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"Soap Opera": the movie
A take-off of soap operas.
Plot:
No idea. Is this important?
Quirks: | Bad acting | |
Mutants/dwarves/giants act like every other character | ||
Out-casts-people with drinking/drug problems/poor people/bums act like every other character | ||
Actor changes (for the same character) occur without warning and often without explanation, but mostly to an actor that has similar build/hair and eye colourings (even if their hair is dyed so that it is similar) | ||
Characters have very confusing, long speeches to explain things that happened in the past, like how characters came back from the dead, etc., to other characters | ||
Characters recall/explain things from the past (ancient-soap-opera-history, or recent events) to other characters to make sure that the audience knows what is going on | ||
Flashbacks/flash-forwards (or possible scenarios): That you have seen before / that you havent seen before / that you havent seen before because the actors playing the characters have changed | ||
Twins/clones/look-alikes: | Played by the same actor | |
Confuse evil characters and/or innocents | ||
Actors cry on cue | ||
Deaths: | actors are written out of the show in bizarre ways | |
Miracles occur: | eg. Person comes back to life after being crushed to death | |
Characters can come back to life (but are different actors) | ||
Characters regain sight/have facial plastic-surgery | ||
Characters often have amnesia/memory-loss, which serves to thicken the plot and give rise to flashbacks | ||
Relationships: | Main characters have confusing and overlapping family trees with most of the other main characters | |
Romance | ||
Engagements | ||
Weddings | ||
Pregnancies | ||
Splits | ||
Affairs | ||
Jealousy/anger | ||
Spiteful rumours/sabotage of relationships by other lovers, etc | Pregnancies/children are useful here | |
Brothers and sisters are either allies or enemies | ||
Filming techniques: | Long looks at the camera/zoom in & weird facial expressions just before the scene ends | |
Looks in the mirror | ||
Talking to themselves | ||
Thinking to themselves (especially when other characters are in the same room/area) | ||
Evil characters: | Think they are hard-done-by | |
Have an ambition: | For: Themselves/their partner/child(ren) | |
To: Marry the person they love,... | ||
Get a really good job at the top of their company, etc. | ||
(I cant think of anything else!!) | ||
Circulate vicious rumours/accuse innocents of wrong-doing to make themselves seem innocent to other innocent characters | ||
Have secret hide-aways & tunnels/luxurious mansions/exotic holiday houses | ||
Have thugs/henchmen / are thugs henchmen | ||
Plant evidence | ||
Hide/destroy evidence | ||
Escape from jail | ||
Come back from the dead | ||
Can be present near innocents though only a few people know about the evil character (except the audience) | ||
Have over-the-top evil plans | ||
Are always cleverer than the innocent victims | ||
Kidnap innocents and other evil characters | ||
Often allow the innocent to have live video coverage of their loved one (for no good reason) | ||
Are present at fancy-dress parties (wearing a mask) | ||
Have many disguises | Eg. Gardeners | |
Nuns/Priests | ||
Foreigners | ||
Nurses/Doctors | ||
Innocent goodies: | Only win by accident because the enemy is smart | |
Or, because they are so pure & good always triumphs over evil | ||
Attempt to escape from their kidnapper by talking to the guard | ||
Are gullible | ||
Dont necessarily need to go to court to fix up problems because they take matters into their own hands and save the day (making the story more romantic/fairy-tale-like), or because they have relatives who are lawyers, etc. | ||
They are often related to, or are close friends with policemen/lawyers/doctors and other characters who are helpful in emergencies. | ||
Thus escape from evil characters | ||
Happy families: | Courtship (only marry main characters) | |
Engagement | ||
Wedding | ||
Honeymoon | ||
Babies: | being non-actors, mostly need sound effects for when they are supposed to cry/laugh | |
mostly look uninterested in anything/placid | ||
are often twins in happy families | ||
Children speak like adults, in a kid-like way | ||
Nannies and maids (often henchmen or evil characters) in happy families | ||
Long lost family members | ||
Divorce | ||
Remain friends | ||
Children grow up (change actors), and become main characters years later | ||
Live on farms, but parents have high-salary/involving jobs | ||
Jobs: | Policemen/detectives/sergeants: | |
Criminals are involved in: | Drug-smuggling | |
Assault | ||
Kidnapping, etc | ||
Priests/nuns | ||
Nurses/doctors/psychiatrists | ||
Newspapers-people/TV journalists | ||
Photographers | ||
Office/business/corporate/managers people | ||
High Society/Upper-class: | Drink champagne to celebrate things | |
Go out to restaurants | ||
Have fancy-dress parties | ||
Give expensive gifts | ||
Go on overseas holidays/trips | ||
Have elaborate weddings | ||
Have perfect houses | ||
Have house-keepers/servants/maids/nannies |