Elementary Teacher Asks 6-Year-Olds To Pitch Film Ideas, Hilarity Ensues (10 Movies)
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You might have heard of the elementary school teacher George Pointon who regularly shares things his 6-year-old students have to say on his Twitter. He comes up with a new question every week and asks his students to contribute. Then he puts their answers into tweets with some amusing remarks.
The last time one of his threads went viral was a few days ago and this time he asked his students to pitch him a new film idea. The children came up with the titles and genres and afterwards, they worked together on the plots of the movies. The thread was liked by 186k people and some of the movie ideas are really creative, as per usual for children.
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This elementary teacher who “exploits children’s imagination for likes” got a lot of them for sharing their movie pitches
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The teacher asks his students the most random questions from all areas of life. He once asked them to tell him the best joke they knew, to theorize what they would do if they were presidents of the world and to reveal something they wanted to get off their chests.
The children voluntarily get involved in this activity and this time they received a task that required a little bit more creativity. They were asked to come up with some new concepts for a movie and the students had some interesting ideas.
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The 6-year-olds came up with their own titles and genres that are not that typical because the point was to create something new
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The idea that people liked the most as it has the most likes was Ravi’s. He would name his movie Money Cannon and its genre would be money. The main character of this movie would be a super crazy person who would build a cannon and would load it with money instead of cannon balls, but the generosity of one wealthy person would lead to creating more chaos than good.
Bored Panda contacted George and he confirmed that Ravi’s film is his favorite too, “Money Cannon might the the greatest film I’ve ever heard of, so if have to say that.” He also told us that he was expecting Money Cannon to be the most popular one.
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There is something that Ravi’s movie has that others don’t because an overwhelming number of people picked it as their favorite. The teacher explained why it might have gotten so much attention, “A combination of mental but believable storyline and the idea of a man shooting money into the air. Mad but fun.”
While Ravi’s idea was unheard of, Mikey didn’t search too far and just imagined himself as Spiderman. Lola also imagined herself as the protagonist of her movie in which she would inherit £30 and would be able to buy a car. Sadly, she would crash it, but it wouldn’t be a big deal.
Belle thought she would take as reference an already existing movie as well. She imagined what the third installment of Frozen could be and turns out, Elsa and Anna should go on a sisters’ holiday
After that, they all together discussed what the movie plots could be
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People in the comments of the thread were sharing what their favorites were and the clear winner was Ravi
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JJ’s movie would not be as happy. It would take place in space more than two millennia in the future when the Earth is non-existent, but there is life on different planets and people are fighting their 100th world war.
All of the kids have really good imaginations and could become quite talented scriptwriters. However, their definition of genre is a little bit off.
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However, all the children had interesting ideas and every one of them had fans fighting to prove their idea was the best
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It is not only interesting to see what plots they came up with and what titles they would give to their movies but the genres of the movies are pretty entertaining to read through as they are not your standard ones. The movie Spiderman is an I Am Spiderman movie, while Emma’s movie The Sea is a “people” movie.
Twitter users had their favorites and George himself liked Money Cannon but the kids themselves didn’t pick any movies they preferred as the teacher revealed to us. It is because the plots of the movies was “a big collaboration. They came up with the title and genre. We all worked together on the plot.”
Once again, George’s thread proved that children’s minds are full of genius ideas and adults should listen to them more
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As always, people in the comments said how much they loved the thread and enjoyed reading through these movie pitches, and some of them even suggested movie posters they made for the ideas they loved the most.
We would like to hear your reactions to this thread. Which movie would you like to watch the most? We are also interested in how many of our posts about George’s students you have read on Bored Panda and which one of them was your favorite. Let us know in the comments!
Here are some of the reactions other Twitter users had after reading through the thread
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Money Cannon is brilliant and just exactly what would happen. It's definitely getting that Oscar.
I can tell you as a mother of a 6 yr old that they can indeed come up with ideas like this if asked the right questions.
Seven godkids, and I can tell you... Just ask them to *draw* their idea of a movie poster and life gets very intreresting!
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Yeah, even if the root of these ideas came from children, these summaries were clearly written by an adult.
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All I know is, I want to have the budgeting skills of a person that can buy a house and a car with £30, so I would see that movie.
I think the five year old should be nominated for a Pulitzer for Poem or Philosophy. I going to use the philosophy for my remaining years. I will never be 79 again, but I will be happy to be 81.
I think most of these concepts are as good as any movie I've seen recently. Money Cannon definitely has possibilities, but I would watch an hour of "Wisdom from William" every week.
If I could animate, I'd make an interview-style animation of the kids and after each one answers it shows a movie preview of their ideas.
The one about cleaning the sea of plastic is wonderful but I would have rather heard exactly what the kids said. Cute post but should be left in the child's imaginative words.
I hate to be a party pooper but I have 4 siblings (who are in fact very intelligent and imaginative) under 10 (including 2 6 year olds) and I really doubt any 6 year olds capabilities of writing some of the things on the thread. Some sounded believable but not all. And I REALLY don’t think William said that quote. I’m not hating and I understand that some children are very creative, but it just sounds far fetched, especially Williams quote.
I'm unsure if you mean how the ideas were written or the content itself, but I'm pretty sure that the tweet author just put their words into dramatic movie descriptions. As for the ideas, the twt author probably did exaggerate them a bit, obviously in the Money Cannon one. I definitely agree with you on the quote part, tho
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Musicals have been based on some pretty out there ideas (Little Shop of Horrors, Phantom of the Opera, Rocky Horror) I think these could definitely work! I like the idea of Elsa and Anna coming to reality and meeting themselves at Disney Land, a bit like Enchanted.
Personally I think Hide and Seek sounds like a pretty good horror movie name
These should really be the children's ideas and not the adults interpretation of them. I say that as someone who has been an educator for 25 years. Don't steal their voice.
i don't know a single 6 year that talks like that, let alone all of them. unless the person is writing his words to what they say.
Something wonderful I have done at school as a young child (don't remember the age). We got presented with the beginning of a story, and had to finish the story in a book form. Also with drawings allowed to accompany the story. They then took our pages and made real hardcover books of it!! Of course they were small books, but I think it was a cool assignment and I still have the book now at almost 33!
I would like to know which "green one" Spider-Mikey is planning on fighting. I'd assume Green Goblin considering he's the first Spider-Man villain I can think of who's associated with green, but for all I know it could be someone like Hulk.
Money Canon, definitely. (Also, for a teacher, her punctuation isn't great)
Disney says, "How about another remake? You like the 'Lion King?' We have it in 3 versions!"
I think the twitter user is trying to write what they said but in extravagant movie terms so that it actually catches others’ interest. Although I would’ve liked to see the kid’s real words.
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Money Cannon is brilliant and just exactly what would happen. It's definitely getting that Oscar.
I can tell you as a mother of a 6 yr old that they can indeed come up with ideas like this if asked the right questions.
Seven godkids, and I can tell you... Just ask them to *draw* their idea of a movie poster and life gets very intreresting!
Load More Replies... Yeah, even if the root of these ideas came from children, these summaries were clearly written by an adult.
Load More Replies... All I know is, I want to have the budgeting skills of a person that can buy a house and a car with £30, so I would see that movie.
I think the five year old should be nominated for a Pulitzer for Poem or Philosophy. I going to use the philosophy for my remaining years. I will never be 79 again, but I will be happy to be 81.
I think most of these concepts are as good as any movie I've seen recently. Money Cannon definitely has possibilities, but I would watch an hour of "Wisdom from William" every week.
If I could animate, I'd make an interview-style animation of the kids and after each one answers it shows a movie preview of their ideas.
The one about cleaning the sea of plastic is wonderful but I would have rather heard exactly what the kids said. Cute post but should be left in the child's imaginative words.
I hate to be a party pooper but I have 4 siblings (who are in fact very intelligent and imaginative) under 10 (including 2 6 year olds) and I really doubt any 6 year olds capabilities of writing some of the things on the thread. Some sounded believable but not all. And I REALLY don’t think William said that quote. I’m not hating and I understand that some children are very creative, but it just sounds far fetched, especially Williams quote.
I'm unsure if you mean how the ideas were written or the content itself, but I'm pretty sure that the tweet author just put their words into dramatic movie descriptions. As for the ideas, the twt author probably did exaggerate them a bit, obviously in the Money Cannon one. I definitely agree with you on the quote part, tho
Load More Replies... Musicals have been based on some pretty out there ideas (Little Shop of Horrors, Phantom of the Opera, Rocky Horror) I think these could definitely work! I like the idea of Elsa and Anna coming to reality and meeting themselves at Disney Land, a bit like Enchanted.
Personally I think Hide and Seek sounds like a pretty good horror movie name
These should really be the children's ideas and not the adults interpretation of them. I say that as someone who has been an educator for 25 years. Don't steal their voice.
i don't know a single 6 year that talks like that, let alone all of them. unless the person is writing his words to what they say.
Something wonderful I have done at school as a young child (don't remember the age). We got presented with the beginning of a story, and had to finish the story in a book form. Also with drawings allowed to accompany the story. They then took our pages and made real hardcover books of it!! Of course they were small books, but I think it was a cool assignment and I still have the book now at almost 33!
I would like to know which "green one" Spider-Mikey is planning on fighting. I'd assume Green Goblin considering he's the first Spider-Man villain I can think of who's associated with green, but for all I know it could be someone like Hulk.
Money Canon, definitely. (Also, for a teacher, her punctuation isn't great)
Disney says, "How about another remake? You like the 'Lion King?' We have it in 3 versions!"
I think the twitter user is trying to write what they said but in extravagant movie terms so that it actually catches others’ interest. Although I would’ve liked to see the kid’s real words.
Load More Replies... Hello everyone , I want to share a great Testimony on how I got blessed by this great Doctor called Dr wonder he helped me in different ways and I cannot thank him less I got a good relationship with his spells and now I have a good pay job I contacted him on Whatsapp +2349150333852 and told him my difficulty in life and he assured me everything will be fine and I believed him and did what he asked from me to my greatest surprise my ex called me and begged me for everything I was so happy. Words cannot express my gratitude to you Doctor wonder ,you can also contacted him for help today on his drwonder512@yahoo.com or +2349150333852
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