• Pamela Rice

    Member
    January 10, 2024 at 10:07 pm

    Pam’s Character Subtext

    One-Sentence Vision: I will turn my ideas into produced movies and live a happy, successful life as a writer and industry professional.
    What I learned from doing this assignment: Creating the subtext identities and behaviours for my characters is tricky, so I’m just taking it one step at a time and allowing non-perfect answers.
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    Part 1. With your example movie, give us the following answers for the character with the most subtext:

    Example Movie Title: HOW TO LOSE A GUY IN 10 DAYS
    Character Name: Andie Anderson
    Subtext Identity: (The Pretender)
    An Advice Columnist who pretends to have an annoying personality in her new relationship, just to prove a point for an article she’s working on.
    Subtext Traits: Manipulative, Scheming
    Subtext Logline: Andie manipulates Ben, purposely sabotaging their budding relationship for her own career advancement.
    Possible Areas of Subtext:
    – Andie makes Ben miss seeing the final shot in a Knicks game by sending him to get her a soda
    – She moves her things into his apartment, gets him a fern plant to represent their relationship.
    – Takes him to a Celine Dion concert when he was under the assumption he was going to see a Knicks basketball game.
    – Fed up with the project, Andie throws a fit at Ben’s boys’ poker night to finally drive him to break up with her.

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    Part 2: For your two leads, brainstorm these answers:

    Character Name: EVE GARDNER
    Subtext Identity: (Overcompensater)
    A washed-up graphic designer who’s freaked out that she just turned 50.
    Subtext Traits: Polite, Falsely Calm, Evasive
    Subtext Logline: Eve is in a midlife crisis, and tries to overcompensate by appearing calmer, more confident than ever. When triggered, she will over-react in the opposite way of what she’s feeling inside. Example: Laughing hysterically at a joke at her expense.
    Possible Areas of Subtext:
    – Eve plays along when a bartender refers to her as a “Young Lady.”
    – She compliments the work of a younger employee who gets promoted over her.
    – She hides her work from the 20-somethings in her art class, claiming that “it’s so good, it can only properly be shown in a gallery.”
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    Character Name: JESSICA LeZARDE
    Subtext Identity: (Evil Schemer)
    A businesswoman who tests her amazing new anti-aging night cream in Eve’s hometown.
    Subtext Trait: Seducing, Sneaky, Concealing
    Subtext Logline: Jessica is an entrepreneur who will stop at nothing to get her product on the market, despite suspicions of danger.
    Possible Areas of Subtext:
    – Jessica tricks her niece Zivia into being one of her first test subjects.
    – Jessica sweet-talks Zivia into promoting her products on Zivia’s TV station.
    – When folks around town notice some strange things happening, she offers up some clever misdirection to take away any suspicions towards her.
    – When folks actually figure things out, she justifies their youthful appearances by saying that “we all suffer for our beauty, right?”

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  • William Whalen

    Member
    January 12, 2024 at 3:02 pm

    William Whelan – Subtext Characters

    Vision: To write a screenplay which will become a successful movie.

    What I learned from doing this assignment is to develop subtext for my characters.

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  • Movie Title: Chinatown
  • Character Name: Jake Gittes
  • Subtext Identity: Ex-cop
    private investigator who has left the force under questionable
    circumstances.
  • Subtext Trait: Guilt,
    suspicious, emotional scars
  • Subtext Logline: Jake’s past as a police officer influences
    his investigative style, and his interactions with Evelyn.
  • Possible Areas of Subtext: Jake’s interactions with Evelyn reveal deeper emotional wounds, particularly related to a failed marriage and a case gone wrong.
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  • Character Name: Liza Valente
  • Subtext Identity: Mafia
    princess who desires to break with the family and pursue an acting career.
  • Subtext Trait: Manipulative,
    distrustful, secretive
  • Subtext Logline: Mafia princess
    who desires to be an actor and is secretly falling in love with Professor
    Shaw.
  • Possible Areas of Subtext: Liza
    continues to take theater classes against her father’s wishes.
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  • Character Name: Professor Shaw
  • Subtext Identity: Cambridge
    theater professor on sabbatical at Brooklyn college.
  • Subtext Trait: Confident, condescending,
    snobbish
  • Subtext Logline: Cambridge
    professor who is secretly falling in love with Liza Valente.
  • Possible Areas of Subtext: While
    mentoring Liza he has an attraction to her.

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