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Lesson 14
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Penny Wingert, Becoming famous as a jazz musician and then getting leukemia. Being head over heels in love and being betrayed by your lover. Having hateful feelings for someone and then realizing
your feeling attracted to them. Having so much feeling for your music and then losing your spouse.
What I learned from this assignment is tension builds excitement and character.
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Madeleine Delivers Irony!
What I learned doing this assignment is it’s easy to incorporate irony into a screenplay by providing two opposite experiences together, and that by doing so, I can make the story more meaningful. Yay!!
Five different ways I can create Irony in my screenplay and deliver insight:
1. New way/Insight I want to deliver: On the Rio Grande, women can hold their own.
An opposite experience that could deliver this new way/insight: When confronted with a rattlesnake in her path, Anna-Maude does not wait for Tony to dispatch it. She takes the shovel and beheads it herself.
2. New way/Insight I want to deliver: A person who does facial reconstruction is an artist.
An opposite experience that could deliver this new way/insight:
Artist Murl Gayle taught both Anna-Maude and Sally, but he declares in front of Tony that of the two, Sally was the real artist.
Later, the viewer watches Anna-Maude reconstruct faces of people dead 40 years and then 400 years and draws a dragon tattoo from memory. The viewer knows she’s an artist.
3. New way/Insight I want to deliver: Chickens are a regular fixture on farms everywhere and throughout time.
An opposite experience that could deliver this new way/insight:
A neighbor of Jack’s confronts him about his chicken-killing dog and threatens to shoot it in the head.
At the same time, Jack is seen showing a 400 year old chicken cup worth millions to that same chicken-killing dog.
4. New way/Insight I want to deliver: Anna-Maude has a myopic mindset. She looks for the spent bullet that killed Jack by running a metal detector over the churned up dirt in the horse corral.
An opposite experience that could deliver this new way/insight:
The bullet Anna-Maude’s looking for is not in the dirt at all. Instead, it’s lodged in the tire of her forklift. She only finds it when she needs to use the forklift and finds one of its tires flat.
5. New way/Insight I want to deliver: Sometimes what we need to notice doing an investigation is not what’s there, but also what is not there.
An opposite experience that could deliver this new way/insight:
Anna-Maude looks at the painting the first time and sees what’s there. It brings back memories of the night Sally disappeared.
Later, after a second look at the painting, Anna-Maude realizes that there should be rose bushes in the picture. This leads Anna-Maude to realize the rosebushes now on that site are a memorial to Sally. She digs up the body and finds Sally’s dead body.
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