Lesson 8

[Andrea Gilbert]

LESSON 8: ANDREA’S PROFOUND ENDING

1. What I learned doing this assignment:

It started to become clear where the journey was heading – it had to build to an emotional crescendo. And that has to look chaotic – personal growth always does. It’s not pretty. And it usually starts because there’s emotional pain trying to break out. We “think” we understand – but the mind can’t comprehend a solution to a problem at the same level of consciousness the problem was created.

Triggers expose raw feelings of guilt, shame, fear & grief. Feelings are myth busters and they’re very, very real. Hurt feelings, if allowed to be felt, will always lead to the basis of a limiting belief sitting obscured deep within our subconscious mind and clear a path to self-awareness. -> the authentic self.

I am certain there is more to this excavation – but I need to keep the story simple and streamlined, too. Allow the audience to have their own experience without telling them what to feel or believe.

2. What is the PROFOUND TRUTH…?

We create our own reality based on what we believe, and feel is true consciously, and unconsciously.

… and how will it be delivered powerfully in your ending?

(There will likely be more to the following…but here’s a taste…)

After Jill’s first hypnosis session, she comes out believing that Skyler (a missing character in her graphic novel who stars in her session) is the one who must change her attitude/ perspective in order to forgive and let go of what the character, Snow Blinder, did to lure her into this abusive world of hurt in order to avoid the catastrophe that she inevitably faces and make life easier for Jill. Jill goes into trance a second time to tell Skyler her point of view.

However, Skyler, who’s not interested in any more childish delusional bullshit, angrily shoots “truth bombs” about all the abuse and hurt she has had to endure at Jill with her titanium arm/weapon.

Ami – who was thought to be unconscious from the initial crash – comes out and surprises Jill. Then, after looking into Ami’s snow goggles and seeing Skyler there in the reflection, Jill realizes she IS Skyler and sees Skyler’s plight is her plight. Ami goes over to an irate Skyler and instantly Skyler calms down. Their connection from earlier scenes is remarkable.

Jill asks an important question to Skyler.

Jill: “Why are you so angry then? Why won’t you just let this go?”

Skyler blinks at Jill.

Skyler: “You have no idea, do you? I was there when it happened. I have been there since the beginning, when he was there sometimes to feed us breadcrumbs of affection, some gifts every once in a while…but mostly he was just not there.”

Jill: “Who…what are you talking about?”

Skyler: “Him!”

Skyler points at where Snow Blinder stood – but it’s NOT Snow Blinder anymore. It’s JILL’S FATHER – basically Snow Blinder without the heavy beard.

Skyler: “The question isn’t what happened, is it? It’s why it happened. Why did Dad leave….and never come back?

You asked yourself, over and over in your child’s mind – was it something I did? Was it my fault? Was I not good enough?

And I couldn’t bear the shame and guilt you put yourself though, so I blocked it. Well, most of it. Mostly it has become the distorted way you view the world. And I had sit-back and watch, and wait… At least until you were ready to see the truth.”

Triggered, Jill allows the tears to flow. She can’t believe how much it hurts.

Skyler: “And it’s really f’d up that I have had to carry this burden, because you never got around to asking the question. And even after you turned me into this angry character in your fictional story – I was trying to get your attention – to let you know.”

Jill: “What? What is it I need to know?”

Skyler: “That it’s not your fault.”

Jill really loses it now.

Jill: “So, what is it you want from me?”

Skyler: “I just want you to succeed….to be happy.”

Jill: “ok…”

Skyler rolls her eyes, exhales, and walks over to Jill – Ami joins them. Group hug.

Skyler: “I guess I’m worried now that I’m out of a job.

Jill: “Maybe not…. I have an idea”

Jill closes her eyes… .and when she opens them, she is the only one standing there.

3. How do your lead characters come to an end in a way that represents the completed change? See #2

4. What are the set up/pay offs that complete in the end of this movie, giving it deep meaning?

· Set up – Jill keeps her hurt and confused feelings about her absent father a secret, as no one in the family wants to discuss it. Showing this hurt behind closed doors when her half-brother Conner demonstrates how great his relationship is with his dad.

· Set up – Jill tells her hypnotherapist about her dad going missing – as if it was a joke.

· Set up – when Jill first goes under hypnosis, she finds herself in a SUBTERRANEAN WORLD as a starving orphan who gets lured in by a shadowy man (Snow Blinder) to be picked up by child traffickers and hauled off her icy home planet to a mother ship. This is the metaphor for this abandonment issue Jill harbors in her psyche. This abandonment leads to a dangerous world of peril and uncertainty.

· The journey Jill/Skyler take in the trance-induced subconscious realm shows how the shadow-self Skyler carries the weight of the anger throughout the story and how she ultimately learns to transcend, raise her frequency, embrace her higher potential, and feel her authentic self once again -> making it powerful when Skyler finally gives the hurt back to where it belongs – with Jill – to sort it out as a MATURE ADULT.

· Set up – Asking “story questions” is important (key) to keep the story moving – either through fiction or real life. So, Jill starts to have breakthroughs when she becomes pro-active enough to start asking questions.

· Set up – the spacecraft is consciousness-assisted – meaning it is a biological/ conscious extension of the pilot – in this case Skyler becomes the pilot and learns from flying her spaceship (higher self). Another metaphor for self-mastery. I may have Skyler demonstrate her self-mastery by flawlessly flying this ship and shooting “truth bombs” at Jill.

5. How are you designing it to have us see an inevitable ending and then making it surprising when it happens?

My intention is to show Jill beginning to take back her power in act 3 once she sees this death scene of her characters within the hypnosis session. But to be clear, Jill hasn’t actually taken responsibility for her own unprocessed feelings yet. She is at a RATIONAL LEVEL of understanding…. we may believe Jill has it all figured out, like she does. Many people who go through cognitive counseling stay at this level of awareness for years before they allow themselves to feel anything.

The surprise is when Jill encounters her shadow-self, Skyler, who is raging and uncooperative. Skyler is fighting this “Rational” resolution – because it’s more make-believe bullshit. It’s more smoke and mirrors, denial, and delusional thinking – and that pisses her off. Skyler is like the goddess Kali – the goddess of destruction.

So that leaves the viewers feeling shaky and uncertain. What can Jill do to bring these disparate parts of herself together? Have a meltdown, of course.

6. What is the Parting Image/ line that leaves us with the PROFOUND TRUTH in our minds?

I’d like to show how Jill’s interactive intuitive video game will work with Skyler and Ami as its avatars or guides – and then show the player finding freedom (scoring high) and Ami and Skyler flying free in their spaceship – through a big expansive beautiful sky – where THE SKY IS THE LIMIT.

[Bill]

Bill Southwell’s Profound Ending

What I learned doing this assignment is the importance of knowing the end from the beginning, that a profound truth must be present for a movie to be profound, and that the ending must contain payoffs.

1. The Profound Truth is that deep love between a husband and wife can be so great that it can extend beyond death. That we can be inspired by departed loved ones to achieve greatness in this life. And that dedication to great causes outside of one’s self brings the greatest personal achievement.

2. Charis, the lead character, finally receives kidney dialysis after years of struggling, hopeful now for a productive life as a poet. But it is not to be, as she passes away peacefully while on dialysis. The scene turns bright white as she leaves her body and she sees someone she recognizes who has come to greet her. CHARIS (VO) “Come now. Ah yes I know you now. How well you look. How good I feel.”

3. The payoffs of this final scene include many of her poems she presents in previous scenes that personify death who is there to take her before her time. But she always replies by asking for more time to finish her work. In a poem written for her grandfather’s funeral she says,

“Death, you have often sparred with me

And I have won. But now I know

You win your battles by degree,

Not one swift blow.

But coin by coin you take our loves

And have your toll.”

Another poem,

To Death

“Leave me here another hour

To feel the summer sun

And hear a sparrow in the eves.

…

Leave me now, and tell them I will come

When autumn dries the hills

And I have seen the seasons by.”

4. The script is designed for the audience to have hope that Charis will achieve her destiny to become a great poet after many setbacks. This is promoted by her ever optimistic husband Bill. In her journey she is seen progressing in her writing and in personal courage. So, it is a surprise and a tragedy that she dies.

5. The final scene shows her husband going through her notes and papers and discovers hundreds of poems and other works. This is a reveal that during these years of struggling with health issues, she did achieve her destiny. Among them is a poem written to him.

To Bill

All philosophies and equations

Nearly elude my reason,

But none of these are baffling

Or bring delight of wonder

Like some simple gesture of your hand

That says, in spite of me, your care.

If this day I die

I have no recourse to complaint.

I’ve had your love.

If under stern command

I still could not explain

Why, while I wither

I’m lovely in your eye.

Whatever miracle it is

It extends beyond philosophies

And transcends flowers.

God grant it never end

I love you so.

[Susan Willard]

Susan A. Willard’s Profound Ending

What I learned doing this assignment is there are many ways to make situations and clues fit together.

What else I learned doing this assignment is the ending may be the beginning of the profound story.

Design your ending to have a profound impact.

What is your Profound Truth and
how will it be delivered powerfully in your ending?

· No one can live life alone.

· Everyone needs help from time to time.

· Knowing the truth is important to living a safe, (secure or healthy) life.

· Families and friends stick together.

How do your lead characters
(Change Agent and Transformable Characters) come to an end in a way that
represents the completed change?

· The Change Agent and Transformable Character have a multi-teered forced adventure in which they learn the lessons above, one by one as the challenges become more severe.

· The Change Agent and Transformable Character are forced to depend upon each other and collaborate with each other in new and sometimes difficult ways.

What are the setup/payoffs that
complete in the end of this movie, giving it deep meaning?

· The truth: No one can live life alone. – drives two friends to search for their missing homeless friend, who without knowing it – echoes it back to them at the end of the story.

· The truth: Everyone needs help from time to time. – repeats through the story, sometimes as words, and sometimes as actions needed in difficult situations, even at the end of the story.

· The truth: Knowing the truth is important to living a safe, (secure or healthy) life. – Is a more subtle truth that maybe be more reflected on than noticed. When the whole of the movie is reflected upon, it will be the desire of everyone to know the truth about all things, people, and situations around them, or maybe not. (If I have done a good job writing the story.)

· The truth: Families and friends always stick together. – Are said to make the sayers feel better about themselves, in the beginning of the story. However, once reality hits and the danger real, the words take on true meaning. Will, or will not, the people see each other again?

How are you designing it to have
us see an inevitable ending and then making it surprising when it happens?

· A side character with the subtext of being a second purpose.

· A final deception in action.

· Unexpected results of a line of actions throughout the story.

· A betrayal blocks the final getaway, as planned.

What is the Parting Image/Line
that leaves us with the Profound Truth in our minds?

· As a parting inquiry, the change agent asks a secondary question, that was asked before, related to the truth: Knowing the truth is important to living a safe, (secure or healthy) life. – as they are going to live their new lives, however the answer is, “I don’t know. We will have to find out.”

With an intriguing picture shown, (or not).

[Gordon Roback]

Gordon Roback Profound Endings Assignment 8

My big lesson from this assignment is to make the Priest more active in the scene where the father has his son ask forgiveness. This makes sense because responsibility for your actions and forgiveness are issues off prime concern to Priest. Prior to this assignment the two threads of Fanny’s problems (hostility from the farmers and hostility from the Priest) are woven together. To me this is a big step forward.

1.Profound Truth?

My profound truth is that in the old country (Russia, Poland) a Jew was a second class citizen. He couldn’t own land nor go to university and he was limited as to where he could live. However Canada offers full citizenship and equality under the law.

How will the profound truth be delivered at the end?

The script opens with Fanny (age eight) witnessing a pogrom in the old country. The locals were distant at best and often hostile and sometimes murderous.

After Fanny’s youngest child plays St. Jean Baptiste in the local’s religious parade the Priest calls off the boycott against the store. The script ends with young mothers asking Fanny advice about how to raise children. It shows that she is accepted and respected.

Moses slapped a kid who spit on his youngest daughter. That night a crowd of French Canadian farmers assemble in front of the store holding torches. Fanny thinks this is not going to end well – a Polish ending. Instead the father of the boy who spit on Lottie in the company of the Priest forces his son to bow before the eight year old girl and beg her forgiveness. At that moment Fanny realizes that this is not Poland.

2 The priest is the changing agent. He is moved that the Jews respect his religious procession while one of their own (a drunk French Canadian) hurls curses at the Priest and mocks the true faith

The ending shows that Canadians of very
different world views can co-exist and respect each other (at least in
public).

Given how
rigid the Priest is in his world view it is surprising but satisfying that
he comes to the defence of the Jews since he was responsible for the rift
and the boycott.

When one of
the French Canadian mothers embraces Fanny for her good advice we see that
Fanny is accepted and respected.

[Trish Carothers]

LESSON 8

Trish’s Profound Endings

What I learned by doing this assignment is that the characters interact, and ideas for the expansion on top of ideas evolves. Can see why revisions are so necessary, and why so many are recommended.

1. My Profound Truth is face your challenges and evolve into who you really are.

1. Delivered by Harald, Thorensson, Bettina, and Elisiv as they leave Kiev: Harald says: “Well, old friend, we ride for Norway, toward our futures, either life or death, God alone knows” Laughing, they kick their horses into a canter, ready to go home at last. Elisiv and Bettina role their eyes and grin, then high 5 and urge their horses to catch up. After all, the men wouldn’t even be here without Bettina and Elisiv.

2. My Lead Characters – Change Agent and Transformable Character come to an end that represents the completed change by leaving the “Old Ways” that no longer work, and embracing the “New Ways” that offer hope and accomplishments to move forward in life.

3. What are the setups/payoffs that complete in the end of this movie.

a. The payoff of finding a new family

b. The payoff of finding their destinies

c. The payoff of finding their courage, of facing the worst, death, which gives them new life based on bravery and honesty.

d. The payoff of finding what’s of real value in life.

e. The payoff of finding love in a war so far from home.

4. How am I designing it to have the audience see an inevitable ending and then making it surprising when it appears.

a. The gains in experience and bravery that Harald embodies

b. The grousing of the men to return home

c. The wealth that Harald and the men have accumulated

d. The baptism in the River Jordan

e. The death of Rongvald and promise to return home

f. The return to Kiev

g. Elisiv and Harald in the garden at night.

5. What is the Parting Image/Line that leaves us with the Profound Truth in our minds. The parting image is of Harald, Thorensson, their wives and a cadre of warriors around them as they ride out of the city, and look at each other. Harold grins at Thorensson, grasps his shoulder and says, “Well, old friend, we ride for Norway, toward our futures, either life or death, God alone knows” Laughing, they kick their horses into a canter, ready to go home at last. Elisiv and Bettina role their eyes and grin, then high 5 and urge their horses to catch up. After all, the men wouldn’t even be here without Bettina and Elisiv.

[Paulette Harris]

Paulette L. Harris: “What I learned doing this assignment is….?”

1-My Profound Truth is : Good wins over Evil. You will find it in the hospital room on Pastor Stuart’s deathbed.

2-Pastor Young and Elizabeth hear of someone collapsing at the fair where they are singing and preaching the gospel. They don’t know who it is but feel they should go to the hospital and see if they can offer some comfort.

3-Confused Pastor Stuart and Mary recognize who their visitors are and they visit re-connecting. Pastor Stuart begins to sob as he shares how awful the past years have become.

Pastor and Mrs. Young offer to pray a prayer of repentance and in the process realize that Pastor Stuart isn’t really a believer.

Pastor Youn excuses himself to make a call.

4-Shortly thereafter another visitor arrives, he is Steve Olsen, a newly ordained minister and now studies exorcism in the body of Christ. He offers to pray over the pastor for any negative influences that may have interferred in the lives of Don and Mary. They agree and are freed of influencing forces in the past.

5-Pastor Don now believes fully in the salvation of Jesus Christ and accepts Him as the Son of God and His offer of love. The love and forgiveness is fully understood and Pastor Stuart is healed of all heart damage. Profound Truth is that God always answers a repentant heart.

[Bob Rowen]

Bob Rowen’s Profound Ending

What I learned doing this assignment is how to further develop the journey of my transformable character.

Design your ending to have a profound impact.

What is your Profound Truth and how will it be delivered powerfully
in your ending? Democracy for evermore but only if we can keep it. In
pursuance of teaching how fragile our democratic form of government is,
the forces working against democracy are revealed.

How do your lead characters (Change Agent and Transformable
Characters) come to an end in a way that represents the completed change? In
dealing with an autocratic school board president with an agenda of his
own, Don Walker, Principal (Change Agent), provides Wade Meadows,
Teacher (Transformable Character), transforming suggestions on how to stay
the course with the school’s actual curriculum rooted in the school’s founding
principles of Truth, Toleration, and Liberty.

What are the setups/payoffs that complete in the end of this movie,
giving it deep meaning? The autocratic school board president, Ken
Franks, does the bidding of political powerbrokers by attacking Wade’s
teaching. Frank’s attacks culminate in charging Wade with violating his
Oath of Allegiance and recommends his termination of employment.

How are you designing it to have us see an inevitable ending and
then making it surprising when it happens? During Wade’s disciplinary
hearing, the recommendation for his termination passes by a tentative 3-2
vote. Before the school board makes its decision final, several members of
the public speak in favor of Wade. The last one to speak is the
superintendent of the county office of education who announces the
decision by his office to name Wade Meadows Teacher of the Year. Two
members of the high school district board of trustees demand a
reconsideration and the school board’s vote is reversed.

What is the Parting Image/Line that leaves us with the Profound
Truth in our minds? Wade Meadows last statement during a television
interview –

TV REPORTER

Considering what happened tonight, do you think you’ve achieved a long lasting, satisfactory outcome?

WADE

I seriously doubt it. I say that because our democracy is under attack, and since our schools are a reflection of what’s happening in society, I feel our education system is under attack as well.

TV REPORTER

It seems as though you have more to say…

WADE

Well, I do but I’ve got to be careful for obvious reasons. When I’m in the classroom, what I say and do must always be balanced and I make sure it is! Out here, let me just say we have a divided nation, a divided community, a divided student body, and I should add, a divided school board — and it’s all about the politics that’s currently sweeping the country.

TV REPORTER

One last question. As an educator, oh, and I might add, as the Teacher of the Year, how do you explain the politics that’s currently sweeping the country?

WADE

In a few words? IGNORANCE, APATHY, TRIBALISM, RACISM, and GREED. Of course, there’s nothing new about any of this, but when coupled with Citizens United, a movement that made compromise a sign of weakness, the free press the enemy of the people, and constant lying to the American people acceptable, then we see our democracy threatened and the need to engage our students more than ever in real education based on Truth, Toleration, and Liberty. Democracy for evermore but…only if we can keep it.

• This reply was modified 1 year, 12 months ago by  Bob Rowen.

[William Donnelly]

William M Donnelly’s Profound Ending

What I learned is that I have several options for ending this screenplay. I do have an idea for a surprise ending, and will consider formalizing that idea.

Design your ending to have a profound impact.

What is your Profound Truth and how will it be delivered powerfully in your ending?

The cave you fear to enter holds the treasure you seek. ~

Jos. Campbell

Inherent within each of us is profound wisdom, disguised. Once we have the courage to go in to the unknown, or scary, places, we find that the only way to our power is through these fears.

How do your lead characters (Change Agent and Transformable Characters) come to an end in a way that represents the completed change?

Angie has won the battle. She has stopped the influence of MegaCorp and worked to trim back AI’s powers. She is comfortable in her skin, and though she has won this battle, there is another one coming – this time with another company that seeks to depart Earth and repopulate elsewhere.

What are the setup/payoffs that complete in the end of this movie, giving it deep meaning?

Angie taps into an almost-mystical power of awareness and knowing as she faces some of her worst terrors. As she has stepped into her power through these crucibles, she now stands self-aware an in her power. She has helped influence AI and the collective human social world and stopped AI from destructing humanity.

How are you designing it to have us see an inevitable ending and then making it surprising when it happens?

This is what I am working on. Not yet ready.

What is the Parting Image/Line that leaves us with the Profound Truth in our minds?

The cave you fear to enter holds the treasure you seek.

~Jos. Campbell)

Answer the question “What I learned doing this assignment is…?” (place at top of your work).

What I learned is that I have several options for ending this screenplay. I do have an idea for a surprise ending, and will consider formalizing that idea.

[James Clark]

Jim Clark’s profound ending

What I learned from this assignment is how to incorporate the process backwards from the ending.

1. What is my profound truth and how will it be delivered powerfully in the ending?

a- Women are strong; families can be built from scratch; strangers can become family;

2. How do my lead characters (Change Agent & Transformable Characters) come to an end in a way that represents the completed change?

a- Ruth (CA) coordinates the opportunities even unknowingly

b- Margie (TC) Margie has children and grandchildren that she never would have had otherwise. Margie sets up a non profit organization to use her wealth to help others, expecting Ruth and Karen to take it forward.

c- Karen (TC) realizes the pain she has caused due to her selfishness

3. What are the setups/payoffs that complete in the end of the movie, giving it deep meaning?

a. Setups

Ruth swinging her driver pg 1; Margie watching the car parade at the diner pg 2; Ruth’s intuition pg 3; Margie’s investment company pg 4; Ruth talking to Cynthia “Hollywood” pg 5; Teddy stealing from the RV Park; Ruth remembering her deceased husband, Tom pg 8; Ruth refers to Clifton’s “gig” line pg 9; Karen’s name badge pg 10; The Oscar on Margies mantle; Ruth sees Margie in the diner and studies her pg 13; Ruth’s an RN pg 13 : Maureen is self destructive pg 13/14; Clifton has issues pg 14; Margie faints at the golf center, Ruth comes to her aide pg 16; Karen gets message Margie’s in the ER pg 18; Karen pays a bribe to the ER Receptionist pg 20; Maureen’s drinking various scenes; Ruth’s Mom knew someone who lived and worked in Hollywood pg 23; Mezuzah on the door frame to Margie’s house pg 23; Ruth notices Margie’s Oscar and an old smoking pipe pg 24; Margie mention’s Walter pg 25; Ruth looks at a photo of Margie and Walter pf 26; Ruth gets an email from Child Services in Michigan pg 28; Margie calls Carl for help; Karla tells Ruth about Clifton’s PTSD pg34;

b. Payoffs

Margie rebuffs Karen pg 11; Karen is rebuffed by both Margie and Ruth in the ER pg 19; Ruth has found her birth father “Walter Owens, Margie’s husband pg 28; Clifton shows up to take Ruth to dinner in uniform paying off the “gig Line” comment pg 31/32; Ruth shows compassion for Clifton’s PTSD pgs 37, 38, 39; Margie’s CFO informs her of Teddy stealing at the RV park pg 41;Ruth shares with Margie that Walter is her birth father pg 43; Karen gets her first of a series of traffic tickets to pay off on Margie’s “call” on call to Carl pg 44; Clifton acknowledges Ruth’s help during his episode pg 45; Margie with baby box memories to pay of her telling Ruth she and Walter couldn’t have kids pg 46; Thanksgiving Day Margie shows up at the RV Park during the park dinner to apologize to Ruth pg 51;

4. How am I designing it to have the audience see an inevitable ending and then making It surprising when it happens?

All the characters come together in one location where the Antagonists think they can eliminate the Lead and his sidekick. What the antagonists don’t realize is that they will be the victims of spiritual warfare.

5. What is the parting image/line that leaves us with the Profound Truth in our minds?

Parting line: Let’s see if you are fearfully and wonderfully made:

Parting image: The main antagonist is captured in a living cylinder of bees. FADE TO BLACK, then we hear the antagonist “SCREAM”.

[Gordon Roback]

Gordon Roback Profound ending Assign 8

What I learned from this assignment is to venture out of my comfort zone and try an ending I had not thought of when I first envisioned writing the script.

1 The Profound truth is that l to live in a community you need to be part of the community but it is okay to honor your key values.

2. Fanny continues to observe the tenets of her religion but by learning French she is able to communicate and befriend the locals. She shows them respect and they reciprocate.

3. Not only does Fanny and family survive the boycott but they are stronger as a family as a result.

4. Through the film Moses and the Priest communicate in Latin and Hebrew. The ironic but inevitable end is that the Priest offers Moses a job as a Latin teacher in the catholic school Fanny refused to send her children to.

5. The final image is of Fanny beaming with pride in a classroom of the school she would not send her children to as she watches her husband teach Latin to the wild children of the neighbourhood who break her windows.

[Gordon Roback]

Addendum: Rather than the kid bowing before the little girl to apologize for spitting on her, the kid should have been caught after breaking the store window and he apologizes to Fanny.

• This reply was modified 1 year, 11 months ago by  Gordon Roback.

[MARY Johnson]

<div>What I learned is I still have a lot of plotting to do. I know in my mind how the story goes and turns but choosing the scene to write to make it end up where I want it to end and saying what I want it to say still needs work.</div>

What is your Profound Truth and how will it be delivered powerfully in your ending? My truth is every choice we makes impacts the life of another on some level – intentional or not – big or small – We have an obligation to others to consider our actions.

How do your lead characters (Change Agent and Transformable Characters) come to an end in a way that represents the completed change? Christine, the author, finally lets go the wrongs of her past (her own and everyone else’s) and goes on to complete the story she promised she would tell so many years ago. By doing this she unlocks what has held her back all her life and she sees how the choices she made impacted her life and the lives of those around her.

What are the setup/payoffs that complete in the end of this movie, giving it deep meaning?

Answers to: Will she ever finish her story she promised to write? Will she heal the estrangement between her and her daughter? Will she end up financially comfortable? Will she manage to get back with her first ex husband?

How are you designing it to have us see an inevitable ending and then making it surprising when it happens? The prologue and final chapter will be “written by Christine’s daughter” instead of Christine – revealing that Christine never published the story (and therefore failed). The last chapter will reveal that even though “this” book was never published in her lifetime that she had broken the dam holding her creativity back and had written multiple books (going back to add in Christine’s obsession with James Patterson who is known to write multiple stories at the same time using stations at a conference table.

What is the Parting Image/Line that leaves us with the Profound Truth in our minds? The daughter spreading Christine’s ashes over the property that Christine bought with her book sales. “Momma’s own blue ridge.”

Answer the question “What I learned doing this assignment is…?” (place at top of your work).