The Bride continues her quest of vengeance against her former boss and lover Bill, the reclusive bouncer Budd and the treacherous, one-eyed Elle. Two high school nerds attempt to create the perfect woman, but she turns out to be more than that. As he grows up, he finds a way to remember these lost memories and a supernatural way to alter his life by reading his journal. Mahoney and friends have graduated from the Police Academy and are issued with their first assignments. A special military unit fights a powerful, out-of-control supercomputer and hundreds of scientists who have mutated into flesh-eating creatures after a laboratory accident. Three company workers who hate their jobs decide to rebel against their greedy boss. After two of the devil’s three sons escape Hell to wreak havoc on Earth, the devil must send his third son, the mild-mannered Nicky, to bring them back before it’s too late. Of course, when Ace gets involved, all hell breaks loose…. Ballerina Mariana has promised God …. A man must struggle to travel home for Thanksgiving with an obnoxious slob of a shower curtain ring salesman as his only companion. A young boy accidentally joins a band of dwarves as they jump from era to era looking for treasure to steal. She wonders if she can survive their crazy antics. A civilian diving team is enlisted to search for a lost nuclear submarine and face danger while encountering an alien aquatic species. A comet wipes out most of life on Earth, leaving two Valley Girls to fight the evil types who survive. An FBI agent must go undercover in the Miss United States beauty pageant to prevent a group from bombing the event. This is not an easy task, for The Evil Horned King will stop at nothing to get the cauldron. When Scott Carey begins to shrink because of exposure to a combination of radiation and insecticide, medical science is powerless to help him. One day, he gathers up the courage to sign up for dancing lessons. Hauer plays a cop who previously lost his partner to some strange creature. The story of Easy Company of the US Army Airborne division and their mission in WWII Europe from Operation Overlord through V-J Day. A partially idealized film of the controversial pornography publisher and how he became a defender of free speech for all people. A beautiful gold digger matches wits with a shrewd Beverly Hills divorce lawyer who is increasingly attracted to her. A computer hacker learns from mysterious rebels about the true nature of his reality and his role in the war against its controllers. Cornelius and Zira’s son Caesar leads apes to revolution in this installment of the apes saga. A medieval nobleman and his squire are accidentally transported to contemporary times by a senile sorcerer. The true story of Frank Abagnale Jr. who successfully conned millions of dollars’ worth of checks as a Pan Am pilot, doctor, and legal prosecutor. Nelson Crowe is a CIA operative under the thumb of the Company for a disputed delivery of gold. Robbie, the singer and Julia, the waitress are both engaged to be married but to the wrong people. Determined to solve the coincidence of seeing the same conspicuous stranger three times in a day, Albert hires a pair of existentialist detectives, who insist on spying on his everyday life while sharing their views on life and the nature of the universe. Adventuress Lara Croft goes on a quest to save the mythical Pandora’s Box before an evil scientist and recruits a former Marine turned mercenary to assist her. A teenage girl is convinced that her home city revolves around her until her family packs up and moves to the suburbs, where she finds herself competing for attention. During the Vietnam War, Captain Willard is sent on a dangerous mission into Cambodia to assassinate a renegade colonel who has set himself up as a god among a local tribe. A young boy from Tatooine sets out on an adventure with an old Jedi named Obi-Wan Kenobi as his mentor to save Princess Leia from the ruthless Darth Vader and Destroy the Death Star built by the Empire which has the power to destroy the entire galaxy. A vengeful barbarian warrior sets off to avenge his tribe and his parents whom were slain by an evil sorcerer and his warriors when he was a boy. She enlists the aid of Basil of Baker Street, the rodent world’s answer to Sherlock Holmes. A light-hearted story of two working-class brothers courting three wealthy and beautiful sisters in a small Illinois town. After being snubbed by the royal family, a malevolent fairy places a curse on a princess which only a prince can break, along with the help of three good fairies. Jack Worthing and Algernon Moncrieff are two men that are both pretending to be someone they are not. A very rich and successful playboy amuses himself by stealing artwork, but may have met his match in a seductive detective. A half-vampire, half-mortal man becomes a protector of the mortal race, while slaying evil vampires. The story of a young deer growing up in the forest after his mother is shot by hunters. Murray is a male fairy godmother, and he’s trying to help young Anabel to fulfill her simple wish – that her father Oliver, who is a cab driver, would win the leading role in a …. That is, until he finds out his girlfriend is pregnant. The catch? A young boy whose dreams transcend reality is sucked into his own fantasy, which is everything he has dreamed of until he unleashes a century old secret that may not only destroy this perfect dream world but reality itself. An alien experiment crashes to earth and infects a fraternity member. Since your premise cannot be confirmed, your entire theory is worthless. Beneath the famed La Brea Tar Pits, a raging volcano has formed, raining a storm of deadly fire bombs and an endless tide of white-hot lava upon the stunned city! A portrait of a fictional town in the mid west that is home to a group of idiosyncratic and slightly neurotic characters. Ten years after initially meeting, Anakin Skywalker shares a forbidden romance with Padm, while Obi-Wan investigates an assassination attempt on the Senator and discovers a secret clone army crafted for the Jedi. Sorry, your blog cannot share posts by email. A computer hacker is abducted into the digital world and forced to participate in gladiatorial games where his only chance of escape is with the help of a heroic security program. A man gets a chance to meet up with his dream girl from highschool, even though his date with her back then was a complete disaster. Frank Drebin comes out of retirement to help Police Squad infiltrate a gang of terrorists planning to detonate a bomb at the Academy Awards. A spiritual love-story set in the majestic landscape of Ladakh, Himalayas. An Iowa corn farmer, hearing voices, interprets them as a command to build a baseball diamond in his fields; he does, and the Chicago White Sox come. Three actors accept an invitation to a Mexican village to perform their onscreen bandit fighter roles, unaware that it is the real thing. A New York district attorney works and flirts with his adversary and her kooky artist client, who is on trial for a murder she didn’t commit. A Boston spinster blossoms under therapy and finds an impossible romance. Andy has quit his job as a sports journalist and is planning to use the peace and quiet of …. It’s up to the members to stay alive, and be sure of who is human, and who has become one of the Things. A United States Navy destroyer escort participates in a Navy invisibility experiment that inadvertently sends two sailors years into the future. The reason: the premise of a work of fiction is not a universal truth. An ambitious TV soap actress connives with her producer to scuttle the career of the show’s long-time star, but nothing works as they plan. The publicity folks were not strong at dramaturgy but they did get butts in the seats, God bless them. A dog returns from the dead looking for revenge on his killer using an orphan girl who can talk to animals. Bank clerk Stanley Ipkiss is transformed into a manic superhero when he wears a mysterious mask. Years in the future, a Martian police unit is sent to pick up a highly dangerous criminal at a remote mining post. When a ‘Single White Female’ places an ad in the press for a similar woman to rent a room (to replace the boyfriend she’s just left), all the applicants seem weird. Four weeks after a mysterious, incurable virus spreads throughout the UK, a handful of survivors try to find sanctuary. An -year old troublemaker must protect his home from a pair of burglars when he is accidentally left home alone by his family during Christmas vacation. Dwayne Hoover is a wealthy car dealership owner that’s on the …. Mobster Paul Vitti is released into Dr. Ben Sobol’s care, where only more chaos ensues. Five friends travel to a cabin in the woods, where they unknowingly release flesh-possessing demons. 30. But he ends up in heaven because he dies after trying to help a family from drowning in a river. An Aussie becomes a national sensation when he lifts off in his deck chair tied to balloons. A crooked lawyer persuades his brother-in-law to feign a serious injury. It’s late nineteenth century Sweden. The cool thing about ACTION VERBS is you get something leading to something else and that gives the play forward movement. Lajos Egri's classic, The Art of Dramatic Writing, does just that, with instruction that can be applied equally well to a short story, novel, or screenplay. The original list did not include the movie titles, but I’ve found that it’s fun to see how many I can identify. He signs the Waterboy as the new star player, but Bobby must keep it secret from his overbearing and domineering mother. Former Green Beret John Rambo is pursued into the mountains surrounding a small town by a tyrannical sheriff and his deputies, forcing him to survive using his combat skills. A young man hears a chance phone call telling him that a nuclear war has started and missiles will hit his city in minutes. A disillusioned college graduate finds himself torn between his older lover and her daughter. Nine years after Jesse and Celine first met, they encounter each other again on the French leg of Jesse’s book tour. When Andy and Elizabeth buy a farm in Vermont, they can’t imagine the trouble that awaits them. He is drawn into Gatsby’s circle, becoming a witness to obsession and tragedy. In the beginning, there was darkness. Follows the life of Karen Blixen, who establishes a plantation in Africa. In Oregon, when a backwoodsman brings a wife home to his farm, his six brothers decide that they want to get married too. Premise and the Thematic Argument. All this is threatened when Mrs Cheveley appears in London with damning evidence of a past misdeed…. The dramatic premise of Death of a Salesman could be, “Looking for fulfillment in worldly success leads to disillusionment.”. A selfish, cynical T.V. The X-Men band together to find a mutant assassin who has made an attempt on the President’s life, while the Mutant Academy is attacked by military forces. A struggling high school student with problems discovers that his family has an unusual pedigree when he finds himself turning into a werewolf. A aircraft jetliner on its way from Athens to Rome and then to New York City is hijacked by Lebanese terrorists. A rescue crew investigates a spaceship that disappeared into a black hole and has now returned…with someone or something new on-board. A recalcitrant thief vies with a duplicitous Mongol ruler for the hand of a beautiful princess. Philippe Gastone, a thief, escapes from the dungeon at Aquila, sparking a manhunt. Rowan plays the eponymous lead character in a spoof spy thriller. A misfit ant, looking for warriors to save his colony from greedy grasshoppers, recruits a group of bugs that turn out to be an inept circus troupe. A cop in a dystopian Europe investigates a serial killings suspect using controversial methods written by his now disgraced former mentor. Post was not sent - check your email addresses! Mitch finds a way to money by exploiting the only talents the two have, by opening a Revenge For Hire business. Thus, the ranking of a film does not depend on the film's overall quality (i.e. A National Geographic film crew is taken hostage by an insane hunter, who takes them along on his quest to capture the world’s largest – and deadliest – snake. An ugly duckling having undergone a remarkable change, still harbors feelings for her crush: a carefree playboy, but not before his business-focused brother has something to say about it. A desert warrior rises up against the evil army that is destroying his homeland. A harried movie director retreats into his memories and fantasies. Two cops team up to get back a kidnapped daughter. Also known as on-demand software, hosted software or web-based software, SaaS eschews traditional software installation, maintenance and management approaches in favor of delivering cloud-based applications via the internet. When the old Pantelija dies, five generations of his heirs start to fight for the inheritance. When Woody is stolen by a toy collector, Buzz and his friends vow to rescue him, but Woody finds the idea of immortality in a museum tempting. They try to reverse e… A bored and sheltered princess escapes her guardians and falls in love with an American newsman in Rome. They must use their ingenuity to survive the dangers, and to devise a way to return home. A biography of artist Frida Kahlo, who channeled the pain of a crippling injury and her tempestuous marriage into her work. Neurotic New York comedian Alvy Singer falls in love with the ditsy Annie Hall. During an archaeological expedition on Bouvetya Island in Antarctica, a team of archaeologists and other scientists find themselves caught up in a battle between the two legends. A comedy about four teenagers in the Seventies who try to scam their way into a KISS concert. DAY We are inside a dark room. If you cannot get your story premise pounded into solid shape, you don’t have a story, and why should you proceed? Middle aged lawyer Fredrik Egerman and his nineteen year old current wife Anne Egerman’s two-year marriage has not yet been consummated. A woman who, by a promise made years earlier, is supposed to marry her best friend in three weeks, even though she doesn’t want to. He’s a hot driver with a hot temper, and this attitude gets him into trouble not only with other drivers, but members of his own team as well. When a Jamaican sprinter is disqualified to the Olympic Games, he enlists the help of a dishonored coach to start the first Jamaican Bobsled Team. A black nurse takes vigilante justice against inner-city drug dealers after her sister becomes their latest victim. All until one day when his parents, and parents all over Earth are kidnapped by aliens, it’s up to him to lead all the children of the world to rescue their parents. Among its passengers are territory governor, priest, doctor and U.S. James Bond heads to stop a media mogul’s plan to induce war between China and the UK in order to obtain exclusive global media coverage. ANSWER: Let us take another example, then: Ghosts, by Ibsen. He then sends in Thomas to try and find explanations. LOVE THIS! A robot malfunction creates havoc and terror for unsuspecting vacationers at a futuristic, adult-themed amusement park. The last dragon and a disillusioned dragonslaying knight must cooperate to stop an evil king who was given partial immortality. Now the creature is back and its after him. A former U.S. soldier returns to his hometown to find it overrun by crime and corruption, which prompts him to clean house. Passionada is a romantic comedy about a Portuguese widow whose husband, a fisherman, died at sea. Examples of Premise in a sentence. When the US President crashes into Manhattan, now a giant maximum security prison, a convicted bank robber is sent in to rescue him. A collection of some of the most popular work featuring Wallace and Gromit. A mercenary goes after his ex-girlfriend, a singer who has been kidnapped by a gang. A man becomes a male gigolo after being mistaken for one while housesitting a male gigolo’s house. Four Medical students experiment on near death experiences that involve past tragedies until the dark consequences begin to jeopardize their lives. It usually is a concrete thing. The premise of a work of fiction, however, is not provable and arguable in the "real" world. What is the neck of the premise? The terrorists demand that the pilot take them to Beirut. A group of martial arts warriors have only six days to save the Earth from an extra-dimensional invasion. In their promo materials, the publicity department said the theme of Blessing’s play was baseball. In a future where the polar ice-caps have melted and Earth is almost entirely submerged, a mutated mariner fights starvation and outlaw smokers, and reluctantly helps a woman and a young girl try to find dry land. Soon, the team realize that only one species can win. Two homies, Smokey and Craig, smoke a dope dealer’s weed and try to figure a way to get the money they owe to the dealer by ten p.m. that same night. Now he must face the issues that come with being an expecting father, in a most entertaining way. A babysitter must leave her safe suburban surroundings and head for the heart of the big city to rescue a stranded friend, unaware of the perilous adventures that await her and the kids she’s looking after who have tagged along. A young boy embarks on a magical adventure to the North Pole on the Polar Express. Wanted by the authorities, he reunites with a hip American journalism student and attempts to persuade her to run away with him to Italy. Nick Carraway, a young Midwesterner now living on Long Island, finds himself fascinated by the mysterious past and lavish lifestyle of his neighbor, the nouveau riche Jay Gatsby. In a game, the premise may be as complex as those previous, involving characters with dramatic motivations, or a game's premise may simply be a metaphor overlaying what would otherwise be an abstract system. A man struggles with memories of his past, including a wife he cannot remember, in a nightmarish world with no sun. Futuristic action about a man who meets a clone of himself and stumbles into a grand conspiracy about clones taking over the world. A quest to a Walley World theme park for a family vacation, but things aren’t going to go exactly as planned, especially when Clark Griswold is losing all thought towards a mysterious blonde in a red Ferrari.