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Lesson 2 Assignments
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KZ’s Actor Attractors
Vision: To master screenwriting and be able to turn my many ideas into salable scripts.
What I learned doing this assignment is not to wait until I have all the answers, but to start filling in the blanks.
Lead Character Name: WENDY
Role: PROTAGONIST
1. What about this role would cause an actor to want to be known for it?
Wendy has a compelling arc: a woman who has totally closed off her heart and who is a cutthroat negotiator in even the most mundane circumstances is changed by her experience in Nirvana, and comes back as a negotiator who looks for ways both sides can win.
2. What makes this character one of the most interesting characters in your story?
- Wendy is a master negotiator who can never allow herself to lose.
- Maybe we see the one person or pet who brings out her soft side.
- Wendy can’t think why she doesn’t have more friends.
- Maybe she even uses scorched earth negotiation tactics with her therapist.
3. What are the most interesting actions the Lead could take in the script?
- Negotiating to the extreme, even when the prize is casual sex
- Outwitting Darwin to be the one to make it back to reality.
- Learning about the Oneness of all things
- Talking a guy out of jumping from a tall building.
- Is there anyone in her life that she’s subservient to?
4. How can you introduce this role in a way that could sell it to an actor?
Show Wendy’s ruthlessness when it comes to negotiating. Show her in an incongruent negotiation. She’s pulling out all the stops for something that most people would just let go as not worth fighting over.
5. What could be this character’s emotional range
Sly to explicit. Confident to insecure. Cynical to sincere. Closed off to vulnerable. Snooty to exposed.
6. What subtext can the actor play?
Neediness, loneliness under her hard shell. Pretending to be high class when she was born to modest circumstances.
7. What’s the most interesting relationships this character can have?
- Her competition with Darwin
- Her powerlessness with Myra (who smiles, nodding, then says “I’m not listening to a word you’re saying”)
- Maybe a relationship with a lowlife family member who she tries to keep hidden.
8. How will this character’s unique voice be presented?
Maybe she has a voice that she has forced to be accent-free, but the accent comes back at times when she’s under stress.
9. What could make this character special and unique?
She never wants anyone to see her in a moment of weakness, and takes that to an extreme. Things she considers “weak” are just quotidian life to most people.
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Lead Character Name: DARWIN
Role: ANTAGONIST
1. What about this role would cause an actor to want to be known for it?
The implied character arc: Darwin will stop at nothing to get his way, and yet he has some decent traits underneath. So we root for him to have an awakening.
2. What makes this character one of the most interesting characters in your story?
Darwin is a master negotiator who also can never allow himself to lose.
Darwin’s forte is finding out personal things about his opponent and using them on him.
3. What are the most interesting actions the Lead could take in the script?
Darwin gets into people’s heads and makes them doubt themselves.
4. How can you introduce this role in a way that could sell it to an actor?
Also show Darwin in an incongruent negotiation, pulling out all the stops for something that most people would just let it go – but using a different technique. Using personal knowledge to make his opponent submit.
5. What could be this character’s emotional range
Manipulator to manipulated. Sly to insecure. Invincible to vulnerable.
6. What subtext can the actor play?
Gets the goods on people to use on them later.
7. What’s the most interesting relationships this character can have?
- Attraction and competition with Wendy.
- Browbeaten by his mother, he has to resort to subterfuge.
8. How will this character’s unique voice be presented?
Super intelligent, refined, disciplined
9. What could make this character special and unique?
(I’ll have to think about that)
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Lead Character Name: MYRA
Role: OPPRESSIVE FORCE1. What about this role would cause an actor to want to be known for it?
Here is an opportunity to simultaneously send up and revere the Earth Mothers of the world.
2. What makes this character one of the most interesting characters in your story?
Myra is very sure of her place in the universe. She thinks Reiki is the cure for everything.
3. What are the most interesting actions the triangle character could take in the script?
Helping Wendy and Darwin discover truths about themselves.
4. How can you introduce this role in a way that could sell it to an actor?
Show Myra trusting in the universe, and rationalizing any number of things, shoe-horning events into her worldview.
5. What could be this character’s emotional range
Simpering to judgmental. Kind to frustrated. Even-keeled to grasping.
6. What subtext can the actor play?
Though she tries to be above it all, she’s actually hurt when others don’t believe what she believes.
7. What’s the most interesting relationships this character can have?
With her true-believer students as compared with her business shark students who are pretending to buy into it.
8. How will this character’s unique voice be presented?
Overly kind, overly careful not to offend.
9. What could make this character special and unique?
- Her unflappable nature.
- Her conviction that she is all powerful.
- Her devotion to the Law Of Attraction.
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Madeleine’s Actor attractors!
Vision: I am going to do whatever it takes for me to be a writer of amazing stories with meaning who can move the audience and change the world resulting in financial, critical and audience success.
What I learned from doing this assignment is: What I learned is that I already know a lot about the protagonist, but not so much about my antagonist. It’s a start and will keep thinking about it. The tool is a good way to start to think about the important attractors and help to bild the character.
ACTOR ATTRACTOR TEMPLATE
Lead Character Name: Alex Friedman
Role: Aging growth economy professor
1. What about this role would cause an actor to want to be known for it?
· An economy professor, who is a strong believer in growth economic but gets fundamentally shaken by his aging and experiencing his own physical limits. He uses any mean necessary to fight the way of the world.
2. What makes this character one of the most interesting characters in your story?
· His reckless fight to become dean in order to suppress his aging issues.
· The transformational journey from a dogmatic growth economist and tyrannical father to an open-minded member of society with new priorities.
3. What are the most interesting actions the Lead could take in the script?
· The opening scene when he screams at a student for questioning his philosophy.
· When he makes a volte-scene and burns parts of the family goods.
4. How can you introduce this role in a way that could sell it to an actor?
· A teaching professor who fights physical challenges and tries to hide them. But he can’t and looses control. (Subtext: why does he loses his nerves?)
5. What could be this character’s emotional range
· From impulsive to highly intellectual to weak and helpless – but always a powerful presence.
6. What subtext can the actor play?
· He knows that something has changed in his personality, when he finds out, that he goes through andropause, he tries to cover it up.
7. What’s the most interesting relationships this character can have?
· He has a distant relationship with his wife Corrie, also his daughter Eva feels like a stranger to him. He just rules over them. With the dean Luke, he has a more relaxed relationship.
8. How will this character’s unique voice be presented?
· He lives in the world of economy, everything has a economic value – emotions are out of it. He loves bonsai, where he is in total control over it development. So deep down, he has something very tender, which has to discovered yet.
9. What could make this character special and unique?
· A character with a very strong duality: when he faces andropause, which give him complete new insights and a palette of emotions. From being a dominator, he discovers a new, respectful new side. From dominating nature, he starts to live in it. He discovers the ecosystem, of which he is a part.
Lead Character Name: Eva Friedman
Role: Teenager daughter Alex and Corrie
1. What about this role would cause an actor to want to be known for it?
· An unusual teenager, interest in experimenting with strange things, very sensitive and creative in coming up with ideas to get to her goal, namely to get her parents back together. Creating a floating bonsai green house for her day, leading her dad back into paradise.
2. What makes this character one of the most interesting characters in your story?
· She is Eva and gets her family back to paradise; she is the traveling angel who brings love and emotion between her parents who pursuit values such as success and money.
· She is intuitive, creative, loving, sensitive without any hidden agenda.
3. What are the most interesting actions the Lead could take in the script?
· Doing interesting experiments about human life cycle (menstruation, death, life etc.)
· She creates a flying bonsai garden to get her parents back together.
· She spits apple seeds all over.
4. How can you introduce this role in a way that could sell it to an actor?
· She eats apples and spits the seeds all over.
· She loves reptiles and comes up with whacky experiments.
5. What could be this character’s emotional range
· She is emotionally pretty stable. She is very persistent and decided for her age.
6. What subtext can the actor play?
· She knows the way of life and the way back to paradise and has a plan to save her family.
7. What’s the most interesting relationships this character can have?
· This question makes clear that there is none yet… of course, her parents. But she does not yet have a confident. Maybe she feels attracted toward Mirai, although Mirai is already a student.
8. How will this character’s unique voice be presented?
· She is a smart, nature kid, therefore her voice is organic, with natural growth aspects.
9. What could make this character special and unique?
· She is the most stable character, she is the traveling angel. She is full of creative chaos, positively destructive. She brings her family back to paradise.
Lead Character Name: Corrie Friedman
Role: Alex’s wife (interior architect)
1. What about this role would cause an actor to want to be known for it?
· Don’t know yet.
2. What makes this character one of the most interesting characters in your story?
· She wants to start a new life but her husband does not really care.
3. What are the most interesting actions the Lead could take in the script?
· Don’t know yet.
4. How can you introduce this role in a way that could sell it to an actor?
· She is organizing the birthday party for her husband, but it is actually a party to start her life over again.
5. What could be this character’s emotional range
· From putting on a façade to losing it completely and acting desperate.
6. What subtext can the actor play?
· Getting back into life.
7. What’s the most interesting relationships this character can have?
· With her dominant husband and her daughter who still needs her.
8. How will this character’s unique voice be presented?
· She is outward driven.
9. What could make this character special and unique?
· Cheerful toward the outside, but bitter on the inside and get the two sides in balance.
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VISION – To write touching, entertaining family stories that have a message to teach and entertain audiences at the same time.
What I learned doing this assignment is the exercise below:
1. What about this role would cause an actor to want to be known for it?
This role has an emotional arc that goes from the protagonist being insecure, bitter and desperate to being confident, empowered and wiser (strong female lead)
2. What makes this character one of the most interesting characters in your story?
She seems like she has it all together with a good job, singing talent and two beautiful kids, but when it comes to romantic relationships, she’s not as keen and strong
3. What are the most interesting actions the Lead could take in the script?
Rescuing her daughter from a predator and rescuing herself from her old ways
4. How can you introduce this role in a way that could sell it to an actor?
Strong female lead of a faith-based family genre
5. What could be this character’s emotional range
Selfish, cunning, manipulative, angry to forgiving, careful, cautious, wise, loving
6. What subtext can the actor play?
The character is fragile underneath a hard exterior, she’s vulnerable, overcoming obstacles and afraid of being alone but has the appearance of being okay
7. What’s the most interesting relationships this character can have?
The relationships with the antagonist, her mother, her children and her ex-boyfriends
8. How will this character’s unique voice be presented?
She always says what she needs from others instead of what she needs from herself
9. What could make this character special and unique?
She’s one of the lead singers at her church yet lives a corrupt life
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Geoff Gwillim’s Actor attractors!
VISION: I am a writer of popular and critically acclaimed films, enjoying and grateful for every aspect of my creative life, consistently writing what and as I choose wherever I choose to live in the world, loving the wonderful experiences my writing enables me to have.
WHAT I LEARNED FROM DOING THIS ASSIGNMENT IS:
Developing character means getting inside them and building their persona .. building out the cast of characters in this way will enable the palette for the story to unfold in the writing
Characters:
Garrett
Tom
RB
Aayushi – Sanskrit ‘one who is blessed with a long life.’
Lead Character Name: Garrett
Role: Protagonist
1. What about this role would cause an actor to want to be known for it?
Edgy, talks to his dead best
friend, travels into the depths of the planet to uncover ‘the answers’ to
enable humanity to move to a higher plane, all while transcending his own
demons .. and he gets the girl as well.2. What makes this character one of the most interesting characters in your story?
Has already been through hell, now begins his
journey of redemption and understanding
Transformational journey – from seeing no
value to his life to understanding time/space, origins of life on Earth
and where to from here3. What are the most interesting actions the Lead could take in the script?
Despite suffering from severe PTSD,
claustrophobia and fear of fire as result of past life events, travels
through narrow tunnel and flames .. transcends death and is ‘reborn’4. How can you introduce this role in a way that could sell it to an actor?
Charismatic but broken leader, recruited for a
mission that puts him through ultimate trials before giving him the chance
to save himself .. and all humanity5. What could be this character’s emotional range
From broken / suicidal to seeking / experiencing
to love and understanding – re-emergence of the greater man6. What subtext can the actor play?
· In the beginning he is lost and suicidal, overwhelmed by the events in his world, not realising his own journey will mirror, and deliver, potential salvation for the world.
7. What’s the most interesting relationships this character can have?
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Relationships with his dead best
friend Tom, who travels his own journey together with Garret, with RB (the
Reclusive Billionaire) and with Aayushi (Sanskrit ‘one who is blessed with a long life.’)8. How will this character’s unique voice be presented?
Self-aware, self-deprecating
and self-referencing .. he is educated,
quotes Camus, Sartre, Marcus Aurelius, Nietzsche etc., which is appreciated
by RB .. occasionally answers his (unseen by others) dead best friend Tom,
thus he appears talking to himself9. What could make this character special and unique?
Charismatic and analytical
.. cool demeanour (not theatrics), deep, intense and tortured .. transforms through
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Brandyn Cross’ Actor Attractors
My vision for success in this program is to develop and hone my skills to the extent that my screenplays will be produced and widely viewed.
What I learned from this assignment is creating character attractions for actors specifically for my project vs. merely identifying those from an existing film.
Lead Character Name: Alex (struggling children’s book author)
1. What about this role would cause an actor to want to be known for it?
He is a struggling writer who has let the frustration over his flailing career overtake every other aspect of his life. After a disabling accident, he develops psychic abilities that allow him to connect the ghosts of dead children with their surviving families. Over time, he becomes selfless as he engages himself if service to these family, rather than being obsessed with his own problems.
2. What makes this character one of the most interesting characters in your story?
On the surface, we experience the character’s transformation from self-absorbed to selfless. Additionally, his ability to communicate with ghosts is very unique. Below the surface, neither the character nor the viewer is aware that he, in fact, died in the accident, and his transformation is a necessary evolution to prepare him for entrance to heaven.
3. What are the most interesting actions the Lead could take in the script?
Communicating with ghosts. A suicide at the beginning of the film. Writing children’s books.
4. How can you introduce this role in a way that could sell it to an actor?
The film opens with him drinking at a gravesite in a snowstorm. He next drives his car full speed into an overpass pylon.
5. What could be this character’s emotional range?
From despondent and suicidal, to questioning his sanity upon realizing he can commune with ghosts, to selflessness as he becomes engrossed in helping the ghosts and their families achieve closure regarding their childrens’ deaths.
6. What subtext can the actor play?
Throughout the story, the character is actually dead, but doesn’t realize it. Nor does he remember he had a young son who had died. As the story progresses, he regains more and more memory of his son. There would be subtle clues given by the actor throughout regarding both of these secrets.
7. What’s the most interesting relationships this character can have?
The relationship with the ghost child, Sandy, who is a sort of mentor. While, in reality, Sandy is the ghost of his son. His relationships with the other ghost children, and their families, are also very dynamic.
8. How will this character’s unique voice be presented?
Initially, he is negative and in a permanent pity party. Yet, throughout, there is the deeply buried sense of peace and tranquility that inspired him to bet into writing children’s books in the first place. As time goes on, this inner self becomes ever stronger.
9. What could make this character special and unique?
At first that he is able to communicate with ghosts, and then the discovery that he is a ghost himself.
Lead Character Name: Sandy (ghost child)
1. What about this role would cause an actor to want to be known for it?
He is a ghost. Additionally, he is a child character who is something of a mentor to an adult, giving him a position of authority over the adult.
2. What makes this character one of the most interesting characters in your story?
Pretty much the same as above. He is a child ghost, who is in a superior position to the adult lead in the film.
3. What are the most interesting actions the Lead could take in the script?
Sandy exposes Alex to the ‘other side,’ introducing him to other child ghosts, while leading him on a personal journey of self-discovery, which is what the story is really about.
4. How can you introduce this role in a way that could sell it to an actor?
He appears to Alex in an unlikely manner, and it becomes apparent that Sandy is actually a ghost.
5. What could be this character’s emotional range
Sandy is hiding some big secrets, so he is initially pretty aloof. He knows, but can’t initially reveal to Alex, that he is the ghost of Alex’s son, the relationships between Alex and the other ghosts, and that Alex is a ghost himself. Little by little, he must reveal to Alex his relationship to the other ghost children. Finally, we have a very emotional reunion, with full recognition, between Alex and Sandy as father and son.
6. What subtext can the actor play?
That Sandy is a ghost, that he is Alex’s son, that Alex is a ghost, and the relationship between Alex and the other child ghosts. He is hiding many very big secrets, all of which would be presented as subtext.
7. What’s the most interesting relationships this character can have?
He is tasked by God with preparing Alex, his father, for entry into heaven. But he must go through a major transformation before then. So this is a long and detailed journey. Also Sandy’s relationships with the other child ghosts, and their families.
8. How will this character’s unique voice be presented?
He is a mentor of the adult character, so he has to be firm and convincing. All the while, he also must keep some very big secrets, and lead Alex on a journey of self-discovery. Though Sandy knows all the answers from the beginning, it would ruin the objective if he simply gave Alex the answers. Alex has to discover them on his own, in his own time, and Sandy must skillfully lead him to his own discoveries.
9. What could make this character special and unique?
He is a child ghost, entrusted by God to lead the ghost of his father on the journey necessary to prepare him to enter heaven.
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Paul’s Actor Attractors.
4. I want to write scripts that become movies that change people’s lives.
5. What I learned from this assignment is that it gave me the right parameters on which to base the construction of my character. It got me thinking more about my Protagonist and Antagonist and what I needed to include to make their roles attractive to actors.
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Character: Lilia. Protagonist.
1. Cause an actor to be known for the role?
A woman from a humble background, she threatens the future of the drug war.
2. Most interesting?
She’s on a personal mission and will brook no opposition.
3. Most interesting actions:
Kidnapping a US senator.
4. Introduction?
We see her going toe-to-toe with armed soldiers to stop them arresting other women.
5. Emotional range:
From maternal tenderness to murderous wrath.
6. Sub-text: [work in progress]
7. Most interesting relationships:
With the US Senator whom she educates in the reality of the drugs market. She goes from wanting him dead to making him her ally.
8. Unique voice:
Not afraid to speak against authority. Great repartee.
9. Special and Unique:
– with little education, she manages to outsmart big government.
– gives voice to millions who suffer as a result of the drug war.
– fearless.
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Raquel Solomon’s Actor Attractors for Blue Eyes (I changed my Title)
I want to go deeper into my writing to create screenplays where characters of depth are placed in compelling journeys with a fresh voice that Hollywood producers as well as independent film cos. know they must make!
What I learned from doing this assignment is that the best written lead characters should show a range of emotions, growth in how they handle their situation, unique skills or personality traits that make them stand out from the other characters.
PROTAGONIST : Miri Fried from MUSICIAN to EDUCATOR to SMUGGLER to FIGHTER
1. What about this role would cause an actor to want to be known for it?
Miri goes through a broad range of challenges and changes to her place in the world. Before the war she is a free-spirited and self-centered blues violinist without time for family and serious relationships. In the Warsaw Ghetto she is tasked with teaching music to children. Although kind to them she at first keeps her distance. She allows a young student, Jacob into her heart which changes everything. She joins the ghetto orchestra as a way of obtaining extra food to bring to her children. She agrees to become a nazi officer’s mistress to save Jacob from deportation to a death camp. She puts the safety of others as her main task in life. She has her first real love relationship with Avi. She grows to become a smuggler and a fighter.
2. What makes this character one of the most interesting characters in your story?
She is young and extremely talented. She overcomes her fears in order to help others. even though she is blackmailed into being a Nazi’s mistress she still falls in love for the first time. She uses her music, playing outside the ghetto for nazi officers as a way to become a smuggler of guns. She learns to shoot a gun and becomes a fighter.
3. What are the most interesting actions the lead could take in the script?
As stated in Q. 2 she falls in love, she saves a young boy, she jeopardizes her life as a smuggler and has to become a killer.
4. How can you introduce this role in a way that could sell it to an actor?
The role of Miri has to go through many emotions. Fear and sorrow in seeing people killed. Engaging with children and getting close to them. Having to become an enemy’s mistress but still able to fall in love. Overcoming fear and choosing to join in the fight in the Warsaw Ghetto. Willing to die and willing to kill.
5. What could be this character’s emotional range? Sorrowful, fearful, hateful, falling in love, overcoming fear, becoming a warier.
6. What subtext can the actor play?
Being strong for her young music students while fearing for their safety and not wanting to frighten them. Bing flirtatious with the nazi officers in their club where she is a performer while gathering up and hiding weapons. Acting the role of a mistress, sharing wine and talk but doing everything to ultimately undermine him.
7. What’s the most interesting relationships the character can have?
Her first real love with an innocent man from a religious background a bit younger than her. Her love that develops for a young boy that she will do everything to save. Her friendships with fellow women smugglers and partisan soldiers. Her relationship with the Nazi officer she must have sex with.
8. How will this character’s unique voice be presented?
She is unique as a talented violinist from the first scene. Her self-centered independence must change in the ghetto and her attachments are above everything else as her music once was.
9. What could make this character special and unique?
She is a talented musician. She puts others safety above her own. She is willing to die to fight the nazis. She is a fictional character based on the many heroic young women who did smuggle and become fighters in the Warsaw Ghetto.
Lead Character: Avi- Miri’s lover
What would cause an actor to want this role?
Avi, 19 years old falls in love for the first time with Miri. He has a romantic role and also is well-versed in the mystical aspects of the Jewish religion which he imparts to Miri.
What makes avi one of the most interesting is before he was sent to the ghetto he led a very sheltered life in the Hasidic world. He knows very little about secular life but ironically as a prisoner in the ghetto this world opens up to him.
The most interesting actions are as a romantic young man in love, as a helper to the uprising and ultimately giving up his life to help Jacob escape the ghetto.
I could introduce this role as the romantic lead in the story and whose life comes to a heroic end.
Avi’s emotional range is one of fear, loss, falling in love with exuberance, bravely fighting, giving up his life for a young boy.
His subtext is seeing the world through a mystical point of view and continuing his faith in God.
The most interesting relationships are with Jacob the young boy he protects and Miri who he falls in love with.
His unique voice is with religious sayings and beliefs and his wanting knowledge about the secular world.
He is special for sacrificing himself for Jacob. He is unique with a mystical point of view.
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Mhmd’s Actor attractors!
My Vision: I will keep creating constantly and effectively; in order to be the most demanded and influential glorified writer within the industry and with the audience.
What I learned from doing this assignment is..
– Character loglines, old/new ways and internal/external journeys provide a lot of answers here indeed.
Lead Character Name: 84
Role: Protagonist
What about this role would cause an actor to want to be known for it?
The most intelligent and resourceful character, who has a massive transformational journey and advancement in a very dangerous world, becomes the unparalleled leader of a revolution.
What makes this character one of the most interesting characters in your story?
He is the most lethal element in the story. but nonetheless very considerate and always with a sense of responsibility. Always unexpected. Not to mention the constantly inventing linguistic structures and expressions.
What are the most interesting actions the Lead could take in the script?
He is unintentionally unexpected every step. He designs unprecedented strategies, inventing defensive and offensive movement systems with patterns that can only be achieved with the bodies of conjoined twins.
How can you introduce this role in a way that could sell it to an actor?
In a really terrible and strange working atmosphere, everything and everyone around him could kill him, but he still survives, and at the same time he has to continue working without the attention of the guards and observers that he is conscious and has full will.
What could be this character’s emotional range?
From introversion to ostracism to vindictiveness to a sense of entitlement, all while always feeling responsible.
What subtext can the actor play?
Every action, reaction, and decision includes an open possibility of alternative odds ready for processing and applicating.
What’s the most interesting relationships this character can have?
His turbulent mutant relationship with Spider, as well as his mysterious relationship with beings outside the colony. The strangest thing is his relationship with himself and his levels of awareness.
How will this character’s unique voice be presented?
Through higher level processing of ideas, values, decisions and strategies. This is due to the nature of his dual mental system.
What could make this character special and unique?
Unique body language. He has a constant sense of responsibility. Although he is the most dangerous character, he thinks of others.
Lead Character Name: 3
Role: Antagonist
What about this role would cause an actor to want to be known for it?
The person who has already completed his tight planning for everything. He knows about others what they do not expect him to know. he is Alexander the psychopath conjoined twin.
What makes this character one of the most interesting characters in your story?
He is the first of his kind, the head of a fearsome criminal cult, with a scheme to take over the entire world; All this within a colony in which no one is supposed to have a will or a decision of any kind.
What are the most interesting actions the Lead could take in the script?
He can find a place for anything in his puzzle.
How can you introduce this role in a way that could sell it to an actor?
Hiding and moving everything behind the scenes.
What could be this character’s emotional range?
Huge ambition, ruthlessness.
What subtext can the actor play?
He has plans that move those around him to implement them without revealing to them his intentions.
What’s the most interesting relationships this character can have?
His transformative fateful relationship with 84. His relationship with the followers of his sect.
How will this character’s unique voice be presented?
Evil wisdom is always imperfect.
What could make this character special and unique?
The first of his kind. The theocratic vision for ruling and completely transforming the world.
Lead Character Name: Spider
Role: Triangle
What about this role would cause an actor to want to be known for it?
Shaun Archer from Face Off, multiplied by 10.
What makes this character one of the most interesting characters in your story?
External suffering in kinetic mechanics as a surgically modified conjoined twin, and internal suffering with conflicting different tasks.
What are the most interesting actions the Lead could take in the script?
His high skills in adaptation and functioning despite his new physical condition, and his constant willingness to do anything for the sake of his mission.
How can you introduce this role in a way that could sell it to an actor?
A human in the form of a venomous spider, a ruthless killer.
What could be this character’s emotional range?
Pure loyalty to his primary mission, pretense of brutality, and empathy.
What subtext can the actor play?
He’s a dedicated undercover agent, so he says and does things and agrees to them, while having his own context for all of it.
What’s the most interesting relationships this character can have?
His relationship with 84. His relationship with 3. And his relationship to his new, surgically modified organs.
How will this character’s unique voice be presented?
You are all dangerous potential enemies, and I am the only chance to save the world from you.
What could make this character special and unique?
Dedication in performing the task, physical suffering with the consequences of modifying surgery, and the internal conflict between his assigned tasks in an environment in which he must not be exposed, neither as a secret agent, nor as a person who has independent consciousness and will.
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