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07:35, 2006-Jul-9 .. Posted by WhenLightningStrikes

Mark,

You misinterpret me. I do think your story is good, and has marketability. Sexing it up is the fun of writing it. More interesting characters and bigger disasters is where you misunderstand me.

Like I said, your story is good, good for about four or five movies all cousined by the same (already) interesting characters, and (already) big enough events. Four or five (not limited to) different stories, call them variations on the theme -your theme- go:
1. Action/disaster flick where a father beset by family strife tries to escape the wrath of Hurrican Katrina in a pick-up truck.

2. Hard boiled drama pitting a quiet man against not one, but two fathers as he assumes the patriarch role of his splintered family amidst the tempest fury of Hurricane Katrina.

3. A story of humanity and survival tracking the exodus of a family who not only face Hurricane forces, but their own tempestuous pasts.

4. A docu-drama following one family's route to high ground and even higher moral ground as stepfather, father and son come to terms with troubled pasts trying to stay ahead of Hurricane Katrina.

5. A family's troubles and guilt collide in the cab of a single truck speeding through the maelstrom of Hurricane Katrina.

Now I know they all sound similar, but they're all uniquely different too. It's not characters and explosions I'm asking you to settle on, Mark. It's what aspect this life event are we going to explore?
The relationship between the MC and his fathers?
The Hurricane and surviving it?
The road trip?
The family and how it bonds?