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Lesson 14 Assignments
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Wayne Delivers Irony!
What I learned doing this assignment is irony works! It works even better when the concept of the movie is extremely ironic to begin with.
1. Insight: Antiracism advocates sometimes become racists.
Opposite Experience: A black woman in a BLM T-shirt, gives Jeannie (Haitian) a dirty look for dating Peter (white).
Delivery: As they sit in a window booth at the ice-cream stand, a black woman in a BLM T-shirt, gives Jeannie (Haitian) a dirty look. Jeannie explains to Peter that the woman probably thinks of her as a social climber or caving to a white oppressor. Peter explains that he’s the one who feels out of his league.2. Insight: Love can conquer all, even the worst of offenses.
Opposite Experience: 600 years earlier in past lives, Peter had sentenced Jeannie to be burned at the stake. Now they are dating.
Delivery: Early in their first date, they discover each other’s past life identities. Simultaneously they meet new friends, and immediately must keep their outrageous discovery secret. Instead of holding a grudge, they find the situation and each other so intriguing that it endears them to each other. [P.S. this turns out to be a fastening scene ending with an all-out bar brawl.]3. Insight: Christianity is helpful in Government philosophy.
Opposite Experience: The Christian concept of “free will” seems to conflict with infidelity.
Delivery: Being a devout Catholic, Peter abhors infidelity, but knows there cannot be a law against it. However, Jeannie points out the government could help by publishing the rates of divorce for infidelity compared to other reasons. THEN anyone is free to take that risk accordingly. That way an informed public would naturally decrease infidelity freely.4. Insight: Religious doctrine can cause great harm.
Opposite Experience: Trying to right himself with the Catholic Church, Peter is threatened with excommunication.
Delivery: When Peter goes to confession because of his guilty feelings regarding his past life as the bishop who’d sentenced Saint Joan of Arc to be burned at the stake, the Monsignor takes him into his office. As Peter stands fast in his belief in his past life, the Monsignor is steadfast in the Church’s doctrine that only Jesus can resurrect. As this escalates, the Monsignor threatens excommunication and even attempts to exorcize daemons from Peter!5. Insight: Facing your fears must be done without fear.
Opposite Experience: Jeannie and Peter meet to resolve their differences only to escalate them.
Delivery: They discuss appearing on TV to dispel the world’s erroneous views of who they are and what they are like. Peter becomes so afraid that it will only backfire and make things worse, that their argument leads to their breakup.6. Insight: Jeannie & Peter still care a lot for each other.
Opposite Experience: Their fear of showing their love causes them to believe they don’t
Delivery: After sneaking in to watch one other’s sport game at a rival college the day before, they happen upon each other for breakfast. However, they both try to be so cool and cordial, in fear of showing their true feelings, it causes each to believe the other no longer has romantic feelings for them. -
Erin Ziccarelli Delivers Irony!
What I learned from doing this assignment is: How easy yet insightful delivering irony is. All it requires is to opposite situations put together.
With your list of the New Ways /
Insights you want audiences to experience, go through these steps:
Step 1. What is the New Way / Insight you want to
deliver?
Step 2. How could you deliver that
insight through opposite experiences?
OR.
Step 1. Where could you build opposite
experiences into your screenplay?
Step 2. What is the New Way / Insight you
want to deliver through them?· New understanding of family and the role of family in his life
o Opening flashback (1970’s) to help us understand Alex’s old understanding of family – purely transactional, business-like, toxic, and cult-like. Shane’s manipulation of Alex and Saoirse.
· Becomes self-affirming, trusting of himself, independent, and cooperative – he determines his own future
· Responsible, reliable, and trustworthy
Come up with at least five (5)
different ways you can create IRONY in your screenplay and deliver an
insight.· Opening poker game: Alex and the family are all telling each other how united they are while playing a poker game against each other.
· Inheritance: Alex receives Nathanial’s money and estate, but in order to collect it he must get Scarlett’s signature. What he viewed as a loss (receiving dishonest money) becomes a win (he and Scarlett will leave the old ways behind).
· Shane is determined to make Alex the next heir of the family. His pressure ends up alienating Alex, resulting in his untimely death.
· Alex and Roger’s first meeting: Alex resolutely states that no man from the North would ever help a man from the South End. Roger is from the North End. He helps Alex and Scarlett time and time again. Alex realizes how wrong he was in their final meeting.
· Ending poker game: The two sides play poker against each other. They give the appearance of being united, but their loyalties are crumbling. The North End ends up turning on themselves, and the South End will fizzle because their leadership is gone. The poker game ends with Richard’s suicide instead of Alex’s death.
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