Film Ideas - Need Help Please?

Question

Gritty and Realistic Script?
I am working on a script with the intention of creating a new movie icon/hero I want to address the issues of globalisation and consumerism as well as the affects of an almost unstoppable totalitarian regime
This tale takes place in the future The outline of the plot in my mind is too have an older lead male who is weathered with his past exploits and feels the blows. The police are represented as cold almost machine like. They appear as any ordinary Los Angeles cop but in reality they have the swagger of a Terminator. They are strong and powerful but this is attributed to training and direction as oppose to software programs as explored in the Matrix trilogy. There strength is in vast numbers. As the police wipe out the crime ridden city our hero takes refuge in the few favelas of crime and gang warfare.This plot outline is all I have as of now and have only been working on this particular script for 48 hours. What are your opinions and do you think it would work in Hollyw

Answer 1

sounds like another movie for snake or just call it escape from l.a. part2

Answer 2

Sorry, while reading your question I just thought about George Orwell, Kurt Vonnegut, Huxley's Brave New World, Attwoods A Handmaids Tale, in general all distopias, and some stupid movies. Judge Dredd (the movie and comic character 2000 a.d.) and Demolition Man come to mind.

Because dystopian literature typically depicts events that take place in the future, it often features technology more advanced than that of contemporary society. Usually, the advanced technology is controlled exclusively by the group in power, while the oppressed population is limited to technology comparable to or more primitive than what we have today.
For the reader to engage with it, dystopian fiction typically has one other trait: familiarity. It is not enough to show people living in a society that seems unpleasant. The society must have echoes of today, of the reader's own experience. If the reader can identify the patterns or trends that would lead to the dystopia, it becomes a more involving and effective experience. Authors can use a dystopia effectively to highlight their own concerns about societal trends. For example, Ayn Rand wrote Anthem as a warning against what she saw as the subordination of individual human beings to the state or "the We." Margaret Atwood wrote The Handmaid's Tale as a warning against the rise of religious fundamentalist totalitarianism in the United States and the hypocrisy of 1970s feminism actually aiding the cause of their worst enemies.
Dystopian fiction is often (but not always) unresolved. That is, the narrative may deal with individuals in a dystopian society who are unsatisfied, and may rebel, but ultimately fail to change anything. Sometimes they themselves end up changed to conform to the society's norms. This narrative arc to a sense of hopelessness can be found in such classic dystopian works as Nineteen Eighty-Four. It contrasts with much fiction of the future, in which a hero succeeds in resolving conflicts or otherwise changing things for the better.


It just seems that it has been done over and over again. You are already compairing characters "swagger" to Terminator.