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attitudes
values
You want to get more of the character as you would do whit a new friend
Dont get stuck with the past: its no dramatic (drama happens at the present time)
It helps to keep up the character in unusual or incredible situations
4. Psychology
Inner back-story
You have to track down the past inner
experiences of the character
The unconscious
Your characters behaviour, gesture and speech
come from the unconscious
The abnormal
4. Psychology
INTROVERTED
depressive
maniac
schizophrenic
paranoid
Anxiety neurotic
psychopath or sociopath
The abnormal
EXTRAVERTED
5. Relationship
The couples: you have to set the qualities for the most sizzle
(love affair, friendship, partnership, etc.)
attraction
conflict
contrast
transformation
CONFLICT
5. Relationship
Midnight Run
Jack
Jonathan
(bounty hunter)
(bookkeeper)
Dan
Fatal attraction
Beth
Alex
The function Helps define the role and importance of the protagonist
(children for te Mother, Secretary for the CEO, etc.)
Can be a catalyst figure, giving out information that moves the story forward
(children for te Mother, Secretary for the CEO, etc.)
Details
7. Dialogue
It has a beat, a rhythm, a melody
Tends to be short, and spare (character do not speak for more than two o three lines)
It is like a tennis match (constant exchange of power sexual, physical, political, social, etc.)
Conveys conflict, attitudes and intentions (do not tell it: reveal it)
It is easily spoken (it makes good actors)
7. Dialogue
Text
plot
drama
Sub text
What the character is really saying beneath and between the lines
energy
7. Dialogue
Bad dialogue
PRODUCER
Well, come in. It is a real
pleasure to meet you. You know, I
liked your script very much it
is really very good.
YOUNG WRITER
Well, thank you. It is my first
script, and Im really very
scared about what youll think
about it. Im from Kansas, and I
have never been to a big city
before, and I feel really lucky
to meet someone like you. I have
admired your work for so many
years.
PRODUCER
Oh, that is very nice of you to
say that. Lets talk about making
a deal.
wooden
boring
The lines says what theyre thinking
No difference between the characters
7. Dialogue
There are tens of things to do before you write the dialogue
You have to translate real talk into fictional dialogue (stylized, compressed)
For a good dialogue you must sense the character as an actor does
8. Non-realistic characters
Symbolic character
One dimensional
symbolic character
Mars
Stepford Wives
Everyman
Multi dimensional
character
Superman
Batman
Joker
Clark Kent
Bruce Wayne
Scarlet
Rick
Taxi driver
8. Non-realistic characters
Non human character
Lassie
Rub Tin Tin
King Kong
Most animal characters are likely to not change at all in the story
The process of associating a quality to a non human character is the same
of the one used in ads for associating a quality to a brand
Most of the strength for the non human character comes from the context
8. Non-realistic characters
Fantasy character
Merlin
Wicked Witch of the West (Oz)
Mermaid (Splash)
8. Non-realistic characters
Mythic character
9. Stereotyping