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Lesson 4
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ASSIGNMENT #4 – Mary’s Villain Track
What I learned from this assignment:
To start thinking from my villain’s point of view. To brainstorm the escalating components of action/reaction which originate with my villain.
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.
Andros’ Pre-existing Plan: In his quest to climb Russia’s political ladder, Andros hatches a plan to steal classified documents which show the secret locations of the U.S.’s nuclear submarines. He plans to sell this information to Russia as well as China. He settles on CIA agent, Sky Silver, as his conduit, forcing her co-operation by kidnapping her sister.
- How many ways can the Villain attack or destroy the hero?
Initial attack: Andros orders a cyberattack on Sky’s personal and professional accounts, including her home security systems, to gather information about her and her activities.
Kidnapping of Sky’s sister: Andros’ main henchman breaks into Sky’s home, overpowers her, threatens her, shows her video of her sister pleading, forcing her to cooperate.
Pressure & Intimidation: Andros’ organization keeps Sky under constant surveillance, making her aware of their presence and the potential harm they can cause, further pressuring her to comply.
Car Chase: Sky discovers a lead on her sister’s location and follows it, only to be pursued in a high-speed car chase by Andros’ henchmen through the winding streets of Moscow.
Undercover operative betrayal: Andros plants a mole within Sky’s trusted circle, and this person betrays her by luring her into a trap.
1st Failed Ambush: Through the planted mole, Andros discovers the location of Sky’s safe house where she has taken her sister after she rescues her. He orders an ambush. Sky and her sister barely escape with their lives and go on the run to evade further attacks.
2nd Failed Ambush: Andros arranges a meeting with Sky under false pretenses, only to have the meeting location booby-trapped with explosives.
Final Solution: Andros’ men capture Sky and her sister and bring them to him. He intends to administer a rufie-like drug which will slowly kill the women.
- C. What advantage does the Villain have and how can they exploit that in this movie?
Unlimited resources in assassins, technology, and finances, exploited through surveillance, data hacking, assailants, secret locations.
- D. What would be a “fitting end” for this Villain where they pay for what they’ve done?
Sky injects Andros with the drug he intended to use on her and he dies an excruciatingly painful, slow death.
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Lesson 4: Create Your Villain Track!
Kevin Lobo’s Villain Track!.
What I learned…To have a meticulous plan for the villain that will create a well-structured plot line for the villain.
ASSIGNMENT:
1. Ask the Villain Track questions to discover your Villain’s plan, decisions, and actions.
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- 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 has a pre-existing plan. He is high level government IT executive with access to the inner most government secrets. He runs the Arms Sales/Money laundering operation anonymously and thus knows the rival gang.
He also knows the hero’s cyber capabilities really well and thus traps him in to do his dirty work and knows that he can destroy him anytime by exposing him as the hacker.
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- B. How many
ways can the Villain attack or destroy the hero?The villain holds the hero’s brother hostage with a host of charges against him. He knows the brother is the weak spot and exposing/killing the brother will destroy the hero.
The villain uses one of his suave executives to ensnare the hero’s wife out of their troubled marriage. The hero knows the background of the executive and thus has a double battle, convince his wife she is wrong and protect her as well from the villain/executive.
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- C. What
advantage does the Villain have and how can they exploit that in this
movie?The villain is a high level government executive. He has full internal knowledge of all the files they have on both gangs (one his own), he has full knowledge of the hero’s file, his details as well as privy to his cyber activities thus always one step ahead.
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- D. What would
be a “fitting end” for this Villain where they pay for what they’ve done?A fitting end to this villain would be multiple outcomes.
The rival gang survives – gets exposed as a red herring to trap the villain’s own gang.
The villain’s own gang/operation is fully exposed and destroyed.
The villain is fully exposed and faces the maximum sentence including the death penalty for his illicit arms and money laundering trade.
The villain is exposed and killed by the hero who transitions from just a cyber expert to handling arms and shooting him down.
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1. MISTAKE: The villain realizes that the hero, has created a false attack impersonating a foreign power and thus taken the attention off himself.
2. DILEMMA: He cannot confront the hero with this information since he is the only to whom the hero has reported this action plan.
3. DECISION: Trap the hero’s wife in an affair and get him to open up about the fake foreign attack.
4. PLAN/HIT CONTRACT: The villain updates the hero’s file constantly as he goes about hacking the rival gang thus ensuring that the hero will be fully trapped legally once the action is executed.
5. PLAN/HIDING OUT: Holds the hero’s wife and brother in a secret villa fully guarded by electronic systems and armed guards knowing that the hero is an amateur when it comes to weapons.
6. RETALIATION: He sends tortured pictures of the hero’s brother and fake pictures of his wife having sex with the fake executive – threatening to spread them on the web.
7. ESCAPE: He has a secret jet on a private airport from where he can quickly hop off to a Caribbean island with full immunity to American justice.
8. FITTING ENDING: The hero fully exposes the executive, takes down his arms/money laundering network, the government locks out his millions and the executive is killed in a fire fight when he reaches the getaway airport – a secret the hero has learned by hacking the executive himself!
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Dave’s Action Comedy Villain Track
What I learned doing this assignment:
I still haven’t thought about a title, characters’ names, or even one line of dialog. Very unusual.
The Villain’s plan to accomplish evil outcome:
He schemes to win a lucrative contract to deliver Christmas cookies for a cherished local bakery using whatever means are necessary.
The Villain’s plan to crush the hero:
By stealing the contract from the hero and making him look like the perpetual loser his family has known.
Villain’s ways to attack:
1. He waylays the hero’s employees from reporting to work.
2. He blackmails a public official to close a bridge.
3. He bribes an inspector to impound the hero’s vehicles.
4. Paints the hero as hopeless dreamer
The villain’s advantage:
Lots of money and friends in high places, and he has the will to crush the hero.
How he uses it:
Bribery, blackmail, propaganda.
The villain’s painful demise:
Proven to be unscrupulous, run out of town by his own mechanized workers.
Additional track labels
Mistake – Doesn’t realize that people root for an underdog.
Dilemma – He knows that his fiancee’ (the hero’s ex-wife) will not marry him if she discovers his evil ways.
Decision – To be even more devious.
New Plan – Kidnap the hero.
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I couldn’t post my assignment by replying to the post in general, so am replying to you. But well done, you!
Jean’s Villain Track
What I learned doing this assignment is when a villain has no morals or boundaries, it leaves the hero with fewer means of counter-attack.
1. Ask the Villain Track questions to discover your Villain’s plan, decisions, and actions.
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plan to accomplish an evil outcome or to annihilate the hero? The plan
could be pre-existing or created on the spot.(1) The villain knows about the island, the healing virus before our hero does.
(2) He is holding islanders and the heroine’s friend hostage and having tests run on them to try to find a vaccine.
(3) In the meantime he is spreading misinformation everywhere news of the virus is starting to come out. So his first plan is to discourage people from learning about the virus and to find a vaccine to destroy the virus.
(4) His final most evil plan is to bomb the island out of existence and kill the monk seals.
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- B. How many ways can the Villain
attack or destroy the hero?(1) The villain already has the hero’s friend in his lab.
(2) He controls her boss at her news agency.
(3) Whatever she posts online, he has a room full of trolls commenting on them.
To sum it up, he can hold her friend hostage, he can prevent her from getting her message out.
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- C. What advantage does the
Villain have and how can they exploit that in this movie?(1) The villain has power and money and doesn’t care about anybody. Nobody can hold his loved ones hostage because he doesn’t have any.
(2) He is not held back by morality, decency, or any inclination to make sacrifices in order to put the welfare of humanity above his own.
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- D. What would be a “fitting end”
for this Villain where they pay for what they’ve done?The villain discovers everything he does has the opposite of his intended result and he is powerless.
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I had the same problem posting twice.
Keep in touch.
Dave, Pgh.
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