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Lesson 7 Assignments
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VISION – To write touching, entertaining family stories that have a message to teach and entertain audiences at the same time.
What I learned doing this assignment is doing the below:
Protagonist, Tina: A single mother desperate to find love and a father figure to her two kids dates the wrong men. She sings in her church choir and moves everyone with her captivating songs, but her lifestyle goes against the lyrics of the songs. She has a painful past to overcome and become a stronger person in the process.
Character subtext: Looks for love and validation from others except herself
Character Intrigue: Secret – Abused by a husband of her mother in her youth
Flaw: Desperate for love yet manipulates men by getting what she wants from them
Values: She values church and has a love for her children
Character dilemma: Writes powerful lyrics in choir songs, but doesn’t apply the message of her lyrics to her own life
Antagonist, Barry: He’s a sociopath on a mission to date women with kids so he can prey upon their daughters. He’s a charming man who loves kids and can relate to them. His arc is to stop living a lie and get help for his mental illness.
Character subtext: Kid-friendly man who is also a pedophile
Character Intrigue: Secret – Child abuser
Flaw: Gains the trust of children so they can idolize him and give in to his advances
Values: Church, family, romantic relationships
Character Dilemma: He loves children but he’s an abuser
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Paul’s Character Profile: Part 2.
4. Vision of success from this program: I want to write scripts that become movies that change people’s lives.
5. What I learned from this assignment is that this process provokes new ideas about my characters and new twists to my story. It is very stimulating.
2. Protagonist.
A. The High Concept: A Mexican woman launches a war, against the drugs war, and threatens job security in the DEA.
B. This character’s journey: From a hard-working, single mum whose only concern is to escape poverty to a high-profile campaigner to end the most expensive war now being fought – the drugs war.
C. The Actor Attractors for this character:
1. Cause an actor to be known for the role? She’s a woman from a humble background who becomes a threat to big government and to the drug war.
3. A. Lilia.
1. Role in the story: Protagonist.
2. Age range and description: Early 40s. Good looking.
3. Core traits: Anxious; determined; a fighter.
4. Motivation: Want/Need: Avenge the death of her daughter.
5. Wound: Rejection by her lover, the DEA agent.
6. Likability: She devotes herself to her daughter; she’s a hard-worker and doesn’t give up; she is fighting against the odds, with determination and grit.
Relatability: She is a type of Joan of Arc, fighting powerful forces and we know many people like her who have been hurt by people in power and try to fight back.
Empathy: We feel for her struggling to escape poverty; we feel for her loss at the death of her only child; we want her to get revenge for the killing of her daughter; we see her fighting against evil powers, and we support her struggle.
7. Character sub-text: Hiding something: her daughter’s father is the DEA agent who became a US senator and whom she now threatens to kill.
8. Character Intrigue:
Unspoken wound: being dumped by the DEA agent.
Conspiracy: she was a hooker who worked for the Cartel to trap DEA agents.
9. Flaw: She can become soft-hearted when she needs to be tough.
10. Values: family & justice.
11. Character dilemma: because of her poverty, she sometimes has to do things for money that go against her values.
3. B. Luis Sandoval.
1. Role in the story: Antagonist. US Senator.
2. Age range and description: Mid-50s.
3. Core traits: Arrogant; the end justifies the means
4. Motivation: Want/Need: Move up in the world of US politics.
5. Wound: Inferiority complex; legacy of his poor origins in Mexico.
6. Likability: We gradually discover he was forced to leave Lilia, but still has feelings for her; he is ready to change his opinions about the drug war as he encounters the reality of it; at the end, he is ready to sacrifice power and money for the truth.
Relatability: We all know people who had to make hard choices in life; he lied to protect his son.
Empathy: We feel for him as he goes through the painful discovery of the harm the drug war is causing.
7. Character sub-text:
Hiding something: he knows the DEA is corrupt and that the drugs war is a fraud.
8. Character intrigue:
Secret: still loves the Mexican woman (Lilia) he was forced to leave behind.
9. Flaw: Conformist; accepts unquestioningly the prevailing “narrative”. (Makes him the opposite of the Protagonist, Lilia).
10. Values:
Family (exactly like the Protagonist, Lilia).
Duty to the DEA.
11. Internal Dilemma: Suffers a cultural confusion. Feels Mexican in the US and a gringo in Mexico.
3.C. Triangle Character – Tino Hernandez.
1. Role in the story: Protagonist’s father.
2. Age range and description: Late 60s. Aged but still strong.
3. Core traits: Devoted to Lilia, his daughter.
4. Motivation: Want/Need: Defend his family from all enemies, however powerful.
5. Wound: Lost several friends in the drug war.
6. Likability: He is a loving father.
Relatability: He wants to protect the people he loves.
Empathy: He emerges from retirement to provide decisive support to his daughter’s struggle for justice.
7. Character sub-text:
Intense hatred for gringos (because he was imprisoned in USA).
8. Character intrigue: now peacefully retired, but he was once a skilled killer for the cartel.
9. Flaw:
His instinctive hatred for authority of any kind, leads him to act before thinking.
10. Values:
Family (shared with Protagonist & Antagonist).
Freedom.
11. Internal Dilemma:
Powerless (until now) to implement his ideas.
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KZ’s Character Profiles, Part 2
Vision: To write quotable, memorable screenplays (like the ones I love) and see them made into successful movies.
What I learned doing this assignment: To plug in answers without waiting for them to be absolutely right, and revising them as you go along.
WENDY
A. The high concept:
Rival cutthroat negotiators ace meditation and get stuck in NirvanaB. Wendy’s Journey
From cutthroat negotiator to one who looks for the Win-Win solutionC. Actor Attractors
- Wendy has a compelling arc. Her range-of-change allows her to learn how to be a strong person without being brutal.
- She’s not aware of her failings – to the extent that she treats every interaction as though it were a high-stakes negotiation and drives people away.
1. Role in story: Protagonist
2. Age range and description: Early 30s, attractive with sharp edges: blunt haircut, conservative dress suits.
3. Core traits: Imperious, manipulative, lonely, humorous
4. Motivation: To win. Want/Need: To love and be loved.
5. Wound: Her college boyfriend slept with her roommate, and she vowed never to trust anyone again.
6: Likability: Wendy negotiates on behalf of a kid who’s being mistreated
Relatability: She’s succeeding in a world of men, but she still gets dissed (a competitor asks her to get the coffee, which he knows will get under her skin)
Empathy: Wendy is alone and tends to scare off men because of her superior intellect and ability to win every argument. We see her express loneliness, and then her therapist says something judgmental and she pins him down in an argument, proving exactly why she has trouble with men.7. Character Subtext: Hiding something:
Wendy hides that she comes from a poor family and affects being from the aristocracy8. Character Intrigue: Hidden agenda:
Wendy collects facts on others to be used against them in negotiations9. Flaw: Overdoing things
She can’t ever stop negotiating, which drives people away, since they lose interest when they can’t ever win.10: Values: Winning
She puts winning ahead of everything11. Character Dilemma: Winning versus being loved
She wants both thingsDARWIN
A. The high concept: Rival cutthroat negotiators ace meditation and get stuck in Nirvana
B. Darwin’s Journey
From cutthroat negotiator to one who looks for the Win-Win solutionC. Actor Attractors
- Darwin has a compelling subtext. He seems to be nice, but he uses flattery to gain an advantage in negotiation.
- His mother gets the better of him
1. Role in story: Antagonist / love interest
2. Age range and description: Early 30s, he looks like an Indian prince
3. Core traits: Smooth, manipulative, lonely, insecure
4. Motivation: To win. Want/Need: To love and be loved.
5. Wound: His older brother was always the perfect one in his mother’s eyes
6: Likability: Darwin is a good looking guy, who’s constantly being hit on by others
Relatability: Darwin has trouble with his mother, who wants to control his life
Empathy: He compliments Wendy and she steps on him (we realize later that he uses flattery to get what he wants)
7. Character Subtext: Luring/Seducing
He knows he’s attractive and he uses that8. Character Intrigue: Unspoken wound
His mother’s overbearing personality has made him insecure9. Flaw: Undervalues himself
Even as he uses his talents, he has low self-esteem10: Values: Winning
He has been taught that if he doesn’t win, he’s nothing11. Character Dilemma:
Wanting external admiration versus loving yourselfMYRA
A. The high concept: Rival cutthroat negotiators ace meditation and get stuck in Nirvana
B. Myra’s Journey
From superficially serene yogi to true serenity
C. Actor Attractors- Myra’s subtext is that she thinks herself enlightened, but can’t see her blind spots
- Everything that Myra does is positively motivated
1. Role in story: Triangle character
2. Age range and description: 40s, frumpy, serene, big bosom, wears muumuus.
3. Core traits: Nurturing, kind, impatient, smiles constantly
4. Motivation: To gain enlightenment. Want/Need: To share her insights.
5. Wound: She had an anger problem and turned to meditation to gain control
6: Likability: Myra genuinely cares about others
Relatability: She tries to find serenity in a world that is definitely not serene
Empathy: Myra lives alone with her cat and her good intentions are often rejected.7. Character Subtext:
She suppresses natural human emotions, such as anger8. Character Intrigue: Competition
She wants to make it to Nirvana, all the while fooling herself that she wants nothing9. Flaw: Can’t look at her fears. She just wants to tune them out and live in nothingness
10: Values: Love
11. Character Dilemma: Achievement vs. enlightenment
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Brandyn Cross’ Character Profiles Part 2
My vision for success in this program is to develop and hone my skills to the extent that my screenplays will be produced and widely viewed.
What I learned from this assignment is a means of getting to know the motivations of my principal characters a little more deeply.
Alex
High Concept: Alex is a struggling children’s book author who develops the ability to communicate with dead children following a disabling accident.
The Character’s Journey: On the surface, we experience the character’s transformation from self-absorbed to selfless. Additionally, his ability to communicate with ghosts is very unique. Below the surface, neither the character nor the viewer is aware that he, in fact, died in the accident, and his transformation is a necessary evolution to prepare him for entrance to heaven.
The Actor Attractors for the Character: He is a struggling writer who has let the frustration over his flailing career overtake every other aspect of his life. After a disabling accident, he develops psychic abilities that allow him to connect the ghosts of dead children with their surviving families. Over time, he becomes selfless as he engages himself if service to these family, rather than being obsessed with his own problems.
Role in the Story: Protagonist. A children’s book author whose career has stagnated. He is obsesses with reviving his career and is entirely self-centric.
Age Range and Description: 40s. He has suffered a debilitating accident, leaving him disabled and bitter.
Core Traits: Bitter. Career-obsessed. Doesn’t recall specific details of his life prior to his accident.
Motivation: Want/Need: Want: To revive his career. Need: To come to terms with the traumas in his life.
Wound: His son died, which his mind has blocked.
Likeability / Relatability / Empathy:
Likability: Alex isn’t an antagonist in the sense of hurting others. Rather, he has a self-loathing that keeps him from helping himself, or accepting help from others such as Sandy. We can see he is a good person at heart, but is simply struggling against his own failings. Against his desire to distance himself from others, we can see that he really wants to help the ghost children.
Relatability: He is dedicated to his dream, and his work, which gets in the way of his other relationships, such as with his family. Slowly, he reassesses his priorities, and rediscovers the importance of family.
Empathy: He begins to bond with Sandy, which brings him out of his shell, and eases him into a more selfless perspective, where he starts putting the welfare of the ghost children and their families over his own insecurities and ambitions.
Character Subtext: Obsessed with reviving his career despite knowing there are significant personal relationships lacking in his life.
Character Intrigue: He doesn’t remember anything about his personal life; he’s consumed with his work. Yet, the scars from his personal life eat at him, even though he doesn’t recognize what’s at the heart of the problem.
Flaw: His refusal to acknowledge the deep personal wounds that are the heart of his issues. He attempts to compensate for that loss by his obsession with work.
Values: Duty to his career, which has replaced his sense of duty to his family.
Character Internal Dilemma: Obsession with his career and self, despite wanting to help others.
Sandy
High Concept: Sandy is the ghost of a young dead boy, who helps connect Alex to the ghosts of other dead children.
The Character’s Journey: He feels a resentment toward Alex for both his own death, and for Alex having committed suicide. Yet, until he is assigned to prepare Alex for entry into heaven, he hadn’t fully realized that. So, it’s no accident that God assigned Sandy to work with Alex, because it’s also intended to help Sandy come to terms with his feelings toward his father.
The Actor Attractors for the Character: He is a ghost. Additionally, he is a child character who is something of a mentor to an adult, giving him a position of authority over the adult.
Role in the Story: Triangle. He is a child ghost who is assigned with preparing Alex to enter heaven. To do so, he must orchestrate Alex’s transformation from self-centered to selfless, but can’t reveal to Alex any of the truths Sandy knows about him. Rather, Alex must come to these realizations himself.
Age Range and Description: 10. A child ghost. Naturally angelic, with a nature that would melt anyone’s heart.
Core Traits: Kind. Selfless. Resentful of Alex’s failure to recognize him.
Motivation: Want/Need: To prepare Alex to enter heaven. Need: For Alex to recognize him and love him as a father to a son.
Wound: Feels rejected by his father because of his inability to remember him.
Likeability / Relatability / Empathy:
Likability: He has a sense of duty. Even though Alex doesn’t yet know who Sandy is, Sandy is devoted to him, because he knows Alex is actually his father.
Relatability: He is trying to help his dad. He is trying to bring his family together.
Empathy: He genuinely wants to help the other ghost children. You can see his love for his dad, and how crushed he is when Alex rejects his attempts to help him.
Character Subtext: Desperately craves the love of his father but is forbidden to reveal their relationship.
Character Intrigue: He feels a resentment toward Alex for both his own death, and for Alex having committed suicide. Yet, until he is assigned to prepare Alex for entry into heaven, he hadn’t fully realized that. So, it’s no accident that God assigned Sandy to work with Alex, because it’s also intended to help Sandy come to terms with his feelings toward his father.
Flaw: His resentment toward his father, blaming him for his own death. At the same time, he desperately craves his father’s love, which threatens to interfere with his assignment.
Values: Devotion to family, leading him to help his father despite the personal pain it causes him.
Character Internal Dilemma: Wanting to help his father vs. wanting his father to know who he really is.
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Madeleine’s Character Profiles Part 2
Vision: I am going to do whatever it takes for me to be a writer of amazing stories with meaning who can move the audience and change the world resulting in financial, critical and audience success.
What I learned from doing this assignment is: What I learned, when answering all the questions, the characters take more shape. But it is continuing process, and not over yet.
1. Alex
High Concept: A professor for growth economics wants to become the new dean but starts to suffer from menopausal syndromes.
This character’s journey: From a dogmatic growth economist and tyrannical father to an open-minded member of society with new priorities.
Actor Attractors: A character with a very strong duality: when he faces andropause, which give him complete new insights and a palette of emotions. From being a dominator, he discovers a new, respectful new side. From dominating nature, he starts to live in it. He discovers the ecosystem, of which he is a part.
1. Role in the Story: Protagonist – A growth economy professor experiences the first signs of andropause and tries to defy them by taking on a new professional challenge which puts in jeopardy his family life. By the end he integrates the new life stage and lives a more fulfilling life.
2. Age range and Description: in his 50’s, sleek bulldozer alpha male, arrogant look, tinted glasses, thinks he looks best in a suit, only smiles with closed mouth and very short hair to hide the bolding.
3. Core Traits: Professor of growth economy: dominant, controlling, rational, and economical
4. Want: To become the new dean
Need: To embrace the circle of life
5. Wound: His father was born on the same day and died on his 50. Birthday party.
6. Likeability: Completely cracks when there is something small and vulnerable.
Relatability: He has to deal with obnoxious students who misbehave miserably and provoke him.
Empathy: He tries everything to get his old life back.
7. Character Subtext: hiding something / in denial
Alex is an aging growth economic professor / discovering that his character changes are due to menopausal symptoms and wants to deny them.
8. Character Intrigue: secrets / unspoken wounds
Alex experiences first symptoms of andropause and wants to cover them up / His father died on his 55 birthday and Alex is afraid of his own birthday which reminds him of his own death.
9. Flaw: impulsive and confrontational
10. Values: Career, achievement, money
11. Internal Dilemma: Believing into growth versus accepting the that there is an end.
Character Profiles Part 1
1. Role in the Story: Protagonist – A growth economy professor experiences the first signs of andropause and tries to defy them by taking on a new professional challenge which puts in jeopardy his family life. By the end he integrates the new life stage and lives a more fulfilling life.
2. Age range and Description: in his 50’s, sleek bulldozer alpha male, arrogant look, tinted glasses, thinks he looks best in a suit, only smiles with closed mouth and very short hair to hide the bolding.
3. Core Traits: Professor of growth economy: dominant, controlling, rational, and economical
4. Want: To become the new dean
Need: To embrace the circle of life
5. Wound: His father was born on the same day and died on his 50. Birthday party.
6. Likeability: Completely cracks when there is something small and vulnerable.
Relatability: He has to deal with obnoxious students who misbehave miserably and provoke him.
Empathy: He tries everything to get his old life back.
2. Corrie
High Concept: Corrie is Alex’s wife who wants to fulfill her professional dreams to overcome her midlife crisis.
This character’s journey: From a wife who wants to leave her married life to somebody who has to completely reinvent the roles in the family.
Actor Attractors: A frustrated wife who discovers a new family lifestyle (not there yet).
1. Role in the Story: Antagonist – the wife of Alex. She is going through a midlife crisis and would like to finally live her life after she spent most of her life taking her of her family. By the end, she finds a new way how to live her life and a new way with her relationship with Alex.
2. Age range and Description: in her 40s, always a bit over the top. Extravagant and loud, has to be elaborated.
3. Core Traits: manipulative, charming, optimistic, and fearless
4. Want: To leave her family behind to start a new life.
Need: to find a new way of how the family works.
5. Wound: She comes from a poor background and fears to experience poverty again, if Alex would not be around anymore to secure the income.
6. Likeability: She makes parties and takes care of her family.
Relatability: Unhappy with her actual life.
Empathy: She feels that she always has to cut back her personal interests because she has to take care of the family and her husband still peruse his career without caring about her professional interests.
7. Character Subtext: secretive, suspicious
Corrie is Alex’s wife / close to a midlife crisis and trying to avoid it with a new job and an affair.
8. Character Intrigue: secret / unspoken wounds
Corrie has an affair / she comes from a poor background and fears that if something happens to Alex, there will not be enough money.
9. Flaw: Putting up a façade, victimize herself
10. Values: Status, anxiety, success
11. Internal Dilemma: Extravagant to pretend versus experiencing an inner emptiness.
Character Profiles Part 1
1. Role in the Story: Antagonist – the wife of Alex. She is going through a midlife crisis and would like to finally live her life after she spent most of her life taking her of her family. By the end, she finds a new way how to live her life and a new way with her relationship with Alex.
2. Age range and Description: in her 40s, always a bit over the top. Extravagant and loud, has to be elaborated.
3. Core Traits: manipulative, charming, optimistic, and fearless
4. Want: To leave her family behind to start a new life.
Need: to find a new way of how the family works.
5. Wound: She comes from a poor background and fears to experience poverty again, if Alex would not be around anymore to secure the income.
6. Likeability: She makes parties and takes care of her family.
Relatability: Unhappy with her actual life.
Empathy: She feels that she always has to cut back her personal interests because she has to take care of the family and her husband still peruse his career without caring about her professional interests.
3. Eva
High Concept: Eve is their daughter is torn back and forth between her parents but basically wants a stress-free family life.
This character’s journey: She does not have a journey. She is the traveling angel character.
Actor Attractors: her metaphorical role as being the person who leads back the family to paradise via the apple seeds she is spitting out.
1. Role in the Story: Triangle – the teenager daughter of Alex and Corrie who tries to keep her parents together. Although, she is the youngest in the family, she is the only one who grasps the circle concept of life. Her role is to lead her family back to paradise (garden) and have them get in touch with the true life.
2. Age range and Description: Teenager, she is very smart for her age, but can also go quickly from extreme to another like be very intuitive and lovely to obnoxious. She loves to experiment with topics that are connected to the circle of life (menstruation blood). She has something angle-like, which is also her structural role as “traveling angel”.3. Core Traits: Teenager: creative, obnoxious, complex, and sensitive.
4. Want: She wants her parents to stay together.
Need: She does not have a need, because she is still a child and does not have a moral or psychological flaw, which has to be changed.
5. Wound: She is a bit like from another sphere but and like Cassandra suffers from the fact that her family does not get or understand her.
6. Likeability: She knows people well and offers them the perfect gift.
Relatability: She is caught between her parents and does not know which side to be on.
Empathy: She is terrified when she hears her parents fighting and fears that they divorce.
7. Character Subtext: secretive, conspiring
Eva is the daughter / she engages in clandestine actions to keep her parents from separating and unintentionally changes the family’s garden into paradise.
8. Character Intrigue: hidden agenda / unspoken wound
She meets Mirai to prevent Alex from becoming the dean / She fears that her parents are going to get divorced.
9. Flaw: rebellious and stubbern
10. Values: Family, love, nature
11. Internal Dilemma: Being a child versus feeling like an adult.
Character Profiles Part 1
1. Role in the Story: Triangle – the teenager daughter of Alex and Corrie who tries to keep her parents together. Although, she is the youngest in the family, she is the only one who grasps the circle concept of life. Her role is to lead her family back to paradise (garden) and have them get in touch with the true life.
2. Age range and Description: Teenager, she is very smart for her age, but can also go quickly from extreme to another like be very intuitive and lovely to obnoxious. She loves to experiment with topics that are connected to the circle of life (menstruation blood). She has something angle-like, which is also her structural role as “traveling angel”.3. Core Traits: Teenager: creative, obnoxious, complex, and sensitive.
4. Want: She wants her parents to stay together.
Need: She does not have a need, because she is still a child and does not have a moral or psychological flaw, which has to be changed.
5. Wound: She is a bit like from another sphere but and like Cassandra suffers from the fact that her family does not get or understand her.
6. Likeability: She knows people well and offers them the perfect gift.
Relatability: She is caught between her parents and does not know which side to be on.
Empathy: She is terrified when she hears her parents fighting and fears that they divorce.
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Raquel’s Character Profiles, Part 2
Vision: I want to go deeper into my writing to create screenplays where characters of depth are placed in compelling journeys with a fresh voice that Hollywood producers as well as independent film companies know they must make!
What I learned from doing this assignment is that character subtext, intrigue, flaw, values, internal dilemna add more layers and depth to the actor attractors, and assignment 6’s traits, want/need, wound etc to create characters fully dimensional that grab the audiences interest and desire to see their journey unfold.
A. High Concept: A young Jewish violinist in the Warsaw Ghetto entertains Nazi Officers outside the ghetto in order to become a smuggler of food and weapons.
B. The character’s journey- before the war, self-centered musician, has brief affairs with men, no attachments with music career above family/friends in the ghetto uses music to help others and ultimately cares deeply, falls in love, uses music as a way to aid in the uprising.
C. The Actor Attractors for Miri:
PROTAGONIST : Miri Fried from MUSICIAN to EDUCATOR to SMUGGLER to FIGHTER
1. What about this role would cause an actor to want to be known for it?
Miri goes through a broad range of challenges and changes to her place in the world. Before the war she is a free-spirited and self-centered blues violinist without time for family and serious relationships. In the Warsaw Ghetto she is tasked with teaching music to children. Although kind to them she at first keeps her distance. She allows a young student, Jacob into her heart which changes everything. She joins the ghetto orchestra as a way of obtaining extra food to bring to her children. She agrees to become a nazi officer’s mistress to save Jacob from deportation to a death camp. She puts the safety of others as her main task in life. She has her first real love relationship with Avi. She grows to become a smuggler and a fighter.
2. What makes this character one of the most interesting characters in your story?
She is young and extremely talented. She overcomes her fears in order to help others. even though she is blackmailed into being a Nazi’s mistress she still falls in love for the first time. She uses her music, playing outside the ghetto for nazi officers as a way to become a smuggler of guns. She learns to shoot a gun and becomes a fighter.
3. What are the most interesting actions the lead could take in the script?
As stated in Q. 2 she falls in love, she saves a young boy, she jeopardizes her life as a smuggler and has to become a killer.
4. How can you introduce this role in a way that could sell it to an actor?
The role of Miri has to go through many emotions. Fear and sorrow in seeing people killed. Engaging with children and getting close to them. Having to become an enemy’s mistress but still able to fall in love. Overcoming fear and choosing to join in the fight in the Warsaw Ghetto. Willing to die and willing to kill.
5. What could be this character’s emotional range? Sorrowful, fearful, hateful, falling in love, overcoming fear, becoming a warier.
6. What subtext can the actor play?
Being strong for her young music students while fearing for their safety and not wanting to frighten them. Being flirtatious with the nazi officers in their club where she is a performer while gathering up and hiding weapons. Acting the role of a mistress, sharing wine and talk but doing everything to ultimately undermine him.
7. What’s the most interesting relationships the character can have?
Her first real love with an innocent man from a religious background a bit younger than her. Her love that develops for a young boy that she will do everything to save. Her friendships with fellow women smugglers and partisan soldiers. Her relationship with the Nazi officer she must have sex with.
8. How will this character’s unique voice be presented?
She is unique as a talented violinist from the first scene. Her self-centered independence must change in the ghetto and her attachments are above everything else as her music once was.
9. What could make this character special and unique?
She is a talented musician. She puts others safety above her own. She is willing to die to fight the nazis. She is a fictional character based on the many heroic young women who did smuggle and become fighters in the Warsaw Ghetto.
Assignment 6:
Protagonist: Miri
Age Range: early 20’s
Description: talented violinist blond hair/blue eyes, thin
Main Characteristics:
talented and loves playing music
arc of self-involved to caring deeply for others
arc before war of affairs but not getting too attached to falling deeply in love
develops fighting skills attains bravery
Motivation:
Want/Need
Want: to smuggle weapons and aid the uprising
Need: to love Avi and save Jacob
Likability- We meet Miri right before the war. She is talented and fun-loving.
Relatability- Finding herself in a world of brutality she becomes very caring to others, especially the children she is tasked with teaching music to.
Empathy- She falls in romantic love for the first time in the ghetto and we know this relationship will likely be doomed.
Lesson 7:
Character Subtext: hiding something-
Miri has to hide that she is Jewish when she is in the Aryan quarter of the ghetto to smuggle. She has to physically hide weapons. She has to hide her disdain for the Nazi officers she plays violin for. She has to hide her fears for the children she teaches music to in the early days of the ghetto. She has to hide that she is in love with Avi from Heinrich.
8. Character Intrigue:
Miri has to be deceptive often as all stated in the above subtext paragraph.
9. Flaw:
Miri is under great pressure to maintain her secrets. Her flaw is that she believes she can protect Jacob (8 year old violin student) and have her love affair with Avi unnoticed. She is found out by Heinrich.
10. Values: integrity/duty – She wants to help and ultimately be a member of the rebellion.
11 Internal Dilemna: Love vs Duty She is in love but needs to keep smuggling.
Lead Character: Avi- Miri’s lover
What would cause an actor to want this role?
Avi, 19 years old falls in love for the first time with Miri. He has a romantic role and also is well-versed in the mystical aspects of the Jewish religion which he imparts to Miri.
What makes avi one of the most interesting is before he was sent to the ghetto he led a very sheltered life in the Hasidic world. He knows very little about secular life but ironically as a prisoner in the ghetto this world opens up to him.
The most interesting actions are as a romantic young man in love, as a helper to the uprising and ultimately giving up his life to help Jacob escape the ghetto.
I could introduce this role as the romantic lead in the story and whose life comes to a heroic end.
Avi’s emotional range is one of fear, loss, falling in love with exuberance, bravely fighting, giving up his life for a young boy.
His subtext is seeing the world through a mystical point of view and continuing his faith in God.
The most interesting relationships are with Jacob the young boy he protects and Miri who he falls in love with.
His unique voice is with religious sayings and beliefs and his wanting knowledge about the secular world.
He is special for sacrificing himself for Jacob. He is unique with a mystical point of view.
Lesson 6: Avi
Age Range late teens/early twenties
Description tall/thin wears glasses/ changes from hasidic appearance to short hair/no beard
Core Traits
loves music- sings hasidic melodies
is immersed in Jewish/Kabbalistic philosophy
is caring and able to fall in love
believes in justice taking over evil
Motivation: Want/Need
Wants to help the uprising and maintain his religious beliefs
Need: Falls in love with Miri
Wound: His whole “world” and “people” (hasidic community is destroyed)
Likeability: kind, thoughtful, encouraging
Relatability: is willing to fight evil
Empathy: in love
Lesson 7:
7. Character Subtext:
hiding something:
Avi is communicating with his now dead spiritual leader (rabbi) who is encouraging him (in film in his mind -hallucination) or is it?
8. Intrigue:
Avi also is aiding in smuggling and aiding Jacob’s escape
9. Flaw:
Avi cannot give up Miri even when believes this may harm Jacob
10. Values:
Avi maintains his belief in a just God.
11. Internal Dilemna
Love vs Duty Avi’s love for Miri vs. protect Jacob
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Mhmd’s Character Profiles Part 2
My Vision: I will keep creating constantly and effectively; in order to be the most demanded and influential glorified writer within the industry and with the audience.
What I learned from doing this assignment is..
– Filling the blanks of Character Profiles generats alot of new actions inside the story.
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Character Name: 84
Role: Protagonist
High Concept: Shocking revolutionary actions escalate inside a labor colony of conjoined twins cut out of the will, underhandedly driven – with sudden and unexpected patterns- by a conjoined twin who has an impossible mutation.
This character’s journey: From loneliness outcast worker lurks within the colony, to a leader of the impregnable revolution within the colony.
The Actor Attractors for this character:
– The most intelligent and resourceful character, who has a massive transformational journey and advancement in a very dangerous world, becomes the unparalleled leader of a revolution.
– Every action, reaction, and decision includes an open possibility of alternative odds ready for processing and applicating.
– Unique body language. He has a constant sense of responsibility. Although he is the most dangerous character, he thinks of others.
Character Subtext: A working conjoined twin hiding his gift of perfect will and the secret about security gap.
Character Intrigue: Secrets; He hides his special mutation from the guards in order to survive inside the colony. He also keeps the secret of the gap that leads outside the sealed colony
Flaw: Undervalues himself although he is the most dangerous character in a very dangerous world.
Values: Honesty. Being your best.
Character Dilemma: He does not trust anyone, while he wants to gather followers.
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Character Name: 3
Role: Antagonist
High Concept: Shocking revolutionary actions escalate inside a labor colony of conjoined twins cut out of the will, underhandedly driven – with sudden and unexpected patterns- by a conjoined twin who has an impossible mutation.
This character’s journey: From someone who has a massive plan that can contain everything, to someone who is himself part of 84’s scheme.
The Actor Attractors for this character:
– He is the first of his kind, the head of a fearsome criminal cult, with a scheme to take over the entire world; All this within a colony in which no one is supposed to have a will or a decision of any kind.
– Hiding and moving everything behind the scenes.
Character Subtext: He is the head of a secret cult within the colony, with a grand and ambitious plan for world domination.
Character Intrigue: Hidden agendas; He has a secret plan to escape with his criminal cult from the colony, and colonize the world.
Flaw: Over-confidence in his schemes.
Values: Winning. Being your best.
Character Dilemma: Sacrificing 84’s lives while he desperately needed him in the larger scheme.
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Character Name: Spider
Role: Triangle character
High Concept: Shocking revolutionary actions escalate inside a labor colony of conjoined twins cut out of the will, underhandedly driven – with sudden and unexpected patterns- by a conjoined twin who has an impossible mutation.
This character’s journey: From an undercover agent haunted by the pain of old failure, whose mission is to abort the revolution, to a person reconciled with his loss, and a supporter of the revolution to protect the world from a greater danger.
The Actor Attractors for this character:
– Shaun Archer from Face Off, multiplied by 10.
– His high skills in adaptation and functioning despite his new physical condition, and his constant willingness to do anything for the sake of his mission.
Character Subtext: He is a secret agent who is transplanted into a colony.
Character Intrigue: Secret Identity; Secret Agent of the World Order.
Flaw: Can’t look at his fears about failure.
Values: Duty, Loyalty.
Character Dilemma: Putting down the revolution versus saving the world.
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