Now don't steal my idea, or I will END your life. But I wanna write a screenplay, a sort of soul-searching life-path-determining girl-finding movie, with the quality and depth of Garden State, and the poignant soundtrack as well. But I want a more direct interaction between the soundtrack and the story- so many songs are about such issues, yearning striving hurting questioning. The song snippets could be a progression of story, of life-state, as the hero (most assuredly *me*) seeks the answers to these questions. The movie for example could open with "Where the Streets Have No Name" or "I Still Haven't Found What I'm Looking For". Yes I love U2. Those songs are 1 and 2 on one of the top ten albums of all time. I digress.
Deeper yet, the hero could actually be listening to these songs, as not only a figurative but also a literal soundtrack for his life- not just something the audience hears, overlaid on top of scenes, but something the main character actually listens to and the audience hears, and he seeks out the answers to the questions these songs are asking, and as his journey progresses, he moves on from song to song or band to band.
Imagine the soundtrack. We're talking clips from possibly a hundred songs- it would be the most dense soundtrack ever created, practically flowing from one song to the next the entire movie, highlighting both classic hits and unknown gems alike, a virtual catalog of the most profound soul-searching songs from the present and past alike.
DON'T steal my idea.

1 Comments:
i think you should pitch the idea, after writing a full screenplay. i don't think anyone has done that much of a character-soundtrack interaction; maybe just a song or two. i like it a lot, and i will not steal it.
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