Uncle Arthur and the Attack of the 50 Foot Woman!
You had to be there! What a dream! It all goes back to when I was kid – even younger than you. I saw a movie titled “Attack of the 50 Foot Woman.” Sure, I saw the movie because of a single poster of a giant woman in a swimsuit – good looking girl too. But it was what the poster said that made it my “Must See Film of 1958.”
So I decided to write a followup to my article “Uncle Arthur’s Super Tips: Headlines & Titles for SEO” of 12/12/2007. So this article is all about writing stimulating articles, super headlines and riveting texts for your blogs and websites.
The original movie – “Attack of the 50 Foot Woman” (1958) had a Tagline: “See a female colossus… her mountainous torso, skyscraper limbs, giant desires!” Wheweee! That’s what I’m talking about. The possibilities that this line puts in the head of readers are many and very strong.
Then it had a Plot Outline: “When an abused wife grows to giant size because of an alien encounter and an aborted murder attempt, she goes after her cheating husband with revenge on her mind.”
The movie was almost without plot, used the few special effects of the day, but it made the most of getting people into the theatre with these ideas. It was good enough to cause a remake with Daryl Hannah – “Attack of the 50 Foot Woman” (1993) (TV). One Tagline: “People always called Nancy the little woman… They’ll never do that again.” Plot Outline: “While a woman by the name of Nancy is driving home from yelling at her husband at a motel who is with another woman, she is encountered by aliens that zap her with some kind of laser. As a result, Nancy finds herself growing everytime she gets angry. Her incredible anger makes her 50 feet tall and now she’s a walking giant searching in a terrfied town for her husband who is with his other lover.”
A different Plot Outline for the same movie reads: “A remake of the 1958 original. After an encounter with aliens, a wealthy women grows to, surprise surprise, 50 feet tall. With her new found size she decides to get revenge on her husband and others that annoyed her.”
And then there was a spinoff, sort of a copycat – “Attack of the 60 Foot Centerfold” (1995) But the big deal here is: what you write about these movies that takes a single picture and makes it represent a whole movie. What you write creates scenarios in the readers’ heads that causes a decision to read on or click off.
Here are some other taglines that could have been used depending on who you wanted to attract courtesy of Uncle Arthur:
“Think you know how much love it takes?”
“Mama’s Home – Time to Take Care of Business.”
“So Big – When Her Period Was Near”
“When ‘What to Wear?’ Spelled Disaster.”
“Sometimes . . . A Submarine Was Not Enough!”
“When She Attacked – Every Man Was Spellbound!”
“When Menopause Comes, It Can Get Out of Control”
“PMS – The Roughest Days of Our Lives.”
“She Wanted the Mother of All Weekends!”
“You’ll Laugh, You’ll Cry, You’ll Become Engulfed!”
“The Scream that Wakened a Nation.”
“What a Woman! . . . What a Woman!”
“Feminist Revenge Mutant Goes Berserk in Central Park”
“Super Model Admits Illegal Hormones Helped Her Leap to the Screen!”
“How Many Men Knew Her – How Many Would It Take?!!?”
“Hear Her Battlecry – ‘Don’t Want No Short —- Men!!!’”
“She Knew She Had It Comin’, and She Didn’t Mean Global Warming.”
Well that’s enough laughs for now, all you techies, newbies and Uncle Arthur’s Super Bloggers – oh! and write each day like it was the last thing you’ll ever get to say.
A Freudian with Gestalt Tendencies,
Uncle Arthur Browning
