-
Lesson 2
Reply and post your assignment.
-
14 Replies
-
<b style=”font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit;”>Subject line: Monica’s Hero and Villain
What I learned doing this assignment is I didn’t know about the extrapolation process. I filled in one thing but I’m going to brainstorm more scenarios.
1. Fill in the blanks and see what shows up.
Concept:
Hero Morally Right: Victoria Williams infiltrates human
traffickers to find her sister.
Villain Morally Wrong: Jack
Baker and his mother Beatrice are morally corrupt because kidnapping and
trafficking humans is wrong, not to mention, the Oedipus thing they have
going on!Hero – Victoria
A. Unique Skill Set: Police procedure, martial arts training,
fearless.
B. Motivation: Find her sister.
C. Secret or Wound: Guilt
because she was with her sister when she was kidnapped.Villain
A. Unbeatable: Beatrice is smart, strategic and has
lots of contacts. Jack does too many drugs but still thinks he’s useful
because he’s a yes mommy type of guy.
B. Plan/Goal: To kidnap the largest amount of girls to
date. One last big sale and they can retire in the tropics.
C. What they lose if
Hero survives: They lose it all, money, house, contacts, being part of the
elite of society.Impossible Mission
A. Puts Hero in Action: Victoria
goes undercover and infiltrates Beatrice and Jack’s inner circle.
B. Demands They Go
Beyond Their Best: Victoria has to
battle Jack and his goons to try and find her sister, stay alive and
maintain cover.
C. Destroy the Villain: Manipulate
Jack and his drug habit to get to Beatrice.<div>Extrapolate: If ________, then what might ____________?
If Victoria has martial arts training, then what might Jack have to make him unbeatable: he could tell her he figured out who she was and he has her sister, and if anything happens to him, then her sister dies. Or, he overpowers her with his goons and kidnaps her thinking he can sell her to make big bucks.
</div>
-
Action Lesson 2: Heroes and Villains That Sell the Roles!
ASSIGNMENT
BG’s Hero and Villain!
What I learned doing this assignment: I organized my ideas according to the conventions of the ACTION genre, and now, I’m wondering how I’m going to be able to invent all those set pieces.
Concept: A reporter with a broken heart and a beautiful German spy try to stop a group of billionaires who are planning to start a war to gain control of the European energy market.
Hero Morally Right: Preventing war and liberating humanity from warmongers.
Villain Morally Wrong: Promoting and starting wars to gain control of resources. Warmongers are trying to start a war. Afraid of the reporter, they send assassins and agents after him.
Hero
A. Unique Skill Set: Reporter is an engineer by training. He’s a fast learner, can make unique devices, has knowledge of computers. Athletic.
B. Motivation: Reporter realizes that war will hurt many people and that he must keep on fighting. He wants to save lives and stop bad guys.
C. Secret or Wound: A bad breakup with the love of his life has drained his joy of living. He doesn’t want to talk about it.Villain
A. Unbeatable: Conspirators have money, control of media, and assistance from CIA and MI6.
B. Plan/Goal: To start a war by pumping weapons and militants into a powder keg and disrupt the supply of cheap pipeline gas, so that they can sell their expensive LNG (Liquefied Natural Gas) .
C. What they lose if Hero survives: Exposure, loss of face, maybe even death. The conspiracy will be exposed and the billionaires’ humanitarian work will be shown to be a cover for their personal gain.Impossible Mission
A. Puts Hero in Action: Reporter is sent to check out a tip about a conspiracy to start a war. He sneaks around, fights assassins and agents, and makes unique weapons.
B. Demands They Go Beyond Their Best: Reporter must get over his broken heart, learn new things, and devise new tools to fight the conspirators.
C. Destroy the Villain: Reporter forces the conspirators to terminate their plot and tricks them into killing each other. -
Evelyn’s Hero and Villain
What I learned doing this assignment is to keep playing with the fill-in-the-blanks and stay open to ideas for improving my story
Concept: When a female MMA champion fighter uncovers the rival who destroyed her family and crippled her, she must defend her life and stop them from kidnapping her little boy.
Hero Morally Right: Mikki wants to save her son’s life and her own
Villain Morally Wrong: Sonya killed Mikki’s husband, intending to kill Mikki and usurp her place as wife and mother [improved answer, Sonya is either Mikki’s fraternal twin sister who has always been #2 in the family, or her cousin with a similar festering envy]
Hero
A. Unique Skill Set: Just won the title of national female MMA fighter and will be heading to the global championship representing USA
B. Motivation After the championship, her husband is killed in hit-and-run car accident, and her little boy is traumatized. [improved answer: Mikki is determined to find out who was driving and why they are still trying to kill her]
C. Secret or Wound She wants answers about her husband’s death–was he the target or was she? [improved answer: when she realizes her sister/cousin is the villain, she’s torn between turning her in and protecting the family as a whole; wants to find a peaceful solution] [another idea I keep going back and forth on is that Mikki loses her left leg in the car accident and so she’s at a total disadvantage when Sonya attacks her in dark places, so she could learn to fight dirty from Veteran amputees after she’s healed enough to wear a prosthetic leg. My original logline has her crippled, but I keep vacillating whether she is badly injured or actually loses a leg, and will let the idea simmer.]
Villain
A. Unbeatable Expert Sonya is an expert MA fighter in no-holds-barred fight clubs; fearless
B. Plan/Goal Anonymously kill Mikki and adopt Mikki’s little boy as her own child (improved answer: having proved infertile in her own marriage which just dissolved over that issue)
C. What they lose if Hero survives Everything important to her, family respect, chance to be a mother of a boy with her own DNA.
Impossible Mission
A. Puts Hero in Action Find out who the hit-and-run driver is
B. Demands They Go Beyond Their Best:. Must become a street fighter willing to break the rules
C. Destroy the Villain. Kill Sonya, knowing her family will hate her for doing it [improved answer: OR Mikki could manipulate a final fight with Sonya, turning it into a sting where Sonya admits her guilt and an undercover copy posing as a fighter arrests Sonya, thus avoiding losing the love and respect of her family if she kills her own sister/cousin]
-
Dan’s Hero and Villain
I learned that this process unleashes creativity, and problem-solving is now an enjoyable puzzle.
Concept:
1. Hero Morally Right: Jordan Hendrix serves the everyday families escaping the ice age in D.I.G. 4 and preserves humanity bravely and ethically.
2. Villain Morally Wrong: Claudette Martz dispenses with everyone according to their utility within her quest for ultimate wealth and power. She richly embodies Machiavellian cunning with whatever circumstances present themselves.
Hero – Jordan Hendrix
A. Unique Skill Set: Former Army CID (Criminal Investigation Division) Warrant Officer, highly skilled interrogator, and a mixed martial artist with a passion for obscure martial arts, weaponry, and practices. His civilian career leading the security team for a large Japanese petrochemical company completes his knowledge of cutting-edge weapons and tactics.
B. Motivation: Safeguard and nurture the lives entrusted to him onboard North America’s DIG 4. Survive to someday resurface and revive his daughter and ex-wife from a cryogenic facility in Okinawa.
C. Secret or Wound: His service during the Rwandan genocide left him with significant PTSD, a hyper-vigilance in protecting women and children, which often presents as controlling. He vacillates between those feelings and an inner vow never to be helpless to stop evil from harming innocents again. Failures that are reminiscent bring him very low for a long time.
Villain – Claudette Martz
A. Unbeatable: She has a 160+ IQ and puts the Diablo in diabolical. Claudette is a 50-is-the-new-35 looker and, thanks to murderous machinations during the preparations for the ice age, has moved from the 9th most wealthy person in the world to the 1st, with corresponding means and networks. She has access to a world of advantages and augmentations unseen until now.
B. Plan/Goal: To live forever as the beloved and benevolent Queen of the emerging human paradigm – but first things first.
C. What they lose if the Hero Survives: Just as he overcomes the vicissitudes Claudette sends against him and his charges throughout the series, Jordan will dismantle her entire dynasty once he learns the truth about the Earth Carrier Groups and his daughter(spoiler).
Impossible Mission
A. Puts Hero in Action: At the end of Season 4, after finally leading D.I.G. 4 to a safe and sustainable haven – a new home – Jack learns he must lead a force back to overthrow Claudette and her Apex government.
B. Demands They Go Beyond Their Best: Jack must return to the brutal cold of the surface with only a company-sized elite force and wage a successful coup.
C. Destroy the Villain: Intelligence escaping the APEX compound reveals that Claudette may be nigh unbeatable if even reaching her is possible. An ingenious and selfless plan brings Jack and his team to the proving grounds.
(Okay – lots of spoilers unspoken in this assignment. This process uncorks the imagination)
-
This reply was modified 2 years, 3 months ago by Daniel Burt.
-
This reply was modified 2 years, 3 months ago by
-
ASSIGNMENT: #2 Killer Action
Pat Galbraith’s Villains and Heroes
What I learned in this assignment: To find strong ways to describe Heroes and Villains. To further working on my concept and conventions to make them stronger too.
Concept: When renegade soldiers start burning homes and murdering neighbors during the civil war, a sharpshooting Missouri girl joins forces with outlaws to save their homes and families.
Hero Morally Right: Myra
Shirley, a sharpshooting young lady taught by her older brother. Joins outlaws to stop renegade soldiers from destroying homes and killing neighbors.<div>Villain Morally Wrong:
Renagades sent out by Northern army and others working on their own in
states that are favorable to the North. Burn homes and kill people who are
favorable to the south.Hero
A. Unique Skill Set: Fearless Sharpshooter, Expert knife thrower, skilled horsewoman. </div><div>
B. Motivation: Her family and
neighbors are at risked having their homes burned and family killed.C. Secret or Wound: She
personally witnessed houses burned and babies killed.Villain
A. Unbeatable: Fearless, malicious
gangs have no mercy. Have all the guns and dynamite to carry out their
plans.</div>B. Plan/Goal To kill people in
states where they are favorable to the south.<div>
C. What they lose if Hero
survives: Will have to contend with
ambushes from her and neighbor gang. Losing face in the number of people they can A their standing with the number
of people they can kill.Impossible Mission
A. Puts Hero in Action: When a
close family member house is lost in a fire and their baby killed. She decides she needs to join her outlaw friends.</div><div>B. Demands They Go Beyond Their
Best: She enters a house to get people out of burning home. She’s trapped
inside burning home. Soldier appears and attacks her. After her rifle misfires, she throws her knife, hits him square in the head. Killing him instantly. Jumps through fire to exit a window.C. Destroy the Villain: Decide
to go after the head of all Renegade gangs to stop the burning and
killing.2. Once you have filled in a quick answer to each, go back and extrapolate (If _____, then how might _____?) to t any answers you can. (See below things I’m to improve action and plot.
3. Tell us your improved answers.
Soldier attacks her. She kills him with a knife.
She gets trapped in burning home. Jumps through the fire out a window.
Babies are killed in fires. (Give her cause to decide to help)
Ambushes by both sides.
A renegade soldier attacks a woman. She kills him on the spot.
</div>
-
Don’s Hero and Villain
What I learned doing this assignment is the importance of the hero having unique skills or capabilities that are not immediately obvious but are revealed as they confront the powerful and resilient villain.
Concept: A disgraced Army Ranger is left to fend for himself while trying to get justice for his murdered brother.
Hero Morally Right: His brother refused to continue paying protection money and was murdered by the Sheriff’s thugs.
Villain Morally Wrong: The Sheriff uses the authority of the law to control the county and viciously shuts down any opposition.
Hero: Zach Collins: Undercover Army CID Agent
A. Unique Skill Set: A highly trained warrior who has been pushed to the edge where he no longer knows how to fight, but only to kill.
B. Motivation: Revenge.
C. Secret or Wound: Zach’s discharge is a cover for his assignment as an Army CID agent investigating the disappearance of a shipment of highly advanced Army weapons that had traveled through the county.
Villain: Sheriff Arthur Goldman
A. Unbeatable: Has all of the resources to control ruthlessly dominate the entire county, as well as having corrupted any State and Federal officials daring to interfere.
B. Plan/Goal: Use the stolen Army weapons to expand his power far beyond the single county he now controls or sell to the highest foreign bidder.
C. What they lose if Hero survives: His entire empire collapses and he will end up facing the death sentence.
Impossible Mission: Zach must avenge his brother by eliminating the Sheriff and recovering the stolen Army weapons before anyone figures out how they work.
A. Puts Hero in Action: Zach takes on the Sheriff’s entire criminal organization.
B. Demands They Go Beyond Their Best: Fighting and killing not only the Sheriff and his corrupt deputies, but the special team of fixers working for the Governor.
C. Destroy the Villain: Unbeknownst to his superiors, Zach is one of only a handful of soldiers who knows how the stolen weapons actually work, which he plans to use on the Sheriff and his corrupt deputies.
2. Once you have filled in a quick answer to each, go back and extrapolate (If _____, then how might _____?) to elevate any answers you can.
3. Tell us your improved answers.
Demands They Go Beyond Their Best: Fighting and killing not only the Sheriff and his corrupt deputies, but also the special team of fixers working for the Governor, and a group of Chinese spies intent on capturing the Army weapons and smuggling them out of the country.
<div>
</div> -
Mark’s Hero and Villain
What I learned doing this assignment is that one can greatly improve and refine the elements of the story by employing the following considerations and attributes.
Concept:
Hero Morally Right: Having recently joined the Bomb Squad, she witnesses her boss, whom she admires and wants to make proud of her, blown up by a booby-trapped bomb.<div>
Villain Morally Wrong: The bombs are aimed at members of the Bomb Squad and innocent members of the public.
Hero
A. Unique Skill Set: She has an innovative way with handling pest control devices – anything from steel jaw traps to poisons – which she can deploy.</div><div>
B. Motivation: Save her fellow workers and avenge the man she admires.
C. Secret or Wound: Her father was a victim of the Unabomber.
Villain
A. Unbeatable: He has a pathological grudge against the Bomb Squad and the City and has enough misfit malcontent associates to aid him…and also enough knowledge to make any kind of bomb/IED into deadly booby traps.</div><div>
B. Plan/Goal: to eliminate members of the Bomb Squad so that he can carry out his final plan (I haven’t decided the exact form of this yet)
C. What they lose if Hero survives: Massive ransom demand from the City and the years wasted plotting his ‘revenge’.
Impossible Mission
A. Puts Hero in Action: she defuses several of his IEDs before they can do damage, avoids others, and fights his killers with her massive arsenal of pest control weapons.</div>
B. Demands They Go Beyond Their Best: She’s not only defusing bombs, at risk of her life, but up against a small army of bombers.
C. Destroy the Villain: She can disarm bombs and IEDs as fast as the villains make them, and ultimately uncovers and destroys the mad bomber.
-
Patricia’s Hero and Villain
What I learned doing this assignment is that making the hero and villain aren’t all morally right or morally wrong. And that might make them both more interesting. While the audience will still be clearly rooting for the hero, some of the villain’s choices may also resonate at the beginning.
Improved Answers
Concept:
During a Polar Vortex, a federal prison loses electricity, leaving the prisoners in the protective custody unit in a deadly freeze, prompting an imprisoned survivalist with three days left on his sentence to lead a daring prison break to save his fellow inmates.
Hero Morally Right: Hero wants to save the lives of his fellow inmates and a guard left behind in the storm
Villain Morally Wrong: Villain willing to let countless men die rather than take the risk of an escape during the storm
Hero: Donovan (aka The Broker)
A. Unique Skill Set: Survivalist, strategist, calm under intense pressure
B. Motivation: Save his own life, save the lives of the men left behind, secure official release from prison
C. Secret or Wound: Brother was involved in the financial scheme that sent hero to prison — hero ran, his brother killed himself. Donovan is driven by guilt.
Villain: Randall Sykes (Prison Guard)
A. Unbeatable: For-profit prison system behind him, driven by bitterness and sense of duty, access to weapons
B. Plan/Goal: Force every prisoner to serve full sentence regardless of the circumstances
C. What they lose if Hero survives: Escape could endanger community, but more than that, the already embittered villain will have failed at the one thing that got him up in the morning — a dangerous combination of duty and revenge.
Impossible Mission: Donovan could save himself and take early release — or he could stay behind and try to save the lives of the guard and prisoners left behind in the deadly storm.
A. Puts Hero in Action: A financial decision by the warden leaves behind a handful of prisoners and a guard as a deadly storm arrives. Donovan could have taken early release, but knowing he is the only one who has the skills to help them, he stays behind to save as many of them as possible.
B. Demands They Go Beyond Their Best: Donovan fights overwhelming odds in extreme conditions as the deadly storm knocks out the power and shatters the prison tower block.
C. Destroy the Villain: Just as Donovan and the remaining men are about to escape the disintegrating building, Sykes makes one last stand to keep them from escaping. Rather than taking the offered hand and a truce, he stands his ground and dies.
-
Bent’s Hero and Villain
what I learned doing this assignment is this …… I see where the conflict gets heightened because the characters all want something different. What they want is important to them tenfold so they will do whatever it takes to get it and keep their objective from wavering.
Concept: Krampus poses a threat to Santa every Christmas and the elves must protect him at all costs. Now the military general of the North Pole is a threat to Santa for the reason he wants to open the continent to oil drilling. The General wants the North Pole to be a forminable force on the world stage.
Hero Morally Right: Santa has an obligation to keep the North Pole hidden and secret. He must protect the elves from outside society. He refuses to allow more oil drilling. He allows enough to pay for commercial toys.<div>
Villain Morally Wrong: The General demands more oil drilling and is on the edge of signing deals behind Santa’s back.
Hero
A. Unique Skill Set – always aware. Cares for his elves. </div><div>
B. Motivation – bring joy to all children and remain a mythos.
C. Secret or Wound – Stuck in the old ways and refuses to evolve with the times.
Villain
A. Unbeatable – The General is a presence to be reckoned with. He reeks of power and walks with the fear from the elves around him. </div><div>
B. Plan/Goal – He wants to commercialize the North Pole. He wants more oil tapped from beneath the surface of the continent so that Santa’s home base evolves into a super power to rival bigger countries.
C. What they lose if Hero survives – North Pole remains what it is and in the eyes of the General, they will never progress forward with the times.
Impossible Mission
A. Puts Hero in Action – The hero is named Indigo. An elf afraid of heights and the outside world. </div><div>
B. Demands They Go Beyond Their Best – his sister Hazel accidentally goes off with a sleigh of toys and Indigo must find her.
:C. Destroy the Villain – Santa is at risk of being killed by Krampus and the General will do nothing to stop it. Indigo who has accidentally fallen into a sleigh must stop Krampus from killing Santa because there is no choice.
I will return to this to rewrite.
</div>
-
John’s Hero and Villain
I learned my hero is short on unique skills or capabilities. He may need to be more like Sarah Connor in the first Terminator. He must gain skills with weapons and tactics that he does not initially possess in order to survive and destroy the villain Makepeace.
Concept: A gutsy inner-city youth teams with a jaded loner to prevent a resurrected slave-ship captain from assassinating a much-loved African American civil rights leader.
Hero Morally Right: He’s trying to avenge his brother’s murder and save a beloved stateswoman from assassination.
Villain Morally Wrong: He’s an evil and ugly racist, murders Trey’s brother, assassinates several civil rights leaders, frames the hero, targets a beloved stateswoman for assassination.
Hero: Trey Thomas, a gutsy inner-city youth.
A. Unique Skill Set: Young, exceptionally athletic, bright, brave. Initially, no amazing skill set. In order to survive and destroy the villain Makepeace, Trey must gain skills with weapons, tactics, and strategy that he does not initially possess. He must also solve the mystery of the immortal villain’s weakness and deploy the correct kryptonite.
B. Motivation: Revenge for his brother’s murder, must save an exemplary stateswoman from assassination.
C. Secret or Wound: He blames himself for allowing his brother to be murdered by Makepeace.
Villain: Captain Eldridge Makepeace, a horribly twisted 18th Century slave-ship captain doomed to the realm of the undead after being killed and cursed by an African obeah doctor whom he sought to enslave.
A. Unbeatable: He can’t be killed because he’s already dead.
B. Plan/Goal: To kill Trey Thomas and prevent him from stopping his assassination of Patricia Hamilton, a beloved stateswoman.
C. What they lose if Hero survives: Beloved stateswoman survives, Makepeace is defeated and re-imprisoned.
Impossible Mission: Trey must stop the immortal and ruthless racist from harming the beloved stateswoman.
A. Puts Hero in Action: Trey initially flees the villain to survive. As he gains skills and transforms himself, he pursues Makepeace to a final showdown.
B. Demands They Go Beyond Their Best: Solving the mystery of killing a villain who is already dead. It will take more than pistols, rifles, and other lethal weapons. Trey must solve the mystery of Makepeace’s power and discover the secret element that weakens the ruthless villain.
C. Destroy the Villain: To save Hamilton, Trey battles: the police, neighborhood gangbangers, and the immortal racist Makepeace.
-
Paul’s Hero’s and Villains
What I learned.Being exposed to different ideas of how to create, I am able to better develop my story and characters.
Concept: A highly skilled gunslinger must rescue his brother from three Fallen Angels and their army of demon assassins.
Hero: Morally Right. Billy’s goal is to rescue his brother and receive his share of their heist. Then he learns that the Main villan is the CREATURE that killed his father.
Villian: Morally Wrong. Lord Balin is Pure Evil, A Fallen Angel who has sworn to avenge God for banishing him to Earth by destroying mankind and turning Earthin into a living Hell.
Hero
A. Uniqhue Skill Set: Billy is highly adaptable gunslinger who has the ability to study his opponent and find and a weakness that he can exploit.
B. Motivation: Billy is move to rescue his brother, escape with their lives and take revenge on the creature that killed his father.
C. Secret of Wound: Lord Balin killed his father.
Villian
A. Unbeatable. Lord Balin is a Fallen Angel with superpowers that who cannot be killed by bullets or knives. He also controls an armu of demon assassins.
B. Plan/Goal. To build an army of Demons that will destroy manking and turn Earth into a living Hell.
C. What he will lose: His Life and his plot to demoralize God and destroy his prized possession. Mankind.
Impossible Mission: To rescue his brother, Billy must enter a cursed town controled by three fallen Angels and an Army of Demonon Assassins.
A. Puts Hero in Action: Must move into danger to save his brother and escape with their gold.
B. Demands: Billy must fight and iscover ways to overcome super powered foes.
C. Destroy the Villian: To save his brother and survive the night, Billy must destroy the Angels and the Demons they created.
* Demons and Angels cannot be killed by ordinary bullets or usual tactics.
-
Behee’s Hero and Villain
What I learned doing this assignment is it is fascinating that ideas come when there’s definite guide to follow.
Concept: On the planet which is about to overcome by the invisible evil spirit, only one to save the world is an outlaw who nobody likes.
Hero Morally Right: Taking revenge
Villain Morally Wrong: Killed Hero’s family
Hero
Unique Skill Set: Able to see invisible evil in action
Motivation: Revenge for his family
Wound: He just came out serving prison term and haven’t seen her family for 10 years
Villain
Unbeatable: It can be anyone and anywhere and turns whole US military against him
Plan: Take over the whole planet and ultimately destroy it when the planet serves devil purpose.
What it loses if hero survives: Not being able to take over the planet
Impossible mission
Puts hero in Action: Murder of his family
Demands He goes beyond their best: He must defeat whole US military
Destroy the Villain: He will destroy the evil by any means
-
Michael Greco’s Hero and Villain.
WILDTA is that exploring the main conflict in question / answer format drives concise decisionmaking and exploration of specific choices, which in turn provokes further ideas to advance the story.
1 – Initial Answers
Concept:
Hero
Morally Right: BALIN is loyal, patriotic and driven by a sense of justice.
Villain
Morally Wrong: VOLDOST is a Vengeful Henchman, Aspirating to be a Trusted
Enforcer or a Internationally Dominant Despot.Hero
A.
Unique Skill Set – multi-talented combatant: BALIN is a military-trained sharpshooter;
Muay Thai boxer, Judo expert; fully-trained combat soldier and dedicated
endurance athlete.
B.
Motivation – BALIN must stop VOLDOST, or else he will see VOLDOST waste
his family first, then plunder and subjugate his patriarch Azerbaijan.
C.
Secret or Wound – BALIN’s father had always insisted on non-violence, even
as he vigorously argued for Azerbaijani self-determination and territorial
integrity, control.Villain
A.
Unbeatable: VOLDOST is a ruthless, shrewd competitor; driven beyond
anyone’s expectations.
B.
Plan/Goal: VOLDOST endeavors to suppress all agitators, political
statesmen and freedom fighters which oppose him and his dominion of
Armenia.
C.
What they lose if Hero survives: BALIN’s survival is a direct threat to
VOLDOST, as VOLDOST ordered BALIN’s father killed. BALIN’s survival and
viability make it less likely that Armenia can exercise dominion of Azer.
and commandeer their territory.Impossible Mission
A.
Puts Hero in Action: Avenge killing of father and strike back at Armenian
despot. Take down VOLDOST; kill him if needed.
B.
Demands They Go Beyond Their Best: BALIN will need to call up all the
resources he has; VOLDOST is surrounded by lots of powerful people.
C.
Destroy the Villain: Take down VOLDOST; kill him if needed.2 Improved / Expanded Answers
Concept:
Hero
Morally Right: BALIN is loyal, patriotic and driven by a sense of justice.
BALIN’s devotion to family and country was constantly tested and
questioned by his father – BALIN would want him to be proud.
Villain
Morally Wrong: VOLDOST is a Vengeful Henchman, Aspiring to be a Trusted
Enforcer or a Internationally Dominant Despot. VOLDOST is connected to the
top leaders of Armenian government, and also to a major Armenian crime
family, which leads a thriving business in money laundering and
trafficking illegal narcotics.Hero
A.
Unique Skill Set – multi-talented combatant: BALIN is a military-trained
sharpshooter; Muay Thai boxer, Judo expert; fully-trained combat soldier
and dedicated endurance athlete. BALIN also plays classical guitar, and is
a competitive tennis player – he can move in classy western European circles.
B.
Motivation – BALIN must stop VOLDOST, or else he will see VOLDOST waste
his family first, then plunder and subjugate his patriarch Azerbaijan.
C.
Secret or Wound – BALIN’s father had always insisted on non-violence, even
as he vigorously argued for Azerbaijani self-determination and territorial
integrity, control. BALIN’s father
tried to make BALIN feel uncivilized for wanting to win physical fights,
and inferior in education and breeding.Villain
A.
Unbeatable: VOLDOST is a ruthless, shrewd competitor; driven beyond
anyone’s expectations. He regularly lures his victims to dine or drink
alcoholic beverages with him, and
laces their food and beverages with cyanide, morphine or strychnine.
VOLDOST also deploys a team of martial arts expert combatants to fight
battles for him.
B.
Plan/Goal: VOLDOST endeavors to suppress all agitators, political
statesmen and freedom fighters which oppose him and his dominion of
Armenia. VOLDOST takes pains to approach and threaten the freedom fighters’
families, primarily parents, spouses and children, with death or grievous
injury.
C.
What they lose if Hero survives: BALIN’s survival is a direct threat to
VOLDOST, as VOLDOST ordered BALIN’s father killed. BALIN’s survival and
viability make it less likely that Armenia can exercise dominion of Azer.
and commandeer their territory. BALIN’s survival will undermine VOLDOST’s
influence, and sow discord, distrust and rebellion among VOLDOST’s
henchmen and toadies, emboldening them to abandon him.Impossible Mission
A.
Puts Hero in Action: Avenge killing of father and strike back at Armenian
despot. Take down VOLDOST; kill him if needed. To get to VOLDOST, must
vanquish, bypass or elude VOLDOST’s vicious security detail and bodyguards.
B.
Demands They Go Beyond Their Best: BALIN will need to call up all the
resources he has; VOLDOST is surrounded by lots of powerful people.
VOLDOST barricades himself within fortresses and impressive, labyrinthine
bunkers, rarely exposing himself publicly to assailants and nemeses.
C.
Destroy the Villain: Take down VOLDOST; kill him if needed. Penetrate,
deceive and dismantle his security apparatus and protectors. -
Andre’s hero and Villain
What I learned doing this assignment is…
· The heart of an Action Movie is the two main characters locked in a conflict that is a unique expression of who they are. The combination of the Hero and the Villain make the movie.
· My job is to create two powerful lead characters that will sell the movie and sell the roles to actors.
· By establishing that the Hero is morally right, and the Villain is morally wrong, you naturally cause us to side with the Hero against the Villain. This also sets up the emotional journey that is a key to the Action genre. Establish the moral right and wrong to fit my movie’s situation.
· Action Heroes impress the audience with their capabilities and tenaciously push through the story’s challenges until the end.
· Highly Skilled Hero. Are Highly capable and skilled. Often, they bring a unique skill or talent to the fight that has them stand out from other heroes in the genre.
A. Unique Skillset. The most important part for the Hero. What is their skill set that makes them unique and dangerous to the Villain and the Villain’s plan?
B. Motivation. This could be anything, it just needs to be strong enough for them to take the journey and the audience to believe in it.
C. Secret or Wound, The Hero’s secret or wound is a major part of the conflict, because it is what this is really about for them.
a. Secret: This is something they are hiding that affects the entire story. The moment it comes out, everything will change.
b. Wound: A deep emotional trauma that they can’t escape. It has destroyed a part of their life and must be resolved.
D. Unbeatable Villain.
a. The most memorable Action Villains present overwhelming odds against the Protagonist, putting them on the verge of defeat repeatedly.
b. Requirements: Villain is the one character/prop who will challenge the hero through constant action.
c. Villain: Clearly evil/corrupt/malicious, necessitating decisive and expedient action to deal with them. Sculpt the villain to challenge the hero in the worst possible way.
d. They have an overwhelming force or resources at their command.
E. Plan/Goal
F. What do they lose if Hero Wins?
a. Once the Hero is in Action, there is a major threat to the villain. They have something major to lose if the hero survives.
b. Whatever the potential loss, it is great enough to cause them to want the Hero dead or arrested!
G. Impossible Mission. The Hero’s mission can be simple, but it will accomplish some very important things.
A. Puts the Hero in Action. The Hero is on a mission that requires action. He or she must move into danger and fight their way out.
B. Demands they go beyond their best. Destroys the Villain. If
they win, the Villain loses! This mission should be the ultimate threat to the Villain.The Assignment:
Fill in the blanks…
Concept:
· Hero Morally Right: Man’s exploration Space, the Moon.
· Villain Morally Wrong: Conjecture. Is history accurate/correct?
Hero:
· Unique Skill Set: Test Pilot. Engineer. Husband.
· Motivation: Experiment in Consciousness
· Secret or Wounds: Is a marriage divorce eminent? What does consciousness do with relationships?
Villain:
· Unbeatable: Time. Forces of nature, space. Is space considered nature?
Plan/Goal: Test mankind’s acumen
and ability to live off-planet.
What they lose if Hero survives: They represent the circumstances of failure. Advancement.
Man becomes a space fairing species.-Andre
Log in to reply.