2 Movie Pitches

Think you are safe inside your dreams? Think again.

Inception is the ultimate heist movie, telling the story of a man who goes inside powerful men's dreams in order to extract secrets from their unconscious minds. Our protagonist Dominic Cobb -- the dream thief -- however, is running from a past that he cannot escape.

You see he and his wife, Mal, once created a dream world where they happily lived for 50 years. Dom however, grew tired of the dream and longed for reality again. Desperate, he convinced Mal to wake herself up. Once she did however she was certain she was still dreaming. Obsessed on returning to "limbo" (the dream world) she loses track of real life and becomes suicidal, thinking it will bring her back to limbo.

Eventually, Mal loses control and frames Dom for her own murder, thinking he will have no choice but to join her in death. She jumps off a hotel ledge committing suicide, leaving authorities to believe Dom killed her. Horrified, he flees the country to avoid a certain prison sentence, leaving his two children behind.

Dom, while working outside the country, runs into an extremely powerful business man who promises he can have his murder charges dropped with one phone call, as long as he can perform "Inception" on a business rival. Longing to see his two kids again, Dom has no choice but to accept the proposal. Now, with a small team of experts, Dom must do something he has only donce once before and that time led to Mal's suicide. Can he perform Inception and see his children again or will Mal break through his subconscious and ruin everything? Or will Dom realize he has dreamed the whole thing up?

This movie will have plenty of action and have the audience on edge wondering what is happening throughout. The element of dreaming gives the director a limitless amount of directions to take the story and an infinite amount of potential drama and suspense. Our main character is perfect example of the scarred experienced hero. The audience will long for him to be reunited with his children after hearing the depressing details of his tragic past.

Inception is directed towards more mature audiences who are quick enough to understand what is unfolding in our complex story. A large budget will be needed for all of the CG to design the ever changing lack of reality dreams have.

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Superbad is a comedy for young adults. It follows two high-school senior losers who long to lose their virginity before they graduate. This movie is meant to be not taken too seriously and be full of jokes and laughs throughout. Our two main characters will go on a day-long adventure which has many set backs that restrict them from getting to the biggest party of the school year. Eventually, they arrive at the party, relieved and excited. However, things soon turn from great to worse as the cops show up and bust the party. Will the boys lose their virginity or will they become the losers they feared they would be when they started high school?

This movie budget will not have to be large at all. It will take place in normal town, USA and not require any CG or anything that will drain funding. The actors needed should be up and coming stars who the audience may not immediately recognize therefore giving the viewers the impression these are really high school students.

The story's main goal is to invoke laughter and be relatable for many other high school or former high school students.

Memento: Linear or Non-Linear?

The psychological thriller Memento is a movie that uniquely stands out from its Hollywood peers. It is told in reverse -- end to beginning -- keeping the viewer in suspense throughout. This ingenious twist makes the watcher feel as if they also have the main character Leonard's condition of short term memory loss. Because of its different presentation style many wrongly suggest that Memento is a non-linear story, but this is not true.

Memento is completely linear and actually more linear than regular movies. Every scene leads into the next, without the future scene we would have no idea what was unfolding in the scene we just watched. Missing one scene could lead to not understanding the entire movie. For those reasons every scene is vital that it be in order. While it is not beginning to end like most linear stories, it is cleverly linear just end to beginning.

The director of the movie himself, Christopher Nolan even stated that the movie is linear and those who think that Memento is not are misinformed.