Bluemoon70
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Hello all again,
I have been working on a screenplay for a few years (yes years) I finished it about three years ago and have started to do a rewrite on it, I would like to guage people's opinion's on it, I understand that this is primarily a US based site (from what I have seen) and it may be a good idea to get writers opinions from across the pond.
The screenplay is based on the Battle of the Somme set during late 1915 and finishes a few weeks into the battle itself.
For those who are unaware, the battle of the Somme took place on the 1st July 1916 up until November 1916, on the first day the British Army lost 57,000 men killed and wounded, to put this in perspective about 12 times more than on D Day, at the end of the battle it was estimated there was about half a million casualties on all sides (Britsh, French and German) and was a true battle of attrition, the British gained 5 miles of land at its widest point, in some places they gained no ground at all.
Thats the history lesson, the story is based on 4 friends, all 18 who enlist in Hagues Army late in 1915, the protagonist has lost a brother and father and has gone against his mothers and sisters wishes by joining up as he is the only male heir left in the family, his friends are along for the ride, the adventure, a chance to fight the bosh, needless to say the battles are big, brutal and beautiful, there is hardship at fallen friends and family members (in one scene the protagonist is on a night time recce mission and finds the dead body of his sisters husband, she gave him a letter to him to give to her husband, explaining about their new beautiful baby boy, the protagonist sits in a shell hole with him and reads the letter to the dead man) so there is heartache and a feeling and sense of great loss, not only on a large scale but also on a personal one.
Now to the punch line and the crunch of it, do you think it will be received in the US market, how would our american cousins see and feel about this, because at the time it was another 12 months before the US got involved in the war, I know that the centenary of the War is due in 2014 and I think (hope) that film makers will take advantage of this for future projects, any feedback will be gladly received.
Gaz
I have been working on a screenplay for a few years (yes years) I finished it about three years ago and have started to do a rewrite on it, I would like to guage people's opinion's on it, I understand that this is primarily a US based site (from what I have seen) and it may be a good idea to get writers opinions from across the pond.
The screenplay is based on the Battle of the Somme set during late 1915 and finishes a few weeks into the battle itself.
For those who are unaware, the battle of the Somme took place on the 1st July 1916 up until November 1916, on the first day the British Army lost 57,000 men killed and wounded, to put this in perspective about 12 times more than on D Day, at the end of the battle it was estimated there was about half a million casualties on all sides (Britsh, French and German) and was a true battle of attrition, the British gained 5 miles of land at its widest point, in some places they gained no ground at all.
Thats the history lesson, the story is based on 4 friends, all 18 who enlist in Hagues Army late in 1915, the protagonist has lost a brother and father and has gone against his mothers and sisters wishes by joining up as he is the only male heir left in the family, his friends are along for the ride, the adventure, a chance to fight the bosh, needless to say the battles are big, brutal and beautiful, there is hardship at fallen friends and family members (in one scene the protagonist is on a night time recce mission and finds the dead body of his sisters husband, she gave him a letter to him to give to her husband, explaining about their new beautiful baby boy, the protagonist sits in a shell hole with him and reads the letter to the dead man) so there is heartache and a feeling and sense of great loss, not only on a large scale but also on a personal one.
Now to the punch line and the crunch of it, do you think it will be received in the US market, how would our american cousins see and feel about this, because at the time it was another 12 months before the US got involved in the war, I know that the centenary of the War is due in 2014 and I think (hope) that film makers will take advantage of this for future projects, any feedback will be gladly received.
Gaz
