Student fights Cheat Dealer for Freedom Pitch

LOGLINE

  • A high school student has to pay their debt to a cheat dealer.

PROTAGONIST

  • They are simply an average person who lives in a nuclear family with no siblings, they aren’t particularly remarkable, they are just in over their head. They aren’t particularly knowledgeable and tend to be oblivious.

PROTANGIONST CORE WOUND / MOTIVATION 

  • They want to end the constant harassment they face from the cheat dealer they are in debt to.

GENRE

  • Comedy/Crime
  • The Big Lebowski and Ed, Edd n Eddy

PLOT DESCRIPTION

  • The film starts with the protagonist receiving the answer key to their upcoming test from a man, the cheat dealer, in a dark ally. After they have aced the test, they receive messages from the cheat dealer demanding payment. Eventually, the dealer’s goons show up and bring the protagonist to the cheat dealer. The cheat dealer makes a deal with the protagonist, since they do not have the funds necessary to repay the dealer. The deal they make is that the protagonist will try to get the cheat dealer’s confiscated copy of Nintendogs back from the office. The protagonist goes through multiple failed plans before eventually securing what he thinks is the correct cartridge. They bring it to the cheat dealer, however it is revealed that what the protagonist got was not the correct game and the film ends there.

TREATMENT

  • This description helps the team build a better, more believable world The world is quite literally exactly like our own. The protagonist wears simple clothes, they enjoy bland things such as bird watching and rock collecting. They routinely eat bland food such as Saltines and they only drink Kirkland-brand water.

INFLUENCES and EXAMPLES

  • Ethan and Joel Coen
  • “Where’s the money, Lebowski?” scene

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