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If you wrote and directed an LGBT themed movie, how would it be like?

Discussion in 'Entertainment and Technology' started by GingerGuy, Aug 6, 2012.

  1. Kieth11

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    It would be about...

    Bad things were always happening to gay people. Garret wants to stand up to the world, to everyone who opposes gay people, but he is already experiencing the bad luck. His parents got killed, his aunt got arrested for smuggling illegal drugs, and then he's worried that he's going to be next. The whole story is about him trying to make things right for gay people while avoiding his own fate (i.e. death) as well.

    This is the summary of the book I am currently working on, but I think it would be very good as a movie as well. Maybe (probably) even better, since someone else would be making it.
     
  2. sunnii

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    Nothing too groundbreaking just a teen rom com but I'd hire like Tina Fey to make it fun y like she did with Mean Girls
     
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    I just initiated a thread to talk about a beautiful Brazilian short I saw yesterday. I hope it gets more posts than it currently has, but besides liking that film, it also gave me the inspiration to think of a gay short myself, in a sort-of similar style. This is the synopsis:

    The Last Entry

    The movie starts with two boys saying goodbye to one another in an autumn day. One of them, named Marcos, is standing in front of his house and embracing the other boy, Vinicius. However, only Marcos's face is shown to the camera, while his friend's remains hidden. The two have been friends all of their lives and Vinicius is moving to a different city in another state. That day was the last time they would see each other while living in the same city. The goodbye scene is warm, made more of touching than of words. Finally, Vinicius walks away and only Marcos is shown staring at the camera as it zooms out of him.
    The next scene shows the boy coming back to his house, with a bittersweet smile on his face. A bit emotional, he looks through a picture album Vicente’s family had bought him many years before, filled with photos of the two. For a strange reason, though, many of the photos are missing. Suddenly, Marcos finds Vicente’s diary in his own bedroom, and deduces that he forgot to take it with him. The boy gives in to curiosity and turns the page to read it, and as he does so, a flashback begins.
    On the previous day, Vicente comes to his friends house for their last sleepover. The two try to avoid talking about their separation at all costs. Instead, they do everything two teenage boys do: play videogames together, play soccer, swim at the pool, etc. These scenes are very joyful and filled with genuine laughter and smiles, maybe because the two friends try to make them better than ever before. After a lot of fun, they decide to rest a little and Marcos goes on his computer and starts talking to a girl, while Vicente plays on his friend’s guitar a song he had been practicing for ages. At one moment, though, he looks over and sees the picture of a very pretty girl, and asks his friend who she is. Marcos shortly answer that she’s just a friend Vicente does not know. Relieved, Vicente keeps on playing the instrument, and after a while Marcos joins in to sing with him. Their voices blend in well, and after the song is finally over they spend a long time smiling and looking at each other’s eyes, but perhaps with different intentions.
    Night falls and the two go to bed for their last sleepover, after a lot of fooling around and even the ritual of “watching porn together for the very last time.” When they prepare to sleep, there Is only awkward silence. Vicente, determined to know more about his friend, asks “What do you think of us telling each other anything we are hiding, because tomorrow I won’t be here anymore?” Marcos agrees, and decides to tell his friend about the girl he was talking to. Her name is Alice an, on the previous weekend, he has hooked up with her while in the birthday party from a friend he has from another school. They have just met, but get along with each other very well and talk everyday, planning to go on a date the following weekend. Vicente’s face darkens he hears this, but he still tells his best friend that he has started to write a diary. After being asked on why he suddenly decided to do something so girly, Vicente explains that he wants to register everything he’s going to leave behind in there, by his own hand. Marcos, however, still does not understand. Shortly afterwards, both go to sleep.
    Marcos wakes up in the middle of the night and sees that his friend is not lying next to him. He listens to a strange noise in the bathroom and realizes that Vicente is sobbing inside. The door Is locked, so he asks the other boy what Is going on. Vicente evasively says he had a terrible nightmare. Marcos asks what it was about, and Vicente replies that he’ll wait until he’s gone to tell him, because the memory is still too strong. To comfort his friend one last time, Marcos tells him through the door that there is nothing to fear while they are together, because they are always going to be there for one another like they have always been. There is no answer.
    The story goes back to its ending, with Marcos opening the forgotten diary to read its contents. Instead of words and writing, what he finds in there are all the pictures that went missing from his old album, glued and pasted to the pages. They show the two boys since they were three until modern times, and the last photo consists of a copy of Marco’s yearbook photograph. But underneath this final picture, there is one written word.
    “Why?”
    Marcos drops the diary and looks at the window in shock. His friend is already gone.
    The short goes back to its first scene, and their farewell is shown again, but through Vicente’s perspective. As the two boys embrace, his face is pure sadness, and he tries to make the hug as long as possible. He leaves without looking back, because he does not want his friends to see the tears he wipes away as he walks further and further from his house. As the music they sung before plays again in a slow fashion, Vicente walks into a cab, and closes his eyes as the short film ends.

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    Tribalistas - Pecado é lhe deixar de molho - YouTube

    This is the song that Vicente plays on the guitar and is repeated in the original version as the story ends. Its very beautiful and in my native language (Portuguese). Please comment if you are interested if you are interested in knowing the lyrics, because they are actually quite complex and I dont know if I will be able to translate them.
     
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    Idea 1- In her mid to late 20s, Ophelia, moves into a new city to get a new job and be closer to her family. Alice, her roommate is an old friend of Ophelia's, is delighted to see her again and introduces her to the girl across the hall, Jade. Ophelia falls in love with Jade nearly at first sight.

    But the thing is she can't tell if her new flame is gay or straight. Ophelia herself is lesbian, but her father is a wealthy, high powered politician, who is funded by a group that is very against the LGBT community. So she has kept her self in the closet for the sake of herself and her father.

    After a painfully ambiguious month and a half, she finally gets proof that Jade is attracted to women, after seeing her on a date with a woman. As soon as Ophelia feels vindicated and relieved from the pressure of not knowing, it hits her that the girl she loves is taken. So she waits. And waits, and does some more waiting and hoping things will go her way.

    Eventually, Ophelia gives up after two years of waiting patiently for Beth and this other girl to break up. Meanwhile, her father has been hard at work in the political realm these past few years and has an imporant announcement at that Thanksgiving. He announces his bid for Govenor of their state, and she knows full well about what he plans to do when in office. Frustrated and upset, Ophelia storms out calling her father a moron and drops a pretty big hint about her sexuality.

    She hurries back to her apartment, where Alice's longtime boyfriend has just proposed. Unable to watch everyone she knows fall in love, she backs her bags decides to leave, determined to drag her father down in a political firestorm that she knows she can cause.

    A few days later the tabloids are buzzing with the latest gossip. The man everyone thought would be the state's new leader has had the skeletons in his closet exposed by his gay daughter. The source of his money, the anti-gay legistlature, and the homophobic rants that were recorded on tape. All of it. But the press is attacking Ophelia too. And she doesn't care, she doesn't care about anything as long as Jade is with someone else.

    Her personal life and relationship with her family in ashes, Opehlia decides to say one last goodbye to the woman who has caused her so much heartache. All ready to her a piece of her mind, Ophelia is shocked to find Jade weeping when she answers the door. Apparently, her long time girlfriend ended the relationship, without anything in the way on an explination.

    Taken aback, she tells Jade everything. After hearing about the pain she unknowingly caused, it only makes her feel worse. But Ophelia isn't going to let anyone else cry over the mess that this has become. So she says, "Jade, I still love you. And at this point, I can't stay here any longer, or it will kill me. So, if even the tiniest shred of you thinks you could come to love me than tell me. My dad is going to sue my ass off and I'd rather not go through that alone. Jade, goddammit I love you!"

    Jade stops crying, and tells Ophelia that she's willing to leave. The town they live in has that effect on people. They kiss. And tell each other that they will get through this burning hellscape together.

    Idea 2 shall be posted later.
     
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    There'd be gay and trans people all doing their thing.

    Heterosexist and transsexist people would harass them.

    Vigilantees would beat the crap out of said heterosexist/transsexist people.

    Roll credits.
     
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    If I made a GLBT movie, it'd be a satire. I haven't put much thought into this, but it'd probably be about a group of friends who want to change the world using a show called Society Says. In the show, everyday people are judged by a panel of unknown people called the Society. The contestants must get the Society to like them as they are. If they succeed, they become the new social standard. No one ever actually won the show before, and all losers become the laughingstock of the world for a day. (It's basically America's Got Talent, when you laugh at the people who dress differently and/or perform terribly.)

    Anyways, the friends are all of different ethnicities, genders, some like girls, some like boys, some like both, they're all different.

    The story would begin with an episode of Society Says where a black girl gets told she isn't ghetto enough and needs to get herself some 'quality weave'.

    And that's all I came up with so far :icon_bigg. I want it to be obvious enough so people know that the Society is actually all of them and hopefully, I might even get them to change their minds.