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We open on a suburban living-room. Average teens Jake and Jordan are watching TV. A blood-filled horror film flicks across the screen. Jake and Jordan are mesmerized. Just then, a news report breaks into the broadcast. The economy has suffered a major stock-market crash due to wealthy investors leaving the country, being unable to receive tax cuts. The current President calls for solidarity among the people in a nation that has become a veritable police-state. Jake and Jordan still stare at the TV, like Zombies.
Later, Jake and Jordan discuss the problem. Jordan feels like he should find a way to help people get food and supplies. Jake thinks the government will take care of it. Later on, Jake and Jordan watch the TV again, another blood-bath depicted onscreen. Another news report breaks in. The President asks for volunteers to help with the crisis at hand.
Jake and Jordan sign-up at a local gestappo-like office. They are given official uniforms and are herded into an auditorium with hundreds of other young men and women to receive their orders. The lights dim and a huge screen lights up with the face of the President, earnestly calling for the help of the youth: Jake and Jordan are thrilled. The President gives the orders: "To achieve solidarity I need your help, I appreciate your support -- you are responsible for the safety of the nation and in order to secure this nation, we must take down our enemies." The screen changes to showing videos of the elderly being massacred by youth in the same uniforms Jake and Jordan are now wearing. The youth responds with a roar of applause and shouting, excited at their mission. Jordan recoils in horror.
The President's voice booms over the speakers: "In order to preserve what little resources we have, we must fortify the strong and eliminate the weak." Again, the crowd surges with applause. Jordan runs out of the auditorium, dodging zombie-like youth, still fixated on the screen. A guard runs after Jordan and it becomes a game of cat and mouse as the youth annihilate all those deemed enemies of the state. Jordan gathers a group of like-minded people, including some considerably advanced in years. They determine the only way to stop this horror is to kill the killers.
One by one this group of "traitors" meet their demise and Jordan, the final enemy of the state is confronted by the now mass-murderer Jake. Jake begs Jordan to become one of them and not be killed. Jordan refuses and asks mournfully if this is what comes about when a nation rallies round their common interests. After this, Jake doesn't hesitate in pulling the trigger. Total victory for the "Presidential" regime.
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Wow, great movie idea! I think it is very creative and well thought out. I like how you talk about the "gestapo-like office" and how they are given uniforms and the president gives orders to all over the screen. It is definitely something I can picture in the movies. I also like how you brought in the two brothers and then turned them against eachother. I was definitely surprised when the issue became that the brothers must kill the elderly, I did not see that coming. You really came up with a great movie pitch.
I like that in the beginning, 'Jordan feels like he should find a way to help people...', while Jake feels that the 'government will take care of it.' That, to me, sets up which side each brother will take. Jordan forming that underground organization is good, too, only, I wish they were doing what he originally planned - helping the people.
It is a good twist that Jordan essentially becomes that which he hates - a killer. It seems to me this is what happens in most horror movies. The article "Get Away from Me, You Bitch" touches on that (in my opinion). In its discussion of the relationship between mothers and daughters, you can see how the mothers' killing of the child's spirit (like in "Carrie" with the obsession on religion) results in the child turning into a literal killer.
Although your pitch centers on the relationship between siblings (maybe even sibling rivalry?), it does have some good familial elements (where are Jake and Jordan's parents?).
Good pitch.
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