Avarice Deceit Connivance and Revenge: Two Twisty Crime Screenplays
By Herb Schultz
()
About this ebook
Imagine two twisty crime screenplays turned into feature-length movies starring Avarice, Deceit, Connivance and Revenge. I hope you agree this would be a better use of talent and financing than the production of yet one more film in which agitated alien robots turn themselves into trucks.
Avarice, deceit, connivance and revenge – such vile human traits. And the stuff of so many entertaining Hollywood movies, from the beginning (“Freaks,” “The Thin Man”), through the golden age (“Double Indemnity,” “The Maltese Falcon”), to the present (“House of Games,” “The Usual Suspects,” “LA Confidential”). Yet in recent years, the medium has increasingly become a fountainhead for CGI-dominated wet-dreams, full-length movie versions of mediocre television shows, and money-harvesting sequels that diminish in quality with each iteration.
Allow me to tempt you with the log-lines of the screenplays.First, determined to marry his mistress, a Machiavellian architect enlists three associates in a complex scheme to murder his wife – and each other. And second, after a professional mediator is conned by identical twin businessmen who sought her help to resolve a dispute, she meets another woman in a suspiciously similar circumstance, and the two team up to take down the con artists.
No explosions, dinosaurs or fart jokes. Just delicious lex talionis.
Herb Schultz
Herb Schultz is the author of the novels "RonnieandLennie," "Architect's Rendition," "Double Blind Test," and the 2012 Indie Reader Winner for Short Stories, "Sometimes the Sun Does Shine There." In addition, he wrote "Avarice, Deceit, Connivance and Revenge," a pair of screenplays, and "Culture Justly Scrutinized," a take on six years of virtue and venality. Herb worked many years as a marketing director for IBM covering the high-performance computing industry. He is graduate of Syracuse University with a Masters in Computer and Information Science. He lives in New York.
Read more from Herb Schultz
Architect's Rendition Rating: 2 out of 5 stars2/5Sometimes the Sun Does Shine There and Other Stories Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsDouble Blind Test Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsCulture Justly Scrutinized: A Take on Six Years of Virtue and Venality Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsRonnieandLennie Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratings
Related to Avarice Deceit Connivance and Revenge
Related ebooks
Film Flam: Essays on Hollywood Rating: 3 out of 5 stars3/5Four Word Film Reviews Rating: 2 out of 5 stars2/5Hearts Of Three Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsTough Love Screenwriting Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Aurealis #124 Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsHow to Write a Thriller Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Hearts of Three: Classic Adventure Novel Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsShowgirls, Teen Wolves, and Astro Zombies: A Film Critic's Year-Long Quest to Find the Worst Movie Ever Made Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Hearts of Three (Adventure Classic): A Treasure Hunt Tale Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Black Static #36 Horror Magazine (Sep-Oct 2013) Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsWriting Your Novel: How Not To Do It Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsWriting Movies: The Practical Guide to Creating Stellar Screenplays Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5How to Write the Perfect Short Story Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Danse Macabre Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Scripted Words of Alfred Hitchcock: Concepts from the Master of Suspense Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsAs It Seems: A Short Story Collection Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsBabytrick Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsSpoilers Part 1 1989-1995 Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsThe Undead at War (And Other Stories) Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsThis Is What Happens Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Pungent Verbs: Interviews with Genre Writers at the End of the Twentieth Century Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsStarbucks Nation: A Satirical Novel of Hollywood Rating: 3 out of 5 stars3/5Butcher Bird Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5How To Improve Your Characters To Improve Your Sci-Fi Story Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The Dragon Within and Other Short Stories Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsThese Evil Things We Do: A Novel & Four Novellas Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsSpeed Write Your First Screenplay: From Blank Spaces to Great Pages in Just 90 Days Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsAll the Best Lines: An Informal History of the Movies in Quotes, Notes and Anecdotes Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Year of the Slug Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratings"L.A. Journal": Some Stories About Some Guys Doing the Best They Can in the Nowhere City Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratings
Performing Arts For You
The Sisters Brothers Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5For colored girls who have considered suicide/When the rainbow is enuf Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The Importance of Being Earnest: A Play Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Yes Please Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Coreyography: A Memoir Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Becoming Free Indeed: My Story of Disentangling Faith from Fear Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Robin Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5As You Wish: Inconceivable Tales from the Making of The Princess Bride Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The Science of Storytelling: Why Stories Make Us Human and How to Tell Them Better Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Hamlet Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Macbeth (new classics) Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Unsheltered: A Novel Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The Diamond Eye: A Novel Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Angels in America: A Gay Fantasia on National Themes: Revised and Complete Edition Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Hollywood's Dark History: Silver Screen Scandals Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The Count Of Monte Cristo (Unabridged) Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5A Strange Loop Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Wuthering Heights Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5The Quite Nice and Fairly Accurate Good Omens Script Book: The Script Book Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Lucky Dog Lessons: From Renowned Expert Dog Trainer and Host of Lucky Dog: Reunions Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Romeo and Juliet Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Stories I Only Tell My Friends: An Autobiography Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Storyworthy: Engage, Teach, Persuade, and Change Your Life through the Power of Storytelling Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5The Fifth Mountain: A Novel Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5A Midsummer Night's Dream, with line numbers Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The Trial Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5A Woman Is No Man: A Read with Jenna Pick Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Here We Go Again: My Life In Television Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Mash: A Novel About Three Army Doctors Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5
Reviews for Avarice Deceit Connivance and Revenge
0 ratings0 reviews