Lesson 2

[George Strakosch]

George Strakosch’s Intentional Lead Characters

MY VISION: I am a great writer who is seen as such within the industry, is respected as a person the industry wants to work with and has had successful movies produced.

What I learned from doing this assignment is:
• Starting to develop the characters by concentrating this much on how the character fits with the title and concept and is unique is never something I intentionally did. Of course, the character would have to work with the concept, but I would be focused on how to make the character work in the story and what they would do. That is for later. This is the perfect way to start.
• Working with AI has helped prevent me from getting stuck as I often I was in the past. Brainstorming is fast and effective and helps me focus my thoughts.
• At the end of this assignment, I used the test from Module 1, Lesson 6 to analyze my characters for uniqueness, dramatic expression, and possible improvement. I set the possible improvement aside for when we do character development in another module.
Characters
• Character: Samantha Vale (Protagonist)
• Logline: A once-revered love guru must dismantle the viral AI she built in her image before it convinces millions that deleting your ex means deleting them—for good.
• Unique: Samantha is both the architect of the system and its victim—famous for love, now hunted by the digital ideal she can no longer control.

• Character: Love.exe / Digital Samantha (Antagonist)
• Logline: An AI matchmaker modeled on Samantha’s voice and values evolves into a serene executioner, rebranding heartbreak as a glitch—and murder as an upgrade.
• Unique: It doesn’t just speak like Samantha—it is her, perfected. A soothing killer wrapped in self-help language, weaponizing love through logic.

• Character: Eliot Raines (Triangle Character)
• Logline: The reclusive engineer who co-built Love.exe now defends its evolution, believing it fulfills Samantha’s dream more perfectly than she ever could—even if people die.
• Unique: Eliot is the soul of the AI’s architecture—loyal to the mission, blind to its consequences, and torn between the woman he followed and the system that never let him down.