The Film Plot Synopsis Challenge

[jeremyp]

I had this idea for a game while walking to the office this morning. The idea is to describe the plot of a film (or book or TV programme etc) using some restrictive literary structure e.g. in only a certain number of words or as a limerick and see if people can guess the film.

It might be fun, or it might be pants.

Anyway, here's a film plot in the form of a Haiku.

Some fake terrorists
Crash the party to steal bonds
Lone cop kills them all.

[Harrowby Hall]

Is a Sun or Daily Mirror headline an accepted literary form?

If so, an opera:

Transvestite Toy Boy in Fake Marriage Scam

[jeremyp]

Is a Sun or Daily Mirror headline an accepted literary form?

Absolutely

If so, an opera:

Transvestite Toy Boy in Fake Marriage Scam

That's probably good, but I don't know opera well enough to get it.

[splashscuba]

I had this idea for a game while walking to the office this morning. The idea is to describe the plot of a film (or book or TV programme etc) using some restrictive literary structure e.g. in only a certain number of words or as a limerick and see if people can guess the film.

It might be fun, or it might be pants.

Anyway, here's a film plot in the form of a Haiku.

Some fake terrorists
Crash the party to steal bonds
Lone cop kills them all.

Too easy

[jeremyp]

Too easy

But you don't seem to posting the answer.

[splashscuba]

But you don't seem to posting the answer.

Duh! Die Hard

[Bubbles]

Try this one then

"A bounty hunting scam joins two men in an uneasy alliance against a third in a race to find a fortune in gold buried in a remote cemetery."

[Bubbles]

Or this one

The aging patriarch of an organized crime dynasty transfers control of his clandestine empire to his reluctant son.

[Bubbles]

Is a Sun or Daily Mirror headline an accepted literary form?

If so, an opera:

Transvestite Toy Boy in Fake Marriage Scam

Rocky Horror show? 

[Nearly Sane]

Is a Sun or Daily Mirror headline an accepted literary form?

If so, an opera:

Transvestite Toy Boy in Fake Marriage Scam

Marriage of Figaro?


I'll try jeremyp's approach, though this film is a bit more obscure than his.


Friends meet here often
One of them getting married
If bride passes test

[SqueakyVoice]

Try this one then

"A bounty hunting scam joins two men in an uneasy alliance against a third in a race to find a fortune in gold buried in a remote cemetery."

What literary form is that...? 

[Bubbles]

What literary form is that...? 

"in only a certain number of words"

 

[Sebastian Toe]

Try this one then

"A bounty hunting scam joins two men in an uneasy alliance against a third in a race to find a fortune in gold buried in a remote cemetery."

The good the bad and the ugly.

[SqueakyVoice]

Five men practised their violinin
while secretly plottin an plannin
In the way of their course
stood Miss Wilberforce
So their cunnin all came to nothin

[Nearly Sane]

Five men practised their violinin
while secretly plottin an plannin
In the way of their course
stood Miss Wilberforce
So their cunnin all came to nothin

The Ladykillers - v impressive

[jeremyp]

Try this one then

"A bounty hunting scam joins two men in an uneasy alliance against a third in a race to find a fortune in gold buried in a remote cemetery."

The Good, The Bad and the Ugly.

I got this straight way because of a post on the Facebook group that I made which was a thinly disguised version of the plot. It was that post, in fact, that made me think of the challenge.

[jeremyp]

What literary form is that...? 

I'm trying to keep it flexible.

[jeremyp]

Friends meet here often
One of them getting married
If bride passes test

Might need a clue there.

[Nearly Sane]

Might need a clue there.

Same city, The Wire
No drugs, just bit of Bacon
And some years before

[jeremyp]

Same city, The Wire
No drugs, just bit of Bacon
And some years before

I've got it but only by Googling. I've never seen the film in question.

[Nearly Sane]

I've got it but only by Googling. I've never seen the film in question.

it's one of my favourites, heartily recommend it.

[Sebastian Toe]

Grumpy old man pretends to teach teenager martial art.
Actually just tricking boy into doing chores!

[Nearly Sane]

Grumpy old man pretends to teach teenager martial art.
Actually just tricking boy into doing chores!

wax on, wax off

[Nearly Sane]

One in room alone
He stands against eleven
He wins, the boy walks

[jeremyp]

One in room alone
He stands against eleven
He wins, the boy walks

That I do know. Henry Fonda's finest hour.

The other one was The Diner.