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Module 3 – Lesson 4: Character Intrigue
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Carole Avila – Character Intrigue
My vision: My writing skills are in demand by the writing industry, because I provide exceptionally crafted, well-loved and inspirational stories enjoyed by all ages that compel professionals to produce my work onscreen and in print.
What I learned from doing this assignment is how to make my characters more exciting by adding intrigue into their roles.
Character Name: Mandy Ruhe
• Role: Time traveler who assumes the body of ranch owner Carmena Luebber.
• Hidden agendas: Wants to hire a new housekeeper so the ranch owner will keep his mind off Carmena. She also uses her knowledge of the future to create a financial portfolio for the ranch. She is willing to steal guns from the army for Santa Anna in exchange for her time travel device.
• Secrets: She is from the future.
• Deception: She sees Carmena’s memories, but doesn’t tell Carlos she knows how the real Carmena really feels about him.
• Secret Identity: She isn’t the real Carmena.Character Name: Carlos Solis
• Role: Ranch manager and loyal employee to Carmena.
• Hidden agendas:
• Competition: Tries to keep the captain away from Carmena by interfering during their visits.
• Conspiracies: He doesn’t tell Mandy as the new Carmena that he and her other employees are selling guns they steal from the army
• Secrets: He loves the real Carmena.Character Name: Charles Sanders
• Role: Captain in the army stationed locally.
• Competition: Rightfully thinks Carlos has a thing for Carmena.
• Unspoken Wound: His wealthy parents disowned him for joining the army and not taking over the family business. -
Module 3 – Lesson 4: Character Intrigue
My Vision: I am an amazing writer who has fun every day, is recognized by the industry for my ability to take audiences who love me through surprising experiences, and who has multiple successful movies produced while being highly paid.
What I learned from doing this assignment is:
There is always a way to go even deeper into ones characters, and that a surprise for the writer is an even bigger gain for the audience. Also, that some of the more general ideas I have will be able to be fleshed out during the outline and the writing.
Start this assignment by empowering yourself using our State-To-Activity empowerment process.
State: I just love discovering…
Activity: …the intrigue of my characters!
Done more than once over course of assignment.
For each of your main characters, use this list to brainstorm one or more Intrigue items that might apply. You don’t need all of them; just one or two.
Character 1 Name: BRENDI
Role: Protagonist
Hidden agendas: BRENDI wants to prove she is superior as a Russian agent, and takes risks and makes plans which might be more for her benefit than the benefit of the outcome.
Competition: She is working to be acknowledged above all other Russian agents and is also in competition with agents and villains-terrorists from other countries.
Conspiracies: BRENDI is working to save her country and people with an American CIA agent. Some of what she is doing is against the wishes of her superiors.
Secrets: BRENDI has Filipp hidden as a prisoner even though she was supposed to kill him. She hates being seen as a “pretty face.” She is falling for CHAZ.
Deception: BRENDI is hiding Filipp against the wishes of her superiors. BRENDI sets up a take down that is based on a lie.
Unspoken Wound: BRENDI was never acknowledged as an intelligent, competent, person growing up, by her family, friends, teachers and mentors. She was only seen as a pretty face and a sports figure.
Secret Identity:
BRENDI is an undercover Russian agent working as a Trapeze artist in the Russian Circus.
Give us an idea of how that character’s subtext might show up in your movie.
She can play her need to prove herself as something other than a pretty trapeze star (what in her history makes this important?). She can seduce CHAZ up until a point to get him more on her side, but then stops when she realizes he really is trying to help her, and she falls for him. She can keep trying to outwit CHAZ with plans. She can rush into danger. She can resist and then use her Trapeze talents to stop the plane with the large nuclear bomb.
Character 2 Name: CHAZ
Role: Protagonist-Antagonist
Hidden agendas: Believes he has a moral and ethical obligation to do the right thing.
Competition: He is in competition with other CIA agents, BRENDI, the MONSTR
Conspiracies: He is conspiring with BRENDI to take down the Ukrainian terrorists against the US CIA orders-wishes.
Secrets: He has Russian ancestry at his great grandmother level who was in a pogrom against Jews and has mixed feelings about Russia, fist hate and disgust for the pogrom against Jews, and second a fondness for the culture from his heritage and things passed down to him.
Deception: He is a secret undercover agent pretending to be a clown in the Russian Circus, he and BRENDI plan deceptive take downs of the different terrorist plots.
Unspoken Wound: His father never took him seriously, only his brother. He feels the same from his superiors in the CIA especially since they made him a literal clown.
Secret Identity: He is an undercover CIA spy working as a clown in the Russian circus.
Give us an idea of how that character’s subtext might show up in your movie.
He might have a tendency to buck authority. He might try and get some small revenge against his workmates (some joke having to do with clowning), he will take big risks to prove himself, he wants the plan to be HIS plan. He will have issues with BRENDI because he is falling for her (sometimes he is very nice – others he is snappy), he can vacillate between US patriotism and saving millions of innocent Russian lives. He can help BRENDI stop the attacks.
Character 3 Name: The MONSTR
Role: Antagonist – Major villain
Hidden agendas: To use a large nuclear weapon to destroy a major city and millions of Russians disrupting Russia, it’s government, its place in the world, and its ability to move forward. To get revenge agains those in power in the Russian government. To enjoy the destruction (he’s insane).
Competition: He is in competition with those in power in the Russian government, with those trying to find out his plan and take him down.
Conspiracies: He is conspiring to blow up a major city in Russia with a large nuclear bomb.
Secrets: He used to be part of the Russian government. His cousin was murdered by the government with polonium.
Deception: He has many cells who are tasked with smaller terror attacks to keep the Russians busy and away from his large goal.
Unspoken Wound: He was thrown out of the Russian government for (reason). His cousin was poisoned with polonium, but he got away before they could get him.
Secret Identity: He is totally in hiding. He is acting as a Ukrainian terrorist. Only his next in line has ANY contact with him at all.
Give us an idea of how that character’s subtext might show up in your movie.
He is working on destroying Russia completely by setting off a large nuclear bomb in a major city.
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