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Lesson 4
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Ira L Drower’s Villain Track
I learned that a strong villain who is also tricky can add value to an Action screenplay.
1. Ask the villain track questions to discover your villain’s plan, decisions, and actions.
A. What might be the villain’s plan to accomplish an evil outcome or to annihilate the hero? The plan could be pre-existing or created on the spot.
The villain’s only knew the signal that brought it to Frank’s town and Area 54. The plan is to break into the secret Alien prison to find Prof. Warner and his teleportation device. Getting through Frank and his wolf pack requires several attempts to breach the cave and enter the control center. It will kill when threatened.
B. How many ways can the villain attack or destroy the hero?
The Alien Predator has cloaking capabilities making itself virtually invisible to Frank and his senses. It has advanced weaponry, plasma blasters, thermite grenades, laser guidance, superior strength and cunning and is from a warrior race of beings.
C. What advantage does the villain have and how can they explot that in this movie?
The predator can also mimic sounds, both animal and human to throw off Frank and his wolf pack. It can use the trees to move quickly and unnoticed. It can remain cloaked even as it fires its weapons.
D. What would be a fitting end for this villainwhere they pay for what they’ve done?
Frank defeats it in hand-hand combat usind decption to ultimately defeat and capture the Alien Predator.
2. Include labels with each step.
Develop your own set of labels, but make sure you clearly show decisions, plans, and actions your villain takes.
Plan: Follow signal sent from Prof. Warner’s teleportation experiment to Area 54.
Dilemma: Alien Predator inadvertently kills 2 local hunters on restricted military property.
Decision: Alien Predator hides bodies in warehouse of taxidermist near town.
Plan: Alien Predator cloaks itself as Frank and wolf pack leave the cave in search of it.
Shoot-out: Predator battles Prof Warner’s assitant, Rick ho is under control of an Alien spy.
Escape/Retreat: Alien Predator escapes into the woods using the trees to travel.
Deception/Escape: Alien Predator uses mimicry to sound like a bear throwing off Frank and wolves temporarily. Shoots a stolen prisoner restraint net at a wolf forcing Frank to lose the trail.
Hunted becomes Hunter: Alien Predator takes the fight to Frank as it tracks and hunts Frank.
Shoot-out: Battle at Area 54 when Alien Predator blasts its way into cave and blows a hole in the cave wall into the prison command center.
Mano-o-mano: Out of ammo, the Alien Predator takes on Frank using a spear.
FIt Ending: Defeated and captured by Frank, Alien Predator is released to its world’s warriors.
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Frances Villain Track,
What I learned doing this Assignment is what plan would the Villain use to destroy the Hero and How would he carry out that plan.
What might be the Villains plan to accomplish an evil outcome to annihilate the Hero.
The Villain plan to destroy the Prime Minister by kidnapping his daughter as retaliation for attesting the evil Stephano.
How many ways can the Villain attack or destroy the Hero :
Hit Squad, Stab her, Drowning, poison, Hit them with a car, Blow them up.
What advantages does the Villain have and how can they exploit that in this movie. Russian Syndicate has many resources available to them, military, special forces, excessive amounts of money, seized assets, and Political Allie’s.
What would be a fitting End for the Villain:
The Hero pulls two pistols from her jacket firing simultaneously killing the Villain instantly.
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Bob Rowen’s Villain Track!
What I learned doing this assignment is a methodical way of approaching the Villain’s role in the storyline.
1. Villain Track questions:
A. What might be the Villain’s plan to accomplish an evil outcome or to annihilate the hero (The plan could be preexisting or created on the spot)? After reviewing the Hero’s damning evidence, the Villain decides to neutralize the impending threat by whatever means necessary.
B. How many ways can the Villain attack or destroy the Hero? Intimidation, threats, dangerous job assignments, police harassment, termination of employment, and using corporate security to make the Hero a national security risk.
C. What advantage does the Villain have and how can he exploit that in this movie? Unfettered use of the vast and unscrupulous resources of the corporation, the federal government, and secret operative third party contractors.
D. What would be a “fitting end” for this Villain where they pay for what they’ve done? The Villain develops terminal cancer and commits suicide.
2. Labels:
VERSION 1 VILLAIN TRACK: The Whistleblower from Mendocino Bay
Villain: Edgar Skaggs, Nuclear Plant Engineer in charge of the Far-West Electric Company’s Nuclear Task Force.
Hero: Virgil Prater, a former U.S. Marine Force Recon Pathfinder trained in ABC (Atomic, Biological, & Chemical) Warfare. Prater is now a Nuclear Control Technician for the company.
In The Moment Plan: Edgar’s plan was conceived when Prater presents evidence proving the company has been lying about the safe threshold of occupational radiation exposure, which explains the company’s unwarranted approach to radiation protection.
1. MISTAKE: Edgar uses the company’s Radiation Protection Training Manual prepared by the Far-West Electric Company’s Nuclear Task Force, that Edgar was part of, in defense of management’s claim that the radiation exposure limits in the plant are safe.
2. DILEMMA: Prater produces solid evidence to the contrary and shares it with Edgar and fellow employees. Who to believe?
3. DECISION/THREATENS HIM: Edgar demands that Prater must accept the company’s position as a condition of employment. But, if he doesn’t and continues to look for trouble, he’s going to find it!
4. PLAN/BLACK BOOK: Edgar orders his first line supervisors to keep a black book on Prater’s activities, real or contrived!
5. DECISION/DANGEROUS JOB ASSIGNMENT: In an attempt to persuade Prater to quit, Edgar assigns him to a job under the reactor where a horrible nuclear accident occurs. Edgar has prior knowledge of conditions and knows the accident will happen.
6. PLAN/THIRD PARTY CONTRACT: Prater is on his way to meet with a Wall Street Journal reporter about radiation safety violations at the plant. Edgar secretly arranges to have Prater ran off the road. An injured Prater escapes but his documentation disappears with the help of law enforcement.
7. PLAN/REACTOR CONTROL ROOM FIGHT: Edgar intentionally engages Prater in a verbal altercation that turns physical. It’s a very public spectacle in the reactor control room and Prater’s employment is terminated.
8. PLAN/APPEALS BOARD HEARING: Edgar tries his best before the California Unemployment Appeals Board to justify the company’s decision to terminate Prater’s employment with cause but fails.
9. DECISION/COMPANY SAFETY MEETING: A humiliated Edgar finds it necessary to share a corporate legal opinion with the nuclear plant employees that affirms Prater’s view of radiation exposure.
FITTING ENDING: Edgar develops terminal cancer and commits suicide.
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Answar(a) Elad Adams Villain Track: Answar or Answara depending on how well you know him, planned all of this battle plan out before the beginning of my story! Having been passed up on promotion after promotion he will now exact his revenge. I learned my Villain is smarter and much more evil now that he has presented himself to my story. He is becoming more vicious than i could ever have imagined without this class! Plan: Buying out the owner of the Private Security firm that provides armed guards for the AFB. Plan: Controlling all AFB construction contracts. Plan: Extending his influence and infiltrating outside groups and the local government players. Plan: Having the General off base and out of town that weekend. Plan: Planting Nuclear Waste containers inside the infrastructure of the outdoor Amphitheater timed to detonate along with the fireworks display Plan: Sent his operatives after our hero to throw him off track since he was never a part of the plan. Each incident is increasingly more dangerous and harmful to our Hero. Plan: Taking out the Amphitheater and the leading movers and shakers from the guestlist. Showering his enemies and the Center causing an environmental disaster that will forever more be known as: “HOT PROPERTY”. The End but Not so Fast.
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Chris’s Villain Track
What I learned doing this assignment is: this is a complex writing project!
Ask the Villain Track questions to discover your Villain’s plan, decisions, and actions.
A. What might be the Villain’s plan to accomplish an evil outcome or to annihilate the hero? The plan could be pre-existing or created on the spot.
It is preplanned as the Villain uses our hero’s PTSD as “kryptonite” against him. The Villain is also disciplined and follows his Psychopath playbook to a T.
B. How many ways can the Villain attack or destroy the hero?
He takes another hit at the dying father making his condition worse.
He kills the hero’s military friends that have recently returned from battle.
He cripples the hero’s ability to move freely when all media and social media have the story and his image.
He out maneuvers our hero with a tactical advantage.
He is faster and stronger than our hero.
He has a better understanding of technology and weaponry that our hero.
C. What advantage does the Villain have and how can they exploit that in this movie?
He is superior in every way: no guilt or conscience to hold him back and he is faster, stronger, smarter.
D. What would be a “fitting end” for this Villain where they pay for what they’ve done?
Our hero ultimately prevails as he uses the Psychopath’s playbook against him.
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Chris Confer’s Villain Track
What I learned doing this assignment is:
1. Ask the Villain Track questions to discover your Villain’s plan, decisions, and actions.
A. What might be the Villain’s plan to accomplish an evil outcome or to annihilate the hero?
The Villain’s plan is already in place as Ukranian SBU agents impersonating Russian SVU agents causing subversion in the US running Manchurian candidates to cause mayhem. Their current focus is causing traffic accidents, fatal ones. They use sensory deprivation tanks and other torture to program people that they kidnap to turn into unknowing subversives.
B. How many ways can the Villain attack or destroy the hero?
Send gang of assassins, send single assassin, harm their family, harm their pet, kidnap a family member, use microwave weapons (Havana syndrome).
C. What advantage does the Villain have and how can they exploit that in this movie?
The Villain, Kirill is backed by a foreign intelligence agency and are waging a propaganda war against Russia, their enemy.
Unfortunately, a US city is their killing ground/ mayhem ground.
D. What would be a “fitting end” for this Villain where they pay for what they’ve done?
Judge Ken uses the Tae Kwon Do he learned since he was 2 years old to kill Burlyman in a hand to hand fight, but gets tired of being tired from the fisticuffs and picks up his special umbrella and shoots Burlyman. “Don’t bring a fist to a gun fight.” Too corny, maybe.
Judge Jason uses a microwave weapon to take out Kirill and 20 other guys one by one.
2. Include labels with each step of their plan.
Develop your own set of labels, but make sure you clearly show decisions, plans, and actions your Villain takes.
Pallet incident
(Sentencing some scumbags to 364 days in county jail: Kirill sees it on local news)
(Sentencing scumbags to turn in their smart phone for a rotary cell phone: Kirill sees it on local news or in the LA Times)
Hospital scene: boy injured by pallet dies and Kirill gets word the judges were at the hospital
Dog poisoning warning
Kirill kidnaps Judge Jason’s wife.
Judge Ken and Jason go to their weapons stash in their chambers at the courthouse on a weekend (they hears doors close down the hall and know the bad guys are coming after them).
Kirill and Burlyman attack them in the courthouse and the fight spills into the empty courtroom and out onto the room and the bad guys get away after say a scaffolding falls and one of the good guys gets stuck in a new solar panel wrap being applied to the building’s skin. Judge Jason has to pull it off of Judge Ken’s arm and a lot of skin peels off.
Tank Incident at Kirill’s compound
Counter attack of Kirill’s compound
Final Ending Mano-a-mano Ken ; and Jason Nuke (microwave weapon)
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Gary Holland – Villain track
Mistake – When the villain is caught in a feed back loop and turns bad.
Dilemma – The villain wants the artifact for a completely different reason now and will kill anyone who stands in his way.
Intent to harm psychologically – The villain takes possession of what he thinks is the real artifact… takes the girl in front of an incapacitated hero and tells him he’s going to pimp her out on a distant planet.
Reacquire/ Plan – When the villain finds out that the hero is on his planet, he gives him free rein to come to the command center… not a fun place.
The Command Center – The woman for hire plants a seed in the villain’s head and he wants answers from the hero before killing him… little did he know, the command center is just where the hero needs to be.
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Bob McCord’s Villain Track
What I learned from this assignment is that I should view this story through the point of view of the villain who is really driving the narrative. He has more to lose and is more psychologically invested than is the Hero. The villain must show that he is playing all out in varied ways. And I need more time to make this work
A. What might be the Villain’s plan to accomplish an evil outcome or to annihilate the hero? The plan could be pre-existing or created on the spot. Villain is relying on his superior capability to secure a contract; he expects it is “wired” for his corporation. When he learns that an unlikely competitor has now become formidable with the Hero on board, he moves forcefully to develop a plan to eliminate any chance the Hero will prevail.
B. How many ways can the Villain attack or destroy the hero? He can prevent him with administrative obstacles like no access, denied security clearance, challenges to eligibility and qualifications of personnel and experts and so on. Mainly he can attack with military sniper, arrests, hitmen, special ops troops, and some in-town connections who shoot big guns.
C. What advantage does the Villain have and how can he exploit that in this movie? He is shrewd, in charge, connected, and able to control military, police, commercial, and other forces that make him an overwhelming adversary for any competitor. He has the power and the ego.
D. What would be a “fitting end” for this Villain in which he pays for what he has done? Loss of contract, status, and his own sense of self as all-powerful. Being denied, being a loser, then unable to prevent being dead.
In the moment plan: Villain had no worries until he discovers the Hero has signed on with an unlikely competitor. Now he’s concerned, and possibly threatened.
Mistake: Villain knows Hero’s smarts and capabilities as well as the competitor’s few but vital advantages. The combination causes Villain to insult and threaten Hero from winning the contract. But the hero reminds him of their past antagonism and his dead brother. There’s nothing more to say.
Dilemma: Villain can’t create a threatening environment with the Pentagon and community looking on, yet he can’t ignore how a smart, shrewd Hero could out-fox him. He has to move fast to stop the Hero.
Decision: Kill him now. Taps his connections to implement a military plan. Focuses on making sure the proposal is still solid. What is the competitor doing?
Plan-send the shooter: He sends a novice sharpshooter from the base to kill Hero while he’s having a breakfast meeting with an expert at a local hotel. The kid shoots the expert. Hero injured.
React: Villain outraged that a simple, cheap solution failed. Yet the loss of an expert is a real problem for his competitor. Try again to eliminate Hero.
Plan–bigger force: Villain calls in more chits from commanders;they send special ops snipers to finish the job, expecting no resistance.
Restless response: Villain gets word that Pentagon realizes benefits of competitor proposal. The threat of unexpected loss is real. Villain decides he must run things, eliminating the Hero himself.
Attack: Villain takes charge, but not well. Discovers that Hero has joined forces with community police who have come to arrest Villain. FBI is involved now because of Villain tampering with government contract and personnel. He grabs a weapon and runs for the safety of the base.
Escape: Villain makes it onto base with his credentials, but is wounded from the pursuing cops. The police can’t get on base, so Villain has a head start. But Hero can–the administrative hassles resolved with him receiving passes and clearances.
Fitting Ending: The SpOps team has turned on the Villain, under orders the commander has in his hand. They point rifles. He tries to shoot but Hero shoots first, wounds him. Reminds Villain of how he helped Villain win a big contract years ago when they worked together. Did it again this time, not for Villain but for Hero’s brother. Bang.
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Beth Zurkowski villain track! What I learned: That there are two ways for a villain to plan.
1. Ask the Villain Track questions to discover your Villain’s plan, decisions, and actions.
A. What might be the Villain’s plan to accomplish an
evil outcome or to annihilate the hero? Created on the spot. He puts a
bounty on Velda’s head at a gym his son trains in. When the attacks don’t
work out father hires assassins.
B. How many ways can the Villain attack or destroy the
hero? by attacking over and over. Ruining her credit and name.
C. What advantage does the Villain have and how can
they exploit that in this movie? He’s a great sword fighter.
In the end there get into a sword fight.
D. What would be a “fitting end” for this Villain where
they pay for what they’ve done? He gets his head handed to him in the end.2. Include labels with each step of their plan.
decisions: attack over and over until Velda is dead.
Plans: steal social security card and id to ruin their credit and reputation.
actions: chase scenes, and fight scenes.
I had a hard time with this one, Hal, I didn’t understand the labels part.
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Jeannine Hegelbach’s Villains track
What I learned, doing this assignment is, that I can look at the movie from different perspective and come up with new ideas through this.
Villain: Wayne Beckster, Head of the CIA sleeper agent program
Hero: prisoner Jordan Silverman
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Plan: Plan pre-existed, but the villain has to adapt and come up with a new plan when Jordan escapes the prison and reenters the US
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Ways the villain can attack: accuse Jordan of the murder of his twin brother and send him to the worst prison, where he likely will get killed, he can alarm the authorities to help find Jordan, send out the CIA sleeper agents to kill him, torture him, send out his own twin brother and program him to kill him.
C
Advantages of the villain: He has a nearly unlimited amount of sleeper agents, he is in contact with the US authorities and the border patrol, he works with brain implants that controls the twin brother, he has nearly unlimited financial resources and weapons
D
Fitting end: Jason and his twin brother fight together and Beckster gets killed by the two of them
Beckster’s Plan:
1. INCARCERATE: Beckster let’s Jordan’s twin brother disappears and arranges that Jordan looks like he has killed his brother. Jordan gets deported and will mostly likely be killed by the gangs inside the prison.
2. ALERT AUTHORITIES: When Jordan reenters the US, Beckster alarms the US authorities that a murderer is on the loose and makes sure, that the police is looking for him and takes care of the rest.
3. SEND OUT AGENTS: Beckster sends out regular CIA agents to kill Jordan, but they fail.
4. ACTIVE SLEEPER AGENTS: Beckster must step up his game, when he finds out that his agents have been killed. He sends out his best sleeper agents that are ruthless killers because they have been programmed unconsciously.
5. DECEPTION: When that fails, he changes his strategy and sacrifices a CIA agents by sending him to kill Jordan, knowing that he will fail and give Jordan the information where his twin brother is held.
6. SET A TRAP: He lures Jordan into the CIA headquarters to capture him, where he is equipped the best and Jordan can’t escape anymore.
7. EMOTIONAL TRIGGER: Beckster sends out Jordan’s twin brother who is controlled by a brain implant to kill Jordan in an arena like setting.
8. DEADLY STING: Surprisingly Jordan does not hold back and kills his twin brother. Beckster has no choice to flee out of the room and to send in all his remaining agents.
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