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"Soap Opera": the movie
A take-off of soap operas.
Plot:
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| Quirks: | Bad acting | |
| Mutants/dwarves/giants act like every other character | ||
| ‘Out-casts’-people with drinking/drug problems/poor people/bums act like every other character | ||
| Actor changes (for the same character) occur without warning and often without explanation, but mostly to an actor that has similar build/hair and eye colourings (even if their hair is dyed so that it is similar) | ||
| Characters have very confusing, long speeches to explain things that happened in the past, like how characters came back from the dead, etc., to other characters | ||
| Characters recall/explain things from the past (ancient-soap-opera-history, or recent events) to other characters to make sure that the audience knows what is going on | ||
| Flashbacks/flash-forwards (or possible scenarios): That you have seen before / that you haven’t seen before / that you haven’t seen before because the actors playing the characters have changed | ||
| Twins/clones/look-alikes: | Played by the same actor | |
| Confuse evil characters and/or innocents | ||
| Actors cry on cue | ||
| Deaths: | actors are written out of the show in bizarre ways | |
| Miracles occur: | eg. Person comes back to life after being crushed to death | |
| Characters can come back to life (but are different actors) | ||
| Characters regain sight/have facial plastic-surgery | ||
| Characters often have amnesia/memory-loss, which serves to thicken the plot and give rise to flashbacks | ||
| Relationships: | Main characters have confusing and overlapping family trees with most of the other main characters | |
| Romance | ||
| Engagements | ||
| Weddings | ||
| Pregnancies | ||
| Splits | ||
| Affairs | ||
| Jealousy/anger | ||
| Spiteful rumours/sabotage of relationships by other lovers, etc | Pregnancies/children are useful here | |
| Brothers and sisters are either allies or enemies | ||
| Filming techniques: | Long looks at the camera/zoom in & weird facial expressions just before the scene ends | |
| Looks in the mirror | ||
| Talking to themselves | ||
| Thinking to themselves (especially when other characters are in the same room/area) | ||
| Evil characters: | Think they are hard-done-by | |
| Have an ambition: | For: Themselves/their partner/child(ren) | |
| To: Marry the person they love,... | ||
| Get a really good job at the top of their company, etc. | ||
| (I can’t think of anything else!!) | ||
| Circulate vicious rumours/accuse innocents of wrong-doing to make themselves seem innocent to other innocent characters | ||
| Have secret hide-aways & tunnels/luxurious mansions/exotic holiday houses | ||
| Have thugs/henchmen / are thugs henchmen | ||
| Plant evidence | ||
| Hide/destroy evidence | ||
| Escape from jail | ||
| Come back from the dead | ||
| Can be present near innocents though only a few people know about the evil character (except the audience) | ||
| Have over-the-top evil plans | ||
| Are always cleverer than the innocent victims | ||
| Kidnap innocents and other evil characters | ||
| Often allow the innocent to have live video coverage of their loved one (for no good reason) | ||
| Are present at fancy-dress parties (wearing a mask) | ||
| Have many disguises | Eg. Gardeners | |
| Nuns/Priests | ||
| Foreigners | ||
| Nurses/Doctors | ||
| Innocent goodies: | Only win by accident because the enemy is smart | |
| Or, because they are so pure & good always triumphs over evil | ||
| Attempt to escape from their kidnapper by talking to the guard | ||
| Are gullible | ||
| Don’t necessarily need to go to court to fix up problems because they take matters into their own hands and save the day (making the story more romantic/fairy-tale-like), or because they have relatives who are lawyers, etc. | ||
| They are often related to, or are close friends with policemen/lawyers/doctors and other characters who are helpful in emergencies. | ||
| Thus escape from evil characters | ||
| Happy families: | Courtship (only marry main characters) | |
| Engagement | ||
| Wedding | ||
| Honeymoon | ||
| Babies: | being non-actors, mostly need sound effects for when they are supposed to cry/laugh | |
| mostly look uninterested in anything/placid | ||
| are often twins in happy families | ||
| Children speak like adults, in a kid-like way | ||
| Nannies and maids (often henchmen or evil characters) in happy families | ||
| Long lost family members | ||
| Divorce | ||
| Remain friends | ||
| Children grow up (change actors), and become main characters years later | ||
| Live on farms, but parents have high-salary/involving jobs | ||
| Jobs: | Policemen/detectives/sergeants: | |
| Criminals are involved in: | Drug-smuggling | |
| Assault | ||
| Kidnapping, etc | ||
| Priests/nuns | ||
| Nurses/doctors/psychiatrists | ||
| Newspapers-people/TV journalists | ||
| Photographers | ||
| Office/business/corporate/managers people | ||
| High Society/Upper-class: | Drink champagne to celebrate things | |
| Go out to restaurants | ||
| Have fancy-dress parties | ||
| Give expensive gifts | ||
| Go on overseas holidays/trips | ||
| Have elaborate weddings | ||
| Have perfect houses | ||
| Have house-keepers/servants/maids/nannies |