Lesson 6

[Anna Maganini]

MODULE 8 – LESSON 6 – MONOLOGUES

MY VISION – To write cutting edge, unique, human, soul-inspiring, Oscar-winning scripts that have commercial success and producers line up to buy to make into multi-million dollar movies. Which makes me a Force in the Hollywood Entertainment industry -as a writer, actor, producer, and director.

What have I learned doing this assignment – I found it inspiring to read this lesson and see the sample monologues, especially Devil Wears Prada. I was all gung ho to write the best monologues I’ve ever written. But I’m not sure it worked out that way. It sure was fun trying. But I think I made the monologues too long and on the nose and I think my kind of thriller script calls less for monologues and more for quick, outwitting-the-enemy banter. I may change the monologues back to the originals, or work on them some more. But it’s all part of the learning process.

I changed two major monologues for the protagonist, one in 1st Act and one in 4th Act.

ORIGINAL MONOLOGUE #1 –

It was an accident…no one could be that cruel to do it as a game. Just for thrills. Most people are good.

REWORKED MONOLOGUE #1 –

LIBRA

Love your sense of fun, dear, lovable, scorched-earth Maisie! But what kind of lens are you looking through? Always jumping to what’s worst in us? Why not see what’s best in us? Pigs, headless fish, it was a mess! But he saved us!

MAISIE

HE SHOT AT YOU!

LIBRA

…You think I don’t doubt? Every day! Including the moment he shot at me. And every day I go on believing in people in spite of it. I decide to keep believing. I decide it was an accident. I decide there was that good part in him that saved us. And I decide that shooting people as a game would too cruel. Otherwise we’d all quit believing in each other. BELIEVE, baby, believe!

MONOLOGUE #2 –

ORIGINAL MONOLOGUE #2 –

It can predict what you’ll do. I programmed it with information on you! Remember my little game, all the questions? The AI was gobbling up your answers. It knows you inside out, it can read your mind before you know what you’ll do. I created a voice-activated avatar icon for you. Graham…speak!

REWORKED MONOLOGUE #2 –

You awakened a demon in me, Furry! And that’s your biggest loss. Without it you might have won! But you kept pushing the demon, and the demon kept pushing me to beat you at every frightening step, to program the AI as savagely as you programmed your games on me. Remember my ‘stupid’ game? All the questions I asked? The AI was gobbling up your answers that I fiendishly fed it. It knows you inside out, reads your mind before you even know what you’ll do, predicts how you’ll act. The demon and me did that! Oh, and I created a cute voice-activated avatar icon for you. Graham…speak!

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(((Like I said, I might change these back, or work on them some more, trim them down, make them less on the nose, maybe add some subtext pointers, coverups….)))