Description

What if Million Dollar Baby wasn’t a gritty boxing drama… but a dystopian near-future scam where the US government “rewards” desperate parents for having children, only to quietly raise a generation of Million Dollar Babies as disposable soldiers for a war that may not even exist?

In this episode of No Context Cinema Club, Rob attempts to rewrite Million Dollar Baby having never seen it - armed only with the title, Kev’s increasingly aggressive curveballs, and a frightening lack of familiarity with the concept of 1984.

Expect:

• A government-branded “National Futures Incentive” (NFI) promising big rewards
•  A young lead called Hope who becomes the accidental symbol of an uprising
•  A whistleblower named Miles Away 
•  A chaos trio called Snap, Crackle & Pop (possibly breakfast cereal, possibly designer drugs)
•  Morgan Freeman voiceovers and the immortal line: “It’s the hope that kills you.”

After Rob locks in his completely fabricated plot, Kev scores the chaos for coherence, entertainment and originality.

Was it a dystopian breakthrough… or just Ready Player One in disguise?

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Got a film we have to re-write? Think we’ve completely lost the plot?

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