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Initial ideas for film Name of film - Why am I Different? Genre - Horror Age Certificate - 15 Tagline - The cruelty of imaginary friends When the good guys turn bad Disability included - Schizophrenia Director - Guillermo del Toro Schizophrenia is a devastating mental illness which affects roughly 1 in a hundred people. It usually strikes first in the sufferer’s teenage years (but can afflict anyone at any age) and leads to a life of visual and auditory hallucinations, delusions, and in many sufferers loss of enjoyment in things they used to find interesting and fun, no motivation and a paucity of emotional feelings. Schizophrenia is an illness which simultaneously horrifies and fascinates people. It has also intrigued film directors for several decades. Usually the director tries to recreate the mental experiences of the sufferer – to take us inside of all the horrors of the disease. A good film on schizophrenia is usually judged on the basis of its verisimilitude – how accurately the disease is portrayed. Films including Schizophrenia The Snake Pit (1948) Lilith (1964) Benny and Joon (1993) The Fisher King (1991) Shutter Island (2010) Pi (1998) The Soloist (2009) Angel Baby (1995) Revolution # 9 (2001) Clean, Shaven (1994) Characters names -

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Initial ideas for filmName of film - Why am I Different?Genre - HorrorAge Certificate - 15Tagline - The cruelty of imaginary friends When the good guys turn badDisability included - SchizophreniaDirector - Guillermo del ToroSchizophrenia is a devastating mental illness which affects roughly 1 in a hundred people. It usually strikes first in the sufferers teenage years (but can afflict anyone at any age) and leads to a life of visual and auditory hallucinations, delusions, and in many sufferers loss of enjoyment in things they used to find interesting and fun, no motivation and a paucity of emotional feelings.Schizophrenia is an illness which simultaneously horrifies and fascinates people. It has also intrigued film directors for several decades. Usually the director tries to recreate the mental experiences of the sufferer to take us inside of all the horrors of the disease. A good film on schizophrenia is usually judged on the basis of its verisimilitude how accurately the disease is portrayed.Films including Schizophrenia The Snake Pit (1948) Lilith (1964) Benny and Joon (1993) The Fisher King (1991) Shutter Island (2010) Pi (1998) The Soloist (2009) Angel Baby (1995) Revolution # 9 (2001) Clean, Shaven (1994)Characters names - Jefferson Hyll (Father) Issobella Hyll (Mother) Eleanor Hyll (Female child) Nicolas Hyll (Male child Jamison Bolton (Physician) Leader of hooded groupActors I have chosen Jefferson Hyll - Frank Grillo Issobella Hyll - Kiersten Warren Eleanor Hyll - Isabelle Fuhrman Nicolas Hyll - Jared Gilmore Jamison Bolton - Julian Glover Leader of hooded group - Michael Keaton

SynopsisA Schizophrenic girl who has a normal life with her good imaginary friends but then watched her close family brutally murdered. Her imaginary good friends turned evil and they started to make her do bad things to herself, self-harm, starve herself . She is alone in a large house trying to fend for herself with the demons still in her head.

Plot A mentally ill teenager watched the brutal murder of her family and the voices from within changed the way she looked at the world. She has no family, just the local physician to relieve her of her thoughts.

First sentence ideasIt was time. She had fought against it for too long.