Any genre could be easily written with good research but this is for the sake of pretending. If you HAD to choose one film genre that you believe would be the hardest to write, which would it be?
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Personally, I would say horror or fantasy.
Sci-fi for me. I tried to before but I really would rather just read the script or watch it.
I'd have to agree with Jaclyn- Sci-fi would be difficult for me too!
def horror
I'd have to say comedy. What may be funny to you and your friends, may not be funny to the viewing audience.
I love Sci fi, that is my thing, hardest for me, is comedy. Although I have tried and worked on a pilot Tv series with some others, it didn't turn out so bad.
Fantasy, without being derivative. Because if you're using Elves, Dwarves, or talking animals, you're almost automatically taking major elements from Tolkien or C.S. Lewis. And color the world in Medieval culture, then you're borrowing from Arthurian legend, or Robin Hood, Beowulf, etc. In other words, to be an original fantasist, you have to build a complete alien world from scratch.
Drama. The expectations for drama are so much higher than for other genres. People don't expect too much from horror (which explains the loads of junk movies in my favorite genre), sci-fi gives you a lot of latitude since you make the story rules. Comedy would be my second choice for difficult genre. Can you imagine sitting in on a screening of your comedy and no one's laughing??
@Leon, I totally agree. The best of the best seem to have already set the standards. LOL @Melvin, that would suck to be the only one laughing. I laugh at my romantic comedies when I'm reading them, but scared to death to see them on screen one day
And one more thing: any story written with Super Heroes. Because when you think about it, what super powers haven't been covered already?
@Leon, A movie about a gay superhero?
In other words, a story like every other superhero, but you just tweak one characteristic? Nah. Still highly unoriginal. It's like replacing the cherry on the top of a banana split sundae with a raspberry: not enough of a difference.
@Leon, Yeah but I know of no superheroes who are actually uncloseted gay men (or lesbian women). A supers movie about a group of diverse friends coming together to save the world (a bit like avengers but with things that no one has done before). I don't know. It's not my most original idea. I do have better ones.