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I'm rewritting my film script to American locale and the problem is it's been long since I've been to the USA and I miss some cultural info.
The protagonist is a neurotic philosophy teacher at a University, so of course I thought Harvard in Boston.
1) He's 45 and still hasn't written a dissertation necessary to get a PhD, so the head of the philosophy faculty is threatening to fire him unless he finally submits it -- is such a situation possible in your country?
2) He lives in a messy flat in a tenement house, a poor district. Now it fits Poland and its academics very well, but actually my idea of USA is that 99% teachers have own houses...?
3) One of his friends repairs TVs, DVD players and other electronic appliances in a repair shop -- do you even have such shops? Where you take your TV when it breaks?
4) Do you have guarded estates in the suburbs where rich people have their houses? A fence, security guard, and beyond that a street with houses?
5) During the course of his adventure he has to go to a sea resort, which would be an embodiment of hell to a neurotic: a beach full of surfers and suntanned chicks, a big-ass ferris wheel, generally a gaudy tourist trap. So maybe somewhere in Florida? But how long would he drive to get there from Boston?
Please, if you have any comments on the above, help this poor writer from overseas.
The protagonist is a neurotic philosophy teacher at a University, so of course I thought Harvard in Boston.
1) He's 45 and still hasn't written a dissertation necessary to get a PhD, so the head of the philosophy faculty is threatening to fire him unless he finally submits it -- is such a situation possible in your country?
2) He lives in a messy flat in a tenement house, a poor district. Now it fits Poland and its academics very well, but actually my idea of USA is that 99% teachers have own houses...?
3) One of his friends repairs TVs, DVD players and other electronic appliances in a repair shop -- do you even have such shops? Where you take your TV when it breaks?
4) Do you have guarded estates in the suburbs where rich people have their houses? A fence, security guard, and beyond that a street with houses?
5) During the course of his adventure he has to go to a sea resort, which would be an embodiment of hell to a neurotic: a beach full of surfers and suntanned chicks, a big-ass ferris wheel, generally a gaudy tourist trap. So maybe somewhere in Florida? But how long would he drive to get there from Boston?
Please, if you have any comments on the above, help this poor writer from overseas.
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