I just read a great definition for the term 'high concept', specifically as it relates to a story/movie:
the premise is the reason it exists.
A movie like Minority Report is high concept because it's about what would happen if you could see crimes that hadn't been committed yet. That's why it exists. Not because it's a movie about a father who has lost his son.
Actually, I may have just complicated that simple, elegant definition by being partially wrong with my example. I don't know.
Food for thought provided by John August.
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