@CrystalDior
I’m considering writing a script and I have a very shoddy, barebones idea for a plot but I’m not sure if it would be interesting/action packed enough to hold up.
Basically, it’s about two high school juniors in a small, Midwest town: the star football player who’s adored as the picture-perfect, all-American son and the studious-but-artsy wallflower girl who thinks her traditional town is full of sheepish followers and plans to leave for the big city the second she graduates. (This would likely be set in the past. I’ve been thinking late 80s or maybe 90s.) The two had a weird sort of friendship when they were younger and she hadn’t outcasted herself yet, and he had always had a crush on her. They fell apart when she started to change and reject the traditional beliefs her family and everyone else in town believed in, and hadn’t really talked since they were in high school. They end up speaking for the first time in years when they are juniors (I haven’t decided on a reason) and fall into a whirlwind romance that makes him question everything. She soon confides in him that one of his friends, who he was started to have problems with, had harassed and coerced her into sex over the summer and she’s still having issues with him. After a night of drinking and high emotions, the pair rashly decide to make a revenge plan. That Friday night they lure him to a field and kill him; regret follows immediately. The pair freak out upon realizing what they’ve done and now have to struggle with the emotional strain this puts on them and their relationship, as well as their need to hide what they did.
It’s still pretty shoddy now, but I can’t decide if I should pursue it as a script or not. The main conflict would be the relationship, psychological, and moral struggles the pair deal with in response to what they’ve done, but I don’t know if that’s exciting enough. I haven’t really worked on this yet so brutal honesty is not gonna hurt my feelings: I want to know that this is a good idea in its core before I put time into it.
