She is such a nice old lady that the wife-mother wants to be best friends with her.
In this story, a father loses his right to see his children alone, so he dresses up like a woman and becomes the ideal nanny. They are twists from what you would normally expect. The hook is the setup as we can’t help but wonder why he believes in them so much and wish perhaps that someone believed in us the same way.Ī second hook is that one of his clients needs his mistress to be at his concerts or he is unable to perform, so the agent (Woody Allen) has to pretend to be the mistress’s boyfriend. However, when two mobsters come looking to rough up the guy who has broken their brother’s heart by stealing the girl he loves (the mistress), they go after the agent (Woody Allen) who’s pretending to be with her instead of the real boyfriend, his client! So we have two elements that make the movie unique. This is not what you would normally expect and get from an agent. This is a story about an agent (Woody Allen) who will do anything for his clients. He believes in his clients totally - way more than the clients believe in themselves - even though they are just semi-talented and somewhat past their prime. When she finally agrees to sleep with him, he gets a big surprise…. A man falls in love with a beautiful, vulnerable, frightened woman. Your hook is the special aspect of your storythat sucks people into wanting to read your story or see the movie because they reallywant to know what happens.Ī love story. Your hook should draw the person you’re pitching to into the story like a hook on the fishing line snags the fish. What is a hook in a screenplay? Here’s the basic idea of it:Ī hook in a screenplay is the unique, catchy aspect of your script that’s a little bit different from anything else they’ve heard but familiar enough that they can readily imagine it in pictures. Or best case, they have an idea but don’t fully understand it. While you may have heard the term, I’ve found that most writers don’t know really know what a hook is. When you pitch your screenplay to a Hollywood executive, whether in a one-on-one pitch in person or in a query letter, your story needs to have a hook and it must come through in the pitch.
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