The task before you is simple: propose a title that has “action film” written all over it, then summarize the “art-house/independent/probably-chick-flick” film it actually goes with. Feel free to use real movie titles, but that’s not required.
Mine:
VANISHING POINT
Natasha, a blind art major, must overcome her abusive past and reach out to her art professor to find a way to conceptualize perspective or risk losing her scholarship.
“Down By Law” always struck me as title that would work for a terrible Lorenzo Lamas action movie about a wrongly accused cop who goes on the run to clear his name.
Timecode might look like a Jean Claude Van Damme actioner, but it’s not.
Although a split screen Arnie / Jean Claude / Chuck / Segal movie might work :dubious:
Ingmar Bergman had The Naked Night (which sounds film noir), The Devil’s Eye, Hour of the Wolf (horror) and The Passion of Anna (soft core porn, though the Swedish title is correctly translated as “A Passion.”
Luis Bunuel had The Exterminating Angel.
I see I didn’t express myself well.
The objective was for posters to make up a movie that had a title that sounded like an action movie but was actually an art-house/indie-type film, then give the title and a summary of the plot.
I’ll take another shot at an example:
SMASH
Shy nuclear physicist Antoine struggles to express his yearning for colleague Annabelle while they work to fine-tune the workings of the Large Hadron Collider. Unbeknownst to him, Annabelle has an inoperable brain tumor.
Armageddon
As a comet nears the earth, leading to its imminent destruction, a construction worker (Brys Wellys) and a minor government functionary (Guillermo Roberto Teortoni) who are stranded on an abandoned offshore oil rig discuss the pointlessness of life and play Russian roulette with a rusty revolver while smoking countless cigarettes.