Subthemes: Overachieving parents, manipulative children, self centredness , selfishness, expectations
Low-level story: Parent Vs. Child in a domestic concept
Other possibilities of re framing:
(Qns considered: maturity reversal of parent and child, Live-action vs. Animation, Narrative, to the point.)
Sports training: Over enthusiastic parent yelling at the side lines (think Mr . Incredible and Dash at the sports day) The pushing results in a tragedy (child gets maimed for life)
Medevial: Father expects his child to perform feats of valour, swordplay, archery, etc, Child just wants to study boring books. Child saves the life of his father at the end.
Monster Wrecking City: Father monster teaching Junior the ropes, Junior just wants to do something nice (like making music with power cables). Father Insists. Junior ends up saving daddy's life as well as the city.)
Caveman: Teaching son useful skills like hunting and making fire etc. Son just wants to tinker with rocks and twigs, ends up inventing the wheel and benefits mankind.
--a similar idea I had was a tribal geomancer father and son.. the father insists on reading divination signs, while the son introduces... the internet =P
--a similar idea I had was a tribal geomancer father and son.. the father insists on reading divination signs, while the son introduces... the internet =P
Assassin: Father teaching child the ropes of being a hired killer. Child is interested in cooking (something contrasting). How do they reconcile their differences.
LEON, The professional : http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0110413/plotsummary
Samurai: old samurai watches with pride as his son returns from education in the western countries. He expects the son to serve a great daimyo, but he wants to "serve the people" - build the future Tokyo; his values of independence and democratic thoughts is now considered disloyalty to the expecting father, who is enraged. but in the end the son acknowledges that "you are still my father", and disregarding their differences they still reconcile.
Corporation: dad is a middle-aged middle-management guy. He boasts proudly abt his company, his success and all to his kid. Unknown to him, his kid actually owns the MNC that he works in...
Samurai: old samurai watches with pride as his son returns from education in the western countries. He expects the son to serve a great daimyo, but he wants to "serve the people" - build the future Tokyo; his values of independence and democratic thoughts is now considered disloyalty to the expecting father, who is enraged. but in the end the son acknowledges that "you are still my father", and disregarding their differences they still reconcile.
Corporation: dad is a middle-aged middle-management guy. He boasts proudly abt his company, his success and all to his kid. Unknown to him, his kid actually owns the MNC that he works in...
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