High Concept Monday #1
“High Concept” is a characterization of a story as a synthesis of two other well-known works, as in the long opening scene of Robert Altman’s The Player - “So it’s like Ghost meets The Manchurian Candidate?“
For some time now, Chris and I have been been playing the High Concept game - choose a particularly bizarre combination of movies, and describe the story for them - and I’m finally going to start the inevitable regular blog feature. You can play too! There are two ways to contribute.
One is describe an actual movie or book with a combination that’s unusual but makes sense, like:
Saw: it’s Friday the Thirteenth meets My Dinner with André!
The other is to make up a new movie or book idea with a combination that’s so outlandish, it begs to be written:
Jackass meets Heaven Can Wait:
It’s all over for failed stuntman Jack Malone when he rear-ends a huge male moose while driving drunk on a dark Maine road; the last thing he sees are giant moose testicles rushing toward him at seventy miles an hour. Then he finds out that Heaven is pretty much the same kind of thing…
Extra points for avoiding the movie Rollerball, because that’s just too easy.
Rollerball meets Flowers for Algernon:
March 21. My name is Charly. The doctor tole me this operayshun would make me a reely good skater…
