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Lesson 11
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Jerry’s Creating Irony!
What I learned doing this assignment is the more mining you do the more you have to use in the futureASSIGNMENT 1: GoT s1
Character Irony:
Tyrion Lannister is regarded by the Starks as an enemy. They don’t trust or listen to him when he trys to distance himself from his family.Ned Stark is a loyal servant of the King however his loyalty and friendship is rewarded by being handed a poison chalice.
Situational Irony:
The Starks are secure in the North and isolated from the quallels between the greater families in the South. By Robert bringing Ned in as his Hand he involves the Starks in southern court politics.Deadline: 24 hours
ASSIGNMENT 2: Your ShowLook back through your previous assignments and find at least 20 different situations or character components that you could go opposite to create irony.
With each, brainstorm ideas for ways it could go opposite.
Select the ones that work well for the show and share the character and situational irony ideas with us.Character Irony:
Linda wants to be reconciled with Darran but her activities in the churh draw he closer to Wee Henry
A youthful Darran murdered a man for Big Nasty and has left that life behind but now in seeking an ally to try and stop Linda he finds himself being drawn back into that world.
Wee Henry genuinely loves Linda but his love of money is proving too strong
Roaring Cecil wants the power and status that a Mega Church will bring to him but to get it he will have to betray his current flock.Situational Irony:
Linda wants what’s best for her people and neighbourhood but in blocking the Developers she’s damaging short-term investment and damaging her position.
Linda thinks that Roaring Cecil will be helping her defend the Tin Tabernacle unaware that he and Big Nasty were behind the unital approach to developers.
Progress requires investment which brings change, and corruption.
The Politicians who represent Linda’s people are conniving with their enemies in private whilst demonising them in public. -
CJ’s Creating Irony
What I learned from this assignment is the power of irony—compared to big plot twists, irony feels as if it will actually evoke more emotional connection from the reader, perhaps because it’s built over time and its impact isn’t felt until the audience “sees” what’s really going on beyond the surface action?
ASSIGNMENT 1:
Mr. Robot’s ironies:
Character: Elliot suffers mental illness and assumes everyone around him doesn’t, yet almost every other character also suffers from unacknowledged mental illnesses, a few more extreme than Elliot’s, such as Tyrell’s homicidal tendencies.
Situational: Everyone Elliot sees as an ally ultimately betrays him and almost all his “enemies” end up helping him in his mission (for their own reasons)
ASSIGNMENT 2:
CJ’s Patient X ironies:
Character:
*Doctor becomes patient
*Killer saves lives
*Dying woman falls in love
*Nuns breaking rules/law
*Doctor creating “miracle” drug is also serial killer, killing experimental subjects
*Mother willing to harm/kill her daughter to gain power
Situational:
*Doctor forced to kill
*Cop becomes a victim
*Kidnapper isn’t hurting kids but saving them
*Illegitimate son inherits everything
*Outcast returns to become leader who saves community
*Disease that kills creates powers used to save lives
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What I Learned – Irony is not as difficult as I thought at first. There are lots of places where it can be introduced, and it creates subtext.
Hilton Garrett, Creating Irony
Example Show – Breaking Bad
This show is full of irony. Walt’s whole meth thing is pure irony given his prior life. His working with Jesse. His brother-in-law being a DEA agent sitting around the table talking and having no idea what Walt is up to. Hank’s wife being a thief.
My Show
Will
Will, who does not want children, provides money for a destitute mother of a young girl
He works to expose Rountree’s corruption when all the while Rountree is responsible for the death of Will’s mother and Will has no idea.
Against his nature he kills one of Santorro’s men.
Becca
Removes a picture of Will’s mother from their bedroom. (I’m your wife! I’m not dead! I’m alive! You can look at me!!)
Has impromptu sex with the courier when what she really wants is a family with Will
Rountree
Wants to keep his past under wraps but tries to hire Will – keep your enemies closer
Wants to be free of Santorro but every month accepts his money
Martaan
Born into near poverty, now elegant and wealthy
Was complicit in the death of Will’s mother and now wants to help him learn the truth
Mary-Grace
Wants to be part of something big but owns a small-town newspaper
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BWTV Module 1 Lesson 11 Discovering Creating Irony
Working Hard every day to become the best writer I can be and as a result I do become the best writer in Hollywood.
What I learned from this assignment is the continued examination and turning over rocks to find new solutions and situations is adding layers to the story.
Assignment One:
Title: Breaking Bad
In the last episode, Walter is offered a job and free health care. The irony of this is the man who offered it to him was a college friend.
The stark difference between Walter’s lifestyle and his friends is very evident. Walter gives his friend the most poignant gift, a memory and he is made to feel embarrassed by it.
When Jesse tries to cook meth the quality is nowhere what Walter can do. Prior to this it would have been just fine.
Both men are lost without each other. They belong in the criminal enterprise together even though they don’t really like each other.
Skyler loves him and supports him but she continues to do so even though he really does not step up to the plate for her like he should.
When Jesse tries to get a job, he is offered a menial one at best. He hints at his sales prowess but doesn’t tell them what he sold. It is impossible for him to take the job he is offered since he has made so much more money in the past.
Assignment two:
Title: Benjamin Greene
Genre: Action Drama
Col. Greene turns out to be the one who contacted the Puzzle Works rather than the other way around. This is full of Irony as he promised to leave the Agency for his wife.
Lt. Greene completely trusts his love interest, SGT. Jones. She may be the one that puts him away for life.
Lt. Greene constantly tries to reign in his father’s cruel side but we find out he has killed, sold drugs, and stolen money from drug lords. For a man who portrays himself as his father’s keeper he is a bit shady himself.
SGT. Jones is involved with another agency which could be a huge problem. Col. Greene is aware of it and uses her for disinformation purposes quite well.
Lt. Greene is not faithful to SGT. Jones and has issues that will lead to his eventual down-fall but he proclaims himself to be a career soldier.
SPC. Jones seems like a tech geek and all-around nice guy, but he was involved in the murder of a store clerk in PA.
Col. Greene and his men often ignore Puzzle Works directives stating the total elimination of all evidence, Ironically for reasons of humanity and doing the right thing. The Crew is just as quick to embezzle money and call it their Bahama fund.
The Puzzle Works themselves are questionable at best as they proclaim what they do is for the greater good of the public but is it?
First Sgt. Desmoines is often the first to bark orders and demand Col. Greene do what he must do but the compassionate side of him often prevails.
FBI Agent Stockton presents a respectable front that seems to be beyond reproach but his lust for money and power puts him in compromising positions.
Col. Greene has gone through great lengths to hide his past but his proclivity to kill is not new or unfamiliar to him. His son sees this and questions who his father really is. Col. Greene says one thing and does another.
Situational Irony: As the relationship with the Puzzle Works draws the crew farther and farther away from the military the loyalty between Col. Greene and the military begins to wain as well. Col. Greene has been a career soldier through and through, but he can no longer serve both masters. One must eventually go.
Col. Greene originally just wanted to put in his time and retire but things have changed, now he has been dealt a hand that may undermine all of his hard work.
The same agency Col. Greene works for now may be the one that killed his wife.
The ultimate betrayal and Irony of Col. Benjamin Greene is that his son may be the one that either kills him or sends him to prison for the rest of his life.
This crew is generally tight knit and loyal to each other, but Agent Stockton is a master at finding weaknesses with those who are compromised and exploiting it. In the end, Agent Stockton’s Greed is his undoing.
SGT Jones is dealing with loyalty issues that are causing her internal conflict. The real irony is that she does love Lt. Greene and may have to choose between her job and Lt. Greene.
All three of the leads have put aside money for an exit strategy, but supposedly no one knows the other is doing it.
Col. Greene is a master technician and sees everything that is happening but plays everything close to the vest.
Col. Greene is the antitheses of a hero, but we somehow still root for him. Why?
The old adage, “Just Following Orders” is true here, but it will not save Col. Greene and his crew.
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BRIAN BULL – Creating Irony!
“What I learned from doing this assignment is…
I love irony and I will continue to look for places to use it because it is easy to do and a good source of comedy.ASSIGNMENT 1
Watch the next episode of your Example Show and notice where irony shows up in this show — both in this episode and throughout the episodes you’ve already seen.
Tell us the irony you have already discovered in the Example Show.RIVERDALE
IRONY
It’s IRONIC that… Veronica accuses her dad of crimes he has committed and questions whether he is worthy of moving back home because she wants to know what kind of a guy he is, the n she goes off and commits trespassing at FP’s Tailer looking for some “evidence” and unlawful entry.
It’s IRONIC that…Jughead is writing an article on Jason Blossom’s murder when his dad may be involved and then actually get arrested for the murder.
It’s IRONIC that… The Blossom family is known for the bright RED hair and Clifford Blossom actually wears a RED WIG covering his WHITE HAIR.
It’s IRONIC that… That ALL the parents expect their children to be perfect and yet not one has a stable relationship and are far from perfect themselves.
It’s IRONIC that… Jughead jokingly accuses Archie of lying so he can have a midnight rendezvous with Veronica not knowing that is exactly where Archie is going.
It’s IRONIC that… Alice Cooper bakes a Peach Pie for a dinner party but there is nothing “peachy” about this dinner party.
It’s IRONIC that… It’s Riverdale’s Homecoming and Jughead’s dad is talking about moving away and Jughead is heading for the bus station to go to Toledo, OH.
It’s IRONIC that… Cheryl Blossom has never done anything nice and yet she says, “She’ll never do anything nice again.”
ASSIGNMENT 2
Look back through your previous assignments and find at least 20 different situations or character components that you could go opposite to create irony.
With each, brainstorm ideas for ways it could go opposite.
Select the ones that work well for the show and share the character and situational irony ideas with us.FORESIGHT – An Optometrist (Jim Brown) creates a pair of glasses from a crystal ball and he witnesses an attempted murder, now he must figure out when and how to stop it from happening.
It’s IRONIC that… Jim Brown, an Optometrist, is naive and blind to the obvious.
It’s IRONIC that… Jim doesn’t believe in the psychic world and yet he creates a pair of glasses from a crystal ball that enables him to see the future.
It’s IRONIC that… Delores keeps ordering packages just to see the Delivery Guy but he fails to pick up the “message” she is “sending” him.
It’s IRONIC that… Jim’s mom, JoAnn, is elderly but she wants to be young again so she is dating a younger man.
It’s IRONIC that… Gloria, a psychic and the girl of Jim’s dreams wants nothing to do with him.
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John Duvall’s Creating Irony!
What I learned doing this assignment is…” to examine the possibilities for irony both in the situation my characters find themselves in, and how their internal conflicts lead them to make ironic and contradictory decisions.
ASSIGNMENT 1: Example Show
Watch the next episode of your Example Show and notice where irony shows up in this show — both in this episode and throughout the episodes you’ve already seen.
Tell us the irony you have already discovered in the Example Show.
Character Irony:
June pretends to like Fred, while resenting and trying to manipulate him
June seduces Nick to gain control over her sexuality and release some of her sexual passion
Handmaids in general pretend to conform to piety, while secretly sharing their resentments
Commander Fred also pretends to piety, while breaking his vows and giving in to lust
Serena Joy endures Fred’s dominance and infidelity in order to get a child
Aunt Julia severely disciplines her handmaids, but clearly suffers for it
ASSIGNMENT 2: Your Show
Look back through your previous assignments and find different situations or character components that you could go opposite to create irony. With each, brainstorm ideas for ways it could go opposite. Select the ones that work well for the show and share the character and situational irony ideas with us.
Melba could pretend to like and admire Carolyn while secretly resenting her dependence on the Woolfs and their condescension.
Carolyn could pretend to be happy with her life while secretly chafing at her self-imposed limits.
Rose could chafe at the dependence on husband Orsa, her Aunt Mabel, and later on Carolyn, while pretending to be thankful and content.
Jacob could be grateful for his job at Ford while resentful of its anti- Semitism.
Jacob could take refuge in his work from the strains in his marriage to Carolyn.
Joanie could be torn between her father’s work for the defense industry and her boyfriend’s opposition to war.
Orsa could see enlisting in the army as a way of escaping demanding farm work and getting away from the strains in his marriage to Rose
Carolyn and Joanie could question why Ford is ramping up production of military weapons when the U.S. in not yet at war.
Joanie’s boyfriend Jeff could do the same, while rationalizing his fear of the draft.
Lou could resist returning to work at Ford because he wants to establish a career in the music business.
Thurm could resent Mabel inviting Rose into their household and disturbing the serenity of his retirement.
Jacob is torn between contributing to the war effort at Ford, and volunteering for service overseas
Frank could come down hard on Rose for insubordination, while secretly admiring her gumption and independence
Carolyn is caught between her motherly attempts to protect and control Joanie, with her admiration of Joanie’s independence that mirrors her own frustrated independence.
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