Lesson 5

[Andre]

Andre’s Villain Has a Great Plan!

1. What is the end goal?
• Divide and conquer.
• Perpetual warfare.

2. How can the Villain accomplish that in a devious way?
• Always have an enemy, even within the ranks.
• When there is no enemy, create one.
• Trust not their smiles, for they deviously display their fangs.

3. How can they cover it up?
• False medical diagnosis.
• Lawfare, accuse innocence of crime(s) they did not commit.
• False flag attacks.
• Sell whiteness as purity. Demonize all others, especially colored (black, brown, red), find favoritism towards (white, blue, blond(e)).
• Replace their God, with your own likeness.
• Create false/fake maps.
• Distort the history for future generations.

4. Sequence it to make it as intriguing as possible.
• 1782 -the “founding fathers”. Create the false narrative. Planting the American flag on Native American territory.
• Label them Indians, because you ignorantly believe you are in India.
• Separate the natives.
• Share plagues of disease that decimates their heritage and culture,
• Kill the strongest,
• Enslave the remaining,
• Create a society of us against them,
• Promote false religion,
• Create a false financial system,
• Apply xenophobic thoughts onto another ethnicity whereby demonizing and belittling them.
• Wash, Rinse, Repeat.

5. What I learned is…
• The Villain’s plan drives much of the story, even when the audience doesn’t know what it is. I start with the Villain’s plan because it is often what the story is built around.
• Intrigue is primary need for the villain’s plan.
o Intrigue comes from the villain’s plan and the covertness in which it is carried out. There is something going on behind the scenes that is underhanded, dangerous, and is closing in on us.
o My villain plan must create intrigue. So it must be underhanded, sneaky, dishonest, covert, clandestine, etc. In a BIG WAY!

• Criteria for Villain’s plan:
o Worry not about having a perfect plan on my first try. With each step of this class, I will discover more and more about the Villain’s plan.

o Key points of the plan
 Goal: The plan accomplishes some goal that is incredibly valuable to the Villain-worth killing for.
 Intrigue: The plan is hidden, dangerous, underhanded, sneaky, dishonest, etc.
 Covers Secrets: The plan covers one or more secrets that the Villain has.
 And of course, the plan destroys the Hero’s life-either intentionally or just because the Hero got in the way. But this is often a by product, rather than the primary purpose.
 In my story, the Hero got in the way, which becomes a by product.

• How to Create the Villain’s plan.
o The easiest way is to start at the end and then brainstorm the other parts of the plan.
 Create the end goal of the Villain. What are they trying to accomplish or stop that is so valuable that they will go to any means to achieve the goal?
 Look for how the Villain might execute the plan. What would need to take place to make the plan happen in a covert way? Brainstorm devious, dangerous, covert, and even disturbing ways my Villain could make all of this happen.

 How can the villain’s plan and their actions be covered up?
 Sequence them to make it as intriguing as possible – starting with a first even that is dangerous.

o Reverse engineer it
 Essentially, we are reverse engineering the villain’s plan.

o Special Note: What is backstory and what is story?
 I do not want to start my screenplay with the backstory if the villain. I want to start it with the hero bumping into the villain’s plan.
 For the villain’s plan, we want to force the Hero to discover it…which means it is hidden at the beginning of the movie.

End Andre’s Villain Has a Great Plan!

[David Harper]

David's Villain has a Great Plan!

What I learned doing this exercise: As the writer starts building the mystery, intrigue, and suspense elements, the screenplay starts to kind of write itself. I can already visualize some of the scenes and their sequence in the film .

The Villain’s Plan

Alex Cogan’s plan is to get Dante Lewington, AKA Andrew Durant, back to Baltimore. Baltimore is home base for Cogan, and he can do whatever he wants there. The police, the DA, everybody is in his pocket in Baltimore. Outside of Baltimore he’s weaker, and there are rival mobs he would have to contend with as well as the law. So he has to get Andrew back to Baltimore.

Goal: To kill Andrew, taking revenge for his betrayal and to get back his credibility within the organization.

Intrigue: Having the authorities in his pocket, having henchmen who can do his dirty work, having at least one informant in the FBI, faking situations to get Andrew back to Baltimore, etc.

Covers Secrets: He’s in hot water with his superiors in the organization. Everything filters up to New York, and his Baltimore operation is one level below that. He had lied to the New York bosses and told them that Andrew had been “Taken care of,” But when Andrew returned to the scene his superiors gave him an ultimatum. Either you take care of this now, or we will. Then we’ll take care of you.

The Strategy

1. Send a couple of henchmen to snatch and grab him.
2. Have fake FBI agents come to take him to a new safe house, but it’s a setup.
3. Call him and ask him to come to Baltimore, with vague undertones of threat.
4. Stage an event in Baltimore that makes Andrew want to return on his own. (Like his mother dies, and Andrew wants to go to the funeral.)
5. Kidnap someone Andrew cares about and use that as leverage to lure him there.

• This reply was modified 10 months, 3 weeks ago by  David Harper.

[Nadira Pankey]

What I learned is how to create the villain’s plan by using Mystery, Intrigue, and Suspense. Creating an end goal, and the steps the villain will take to accomplish their goal.

1. To live happily ever after with the woman he loves.
2. Frame his neighbor for the murder and pretend to be someone else.
3. Pretend his woman is missing, frame his neighbors, hold the investigator hostage.

• This reply was modified 10 months, 2 weeks ago by  Nadira Pankey.

[Matteo Ribaudo]

Day 5
Villain’s Plan
It was helpful to come from the villain’s point of you and have the hero navigate the villain’s journey. Also reverse engineering in the beginning helped lay out a good sequence of events.

Magdalen the villain’s plan

What is the end goal? Magdalena wants to drain her victims dry of blood to feed her vampire daughter.

How can the Villain accomplish that in a devious way? She takes them on a tour into the jungle and leads them to her cave to drain their blood.

How can they cover it up? She covers her tracks by leaving her victims lost in a cave where they shouldn’t go and they authorities find them ravaged by the bats that inhabit the cave.

Sequence it to make it as intriguing as possible.

Magdalena takes two men into the jungle after their tour has been cancelled due to weather.
She leads them deep into the jungle and they now rely on her to get out of the jungle.
Halfway through the journey the group spend the night. Magdalena gains their confidence when she kills a snake that crawls on our hero’s sports agent.
At the waterfall our hero gets his ankle caught jumping into the water. She dives in and releases his ankle and rescues him.

She leads them into the forbidden cave and warns them its dangerous without a guide, many people die in the cave.

In the cave she separates them by getting them lost.

Deep in the cave system is our villain’s den where her daughter lives. Magdalena knocks out her victims and attaches a transfusion device to refill her blood storage for her daughter to feed.

Twist Ending: A hero escapes Magdalena, but her daughter’s thirst for blood is too much to control her hunger and she dispatches our hero when he’s about to escape the cave. She turns him into a vampire and he is now forced to get victims for himself in the resolution.

[Matteo Ribaudo]

Chunky paragraph problem. Not really sure how to keep the formatting and margins.

[Andre]

To keep your formatting and margins, press the Reload Current Page (CTRL + R) after pressing Post.
1. POST
2. RELOAD CURRENT PAGE (CTRL + R).

Hope this helps.

[Chris Wood]

Chris Wood’s Villan Has a Great Plan!

What I learned doing this assignment was a completely new take and new levels and directions for my story, all revealed to me when I finally got in the head of my villain and built the core of the framework around their plan! This assignment took me a while, but it was worth it!

What is the end goal?
Dominion over psychic energy on Earth

How can the Villain accomplish that in a devious way?
By tricking the academic and military intelligence communities that he is a good guy, just a maverick researcher, but one who could be a valuable resource and ally.
By secretly restarting the Parallax Program originally exploring eugenics as a way to breed humans with higher psionic energies.
By using his persuasiveness to build a small but loyal agency of well placed operatives, including Dr. Marquis Allen. Assorted evil nurses and loner geniuses. He looks for the same prey as Eliajah Kahn.
By tracking down all of the Rainbow Children and excising them to the Western US, where they can be more closely monitored, studied, and evaluated for re-congition into Project Parallax.

How can they cover it up?
By taking advantage of the veiled politics and bureaucratic secrecy of the military and academia societies to keep research a secret, or to work in secret.
By using his position as a recognized expert in the paranormal to influence the motions and motivations of nonexperts.
By using ESP.
By using untested, rudimentary, and physically and psychologically traumatic psionic weapons in both a lab and clandestine public way [aural weaponry] to silence his enemies, or those on his trail.
By killing Marquis Allen and anyone else who dare oppose his diabolical plan.

Sequence it to make it as intriguing as possible.

When he takes unreasonable risks that lead to drastic consequences during a secret Korean War eugenics program, psychiatrist Dr. Richard Forsythe is shipped back to the United States, where the government believes it has successfully wiped his memory clean of the events of Project Parallax. But Forsythe hasn’t forgotten anything.
Bent on getting back into a lab and completing the experiments that could turn psychic energy into a physical weapon, Forsythe rapidly charms his way up the academic ladder as a maverick researcher with a volatile personality. And his undergrad students love him.
He’s been slowly building a small but loyal agency of secret operatives to locate and excise the last remaining Rainbow Children from the lab in Korea to the Western U.S., where they can be more easily monitored and evaluated for re-cognition into the Parallax Project.
When the radical framework of his experiment is leaked to Duke University administrators, he bargains for a cover-up demotion to Remington University, where Dr. Marquis Allen has already positively IDd a rainbow child, the college co-ed Samantha Hamilton.
Forsythe manipulates his way to the Remington College campus and faculty and seduces Samantha.
He allows her to ultimately flee with David, because getting her out to Rapture, California couldn’t come soon enough.
Forsythe exploits the intelligence community to help locate and threaten Samantha.
When Allen threatens to reveal the wider plan, Forsythe kills him with a psyonic ray [or does he?].
Elijah Kahn, Boom Boom, and Samantha team up to take down Forsythe, Elijah Kahn makes the ultimate sacrifice and a pregnant Samantha gives birth to the Rainbow Child.