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Prime Time Adventures

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Romeo & Juliet: Detectives & Crime Family

Premise: Two families on either side of the law, joined in peace for many years by a marriage, begin to fray and unravel when the wedded couple suddenly dies.
Tone: Dark and gritty; Snappy dialog and gruesome realities
Genre: Crime Drama with Soap Opera
Setting: Providence, RI

Air Dates

Showtime: 6:30 pm to 10:30 pm

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Details Brainstorm

  • Play both sides?
    • Large cast
  • Generation after marriage?
  • Righteous and the unjust
  • A will?
    • Fight over the children?
      • Children in trust?
  • Focus on two families
  • Children are focus?
  • Children are not protagonists
  • End with spotlight on family heads
  • Questionably lawful city?

Franchise Brainstorm

  • Violence
    • Abuse
    • Aftermath of violence
  • Occupational scene
  • Unexpected character twists
    • Characters don’t expect each others’ actions
    • Bard’s tongue
  • No truly happy endings
  • Continuing theme of decoupling and coming apart
  • Indication of similarity between families
  • Visceral actions
    • Swearing
    • Racism
  • Alteration of perception – Reversal
  • Children mirror events
  • Narrator – one of the children
  • Children as objects

Character Brainstorm

  • Upstanding son (Michael Corleone)
  • Police Chief McGuy
  • Mafia Don/Boss/Slurrio
  • Ambitious young turk
  • Higher-up crime dood from outside
  • Blunt outsider
  • Shifty foreigner
  • Secret lovers
  • Narrator
  • Black sheep – conscience?
  • Servant (pool boy, gardener)
  • Pawns
  • Militant person X
  • Grandmother, matriarch
  • Detective loyal son
  • Easy-going con man
  • Police chief’s daughter
  • Manipulative older advisor with suspect motives
  • Trophy wife
  • Manipulative wife
  • Father confessor to both families
  • Golden Boy
  • Local bartender
  • Surviving sibling of married couple
  • Person back from prison
  • Public defender
  • Back from College

Recommended Viewing

  • The Godfather, Part One
  • The Departed
  • In the Line of Fire
  • The Shield
  • The Black Donnellys