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Occasionally, as in the page quote, a line of dialogue or narration from a film [[Lampshade Hanging|will sum up]] its [[High Concept]] for us - it sometimes seems like [[Executive Meddling|Meddling Executives]] demanded a good soundbite to put in [[Trailers Always Spoil|the trailer]]. [[Let Me Get This Straight...]] is a frequent contributor.
[[High Concept|High Concepts]] can take several specific forms like: "[[X Meets Y|Show A meets Show B]]", "[[Wunza Plot|One's an X, the other's a Y]]: [[They Fight Crime]]", or "Film X in the style of Creator W" as well as the labored [[Recycled in Space|Recycled]] {{smallcaps|[[Recycled in Space|IN SPACE!]]}} and [[Die Hard
Compare [[Laconic]].
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* ''Nemesis'': What if Batman was the Joker?
* ''[[Irredeemable]]'': What if Superman got genocidal?
* ''[[
== [[Film]] ==
* ''[[Air Force One (
* ''[[Alien (
* ''[[Back to The Future]]'': Young man goes back in time and [[Grandfather Paradox|accidentally prevents his own birth]], has to play cupid to his own parents.
* ''[[
* ''[[Dave]]'': An honest everyman has to impersonate the corrupt U.S. President during the latter's coma, and uses this position for the better. Or [[The Prisoner of Zenda]] in contemporary America.
* ''[[
* ''[[Enchanted]]'': Disney Princess from an animated movie gets stuck in cynical live action New York.
* ''[[Forrest Gump]]'': A single man [[The Zelig|obliviously influences dozens of landmark events]] throughout the [[Baby Boomer]] generation's lifetime.
* ''[[The Fountain]]'': "[[Tagline|What if you could]] [[Who Wants to Live Forever?|live forever]]... And your lover is dying?"
* ''[[
* ''[[Jaws (
* ''[[Jurassic Park]]'': Dinosaurs are remade in a nature park and run amok.
* ''[[National Treasure]]'': Adventurers unravel clues hidden throughout well-known pieces American history to find a long-lost, unparalleled treasure.
* ''[[Next]]'': Man who can see two minutes into future fights terrorists.
* ''[[Real Steel]]'': Rocky with robots.
* ''[[Snakes
* ''[[
* ''[[Talladega Nights]]'': Was literally pitched by simply writing on a chalkboard: "[[Will Ferrell]] as a NASCAR driver."
* ''[[Ted]]'': [[Mark Wahlberg]] and a teddy bear.
* ''[[Terminator]]'': Robot is sent back in time to kill the savior of mankind before he is born.
* ''[[Tower Heist]]'': ''[[
* ''[[Toy Story]]'': A group of toys fight for their owner... will they survive?
* ''[[Transformers (
* ''[[Under Siege]]'': ''[[
== [[Live Action TV]] ==
* ''[[House (TV series)|House]]'': ''[[Sherlock Holmes]]'' as a [[Medical Drama]].
* ''[[JAG]]'': ''[[Top Gun]]'' meets ''[[A Few Good Men]]''
* ''[[Keen Eddie]]'' - New York detective fighting crime in London. Or ''[[Dempsey and Makepeace]]'' [[X Meets Y|meets]] ''[[Starsky and Hutch (TV series)|Starsky and Hutch]]''.
* ''[[Miami Vice]]'': According to legend, the actual pitch was "[[MTV]] Cops."
* ''[[Smallville]]'': ''[[Superman]]'' meets ''[[The X
* ''[[Star Trek:
== [[Literature]] ==
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== [[Theater]] ==
* ''[[Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead]]'': ''[[Hamlet]]'' from the perspective of Rosencrantz and Guildenstern, [[World Limited to
* ''[[Blithe Spirit (
== [[Video Games]] ==
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* ''[[You Have to Burn The Rope]]''
* ''[[Mass Effect 2]]'', on the back of the box: "They call it a [[Suicide Mission]]. ''[[Badass|Prove them wrong.]]''"
* ''[[Planescape: Torment]]'' has one called by this name [[All There in
{{quote| The player is a scarred amnesiac immortal in search of his identity. On the way, the player character will kill a lot of people... [[Who Wants to Live Forever?|including himself.]]"}}
* ''[[Portal (
** The Laconic entry for the game used to be "Darkly humorous puzzle game in an empty laboratory that kicks the laws of physics in the nuts.", so called that because in order to solve the trickier puzzles, you need some excellent spatial reasoning skills. Or as the game calls it, "Thinking with portals!"
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=== Dialog examples: ===
== [[Film]] ==
* ''[[
* ''[[National Treasure]]'': "You think there's a treasure map.... on the back of the Declaration Of Independence."
* The trailer for ''The Bounty Hunter'' gives us "[[Repeating So the Audience Can Hear|You're telling me]] you want me to kidnap my ex-wife for money?"
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{{quote| '''Trent, age 21:''' I'll make you a deal. We can be friends, if you can keep it a secret.<br />
'''Devon, age 10:''' What's wrong with you and me being friends? }}
* ''[[
** [[The Simpsons|We'll call it: "The Bus That Couldn't Slow Down"!]]
* ''[[Unstoppable]]'': "We're not just talking about a [[Runaway Train|train]], we're talking about a ''[[Stuff Blowing Up|missile]]'' the size of the ''Chrysler Building''!"
* ''[[The Player]]'': Not the concept of the movie itself, but it's set in the film industry, and most of the characters rattle off high-concept pitches to each other to try and make a blockbuster. It's been credited with teaching aspiring film-makers how to pitch ever since.
* ''[[Transformers (
* ''[[Gladiator (
* Parodied in "[[A Trailer for Every Academy Award Winning Movie Ever]]: "Explicitly summing up the moral of the story, awkwardly working in... the Movie Title."
* ''[[The Man From Earth]]'': "What if a man from the Upper Paleolithic survived until the present day?"
== [[Live-Action TV]] ==
* [[Big Bad|Herrick]] in ''[[
* ''[[Breaking Bad]]'': "High school teacher turned meth dealer, brother-in-law's in the DEA? [[Leaning
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