My ideas

I'll put my current thoughts and ideas here, in a sort of a diary. You are free to comment.

I'll start with the big WTC subject. This terrorist act was a fascinating movie in itself, you can't deny it. I know it was evil, painful, traumatic. This war is still not over. The movie should be equally big. So far "World Trade Center" and "United 93" have been made. Firefighters who don't even enter the buildings and people on the last flight. No one of them in the center of the action. No insights into the motives of the terrorists.
The things which should be shown in such a movie include, in my opinion:
1. The hell itself, that is the "Towering Inferno" situation inside the towers, above the place where the plane hit.
2. The previous situation inside the towers, that is people preparing for work in big corporations, computers, views outside. I've heard that there was a videoconference between somewhere and WTC at this very moment and suddenly the screens in place A went blank. Everyone wonders what was inside the buildings. The towers when they were intact, with windowcleaners, morning routines.
3. I would avoid pathos, martyrdom, patriotism. It's difficult to see all those rich yuppies from 30 countries as national heroes.
4. I would choose one or two persons inside the two main planes as important characters, with flashbacks to their whole life and an exact description of their plans that day.
5. To avoid presenting the passengers as a homogenous mass. But this is also how you present the terrorists. They were not some Palestinians from the 1970s, but educated people with an intricate plan. I would show the plane simulator training process, Atta pretending to be a Saudi prince, their meetings with Bin Laden in Afghanistan, the camps there, their background, childhood, youth in Egypt and Saudi Arabia.
6. I would show the process of planning the attacks by Bin Laden.
7. It should all be full of emotions, going deep and not a documentary, rather a football game.
8. I would avoid big politics there, because the targets were civilians, and the whole show was intended to be viewed by civilians around the world. So I wouldn't concentrate on the military, firefighters, presidents, but rather on the lack of protection against such aggression.

My aberrant idea here is the story of a suicidal man who decides to jump out of the windows in the WTC on September 11.

Today: I thought about this crime movie where a deaf person would have advantage over those who hear normally because he/she would be able to cross some special zones protected by extreme noise.

And that J.Lo video: we would go to Texas or California before 1848 where she would be a grand lady in buildings which still exist today. To show the Hispanic tradition there.

I also think that your black rappers need a big movie. Their videos rarely contain any plots. What sort of a movie? I'll tell you soon.

You are all so gentle.
Yes, I'm too lazy to write an actual script, or a novel. Partly because I've estimated my chances, partly because I really don't have so much time.
But these ideas come, and I can't help it. Writing them down purifies my mind. I've found the perfect environment here.
I've read all this theoretical stuff about pitching, loglines, treatments and so on, but somehow feel it kills spontaneity. Hollywood makes 100 movies a year, with 20,000 scriptwriters fighting to get there, and a whole business centered around their dreams.

OK, now the movie about rappers:
So far we've had a rich Eminem playing a poor Eminem, a rich 50 Cent playing a poor 50 Cent. Now we need, and want, to see a prominent rapper's whole career, from poverty to riches nowadays. He would be played by a professional actor, and wouldn't be based on a single figure, but rather would represent the typical path. We would jump through decades - the 1980s, the 1990s, the 2000s. This contrast between their modest beginnings and opulence now is fascinating. Of course a black rapper. With details concerning the gangsta years, recording studios, their position in society now. How has success changed their families' and friends' attitudes towards them. We could even go deeper, as in "The Roots" and investigate this man's ancestry. Or he could investigate his ancestry by going to Africa (to Senegal

Derek: this woman hunts policemen and destroys them, because at age 16, arrested for alleged prostitution, she was abused at a police station. At gunpoint.

I prefer fighting to a blog.

As to music, I find this new punk culture interesting and worth exploring: Avril Lavigne, No Doubt, Courtney Love. Graffiti, skateboarding and shrieking. What are its origins? These performers are white.

I imagine that just a fraction of your screenwriters are foreign-born.

Now space exploration. Recently we've had lots of photos from probes of moons, planetoids. We are ready, yes, for an almost educational movie which would show a trip through our own real Solar System in the future. Just because now the shapes and sizes of all those objects are much better known. Such a project would attract the whole human race

As to war, soon movies about Iraq will start to be created. Another traumatic subject. Iraq is such an empty country, with its deserts, something like Somalia in "Black Hawk Down". Oriana Fallaci wrote this book "Inshallah" about the massacre of American soldiers in Lebanon in I guess 1983. A similar setting. You should certainly show your aircraft carriers, the whole military might, and try to explain why the terrorists and insurgents have been so successful. Vietnam had the jungles, where soldiers were often in isolation. This recent "Thin Red Line" was quite good (I know, not about Vietnam).
Generally, movies start to be more and more bloody, which is not an attraction for me. Check Thomas Kyd.