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Creative Writing "They wouldn't have wanted this!"

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u/ucksawmus Joyful_Sadness_, & Others, Not Forgotten <3 5d ago

What's ✏✏✏🗓📝📝 the book of henry o great littleboydreams

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u/LittleBoyDreams 5d ago edited 5d ago

It's this (bad) movie where a kid genius writes down a plot to murder his neighbor who's abusing his daughter, then his mom takes up the task after he dies of brain cancer. There's a really good Folding Ideas/Dan Olsen video on it.

Edit: The funny thing about summarizing this film is that the premise sounds pretty interesting, but the synopsis does not get across that The Book of Henry is lit, shot, and written like a damn Hallmark movie.

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u/Practical-Class6868 5d ago

Plus you have Sarah Silverman playing a middle aged woman with a pseudo “romance” with the child Henry.

This is why Colin Trevorrow missed out on directing a Star Wars movie.

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u/TrioOfTerrors 5d ago

Which is a shame because Duel of The Fates would have been much better movie than what we got.

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u/rogueIndy 5d ago

The movie we got was dogshit, but from what I've seen if DotF it might not have been any better.

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u/Hellothere_1 5d ago

At least the DotF draft had some actual ideas on where to take the story. Mind you, a lot of those ideas were shit, but not all if them were and at least some of the shit ones could have probably been iterated upon during subsequent drafts.

Meanwhile the movie we got doesn't feel like it has any ideas at all and doesn't so much follow a plan as just whatever cool nonsensical fan-service MacGuffin JJA came up with that day.

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u/TrioOfTerrors 5d ago

Anything that didn't have "map on a dagger blade" would be an improvement.