This does not sound like a good idea to me at all! If anybody tries it, I’m joining the protests against.
Kentucky Fried Movie was years ahead of it’s time!
I’d make Jodorowsky’s Dune as 2 or 3 anime films.
This is intriguing.
For a long time, this would have been my answer too. Hollywood finally made a movie about Harriet Tubman. Opinions vary on whether it was good but I thought it was worthwhile. Harriet (2019) - IMDb
My ideas:
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A roughly historic account of the last days of the American embassy in Iran. Among the key details are the dilly-dallying that put American secrets at risk and the tension of when to authorize the Marine guards to fire on invading Iranian protesters.
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An account of the son of an American diplomat to East Germany who smuggles a friend/political refugee out at a precarious moment when the secret police are poised to capture him. The movie is about the intersecting lives of the numerous people on both sides of the Berlin wall who help with the escape despite their being no official involvement by the US government.
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A family drama about three siblings with a wealthy upbringing gathering together after years apart when their beloved mother dies, not long after their father died. Although their father had intended to provide for them equally, various financial market advances and setbacks meant that they were anywhere but equal. The eldest got a trust with lots of money but blew it because he took the types of financial risks that made his father rich but he lacked his father’s acumen and luck. A middle daughter, who, due to bad luck and bad timing, got comparatively little - just enough to launch a normal middle-class life, and a youngest who got a lot in her trust, managed it reasonably, and is very wealthy. The movie is about the petty resentments they never put behind them. The eldest angry at the youngest for not bankrolling his continuing financial misadventures. The middle because her father never made good on the promise of fair treatment for all three of them (even if doing so was effectively impossible for him). The youngest because her oldest sibling saw her as a piggy bank for years while she, despite being very wealthy by ordinary standards, can’t shake the feeling that she is poised to lose it all at any moment just as her father and brother had each done more than once.
All are stories based on people I’ve known.
But wouldn’t it be obvious to the audience? How would you film that?
Possibly using a similar twist that Home Alone used when they miscounted the kids when they loaded up to go to the airport. Lot of action, confusion, and movement leading up to the “what the hell?” moment.
Free Dirt. A small town man needs some fill dirt for a landscaping project at his house. He see’s a billboard advertising “Free Dirt” along with a telephone number and gives it a call. Instead of learning where he can get some fill dirt, an unknown voice at the other tells him the dirty secrets of other townsfolk. He hangs up in horror, not believing at first, but calls back when he finds corroborating evidence the voice tells the truth. He calls back frequently, each call revealing more disturbing secrets as he tries to use them for his advantage.
There won’t be a dry pair of pants…er, I mean eye in the theater!
Hire a bunch of actors who all kind of look alike. People will be rewinding trying to figure out who is who.