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Free ideas, post em take em love em

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A woman has a psychic experience foretelling a school bus crash, however, her own child is on a waiting list for a heart transplant!

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A modern day group of theives plan to rob a federal reserve bank. Law enforcement catches on and they try to stay one step ahead. After getting caught, it is revealed they aren't the only group, just one cell planning to hit all twelve federal reserve banks. The idea popped in my head as a modern day robin hood tale. Steal from the government, give to the people.
 
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Hey, a free ideas thread is a good idea.

I've got one. A woman who has a senior security management position in an International Bank, syphons a number of corporate payrolls, to finance eco-terrorism.

Someone who should stop her, doesn't, for some reason. Or blackmails her. And she tries to disappear.

I don't know, sorry, that's all I've got, it's only an idea.
 
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A Gas Station Attendant is told by a doctor that he may spontaneously combust at any moment... He must find a way to save his job, and get the girl before it's too late!

Perfect role for Eddie Murphy
 
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Okay, a serious one. This isn't my idea, but the guy who came up with it (ROC) shared it freely, quite often, so I think he's okay with me putting it up here.

Murder-mystery. The only evidence of the murder was caught on google-maps street-view.

I think it's a great idea. I'd put it in my arsenal, but I've already got a long line of future projects I want to write/produce.
 
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If people are sharing them they gotta be interesting on some level. http://www.nytimes.com/most-popular-emailed



http://www.nytimes.com/2012/07/20/opinion/the-trouble-with-online-education.html?_r=1
Dramedy - A university professor's academic degree from decades earlier is rescinded and must retake her courses from her former student, now a professor himself, with whom she argued extensively.


http://www.nytimes.com/2012/07/20/opinion/the-trouble-with-online-education.html?_r=1
Comedy - A fast food restaurant finds it's entry level line staffed with former CEOs, CFOs, and COOs, much to the amusement and distress of 'senior' line staff high school flunkies and their community college mangers.


http://www.nytimes.com/2012/07/19/n...ath-hospital-alters-discharge-procedures.html
Horror - A metropolitan hospital faces being shut down by increasing paranormal activity creating more than a public relations nightmare.


http://www.nytimes.com/2012/07/19/arts/design/as-the-art-world-grows-so-does-the-curators-field.html
Drama - A pair of municipal sanitation workers with artistic bents collect assorted canvasses of "junk art" left at the street. Their co-workers and family think they're nuts, their boss and city attorney want to fire them, their growing underground art world hail them.


http://www.nytimes.com/2012/07/20/opinion/brooks-where-obama-shines.html
Comedy - The incumbent POTUS is neither the best nor worst head of state on record, but the opposition can't seem to find anyone with a remote chance of even competing, let alone beating, him in the upcoming Presidential election. It's kinda pathetic, actually.
 
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http://www.nytimes.com/2012/07/20/us/politics/tougher-voter-id-laws-set-off-court-battles.html?_r=1
Pole Tax (Legal Comedy) Anti- "voter suppression" activists argue issues with municipal leaders ensuring the integrity of elections, preventing voter fraud and improving public confidence in the electoral process


http://www.nytimes.com/2012/07/20/opinion/scoutings-gay-founder.html
The Orientation Badge (Biopic) - The trailheads of nature, nurture and circumstance clash in a review of the life of Robert Stephenson Smyth Baden-Powell, founder of the Boy Scouts.


http://www.nytimes.com/2012/07/20/s...ght-expected-to-worsen-across-the-nation.html
Burning Ears (Dramedy) - Farmers, meterologists, Governors, and investors exchange heated statements as hot as the summer sun when record breaking pandemic drought brings tempers to a boil.


http://www.nytimes.com/2012/07/21/opinion/guns-and-the-slog.html
Both Hands (Mocumentary) - A "real" investigative journalist interviews the more ridiculous of both gun control and gun rights advocates, with a review of the laws already in existance and those recently proposed, defeated, and passed.


http://www.nytimes.com/2012/07/20/opinion/turkeys-human-rights-hypocrisy.html
The Sand Policy (Political Thriller) - Members of various U.S. departments in a national policy think tank debate, discuss and attempt to validate "credible" information about recent events in a quasi-ally's political structure in an effort to shape a changing domestic policy.
 
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Cracker Funk said:
Idea #4,378: Adam Sandler works in a meat-packing factory, but has always wanted to be a professional baseball player. We'll call it "Grand Salami".
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There's an alleyway in a city like any other. Once a month at precisely midnight during the full moon a doorway appears for a few seconds. Nobody knows where it might lead or what happens if you step through; most people think it's an urban legend.
 
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http://www.nytimes.com/most-popular-emailed?period=30 ---> http://opinionator.blogs.nytimes.com/2012/06/30/the-busy-trap/

1 Literary genre - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_genres
1.1 Action - A 'Domestic Executive' must meet multiple deadlines all across town, baby en tow.
1.2 Adventure - To save his sick child, a question of a man's genetics from biological parents send him searching for them across the region.
1.3 Comedy - Soccer-ballet-tennis-band-football mom tries to get through the day with one bar on her cell phone's battery.
1.4 Crime - Police investigate the alibies of four Jamaicans, with multiple jobs each, accused of a crime.
1.5 Documentary - An exhaustive week of an ER resident at a major metropolitan hospital is condensed into 90min.
1.6 Erotic - Soon to be enacted state legislation forces a local porn king to shut down at the end of the week. How many videos can his crew shoot and cut before then?
1.7 Faction - A collision of ill informed decisions lead to first shot of the Ruby Ridge siege.
1.8 Fantasy - During wartime the ferryman across the river Styxx can't get his heaped boat to either shore fast enough to keep Hades content.
1.9 Historical - Families deteriorate as Allied leadership fights the clock as they plan the Invasion of Normandy before Axis powers strengthen.
1.10 Horror - On th elongest night of the year a psychotic with a knife tries killing everyone on the street while asleep in their beds.
1.11 Mystery - Before the statute of limitations runs out at midnight investigators must locate the warehouse of documents that may help them catch a serial rapist across decades.
1.12 Paranoid - Mortal hallucinations motivate a manic engineer to spend the week before the new moon building an anti-alien abduction chamber in his family's living room.
1.13 Philosophical - At their mother's funeral siblings discuss the dubious merits of each other's polar opposite lifestyles.
1.14 Political - Campaign managers hustle potential donors in a pivotal tie breaker state of electoral votes.
1.15 Romance - The boundaries of the definition of a "modern relationship" are pushed beyond the breaking point. The emotional scars are souveniers.
1.16 Saga - A psychiatrist reflects upon the changes in society across a fifty year career to her dying mother.
1.17 Satire - Everyone's too busy to see the dancing gorilla in their daily lives.
1.18 Science fiction- Humans on the factory floor compete with the latest rollout of androids in this futuristic adaptation of the 'John Henry' folklore.
1.19 Slice of Life
1.20 Speculative - Steam Punkers battle the emerging 'Electros' to build the superior 'City of the Future.'
1.21 Thriller - While the city slumbers law enforcement races the rising sun against the cryptic motives of the 'Dawn Killer.'
1.22 Urban- The hardest working homeless man in the city works a laundry list of hustle strategies just to get through any given day.​
 
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