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cmoore0013
Unregistered User
(8/26/05 10:03 pm)
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I think I have an odd idea!
Well,
With my new film Snow White, which is currently in re-writes, I have gotton many wonderfully helpful requests and answers from the boards.
What I am wondering about is a plot twist that I was wondering if anyone could help me weave it into the story.
I thought of mixing the myth or urban legend about Bloody Mary/Candyman into the story of Snow White, since they all deal with villans who have something to do with mirrors.
Can anyone help?
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Veronica Schanoes
Registered User
(8/27/05 5:31 am)
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idea
I really like that! If you end it by the mirror seizing the witch's soul, I think you could segue into a contemporary Bloody Mary epilogue easily.
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cmoore0013
Unregistered User
(8/27/05 11:49 am)
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thanks
thank you! I'm still trying to find out where I can make the queen go crazy. I'm thinking some type of youth potion or pill or something for Post Paardum Depression. I just don't know where she could get that and her mirror, which I thought could maybe lead into the supernatural world and make her see haullucinations of a mysterious figure drenched in blood, maybe helping her knock off her enimies and tell her things. Any thoughts?
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Veronica Schanoes
Registered User
(8/27/05 5:41 pm)
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Re: thanks
I like the idea of the witch going crazy as a result of post-partum depression...it could segue nicely into a sort of hallucinatory world which keeps the audience not quite sure whether she is delusional or whether there really is magic at work. For that matter, the birth of her child could precipitate a schizophrenic break, if you feel in the mood to do a little looking into that. I believe women tend to manifest schizophrenia a bit later, on average, than men do, say in their early 20s (often at college), which might be an appropriate age for her to have given birth, and the stress of that situation could trigger the break?
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cmoore0013
Unregistered User
(8/27/05 10:24 pm)
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wow
Wow, that's very interesting. The queen will be somewhat young at first, but with her lack of sleep and crazed mind, she begins to look in her 40's or 50's. That is of course why she feels she must try to beat Snow White at beauty. I came up with a scne that plays as a surreal dream the queen has the night after her lover has been killed and her child has been born. The huntsman(who is actually her lover's brother) has told the queen about this whole thing. She is so stressed and tired that she falls asleep and dreams that she is walking in a large feild and finds a white tent with strange artifacts and potions inside. She meets a strange man who tells her the secret of eternal beauty lies within this particualr potion. He gives it to her along with a mirror(yes, the magic one). She wakes up the next morning to find the potion on her bedside table and the mirror hanging on her wall. I'm still not sure if I should even use it. I love psychological terror like Rosemary's Baby, What Lies Beneath, The Ring or The Others. I hope it will fall into that catagory.
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gnome
Unregistered User
(8/29/05 2:24 am)
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mirror
maybe the mirror could have come on it's own journey...a cursed mirror being passed down until it eventually comes into the hands of the wicked and vain queen...or is that too Jumangi!
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cmoore0013
Unregistered User
(9/1/05 10:25 pm)
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Not bad
that's not a bad idea. I know that the mirror will travel to Snow White afterwards. The origin of the mirror may just be that everything is in the queen's head. Although that wouldn't explain her usually dead on magic spells. I know I want her to be driven insane by something that comes out of the mirror. Maybe something trying to get her to take it's place in the mirror.
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