Via IMAO:
CONTEST: Movie Genre Switcheroo
THE CHALLENGE: Make an existing comedy into a drama, or vice-versa.
DETAILS: Pick an actual movie, from any era. Re-pitch it as a comedy if it’s considered a drama, OR if you’ve chosen a drama, re-pitch it as a comedy. Stick as closely as possible to the actual characters and plot of the real movie, but completely change the tone…. and do it in 150 words maximum (down below in comments).
I didn’t expect it to, but it’s exercising portions of my brain that haven’t had that much of a workout lately. I’m trying to put something together involving either I Am Legend
Must ponder.
Moe Lane
Yah. It’s easy to /parody/ I Am Legend, or recast I Am Legend as a parody of the Heston classic on which it’s based, but that’s not the task at hand.
An easier play is taking a summer-camp-nerd-loses-virginity comedy someplace very dark. (“No, don’t open the outhouse door!”)
This would be a good entry…
I’m going to enter the gritty crime drama “It’s a mad, mad, mad, mad world.”
Home Alone, the tale of a neglected child desperately panicking as some hardened, ruthless criminals attack his home.