Narrative Proposal

There are various aspects of influencing films, genre conventions, and narrative formulae that are important to consider as we come up with our own narrative. With this in mind, my proposed narrative is along the following lines:

A police inspector/detective whose best friend and colleague was murdered by a powerful criminal has been pursuing this criminal to an obsessive extent for many years. New evidence and pointers come in that allow the police to track the killer down and our hero leads the charge. He opens the door expecting some form of retaliation or trap but he instead finds the man he's been pursuing for so many years murdered and lying on the floor. The detective is accused of the murder and must fight to clear his name by finding and exposing the real murderer and in the process makes some startling discoveries involving an underground criminal movement.

This narrative idea can be related to Todorov's Solving of Riddles narrative type, although it could also use features of Redemption or Rise and Fall. If the rest of the group has different ideas in mind I remain flexible in terms of the way the final narrative ends up.



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