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I keep thinking of random blog ideas...but forgetting them....

So..I'm taking a screenwriting class, and i have to come up with a pitch (logline) for next week. Which of course means i have to have a movie idea to pitch. So, here's an idea i was working on:

Bathsheba: extremely attractive young woman, married to Uriah, a warrior man whom she does not know or love. She has breifly met King David before, as he is very close with her husband. When the King calls her to his room in the middle of the night, she allows herself to belive he can fulfill the emotional and physical void left by her absent husband and sleeps with the king, only to become pregnant and have her husband killed by the king. She eventually marries the king.

King David: Although considered a man after God's own heart, he finds himself caught in a web of evils when he refuses to join his troops at war and instead see Bathsheba performing a rutial cleansing on her rooftop. He calls her to his room and seduces her, and gives orders for her husband to be killed once news reaches him that she has become pregnant.

Uriah: once one of King David's "Mighty Men", Uriah is a powerful warrior who takes the young and beautiful Bathsheba to be his bride. Only a year and a half after their marriage, he is called away to battle. Some time later, the King invites him to come home for a day, but Uriah refuses, as his comrades are out in tents. After a second attempt to have Uriah return home and sleep with his wife, the King sends him back with a letter to the general ordering him to be killed in battle. Uriah never knows of his wife and friend's unfaithfulness.


Honestly, any thoughts? I think it kinda sounds like a "Tristan & Isolde" type story in a way...but we'll see. At first I wanted to make this mostly from Bathsheba's perspective, as in my mind she was rather innocent. But i'm realizing she really isn't...so I may choose something else. Not sure what though. The other one i was thinking of doesn't have a happy ending. You know, the story of Amnon and Tamar? Not sure if that's a good one to do at a Christian college. I think the themes of rape and incest might be just a bit to strong........

I'll just go look thru my bible for more stories. Seems to be the best storeplace for ideas.....

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