations.

ALL THE BEST!!!

*************HAPPY FILM MAKING*************

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7aam Arivu - Yet another very good attempt in Tamil cinema, but missed out the pace of the screenplay and can be categorized into documentary genre

7aam Arivu : Yet another very good attempt in Tamil cinema, but missed out the pace of the screenplay and can be categorized into documentary genre.

This is my first experience to watch any movie at a time of around 1:30 A.M First day First Show premiere in a theater. I was thrilled and excited. Why I have to? It could be a regular flick having  a usual ingredients but the ingredients’ are more scientific influential.

Why this film is much hyped? How will the movie would be? How Surya is performed? Will the much hyped movie get all along success? With so many question I entered into theater and came out with a answer of Big ‘NO’. The movie was not up to the grade mark of either surya’s or a.r.murugadoss previous film especially in screenplay department. This movie doesn’t  worth for a 1:30 A.M First day First show ShowTime rather its worth enough to spend a time in leisure manner to recollect the pages of Indian history on world perspective. The movie can be watchable only once.

7aam Arivu is a Tamil science-fiction movie which documented the biography of the person called Bodhidharman  who is a pallava king goes to China from Kanchipuram, India and becomes as a Buddhist Monk, helping the people in China with his extra-ordinary skills.

This movie is about genetic engineering to bring back the ability and capability of our ancestors to our DNA using Genetic memory research. The research scientist role is played by Shruti Haasan who don’t need a introduction who she is. We can see Kamalhaasan’s face through her in many scenes. She is pretty enough though.

May be the film can be a successful one if the promotions of the film may restricted to the threshold limit which may be considerably reduce the hype to the nominal effect.

The first 20 minutes of the film is caught in the frame as a documentary mode for the life history of Bodhidharman  and also it’s a new attempt in Tamil Cinema. These type of introduction to the story can be available only in a Hollywood flick. The introduction scene is just seems like one of the Hollywood movie dubbed in Tamil language.

This attempt stands out from the regular cinema formula in India. This attempt is really commendable and appreciable.

Johnny Tri Nguyen

Surya’s underplayed his role and he just acted merely like a director’s actor in spite of his value in the cine market.  The real performance value is gained by Shruthi and the Vietnam actor Johnny. Shruthi character is well framed and helps to travel the story but moving with a slow pace.  Johnny’s character is the only promising character and meets the expected value. Surya’ has no scope in this movie but he is tremendous in making himself down to help in documenting the life history of Bodhidharman ’s and contributing to the world. He is stunning in Bodhidharman’s cast.

Even the director says he has done under enough research for this movie but many facts are literally in false mood and results in a bad show off.

The worst part of the movie, may be the pulse which drives the movie from the Good state to bad state is the Music and the background score. Harris Jayaraj “A factory of Shit and crap music” who has no diversity in copying all genre of music available in the world. The background score is not at his best for a story like this.

• Taxi Taxi paatu (Oh Ringa Ringa),
• 12b whistle (Mun Andhi),
• Mudhal Mazhai + Kannum Kannum Nokia (Yellae Lama),
• Kanney Kalaimaane (Yamma Yamma),
• Baba Black Sheep Theme (chinese song).  - [Info Courtesy from a friend]

7aam Arivu holds a good story and excellent plot to excel but missed the awful chance to produce the entertaining thriller movie. I came across many mixed type of reviews from the internet but my choice would be this movie can be watchable only once in order to appreciate the endeavor of the new beginning in Indian Cinema.

These type of movie don’t need a song sequence and bullshitting love scenes & romantic songs. These market value ingredients’ should be avoided in a film taken for a pride. The international audiences can amazed with this movie for our traditional life as we do so with their movies.

Trivia: 7aam Arivu is going to be remade in Hindi with Aamir khan and Shruthihasan in a lead role. Sure, the story gets a another chance to correct its mistake and achieve its pace in Hindi version. Link here.

7aam Arivu, If you are tired enough to search about who is Bodhidharman in Internet, please go to the 7aam Arivu movie to know him. If you search in Google,  the Google will list this movie along with Wikipedia for a reference.

7aam Arivu

6/10

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Oceans Trilogy - Eleven - Twelve - Thirteen

Just had a bunch of curious to know how the much awaited film of Ajith’s Mangatha evince the audience which is considered to be an adopted or inspired whatever the word from the Hollywood’s blockbuster Ocean series.

As a result, drives me to watch the Ocean trilogy in a single day. The Ocean series starts from the first part which is Ocean 11. Ocean 11 is an American thriller and thievery type of story consists of 11 intelligent thieves who are engaged in robbing the vault which contains 150 million dollars from 3 main casinos’ in Las Vegas, Nevada.

This movie will provide you a virtual tour to Las Vegas, one of the best places in the earth. This city holds all the famous casinos and targeted as best shopping spot.

This movie has a full of thrill and suspense. If we are not travelling with same velocity along with the movie, surely we might miss the flow and the plot. The rob type of story is always a special and we have a multiple ways to show case our intelligence in tailing from one scene to another. With No doubt, Ocean 11 satisfies this.

Ocean 11 starring George Clooney as Danny Ocean, Brad Pitt as Rusty Ryan, Matt Damon as Linus Caldwell directed by Steven Soderbergh. This movie will represent as lusciousness for many filmmakers. There is no surprise if the film will be an inspiration for upcoming movies on robbery, we will surprise only if it is not copied yet. Brad Pitt who is always a stylish actor always eating some junk food in every scene reminded me the Prabhu character in the Movie Billa. The every scene has its own unique suspense and we are able to notice the acting skill of all the actors which are very beautiful to see. The Background score is just awesome. It increases the intensity level to the peak.

Las Vegas, Nevada

Many scenes were infused in Tamil cinema and we are the witnesses. I don’t want to mention the story board here as it leads to spoiler and recommend to experience by you yourself.

The drawbacks for the movies were you may feel bore and felt asleep at the initial stage and the story was not clearly screen played. The first part in all the three parts was diluted a bit but as scene moves between Clooney and Brad, it was very classy to see them both.

Trivia: Waiting for Mangatha, the tamil version of Ocean’s Eleven (which is considered as rumors) and let’s wait and watch whether we will appreciate or ditch.

Oceans Eleven, Twelve, Thirteen – A complete reference and directory to the directors who has an idea to make a movie on robbery. The director was successful through his finest cast crew.

Oceans Trilogy

7/10

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Shor In The City

Shor In The City, one of the best movies in Hindi film industry. Multiple story plot will always makes its mark in all the way. 

The story starts with 5 different casts and their life style in Mumbai city. The transformation from one character to another charter and the sequence of getting their own karma back is really a pleasant to watch. 

Best part of the movie is the pace. The pace of the movie was held right from the beginning and everyone in the film is in search of something. As like Hollywood, Bollywood also has a separate division as casting director and it’s good to know that they are succeeded. Every cast lives in their character.

There are no obstacles in the screenplay and no hindrance in its travel by unwanted songs. Sendhil Ramamurthy, an US based NRI shines in his character and his character shows how society turns a good one to bad or even ugly. But he shines to eminence and receives our applause. 

The movie is mixed with comedy and dark face of terror. The music plays a vital part in holding the sensation throughout the film. 

To be honest, I am not interested in watching Hindi movies often other than Aamir’s production. The world can address India in many ways but the most probable way is definitely through Bollywood. Two things are most famous in India, one is Cricket and another one is Bollywood. 

Bollywood cinemas will follow a particular formula if one of the films turns up with good profit. For example, if a smuggler type of story succeeds, we can expect the same type of story followed by. But I could say, there are some couple of good movies was released recent times in Bollywood which impresses me a lot.  A shor in the city is one of them. It insists in Karma is a Bitch.

Shor In The City

8/10

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Deiva Thirumagal, a perfect classy film which will make you wipes your eyes.

Deiva Thirumagal presents itself as a much awaited movie of 2011 for people to know whether the movie will bag a best performance in all sides or it is better than the original version Hollywood flick “I am Sam”. 

If you haven’t watched I am Sam before, then this film would be a impressing film for the Tamil audience. But if you do, then you may be ended up with disappointment like I do.The saddest part is there are no due credit given to the original version and many of the scenes are looted as it looks like in the previous.

The remaking job is not as easy as it needs a special effort to sculpt your mind with other’s chisel. There is no sin in bringing a master piece to every set of audience nevertheless in what language the film is.

AL Vijay did a good job in presenting a story with almost major alteration in the 2^nd half screenplay to do reflect as the story is occurring between Krishna and Nila.

Chiyaan Vikram proves again as an ace actor by representing himself as mentally disable person with the behavior of 6 years old kid.There are few scenes where the screen will get blur until your hands wipes off your tears. We will get a felling of crying only if we travels along with the character, no doubt Chiyaan will make us to travel. 

The classy part is the conversation between the Vikram and a cute girl Baby Sarah which will melts your heart. The Baby girl is so elegant and did better than Dakota fanning in English version.Before Intermission, either Vikram performance or Anushka’ one, I was literally visualized to Sean Penn & Michelle Pfeiffer respectively.  After the interval, Chiyaan stands off and instructs this is my film.One of the plus factors to the film is GV Prakash’s music as it turns minus too for his repetitive copy cat. Proof here.

Overall, it was a good attempt in presenting the Hollywood film in the smell of Kollywood at almost. 

Trivia: I am Sam part was unofficially remade in Bollywood in the name of Main Aisa Hi Hoon. When comparing with this Deiva Thirumagal is far better with some changes.

Deiva Thirumagal, a perfect classy film which will make you wipes your eyes.
7.5/10

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Limitless

Limitless.., The story starts from the climax scene, as we already witnessed in many movies before. A writer (Eddie), who blinks under the blinking cursor to start a book and feels lazy to concentrate in writing, As a result of his career goes to question mark, his girl friend broke up and decided to move away from him.

After broke up, Eddie Morra (Bradley Cooper) walking along with the road and gets a chance to meet his ex-wife’s brother who is a drug dealer. Eddie gets a chance to experience a new energizing drug for brain to work at 100% from him.

The Drug works pretty well and he experiences the effect by the way he is pleasing his landlord’s wife over a no rent issues. Due to the adrenaline flush of the drug, he was able to create more thoughts and finally he came up with some 500 pages book in an overnight. The publishers were impressed with his work and decided to make profit with his work. Eddie got greedy and went up to his brother in law for more drugs which is named as NZT. The drug dealer uses Eddie to get his laundries and breakfast from shops because he is a target victim to be killed by his market competitors. Eddie reached the apartment, he found him dead and the house was dug into for drugs. He informed 911 about the murder, and started searching the NZT. He got a bunch of drug along with cash under the kitchen stove.

From that incident, he uses the drug to open a mind for his 100% output and gets flourished in all forms of business in particular stock trading. In between he goes through all type of situation and screenplay flows without any flaws.

The transition between before drug and after drug effect by the Eddie was visualized so remarkably. The excellent thriller makes us unpredictable the very next scene and living along with a writer. Even though, it’s a good commercial flick which tries with little hard to come under the category of science-fiction.

This movie has a new type of name title sequence which was not found in any of the movies before and it's a brand new one. As sum up, Limitless was a good movie to pass some 2 hours with Eddie Morra.

Limitless, A drug which provides limitless energy, stimulates to achieve success and the way to tackle the situational enemies.

Limitless

6/10

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