HELP! Summarizing the Story
Alright, so like so many of you, I want to see Invisible Monsters made into a movie. I'm applying for a few film schools, all of which require a synopsis of a movie you'd be passionate about working on (can be creative or based on something else) and although my vision of Invisible Monsters is quite clear, how can this movie be summed up in less than a page (should probably spoil everything so it makes sense) and it has to make sense to someone who has never read the book.. This is aggravating!
if i do your work for you and it gets you into film school, can i then take your place in film school too?
1. Purchase book.
2. Turn book over.
3. Paraphrase cover blurb.
4. Add paragraph about ending.
Nicely put, sounds much better than do your own work you shit licker but contains basically the same message.
It has amazed me in the time I have spent around here how many peoples first post is do my homework for me.
Sorry, I meant to post a rough copy of my summary and ask for your guys' input on where I can improve. I may have made errors, but I'm hoping you guys can just maybe give me a bit of feedback on plot errors I made/mistakes with regards to the characters. It was difficult for me to get the names straight, especially as some characters go by different names throughout the story. Well, here's a very rough cut, Im going to re-read the book again though. Please, any help would be great! and I don't want you guys to do my homework, I just need a bit of assistance!
A project I am very passionate about working on is an adaptation of Chuck Palahniuk’s novel ‘Invisible Monsters’. Though Palahniuk is quoted as calling the story “super camp”, while reading the book I couldn’t help but envision it as a dark, gritty tale of self-destruction and reinvention. As in the book, the film would be narrated by the lead character, Shannon Macfarlane, whose story plays out like a fashion magazine, jumping back and forth, from this page to that, interrupted by other stories and subplots as well as flashy in-your-face advertisements.
Based on the novel by Chuck Palahniuk, ‘Invisible Monsters’ chronicles the life of Shannon, a young, beautiful fashion model whose life takes a 180 after falling victim to what the papers called “a random act of gang violence.” Shot in the jaw by a stray bullet and left for dead, her body remained in a highway ditch for hours as birds picked away at what was left of her bloody, fleshy face.
Her parents, too busy mourning the “accidental death” of her gay brother Shane, never come by the hospital to visit. His death occurred one night when a can of Shannon’s hairspray made its way into her garbage can. When Shane took the garbage to the trash compactor his body was incinerated by the explosion. Her parents still blame for her for his “accidental death.”
In the hospital, Shannon’s boyfriend Manus breaks up with her after seeing her newly disfigured face, while her best friend Evie only visits so she can borrow her clothes. Shannon’s life went from being a beautiful, wealthy success story to a gruesome six o’clock news segment in a matter of minutes, and after a fateful encounter with a fellow patient at the hospital, she’d never look back. Enter Brandy Alexander, the 6 foot 2 beauty queen who’s only one operation away from being a real woman. Brandy teaches her that reinvention means erasing your past, and making up something better.
The disfigured fashion model, her ex-boyfriend Manus and Brandy Alexander go on a nation-wide road trip fueled by revenge, addiction, and self-destruction. Brandy pops estrogen supplements like M&M’s to make herself more of a woman, while Shannon slips them in Manus’ meals to make him less of a man – because if she can’t have him, no other woman should.
After jumping back and forth between the tangled stories and subplots of Shannon, Shane, Manus, Evie and Brandy, it all comes together in the end to make for a shocking conclusion that reveals secrets about every character and ties them all together. Shannon was not the victim of a freeway accident, rather, she shot herself in the face to tear down the glamorous, superficial life she knows, and start over. Shannon’s brother, Shane, faked his own death – he took a can of hairspray, threw it in the compactor, and ran away before it exploded. He spent months living with a group of transsexuals where he underwent thousands of dollars worth of plastic surgery to become a persona known as Brandy Alexander, an incarnation of his beautiful sister Shannon. All the while Shannon was trying to destroy herself, Shane was trying to become her.
that's good right there.
nothing is as perfect as you can imagine it.
A couple things i htink your wrong about, but arn't really a big deal:
1. She drove herselt to the hospital
2. Shane's "acidental death" wasn't the part with the hairspray, as this happens before the night where he told his parents he was gay, then he burned Shannon's clothes. His death occures after he runs away and the parents get an annonymous call saying he died of AIDs
3. Evie never asks SHannon if she can borrow her clothes
Other than that though it was very well written!
some half faced ex model hooks up with a ru paul type and some other dude and they go on a road trip, they do a lot of drugs and somewhere along the line someone turns out to be not who they seem, also there's a good bit of violence and some fucking.
Shane never said he was gay... if u remember he never wanted to be labelled... he got Gonorrhea from Manus and his parents only assumed he was gay cos that was the only was he could have gotten it
The truth is, wherever you choose to be..... its always the wrong place.
Call this Jesse Peyronel character.
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0756666/
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