What would you title a screenplay about the final hour of your life?
Post your answer in the LEAVE A COMMENT section below. I’m not the boss of you, though. Don’t write anything for all I care! If you do, though, I’ll get around to reading it in about 61 minutes.
. . .here are my thoughts.
What would you title a screenplay about the final hour of your life?
The title of the screenplay depicting my demise would depend largely on the situation surrounding my death. Even though focusing primarily on the final hour of my life, it’d be an epic-length film. Maybe I could even make an entire series, like The Avengers. Just when you think it’s all over—BAM!—I’ll digress into more films focusing on backstories of minor characters, only tangentially relevant to my life and death. And that, dear reader, is the proper use of the term digress.
digress: to leave the main subject temporarily in speech or writing
People often utter the idiomatic expression, “But I digress,” once they’ve finished their digression from the primary topic, having exhausted the exploration of their tangent. This is similar to saying “I could care less,” when what’s really intended is “I couldn’t care less.” When returning from a digression, to the original topic of conversation, the past tense of the phrase should be employed. But I’ve digressed; let’s return to discussing screenplay titles and whatnot. Since each successive film would become ever more tangential, the first one should have the title: