If you could write a screenplay for a movie based on....

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....your life, what part of your life would the movie be about?

I am thinking of writing up a story based on a part of my life. Probably not movie material but after thinking about my Media studies course at college many, many moons ago I thought I would have a blast at writing a screenplay with story boards.

Mine personaly, would be the upbringing of a 7 year old boy after his parents were killed in a car crash. This is true to my past.

I was brought up by my Grandparents after the accident. I feel they did a great job at it too.

As a plot line it sounds pretty boring and probably be more of a drama than anything else. So I am currently thinking how to start the story.

My initial thoughts were to start in the present day with me thinking about the past and incorporate flash backs to my childhood which most of the story will written for. I have other ideas for the start, middle and end content but putting them to paper is quite hard as I have not done this for some time. Once I have got the start, middle and the ending organised then filling in the bits will be easier as I already know pretty much what to put in.

So, what would your story be about?
 
1-3 (years old) living with a mentally ill single mother who I had to look after more than she did me
3-4 being taken away by social services due to the mother abusing me and being incapable of looking after me
4-5 being fostered by several different short term carers before spending a lengthy amount of time with one fosterer, who I eventually called mum and got close to
5-6 being adopted and taken away from my fosterer by a married couple
6-7 grow to love my adoptive parents, until one (the mother) turns out to be an abusive alcoholic, the adoptive father has a heart attack, survives, but loses his business
7-8 be taken away by adoptive dad, who would divorce the alcoholic mother and try to adopt me himself, getting rejected for adoption, fighting through poverty with him due to the loss of business and divorce settlements giving most (including the house) to the mother due to her being part of a family of barristers
8-10 finally being granted adoption by the father, despite massive odds against us. Dealing with the death of my biological mother (who had a brain tumour, hence the mental illness) dealing with guilt for feeling responsible for her death (i remembered giving her pills etc as a child, it took some years of councelling for me to realise this didn't actually contribute to her death).

It could probably make a pretty good book or film I've been told, although I guess it would be more for the chicks... there's not much action :|
 
Hank_Marvin said:
i'd make it a porno based on the day of my conception lol - not sure if im going to hire in actors or use the real deal lol.
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It would be a nature film with a walk in the park looking at the wild life and ending up in bushes. You could get David Attenborough to direct.
 
It would be about a little Liberian boy that fled civil war where his entire family was brutally murdered by government rebels Making his new home in East London scraping together enough money to open a chess club, but that is a front for a dark secret that he has hidden within, he is in fact a batman style vigilante, prowling the streets in the darkness dispensing indiscriminate justice on wrong doers and hoodlums with sexy results.
 
Sawell said:
1-3 (years old) living with a mentally ill single mother who I had to look after more than she did me
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Not belittling your life story or anything, but I think I'm going to go ahead and call you out on claiming to look after your mum when you are 1-3 years old. Still, sounds like you've had it rough, hope its better now.

As for me, its be 2006-2009. It'd be and English Kid's :p
 
MotherMayI said:
Not belittling your life story or anything, but I think I'm going to go ahead and call you out on claiming to look after your mum when you are 1-3 years old. Still, sounds like you've had it rough, hope its better now.

As for me, its be 2006-2009. It'd be and English Kid's :p
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It's not belittling to me, I don't remember most of my life during that period. It's just in a filing-cabinet-sized folder that I was given by social services/my father back when I turned 18. The snippets I do remember from my early childhood weren't pretty. I probably remember more than most though, as truamatic experiences do that to your memory. For example, I was kicked against a wall when I was 2/3 years old and nearly died, broke a lot of bones. I don't remember it happening, but I remember being taken from my mother shorly after.
 
I had an experience that I share with my work colleague and a course I went on in Holland with an over night stop in Amsterdam. I'm not kidding the whole experience was hell but funny when i look back and certainly made the office laugh. You have to know this guy to appreciate it and there's too much to describe :)
 
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