It is a romantic comedy about a woman who falls in love with a taxi driver. She didn't get a name or number or anything, and tries to find his taxi among the 12,779 cabs in NYC. In the end, a family member becomes terminally ill and she needs to move out of NYC to take care of him. On her drive to the airport her car breaks down, and she eagerly hails a taxi, and the driver of the taxi she hails is the driver she was looking for.
Whatcha think? Any ideas? Flaws?
2007-03-25 13:41:32 · 4 answers · asked by epitome of innocence 5 in Arts & Humanities ➔ Theater & Acting
have you ever seen a good-looking cab driver?
what if she's in town for business. what if she's in a hurry and her and a guy are running towards the same cab bump in to each other and decide share the fare. she needs to find the guy but she knows nothing about him. She searches among all the cabs in NYC because the taxi dropped her off before he got out and she doesn't know how else to find him than finding where he was dropped off. It ends up being some cafe. When she goes to the cafe she sees him with a beautiful woman. They are smiling and laughing and she has a baby with her. He's a dad! Though this ends up being his sister and he's just a great guy. She gets in a taxi to go back home, back to her job, back to her humdrum life, but it breaks down and she has to get out when all of a sudden a man steals her purse. Now she's broke and crying, but goes into the nearest dry place which just happens to be that very cafe. with a few dollars that she has in her pocket she get a cup of coffee but she doesn't have enough! This is her breaking point. She burst into tears and hysterics when someone from the table behind says to the waitress "It's alright; just put it on my bill." Who could it be but the guy she from the cab ride!
2007-03-25 14:58:20 · answer #1 · answered by xxthespianxx 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
As you've described the story, it could go a million different ways.
First of all, this story that seems to want to be a screenplay simply because of the scope of the piece. It is a story about a search and a camera wants to follow on a search.
Having said that, this is what I do to help writers flesh out a story.
The first question I always ask is . . . "what interests you about this story?" Once you answer that question, apply the answer so that every scene in the story explores different elements of your interest.
Let's say you are interested in "a character thats so absorbed by her career, she doesn't even realize she's fallen in love until days after the (inciting) incident." Have the entire story explore different aspects of this woman's "awakening" as it relates to how her career has completely enveloped her existence, and she's never realized until now.
So, I think it's a cute shell of an idea and you can turn it into something wonderful.
As you work with the story in that manner, you'll find the meat of the story. And I think you'll find that she ends up moving out of the city, not because of an external force such as a family member becoming ill, but because of the decisions she makes and actions she takes as a result of the inciting incident.
Play with it by plugging plot points into the following story matrix:
problem (inciting incident)
problem gets worse
character can't go back to the way things were
apparent defeat for hero
final battle
resolution
Happy story dreaming.
2007-03-25 21:19:55 · answer #2 · answered by jazz king 1 · 1⤊ 0⤋
this would make a good movie, but how are you gonna fit taxi's and stuff onto a stage? i think that is a really good idea though!
2007-03-25 20:52:21 · answer #3 · answered by nicole 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
first -- awesome. good plot. is there anything after he meets him tho? does she propose? what's next, and what are the details? i am hooked
2007-03-25 20:49:43 · answer #4 · answered by Who knows? 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋