Working Title: Teacher's Pet.
Genre: Tragedy Drama/ Thriller.
Tragedy Drama is where a character's inner flaw is leads to their downfall. Lindsay, the antagonist in the film is a lonely high school students. She feels neglected by her parents and a result, mistakes a simple gesture from her teacher to mean more. Her fatal flaw is her desperate need for companionship, acceptance and love, which leads her to kidnap her teacher's wife in order to obtain his affection.
"Thrillers as well as dramas are about the self-destructive behaviour of the character. The flaws come to a head and ultimately result in death or other form of degradation."- Example: The Great Gatsby - The Script Lab,dated modified May 13th 2013,date accessed 6th May 2013,
What if? Premise: What if a young high school student has an obsession with her young married teacher and what extreme lengths will she go to get him?
Target Audience:
Gender/Age: 16-30 male and female
Interests / Hobbies/ Lifestyle: audience who enjoys reading crime thrillers novels, boards games, crossword puzzles, sports.
Language & Culture: English
Psychology: audience who enjoy thrillers are drawn to intense storylines and have a sense for mystery, problem solving and as a result of their high intellect need to solve the narrative. "Action thrillers appeal to a more male dominated audience aged around 15-30 they’re drawn in the by the action" 40thrillerWordpress, March 6th 2013, Date accessed 6Th May 2013, Nicole Atkinson
The female audience would appreciate something with romance as they will relate with the emotional connection and can see themselves in a character.
Reference Films:
Obsessed(2009)-
Directed by Steve Shill
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Lindsay punches Mrs. Grant (protagonist) and kidnaps her when he sports her living Mr Grant's classroom. When Mrs. Grant comes through she wakes up in Lindsay's bedroom. Lindsay tells her what she has in store for her. She finds one wall covered with cutouts of her husband and photoshopped pictures of her husband and Lindsay. this is when she realises how obsessed Lindsay is. She starts trying to break free when she hears her husbands voice on the other side or the door.
Act III – Resolution (25% of story)
The antagonist has to deal with knowing that her object of obsession does not love her back this leads to her break down and she threatens to kill them both. claiming if she can’t have him then no one can. Mr Grant tries reasons with her but ends up having to subdue her before she could harm anyone nd rescues his wife.
While she might think that her plans are working, they only lead her down a path of destruction. She lands in a boarding house, when child services find her, she goes to jail, becomes pregnant by a man who she believed was rich. Also she becomes sentenced to 15 years in prison, over a street fight with a former friend she double crossed. In the end, she is still serving time and was freed by the warden to go to her mother’s funeral. To only discover that her two sisters were adopted by the man she once loved, her sister is with the man who impregnated her, and the younger sister has become just like her. She wants to warn her sister, but she realizes if she is just like her there is no use in giving her advice. She just decides that her sister must figure it out by
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Lindsay Lohan is a prime example of a tragic hero because of how she increasingly let her arrogance influence her actions and behaviors throughout time. Her early life presented she had everything she needed for a promising future, and though the pinnacle of her life didn’t last long, it was fulfilled her to the highest extent. Herself, and the people and events she encountered in her life led her to her downfall infused with her infamous tragedies. Lindsay Lohan’s fatal flaw caused her to stray away from her promising future and delve into a world of mistakes.
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