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Lesson 13
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Bob Rowen’s Delivers Insights Through Conflict
What I learned doing this assignment is a way to hone in on the delivery of the profound messages of the story.
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. What kind of conflict could that insight show up in?
Step 3. Brainstorm ways you might deliver the insight through the
conflict.
Come up with at
least five (5) different ways you can use conflict to express an insight.Step 1: Tenure is a good thing. Step 2: Conflict is a “loss”. Step 3: The school counselor opted for more money as an administrator instead of joining the union thereby giving up tenure. He loses his job for strictly political reasons in spite of his outstanding job performance as a school counselor.
Step 1: Students need to study history as it actually happened. Step 2: Conflict is an “argument”. Step 3: Wade publicly confronts the president of the school board during his disciplinary hearing by presenting the “testimony” of Kurt Reimann.
Step 1: The true business of schools is education, not Friday night football. Step 2: Conflict is a “public humiliation”. Step 3: Wade faces off with the president of the Boosters Club, who is also a school board member, at a school board meeting.
Step 1: Courage is the backbone of doing the right thing. Step 2: Conflict is a “power struggle”. Step 3: The ongoing struggle Wade Meadows has with Ken Franks, president of the school board and those powerbrokers who put Franks on the Board.
Step 1: Truth ultimately prevails. Step 2: Conflict is the “resolution of stakes raised”. Step 3: The resolution follows Wade’s disciplinary hearing during a T.V. reporter’s interview of Wade.
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Susan A. Willard’s Delivers Insights Through Conflict
What I learned doing this assignment is that Insights (or new ways) are an important part of each action. If all actions are attached
to a new way or insight, then there are no wasted moments on the movies screen, or script.
What else I learned doing this assignment is insights represented by actions – to write these combinations takes practice. I need
to practice.
New Ways / Insights to be Delivered:
1. New Ways / Insights: The Truth will come out.
· Conflict Type: A Dilemma: A Predicament defying a satisfactory solution.
· Delivery Methods: By a series of events, including a combination of breaking into places, lying, taking pictures, collecting items, and more,
· Or by discovery of events that have happened that define the truth,
· Or both.
2. New Ways / Insights: Everyone lives their lives independently, eventually.
· Conflict Type: An Argument.
· Delivery Methods: By a series of events, including a combination of breaking into places, lying, taking pictures, collecting items, and more.
3. New Ways / Insights: The Truth will come out.
· Conflict Type: Social Disruption and Misunderstanding
· Delivery Methods: By character(s) interaction by a mysterious social chaotic group, whereby assumptions and misunderstanding follow.
4. New Ways / Insights: Everyone lives their lives independently, eventually.
· Conflict Type: Physical Humiliation and Physical Confirmation
· Delivery Methods: By a physical altercation / physical combat,
· Or by a series of events unrelated to physical combat,
· Or by both.
5. New Ways / Insights: The Truth will come out.
· Conflict Type: A loss of a person due to physical, medical, or mental harm.
· Delivery Methods: By discovery of the person,
· Or by witnessing the harmful acts,
· Or by both.
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Bill Southwell’s Delivers Insights Through Conflict.
What I learned doing this assignment is that it is possible to explore new ways to express the New Ways. I am considering the use of Poetry to express imaginary because it also has emotional content.
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Scene A.Step 1. The Insight I want to deliver is the apprehension that Charis feels about beginning a relationship with Bill. She feels rushed because her time may be limited. Yet she ponders a slow leisurely romance.
Step 2. The conflict consists of dialogue between them—the Old Way.
Step 3. The New Way is to have the audience experience her feeling through a poem she recites (V.O.) as Bill sleeps on a blanket on a picnic two weeks after they first meet.
SPRING
Ah, we must agree about moist grass
And sun against my face,
Cool on one side, on the other warm,
And on yours the same.
To pull some grass together in my hand
And sprinkle it over your closed eyes
Seems like a lovely thing to do,
Or, if you’d move a little, I’d mention a butterfly I see.
Tomorrow the sun may be still warmer,
And we’ll discuss the impending days of warm grass
In our hair and down our backs.
Then I’ll brush your eyes with a soft stem
And they’ll open.
Scene
B.Step 1. The insight I want to deliver is Charis’s thoughts as she endures sleepless nights. Sometimes she feels someone she knew is trying to communicate with her.
Step 2. The oppressor here is her medical condition or the medications that cause the sleepless nights. Or, maybe just the uncertainty of not knowing who is trying to contact her.
Step 3. The New Way is to have the audience experience her feelings by Charis reciting her poem:
DUST
A white shadow moves down the old stairs and waits—
So quietly I barely feel it there unless I move too close
And am drawn to remember some faint shade of a familiar face.
What are years to you? Ah, you understand and share my tears.
You must have known the warmth of other hands and the warmth of lips,
And the sun spinning a spring morning damp and waiting—
Yes. You see I cannot come, I have my cleaning,
And some last things to find—before.
Our childhood tears have wandered still
Before our years and waited till
We meet them now in other fears.
The shadow there upon the mirror—
I’ve moved the certain where it hid the sun
But the shadow stays and I see no one
Behind or before, or my own face.
Ah, wait till I remember where I knew you—
And I can dare to go to sleep.
Scene
C.Step 1. The insight I want to deliver is artistic sensitivity Charis sees when driving with Bill over the high plains of Wyoming.
Step 2. The Old Ways here is to breeze by and not see or hear or feel the beauty around them.
Step 3. The New Way is to convey these insights through the V. O. poem:
IN MY DREAMS
In my dreams I run until I am out there
In the middle of everywhere, Wyoming,
Where a hundred thousand voices sing the silence,
And clouds as big as giants expand their chests and roar!
Where there is a stillness in between
For the quiet things that sing in the smaller amplitudes
And play on the fragile strings,
Where only flowing water passes never hours
And the undulance and coolness of the stream
Shares the lovely solitude of dreams.
It is a myth the quiet place.
I waken from the illusion of the schedule
Into the shelter of the willow,
The soothing moving of the water,
And the warm enclosing arms of sun.
(while Charis recites this V.O., the movie shows the items being described. Also, the audio plays the sounds described, from the thunder to the faint closeup insects buzzing on fragile strings and the undulance of flowing stream.)
Scene D.
Step 1. The Insight I want to deliver is the apprehension that Charis feels because she may die.
Step 2. The conflict is verbal between Charis and Death
Step 3. The New Way is to have the audience experience this through a poem wherein Charis personifies Death and boldly talks to him:
TO DEATH
Sing to them beyond the stars
That I remember shadows of their smiles
And long to see their light again.
But leave me here another hour
To feel the summer sun
And hear a sparrow in the eves.
If you could come with me to see
Black dirt, made mud with tears
Washed away by rain, clear drops
From children’s faces, old women’s
Hands knotted, folded on their laps in Church,
And spray from crashing breakers in the sea—
You would weep with me, and linger for a while
To feel the soil beneath your feet.
Leave me now, and tell them I will come
When autumn dries the hills
And I have seen the seasons by.
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LESSON 13 – ANDREA DELIVERS INSIGHTS THROUGH CONFLICT
1. What I learned doing this assignment:
Conflict helps to elucidate the subtext as well as the possible truth and insights in any scene that contains it. There are opportunities within conflict to learn something new, about yourself and others, that can take you in a new direction- as is true in actual life.
2. Conflict Patterns that Deliver Insight
· NEW WAY: A new perspective of something once thought to be useless.
Jill thinks she is superior to her brother Conner for her artistic medium of writing graphic novels, while he plays and podcasts video games for money. They argue about it. Jill is stunned to learn video games reach a much wider audience – and she can control the narrative.
· NEW WAY: Skyler/ Jill is able to identify and express a fear that would have been kept hidden before – this shows trust in others, as well as in herself to be able to confront the fear without being paralyzed by shame.
Ami reveals a secret she has kept about needing Skyler to be able to fly her off this planet before her parents turn her over to a nefarious secret operation for exploitation. Now that date has been pushed up Skyler doesn’t feel she is ready to learn to fly a spacecraft. Skyler flat out refuses until she reveals to Ami, she is terrified that her past will catch up with her.
· NEW WAY: Skyler/ Jill is trusting her 6<sup>th</sup> sense about others.
When Skyler stares at her new benefactors, Ami’s parents, they become annoyed. At that moment Skyler is able to see their true reptilian faces beneath the polished veneer.
· NEW WAY: Skyler/ Jill realizes the consequences of her own lack of self-awareness and personal responsibility.
Skyler’s spacecraft is intricately connected to her consciousness – so when she flies into the airspace of the one who betrayed her in the beginning of this journey – Snow Blinder – her anger toward him triggers her to the extent that it causes her plane to malfunction. Now she knows the consequences of not doing the necessary inner work.
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Roback Delivers Insights Through Conflict (Assignment 13)
Lesson Learned: The conflict between Fanny and her husband mirrors the conflict between the old ways and the new, between living a traditional Jewish life and adapting to the culture of the new country.
1. The overall conflict is between becoming settled in the new country
but not losing your identity or your religion in the process. This is a fine line that every immigrant faces.
This is even more difficult when the host culture appears backward to
Forward looking people. As fanny tells the priest when he wants her to
Send her children to a Roman Catholic school, “I want to prepare my children for the 20<sup>th</sup> century, not the 12<sup>th</sup>.”
The reality was that the French Roman Catholic school system was backward, compared to the English Protestant system. In the English school the children were taught science and math. In 1900 in Quebec there were perhaps five French Canadian engineers in the whole province.
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1. Fanny tells her father she doesn’t want to get married.
Her father tells her life with a scholar will never be boring.
She tells him, If you like him so much, you marry him.
He tells her either marry him or go and good luck. Fanny is stuck in the old ways.
2. A neighbor gives Fanny a blanc mange (like a white jello mold).
Fanny immediately throws it on the manure pile.
Lea, age 3, knocks on the woman’s door and says, “Vien voir ce que mama a fait a votre blanc mange. (Come see what my mother did with your blanc mange).
Lea leads the woman to the manure pile and sure enough, there is the gift she just gave Lea’s mother.
The woman knocks on Fanny’s door and throws a fit.
Fanny tries to explain. Lard. Lard. Pig fat. Not kosher.
No lard. Milk. Egg whites. That’s all.
Fanny is embarrassed.
3. Moses asks his wife why she is no longer wearing a wig?
Fanny says that that was fine in the old country, but this is Canada.
Moses says that she is breaking tradition.
Fanny says, “Tell me where it says in Torah that women have to cut their hair short and wear a wig.
Moses says, exasperated – do what you want.
Fanny gives Nathaniel a razor for his 13<sup>th</sup>
birthday (bar mitzvah).Moses says, What are you doing?
Fanny says she wants her oldest son to fit in.
Moses points out where in the Torah it says you can’t shave your beard.
Fanny says she doesn’t care. If Moses wants to look like a greener, that is his privilege, but their son will look like a Canadian.
Moses
forbids her to let the youngest child participate in a Catholic religious
procession. Thou shall have no
false G-ds.Fanny informs her husband John the Baptist wasn’t a god.
The event is important to the locals – so why not. She’ll watch the baby to
Make sure no harm comes to him.
Moses says no good will come of it. You’ve done a lot of dumb things. This is just the latest in a long line of dumb things.
Fanny says it is like before an election, everyone is either a blue or a red but after the election everyone goes back to being who they are. The St. Jean Baptist parade is like that.- he’s the patron saint of Quebec..
Moses says, The next thing you’ll be telling me is that you want to go to mass and eat pork.
Fanny says, Being a good neighbor is not forgetting who we are and what we believe. If you want to hide in your office go right ahead.
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Jim Clark Deliver’s Through Conflict
What I learned is that there are multiple opportunities to creat Conflict without dialogue.
Competition
New Way: Make people work for their potential promotions
Insight: Don’t give out promotions unless they are deserved.
Margie’s Office
MARGIE
That’s it then. On Thursday we go over scripts to find our next film. So get your reading done. Just for fun, there’s a twenty thousand dollar bonus for the presentation argument. Thanks and enjoy your day.
Power Struggle
Insight: Force the cream to rise to the top
Margie’s Office
MARGIE
You know that Bruce is retiring next month. That will open the VP of Production position. On Thursday we go over scripts to find our next film. Best presentation will have the script chosen. I’m giving thought to the VP slot.
Margie looks into the eyes of everyone at the table. Then, she smiles.
Physical Confrontation
Insight: physical challenge can be the most powerful tool.
RV Park Store
Ruth is in an aisle. She grabs a can of coffee and heads to the register. Teddy is at the cash register.
TEDDY
Getting settled in Mrs. Cooper?
RUTH
Uh huh.
TEDDY
Got plans?
RUTH
Relax, play golf. Maybe see some sights.
TEDDY
You’re in the right place.
Ruth hands him a twenty dollar bill and he makes change.
As Ruth walks away, she glances up at the concave mirror above the door.
Teddy watches Ruth as he pockets the twenty.
Ruth smiles, stops, turns and quicksteps back to Teddy still at the counter. She stares him in the eye and raises one eyebrow.
TEDDY
What?
Ruth pulls her cell phone out and dials nine one…
TEDDY
Fine.
Misunderstanding
Insight: Some people cling to a dream that will never come true.
Outside the RV Park Clubhouse after church service
Maureen is chatting with Ruth and Sandi.
Clifton walks outside from the clubhouse. Maureen sees him.
MAUREEN
Watch and learn, ladies.
Maureen walks away toward Clifton.
Sandi walks in the opposite direction.
Ruth watches Maureen as she walks away.
Maureen reaches Clifton.
MAUREEN (CONT’D)
(UNINTELLIGIBLE)
CLIFTON
(UNINTELLIGIBLE)
He shakes his head. He gently places his palm on her shoulder. She pushes him away Maureen and then slaps him on the cheek. As she leaves, he shakes his head, turns and walks in the opposite direction.
Public Humiliation
Insight: Don’t mess with people who have powerful connections.
EXT. HIGHWAY 111 – DAY
Rush Hour.
About two blocks from Irv’s Deli Ruth doesn’t notice, but she passes Karen Halverson in the Riverside County vehicle that is pulled over by a police officer writing a ticket. Karen exits the car. She’s openly angry.
EXT. ROADSIDE HIGHWAY 111 – DAY
KAREN
Do you know who I am?
Officer holds up her drivers license and looks a it.
POLICE OFFICER
Yup.
KAREN
And?
POLICE OFFICER
Don’t care.
Karen kicks the tire of her car and hurts her foot.
KAREN
OUCH!
Officer looks up at people driving nearby then using his thumb he indicates Karen and shakes his head.
He grins at Karen, then goes back to finish writing the ticket.
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