My Next Great Idea: Remake famous movies, but resolve the
main conflict with a dance-off
We're going to be rich!
Dance movies suck.
The entire premise of movies is to detach yourself from reality for a couple hours, while still maintaining an air of believability. Charles Foster Kane never existed, but he was loosely based on William Randolph Hearst, and it's not out of the realm of possibility that the events in the movie could possibly have happened, so it's okay. Transporters don't exist, but Star Trek is based in the future, so maybe by then, we'll have figured it out, so it's okay.
There is no universe where two entire groups of people will get into a major physical brawl have money stolen from them, and settle their differences by seeing who dances better. It doesn't really matter how much they get served, this has no bearing in reality.
So, we're left with the problem of how to take this disastrous, yet somehow shockingly profitable, idea and turn it into something even remotely watchable. The solution is simple. Take popular, already successful films that everyone is familiar with and loves and turn them into dance movies! Here are a couple examples:
A tornado picks up a small Kansas farmhouse, and drops it on a woman. The woman's sister vows revenge against the homeowner and her dancing dog. The young woman assembles her crew of a lion, a scarecrow, and a tin b-boy, and a translucent head officiates a dance-off between this crew and the sister and her band of dancing monkeys while a crowd of cheering munchkins watches.
Hans Gruber and his crew of Mercenary thieves challenge John McClane and the LAPD to a dance-off on the roof of the Nakatomi building while a swarm of SWAT helicopters with spotlights circles overhead. The winner gets $640 million in bearer bonds. It writes itself!
Three scientists and two hired assistants dance on the roof of Central Park west against Gozer and a glowing band of ethereal dogs. A giant marshmallow man is the DJ. Who wouldn't want that?
If anyone else has any other great ideas, go ahead and leave them here. I'll make sure you're credited as an associate producer or something in the credits.
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