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Week 3 Day 3: Take it to an Extreme – BRIDESMAIDS
1. Please watch this scene and provide your insights into what makes this scene great from a writing perspective.
2. Read the other writers insights and make notes of how you will take a scene to an extreme.
3. Rethink or create a scene that goes to an extreme using your new insights and rewrite the scene.
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WATCH 1ST TIME FOR:
BASIC SCENE COMPONENTS — SCENE ARC, SITUATION, CONFLICT, MOVING THE STORY FORWARD, ENTERTAINMENT VALUE, AND SETUPS/PAYOFFS.
– There’s some contention between Annie (suggesting a cheaper bridesmaid dress) and Helen (preferring the expensive one). At first Megan burps, then they are feeling queasy as they try on various dresses and then they go vomit or diarrhea in the toilet, sink, street. All the while Annie suggesting it’s not from the dinner she hosted. But the only one not affected is nemesis Helen, who didn’t eat that food.
WATCH 2ND TIME FOR:
WHAT MAKES THIS SCENE GREAT?
– the slowly impending “doom” of Annie’s dinner vs. Helen’s bridal shop spree
THE ESCALATION ON A GRADIENT FROM “NORMAL TO EXTREME.”
– they are all doing something different — deciding on beautiful dresses — as they go from queasy to over the top vomiting and diarrhea.
EXPRESS CHARACTER ON THE EDGE.
– they all seem to be on edge — those who ate the dinner physically, Annie striving to deflect from it’s her fault and denying her queasiness, the shop owner’s fear they’ll ruin the dresses.
WHAT MAKES THIS SCENE GREAT FROM A WRITING PERSPECTIVE:
– because it happens step-by-step the audience it taken along into over-the-top happenings, which otherwise they may not go. As for my part, I didn’t really like the movie or the scenes, mainly because Annie was not a sympathetic character for me. I don’t really sympathize with extreme jealousy, but I do understand there are people like that, and over-the-top competitive types like Helen, as well.
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