Logline Game -- try it

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Seems like there have been a lot of posts about loglines lately.

Here’s a game I’ve done elsewhere… It’s simple and good practice.

I'll start off with the first protagonist/antagonist/subject - then someone else can post a logline and a new protagonist/antagonist/subject for the next person. Have fun with it and embellish as much as you like.

e.g.,

A ROCK BAND / EVIL ALIENS / ILLEGAL DOWNLOADING

With the help of a secret government agency, an aging boy band travels to a near-by Universe where they must fight evil aliens intent on illegally downloading their music as a way to learn more about humans and eventually conquer the human race.

(It’s weak I know, but it’s just a game)

So, your turn…

A RACE CAR DRIVER / A DICTATOR / PUMPKIN PIE
 

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A RACE CAR DRIVER / A DICTATOR / PUMPKIN PIE

When famous Nascar driver, Bill Earl, discovers a microchip in his slice of Pumpkin Pie, he's on a whirlwind ride to uncover a plot of a dictator implanting everyone who visits in a bid to take over his country one by one, starting with Bill.

:ROFL:

Next.
TREE HUGGER / CHOCOLATE CHIP COOKIE / DEAD PRESIDENT
 
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TREE HUGGER / CHOCOLATE CHIP COOKIE / DEAD PRESIDENT

A radical environmental activist, while on a routine picketting demonstration outside of a big name industrial bakery, accidentally unearths a critical piece of evidence that could re-open the decades-old Kennedy assasination case.



MOTORCYCLE GANG LEADER / PIANO TUNER / HAUNTED HOUSE
 

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MOTORCYCLE GANG LEADER / PIANO TUNER / HAUNTED HOUSE

Harley, a once-renowned concert pianist turned motorcycle gang leader is kidnapped and trapped in a haunted house by the ghost of a former piano tuner hell bent on revenge.


OK, here's one...

KOALA BEAR WRANGLER / SHOE SALESMAN / YMCA
 

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MOTORCYCLE GANG LEADER / PIANO TUNER / HAUNTED HOUSE

Harley, a once-renowned concert pianist turned motorcycle gang leader is kidnapped and trapped in a haunted house by the ghost of a former piano tuner hell bent on revenge.


OK, here's one...

KOALA BEAR WRANGLER / SHOE SALESMAN / YMCA

Joe Cozy, a failed shoe salesman who lives in the YMCA, is hijacked by slave traders and forced to work as a koala wrangler in the eucaliptis forests of Australia where he discovers himself and his perversions.

Okay! NEW YORK FASHION DESIGNER / HOMELESS / WEREWOLF
 

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A famous New York fashion designer's world of glitz and glamour is changed forever when she meets and befriends a homeless werewolf named Larry.

HIGH SCHOOL TEACHER / ALIEN (FROM THE PLANET ZIETOR) / SUSPICION
 

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When world-weary high school teacher Ted starts to get messages written on his aquarium from his fish Finbar, he suspects that his former arch enemy Allan the alien is on the loose again, and he must do anything in his power to stop him. But is it all in his head?

PLANE HIGHJACKER / GIRL SCOUT/ SEA WORLD
 

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PLANE HIGHJACKER / GIRL SCOUT/ SEA WORLD

When a 12 year old girl scout becomes obsessed with the story in Whale Rider she hijacks an airplane and forces them to land at Sea World so she can earn the highest merit badge of all time.

PORN ADDICTED WOMAN/BASEBALL/PERSIAN (cat or person)
 

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Just a reminder to everyone, more than one of the above efforts--while ALL very funny-- are not following the guidelines.

It should be:

Protagonist / Antagonist / Subject

Some people are switching the protag and the antag around. Some people are combining the protag and the antag into one character. Some people are not making the subject the actual subject.



That said ....


A porn addicted congresswoman, tried of being blackmailed by a broken down former pro baseball player, kidnaps his persian cat in a bid of counter-blackmail.






GARBAGE COLLECTOR / BILLIONAIRE / MISSING DIAMOND RING
 
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Let's not forget it's a game and good practice and not a critique.

The local garbage collector stumbles across a missing diamond ring that lands him under some heavy fire when a billionaire mob boss who lost it, wants it back and will do anything, including crushing the garbage man in his own truck, to get it back.

LIES / LOVE / EX-MARINE
 

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LIES / LOVER / EX-MARINE
After a former Marine lies about his Lover being a man the marines re-enlist him so he can go undercover, infiltrate, and disarm an army of Village People out to take over the White House.

ok LOL that was really bad but it's just for fun


SPIDER/DOOR-TO-DOOR SALESMAN/LIPSTICK
 

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Thanks everyone for playing!

When an overzealous door-to-door lipstick salesman destroys the web of a harmless spider he attempts to make amends by helping her to rebuild the web. Together they must overcome fear, mistrust and prejudice as they both gain an appreciation for the qualities of the other species.

Tenative title: Web of Love

The Red Hot Chili Peppers / Barney the Dinosaur / Doing the Laundry
 

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Nymphomaniac / Nazis / Escape

A 70 year old nymphomaniac, sick of being persecuted by Nazis, tries to escape Germany and get reunited with his 18 year old girlfriend living in the U.K by filling condoms with Helium and flying away.

:tongue:tongue:tongue
 

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Raghu, you were supposed to use Rainy's Protag/antag/subject... That said:

When Red Hot Chili Peppers runner Lennie is killed by Barney the Dinosaur in a hate crime, the band has to do their own laundry for the first time ever. But will they prevail or do they mix a red sock with their white underwear?

NEO NAZI LEADER/GHOST OF GANDHI/ETERNAL LOVE
 
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NEO NAZI LEADER/GHOST OF GANDHI/ETERNAL LOVE

Natural disaster after natural disaster plagues Earth during the tumultuous time when the Ghost of Ghandi goes to Hell and a Neo Nazi's soul makes it to Heaven. The mediator, Mother Nature insists they must find Eternal Love with each other or she will completely destroy Earth.

SUMO WRESTLER/PARIS HILTON/GOOGLE
 

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SUMO WRESTLER/PARIS HILTON/GOOGLE
When transgendered sumo wrestler Akira “Tubby” Jones auditions for a part in low budget horror film only one person stands in his/her way – Paris Hilton. With the help of an open-minded casting agent Akira uses Google to search the Internet for any information that will help him/her discredit Paris’ claims that she is a real actress.

A Shaman / Hannah Montana / A Tub of Margarine
 

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When transgendered sumo wrestler Akira “Tubby” Jones auditions for a part in low budget horror film only one person stands in his/her way – Paris Hilton. With the help of an open-minded casting agent Akira uses Google to search the Internet for any information that will help him/her discredit Paris’ claims that she is a real actress.

A Shaman / Hannah Montana / A Tub of Margarine

Two Feathers, a Native American shaman is confronted with a maniacal Hannah Montana who has been altered due to eating a tainted tub of margarine.

Fred/Ethel/a blood-stained kitchen floor.
 

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Fred goes out for a ride when his wife Ethel has friends over, but when he returns, he finds her in the middle of a blood-stained kitchen floor with no bodies but many questions.

Man fuck this. I'm no good at this haha. I'll leave you guys with a tough one.

The pope / butt sex / mass murders
 

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FTL,
The pope / butt sex / mass murders

Is “Butt sex” the antagonist? I don’t think I can do much, but I will try anyway.

A transgender Pope, the first such in the history of Christianity, must prevent his own Clergymen from mass murdering his Parishioners who believe that men having butt sex with men will give birth to transgender kids. Whew….!

That said….

Fat maid / Terrorists / Banana bombs

A fat maid who loves bananas must prevent a bunch of terrorists from destroying the U.S by placing bombs in bananas. In the process she learns more about herself and bananas.

Try this;

George Bush / Osama bin Laden / Grey naval fluff

:D:D:D
 

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The Pope tries to infiltrate a group of homosexual mass murders who have kidnapped his altar boys, but will his own fear of butt sex prevent him from getting to the bottom of it?

Dick Cheeney / George W, Bush / Fear Factor
 

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George Bush / Osama bin Laden / Grey naval fluff

:D:D:D

Dick Cheeney / George W, Bush / Fear Factor

I’ll try to combine the above two into one as they seem similar:

Joe Rogan has his hands full when George Bush Sr. and Dick Cheney vs. unlikely opponents George W. Bush and Osama Bin Laden on Fear Factor -- their first competition? Seeing who can eat the most grey navel fluff while swimming in a vat of goat urine.

A Computer Programmer / An Olympic Gold Medalist / King Pao Chicken.
 

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A Computer Programmer / An Olympic Gold Medalist / King Pao Chicken.

Waldo Peabody Emmerson is fired when his computer program for recipes-on-the-run causes a catastrophe at his boss' annual dinner. The King Pao Chicken has bones in it and one of the bones gets lodged Sarah's throat. Now its up to Waldo to save the Olympic Gold Medalist or dress up as a girl and do the high jump himself.

A Comedy about love, life and King Pao Chicken.

VAMPIRES/A TRUCK LOAD OF SWISS CHEESE/THOR HEYERDAHL
 

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VAMPIRES/A TRUCK LOAD OF SWISS CHEESE/THOR HEYERDAHL

When Transylvanian city Uthog is threatenend by evil cheese importers who want to use the teeth of local vampires for making the holes in the cheese, teenage vampire cheerladers Tatiana and Olga have to go on an epic journey on sea to find the lost scepter of Thor Heyerdahl which can turn cheese into blood.

THE POPE / MOTHER THERESA/ LIFE ON VENUS
 

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THE POPE / MOTHER THERESA/ LIFE ON VENUS
Pope Alexander the 75th has just ascended to the Papacy. Unbeknownst to the young Pope, the ghost of Mother Teresa has just returned from the planet Venus, where she has spent the last 135 years perfecting the ultimate weapon that will alter earth's climate to match Venus's. Will the young Pope save the planet (and our souls) in time?

How was that? I've never written a log line before. Was that even close?

Wheeeeeeeeeeeeee! This is FUN!!!

DAN RATHER/THE POWERPUFF GIRLS/ARGYLE SOCKS
 

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DAN RATHER/THE POWERPUFF GIRLS/ARGYLE SOCKS

A mysterious rocker stunned the audience when he slipped on a pair of argyle socks and a Powerpuff Girls t-shirt and strapped on his air guitar for a rendition of "Risky Business." But what the other patients at the asylum would soon learn is, this new patient stealing all the attention was Dan Rather.

SUNDOWN / GHOST OUTLAWS / $60,00 REWARD