A month or two ago suspense author James Scott Bell sent a challenge out through the twittersphere: Create six word loglines for movies you know. Loglines are the little pitches you get on movie posters. So Fellowship of the Ring might read:
"Little Hobbit must destroy bad ring." Or let's take Rocky:
"Underdog takes a beating, wins anyway." Or how about TItanic?
"Big ship sinks, separates lovers too."
My question today is this: If your life were made into a movie, what would the logline read? This might take a few minutes of work, but it'll be worth it (and if you need a seventh word, I'll shun you forever, but go for it). :)
Seriously, no crickets chirping on this one (blogland silence). Give it a whirl!
Maybe your logline is "Abused girl rescued, spends life loving." Or maybe, even more tragic, "Boy grows up, does nothing notable."
Don't give in to what feels true right now. If that were the case, this week I'd write, "Numbed man yawns repeatedly, but why?" But if I look at my life through God's eyes, it's much different:
"Creative explorer loves Jesus, leads church."
What about yours?
Thursday, May 28, 2009
You: the movie
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2 comments:
first of all, so glad no one is doing a movie of my life.
secondly, if i did have a logline it might be...
"girl finds joy in raising family" but then that would be a boring movie.
how about, what my daily life consists of: "mother sorts thorugh tiny toys continuously" or, "dishwasher loaded, unloaded, loaded, unloaded, loaded" or, even better, "laundry pile teeters dangerously toward television" (seriously, visit my house}.
Or, "Woman finds redemption, grace to blame"
thats me. i'm exhausted now.
Sarah, that made me laugh! It does seem that the dishwasher or at least the condition of the kitchen plays a significant role in home life.
Brad: Mine might be "Dad runs toward crying, phone rings." but that's only the 1 foot view of life. I agree, climbing to the 10,000 foot view of life and looking through God's eyes makes, not only a more epic log line, but also one more in line with God's view of us. So then, I would hope to have mine read, "Poor man gives all, gets rich." -m
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