I've never played dnd, I've played BG3, but I know that's not the same thing. I'm transferring to a new college in a few months, and I'm thinking of joining or forming a group to play with. Any advice for a beginner?
Don't be boring and say "because they were written by different people," have some fun once in a while.
I bought Final Draft 13 to write scripts on. The problem is I feel overwhelmed by my own lack of experience with scripts. I'm going to Illinois State University in a few months to study film and get some experience and confidence to be a professional screenwriter. Should I wait 'til then to use Final Draft? I bought it outright, I didn't pay for a monthly subscription, so should I just let it sit for a while until I know what I'm doing?
Do you think there's potential, or is it just not worth it you you?
I've had this idea for a film based on Greek myth in my head for a while now, but I haven't shared mych about it because I'm not used to sharing my ideas with people. But, just to have it out there, I'm just gonna rip off the band aid and give what I have for plot right now.
When Zeus was recovering from his first fight with Typhon, fearing the possibility of death, he removed his soul from his body so he wouldn't fully die. After he was patched up by Hermes and Pan and defeated Typhon the second time around, he forgot about his soul and didn't go tracking it down, so his soul wandered the Earth for a while until Hermes came across it and, not knowing it was Zeus's, guided it to the Underworld, where it was sentenced to reincarnation and now inhabits a young woman in modern Greece.
Alexis Chronopoulos, or just Alex, is a 19 year old woman working as a housekeeper for a struggling casino in Litochoro. Alex is not an easy person to get along with, as a patron or a coworker, due to having a sarcastic (albiet very low witted) personality, and a fairly wrathful demeanor about her. She's gotten into a fight a few times, once with a disrespectful manager, and once with a annoying customer. She's been written up both times and now she's only getting hours a week for the morning shift before the casino opens. One day during a thunderstorm, while she's outside taking out trash and complaining to herself, she's almost hit by a lightning bolt but manages to catch it in her hand before letting go from shock and making it hit the wall.
This gets the attention of Zeus, who had ordered all the Gods and beings of myth to not interact with humanity since Christianity made its way to Greece, as a way to spite the growing religion and see how humanity squirms without their presence, and hasn't lifted that order since due to his own stubborness. He senses what Alex did with that bolt, and puts together that she must have his lost soul. Now, he doesn't actually need his soul back for anything, he's immortal after all, but now that he knows where it is and that someone other than him has it, and to avoid the embarrassment of the other Gods finding out he let his soul go and why he did it, he wants it back.
So, attempting discretion from both humanity and his fellow Olympians, he sends down a few Gods disguised as people to find Alex and bring her to him, telling them it's to bring a rogue Goddess back to him to punish her disobedience, but really just intends to take his soul back, anyway he can, regardless of if Alex will survive the process.
And that's what I got for story so far. Let me know what you think!
I have an idea for a superpowered thriller movie about a deaf man unwillingly given an experimental brain implant that gives him an unnatural sort of hearing. The implant's stuck in the "selective" setting, which makes him only able to hear his own external and internal bodily noises, as well as one thing that he focuses on, which could include a vehicle se sees pass by, the voice of someone he's looking at, and the voice of a person he's thinking about, even if that person is far outside of what would be an average hearing range. He only speakes sign language and doesn't understand spoken language, so when someone speaks to him, he doesn't get what they're saying, it's practically jibberish to him.
Context out of the way, I'm wanting to portray selective hearing here in a semi-realistic way, even with the very science fictiony set up, and I don't know how I could get that across in a script. Any advice?
Would you want to see modern storytellers depict her more as Areia (the Warlike Aphrodite from Sparta), or do you prefer she keep getting depicted with her more prominantt traits, or perhaps you'd like to see a combination of her two depictions?
I'm curious as to which seems more common to people.
I've read that a small amount of people in ancient Greece believed in reincarnation. Do you think it could be used effectively as an element in a story based in myth, or would you prefer an attempt just not be made?
I'm an aspiring scriptwriter, have had ideas for a movie or show about Greek Gods in modern Greece, and one idea I had was portraying Ares, the God of war, as autism coded. Ideas included him masking by acting as the sadistic persona he's traditionally associated with in myth, showing a more dorky side around people he's comfortable with like Aphrodite and Hermes, info dumping about some of the fights he's witnessed in Greek wars (techniques, how personal the fight was, that kind of thing), stuff like that.
I've been diagnosed with autism and ADD, and I wanted to write for a character with autistic coding for this story idea, but I don't want to go with Gods like Athena, Artemis or Hephaestus, because I'm personally sick of autism going to characters written as smart or academic, and I wanted to do something different with it.
Also, hello, I'm the same guy who posted this question before. I deleted it for a kind of embarrassing reason, some of the replies just rubbed me the wrong way, but I feel immature for doing that, so I'm posting it again. If you want to hear more of my ideas for this idea of mine, I can make a different post about them. If you don't, that's okay, you can just ignore that post if I make it.
Anyway, thanks, have a good day.