Monkberry Moon Delight feature
#Crime #Action/Adventure #Drama
Three stories take place after a crime goes wrong. A waitress must decide what to do with the jewels she found on a crime scene. A group of mobsters struggle to find the person who stole their goods. And a young couple finds themselves hunted by an unexpected enemy.
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111 pages |
1 year ago
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I'll start by saying that the crime genre has always been one of my favorites. Why? It's hard to say. I think I find it fascinating as it often has characters that are faced with a problem that makes them question their morals and do things they wouldn't do otherwise. Ambition might be a good motive for crime stories... but the best really comes from the need to survive in a dangerous world. Think The Godfather, think Goodfellas... Their protagonists got into crime life trying to find a better life for themselves, their families, or even their communities. Sure, they got ambitious at some point and things spun from there... but, ultimately, the real reason why a person (or, at the very least, a "good" person) turns into crime life is to survive.
And that's what happens in this story. Here we have a waitress trying to find a better life for herself and her girlfriend, and she steals a bag of diamonds from a crime scene. That's the seed for a series of wild, violent episodes that will involve plenty of other characters along the way. It's a butterfly effect - which is why this script has a non-linear narrative and divides itself into three episodes. Every episode shows the consequences of the actions of the characters in the previous one. We start with the waitress stealing the diamonds, which sets the plot for a group of mobsters searching for the wrong person, which then sets the plot for the two lovers trying to escape.
Of course, the story can be told in a linear structure, exploring all the storylines at the same time... but I do think that such an option would drastically change what the story is trying to do, which is to explore how a misunderstanding that came out from a confusion affects every character differently. Also, the non-linear structure allows us to know these characters a bit better and maybe even challenges our minds as it forces us to think about how the stories are connected. It's a bit like Pulp Fiction in such a way.
So, I'd say that it's more than a crime action flick. It's a tapestry of characters and situations that benefits from its large cast and plenty of action sequences.
And that's what happens in this story. Here we have a waitress trying to find a better life for herself and her girlfriend, and she steals a bag of diamonds from a crime scene. That's the seed for a series of wild, violent episodes that will involve plenty of other characters along the way. It's a butterfly effect - which is why this script has a non-linear narrative and divides itself into three episodes. Every episode shows the consequences of the actions of the characters in the previous one. We start with the waitress stealing the diamonds, which sets the plot for a group of mobsters searching for the wrong person, which then sets the plot for the two lovers trying to escape.
Of course, the story can be told in a linear structure, exploring all the storylines at the same time... but I do think that such an option would drastically change what the story is trying to do, which is to explore how a misunderstanding that came out from a confusion affects every character differently. Also, the non-linear structure allows us to know these characters a bit better and maybe even challenges our minds as it forces us to think about how the stories are connected. It's a bit like Pulp Fiction in such a way.
So, I'd say that it's more than a crime action flick. It's a tapestry of characters and situations that benefits from its large cast and plenty of action sequences.
