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Post Your Lesson 4 Assignment here
Post Your Lesson 4 Assignment here
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FAY GOODMAN
VILLIAN TRACK: ANDERS AND THE SOLDIER BEAR
What I learned doing this assignment is…?
I enjoyed pulling out the main characteristics of Stalin to offset against our hero General Anders. I want to improve the build-up and fighting scenes at the monastery in Monti Casino. This exercise has helped me to realise I had not challenged and connected the villain and hero enough to create the real tension through dialogue and action.
Whilst Stalin is many miles away at this particular section of the story and script, his actions dictate what our hero has to do. Fortunately, our hero is good at pre-empting Stalin’s moves which saves many lives and frustrates the hell out of our villain, Stalin!
VILLAIN: STALIN
HERO: GENERAL ANDERS (Polish commander)
VILLIAN: Stalin has world domination in his sights as WWII takes hold. His pact with Hitler will deceive the enemy until Hitler does a sneaky U-turn to invade Russia! Stalin is outwitted and enraged. As he has to take the full force of the German army, his plans have to change – fast!
PLAN: He intends to release imprisoned Anders and his skeleton troops to a certain death as cannon fodder against the Germans on the eastern front. But he is faced with the frustration of the allies not opening up the western front to support him.
ATTACK: Unbeknown to Stalin his plan to use Anders and his army will backfire as over xxxxx Russian soldier will perish at the hands of the Germans.
HERO: Anders in a stroke of genius knows his men will be sent to their death. Having trained in Moscow he is fully aware of the Russian mindset. Using a cleaver strategy, he secretly plans a safe exit from Russia for all the civilian refugees and his soldiers.
MEETING: Following a meeting with Churchill however, he reluctantly agrees to work with the allies to open up the western front through Italy. A plan Stalin, surprisingly, was demanding!
SURPRISE: But before Anders can make his mark, Germany, well aware Italy is vulnerable, send in a crack division to defend Monte Casino – the weak link to open up a corridor for the allies.
DECEPTION: Likened to a game of chess, Anders has to be one step ahead of Stalin. Stalin pretends he does not know what has happened to 20,00 0 Polish Generals and Ranking Officers. Stalin dismisses it as ‘they must be around somewhere’. But the devastating and horrific truth of this Villain catapults Anders into trying to get as many Polish people, out of Russia quickly and safely.
HOSTAGES: Stalin is furious and closes all boarders to trap the remaining unsuspecting Polish refugees. His cruel plan causes heartache and desperation amongst many refugees and their children. Anders is angry by Stalin’s deceptive action but has to protect those who have already escaped Stalin’s clutches.
HERO: Anders builds up his army and ensures the civilians and the unusual real soldier bear Wojtek is safe and thriving. Next stop the monastery at Monti Casino, Italy.
SIEGE: Anders is well aware various allied campaigns have totally failed to take this strategic position in Italy with over 200,000 already dead. But Anders is not to be defeated and comes up with an ingenious plan to avoid the German crack shooters and take the monastery with a most unbelievable and dangerous night-time operation.
ATTACK: Wojtek the bear plays his part well. He saves the day carrying heavy artillery as shooting and unarmed combat ensues.
HERO: In a bittersweet moment Anders and his soldiers are the only army to successful take back the monastery at Monti Casino and open the western front. This is a crucial turning point in WWII towards winning the war. Ironically, opening up the western front was just what Stalin wanted!
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Great job Fay!
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What I learned doing this assignment is…. That my female villain planned everything down to the death of her ex-husband. She underestimates him, but thinks that she has won. She had gone all the way with murder, greed and kidnapping. I didn’t think that she could be this ruthless who is more than that. Diabolical.
1. KIDNAP. Ex-wife returns to small town and kidnaps her daughter from the ex-husband who is a cop.
2. RANSOM. Ex-wife says she will return daughter. If the ex-husband intercepts a load of contra-band worth $$$. She gives him 48 hours.
3. KILL EX-HUSBAND. Ex-wife has set up the contraband drop. She has drug dealers in place to kill her ex who tries to intercept that contra-band.
4. INTERCEPTION. Ex-husband gets to the contra-band and faces the drug dealers. She already has the drug money and their daughter. He discovers this during the interception and who survives the attack.
5. DROPS RANSOM. Ex-wife tells the ex-husband she will never return their daughter. She only came back to kill him. She blames him for the death of the other twin daughter.
6. POLICE. Ex-wife calls authorities about the contra-band and that her ex-husband is involved. The police chase him down and their is a gun fight. She picks up her own sniper rifle and shoots him. He is left for dead.
7. REVENGE. Ex-husband survives and organizes another contra-band drop. His ex-wife thinks he’s dead and returns. She is gunned down and the daughter is returned.
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Margaret’s Villain Track!
What I learned: It isn’t enough to know your hero’s path – the villain’s track must also be preplanned before writing your script.
Villain Track questions:
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.
· MISSION: Coroticus chooses his nephew to join his elite squadron for a mission to kill/capture Irish Christians for Rome and the church.
· CONFRONTATION: A bishop (St. Patrick) sends Coroticus a letter stating his mission is not from God, but from the devil.
· DILEMMA: Believe his nephew and release the Christians or keep his oath to church and state and complete his mission.
· DISCOVERY: Realizes there is a traitor in his squadron.
· DECEPTION: Deceives his nephew and secretly sends captured Christians on to Rome.
· CHASE: Pursues the hero to capture him and the Christians that have escaped.
· CAPTURE: Captures the hero and gives him the choice between denying his internal convictions, rejoin his squadron and complete the mission given him by church and state or death by stoning.
· DECISION: Condemns his nephew to death by stoning.
· FITTING ENDING: He realizes his nephew was right but unable to deny his lifelong commitment to church and state so he takes off his belt (represents truth to him) and lays it on his nephew’s grave.
B. How many ways can the Villain attack or destroy the hero?
· Punish him as a soldier
· Strip him of soldier rank
· Sentence him to death
C. What advantage does the Villain have and how can they exploit that in this movie?
· He is the hero’s commander
· He knows the hero’s skills because he trained him
· He is more experienced at fighting
D. What would be a “fitting end” for this Villain where they pay for what they’ve done?
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MIKE’S VILLAIN TRACK
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 created the plan before the hero was involved, and the hero stumbled upon the plot.
B. How many ways can the Villain attack or destroy the hero?
Kill anyone that betrays his plan, leverage informants to stop the hero, destroy evidence collected, kill hero’s partner, assault the hero,
C. What advantage does the Villain have and how can they exploit that in this movie?
Access to security forces and mafia hitmen. Eyes and ears everywhere.
D. What would be a “fitting end” for this Villain where they pay for what they’ve done?
Mafia kills the villain after failure of the plot
VERSION PLAN 2 – plan for the theft and coup are in place. Hero discovered the plan in progress.
Hero – David / Villain – Gabor
· Preparation – Gabor plots with the mafia, bribing the security forces with mafia money
· Kick off – Gabor starts the countdown to the plot, but it is discovered by David
· Kill the collaborator – Gabor finds that David has turned one of the plotters, so he sends a security team to kill the collaborator
· Get someone inside – Gabor threatens the family of David’s secretary, and forces her to steal the evidence provided by the dead plotter
· Blow up office – Gabor uses the mafia to blow up the office building, killing David’s colleague… but David escapes
· Track and kill David – Gabor’s mafia contracts track David to the National Bank, ambushing him as he searches for evidence… he escapes
· Draw David into a trap – Gabor sends a plotter as an informant, telling David that evidence exists in Gabor’s villa
· Attack at the Villa – David is ambushed at the Villa, but David escapes with evidence
· Death – David gives evidence to the Hungarian president, and Gabor is on the run. The mafia kill Gabor before he can be jailed by the authorities.
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Brian Villain: Paul Short. I have learned to put more life into the villain. I use to spend so much time on writing about the hero that I would just skim past who the villain was, and just got right to what the villains did.
A) What might be the Villain’s plan to accomplish an evil outcome or to annihilate the hero?
Villain: Paul Short has planned weeks ago to set Sonny up with a contender fight and would allow him to win. So that he would think he is entitled to a championship fight. However, Paul had promised his contender to fall in the fight and that he would give the loser the championship.
B) How many ways can the Villain attack or destroy the hero?
-Paul Short wants to attack Sonny mentally, emotionally and physically. Paul has dozens of fighters that work for him that he could send to attack Sonny. He also has a Mafia Don in his pocket that has numerous hit men on his payroll.
C) What advantage does the Villain have and how can they exploit that in this movie? Paul is a brilliant man of business, rich and a manipulator. He enjoys planning hateful or dishonest acts like he is playing chess then executing the plays then he accomplishes a win.
D) What would be a fitting end for this Villain where they pay for what they have done? A perfect ending would be Paul being the one getting chased and hunted by the mafia, and the FBI for his money laundry and sport tampering.
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Assignment 4 Villain
What I learned doing this assignment is that the villain must have a clear plan and actions. This will keep the “action” flowing.
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.)
Sen already had a plan. He has already killed someone for a mysterious drive. His plan is to use “it” for a “nefarious purpose”. His plan is interrupted by Jun who was hired to steal it back. After seeing how ruthless Sen is about obtaining this object, we know what is in store for our hero.
B. How many ways can the Villain attack or destroy the hero?
Sen has military leadership and martial arts training. Sen has an arsenal of weapons and highly skilled fighters. Our hero can be trapped, sliced, shot, beaten, stabbed, burned, frozen, electrocuted and tortured.
C. What advantage does the Villain have and how can they exploit that in this movie?
Sen has control of the building and he has the high ground over Jun. Sen learns more about Jun’s motivation to help his sister and exploits it (trapping him in a building knowing it’s a race against time for him).
D. What would be a “fitting end” for this Villain where they pay for what they’ve done?
Sen and Jun faceoff in a final battle where at the battles end, Jun gets the high ground and forces Sen to go through the rigors that he had to survive.
2. Include labels with each step of their plan.
Steals and Kills: Sen kills a man for a mysterious drive.
First attack: Sen Catches Jun in the act of trying to steal his precious drive. This is apparently foiling his plan so he sends a man to fight him. Jun is highly underestimated. Jun kills him with his practice sticks.
Traps: Sen traps Jun in the building and sends men to retrieve the drive. This sends Jun looking for other possible exits.
Second Attack: Sen sends more men with guns. Jun shows he is capable of fighting highly skilled fighters although overwhelmed. This enrages Sen and his bloodthirsty ways.
Chase: Sen chases Jun through the building.
Kills Again: Sen finds and kills Jun’s friend who hired him for the job after a botched rescue.
Blocks escape plan: Sen finds out why Jun wants the drive so bad.
Fake negotiate: Sen finds that Jun wants the drive to help his dying sister. Sen makes a fake deal, but reveals that both of them are on a time sensitive deadline. He’ll pay for her medical expenses if he gets it back. Jun agrees.
Tortures: Sen catches Jun and retrieves the drive. Sen is about to kill Jun but stops when he realises that the drive is fitted with Jun’s encryption. Without Jun, the drive is uncrackable. Sen promises that if he doesn’t give him the code, he will die painfully and starts to torture him.
Final fight: Jun is rescued by his girlfriend and friends at his martial arts school. This results in a melee and final fight between sen and Jun. Sen is defeated by his own weapons.
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ASSIGNMENT 4: ACTION CLASS
Subject line: Alfred Dunham’s Villain Track!
What I learned from this assignment is:
I did not know that there were two different types of Villain Plans — versions.
Villain Questions to discover Villain’s Pan, decisions, 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.
This Villain already has a “bad conscience” and fears the Hero’s strengths, so
1. INVITATION:
The Villain knows full well, the hook he’s on and tries to play the [FAUX] Friend Game, by asking to let bygones be bygones – in exchange for the piece of the action, of course.
2. NO CONTEST:
He must try to make [FAUX] friends, by making [FAUX] apologies and find a reconciliation.
3. COERSION:
If the Hero refuses to fall for the Villain’s fakery, he must then use intimidation.
4. THREATS:
If intimidation fails, he must then move on to threat [which will be difficult because the past].
5. ESCAPE INTO HIDING:
When the Villain’s men come, the Hero narrowly escapes into his world of wilderness and secrets – and a laboratory that no one knows about.
6. HIDING OUT/SEARCHING OUT A PLAN:
In his giddy self-confidence, the Villain has driven the Hero into hiding, but with his resources he feels it’s just a matter of time before he can be eliminated.
7. TOUCHING COUP:
In a last-ditch effort to dissuade the Villain, the Hero makes a perilous entry into the Villain’s office, Ninja-style, straw/pipe-darting security as he goes with an instant acting tranquilizer, before delivering one last ultimatum to back off and leave him and his family alone. And then he darts the Villain as well.
8. THE DECISION TO KILL HIM:
For the Villain, the flipped threats do just the opposite. It becomes a fight to the death.
9. BREAKTHROUH:
Glass is sand, yet we can see right through it. The Hero has been working for years on a transparency field which would render one invisible. In his desperate race against time, the Hero perfects his portable unit, but once again, barely escapes the Villains men before they destroy is lab.
10. COUNTING COUP:
From within a makeshift laboratory deep withing a cave, withing the mountains, with no way for even dogs to follow, the Hero makes the final adjustment to a vaccine he has already developed and tested on animals, he loads several darts, as before, but these darts also contain the vaccine.
He then, with the help of his invisibility shield, he once again delivers his message, his darts, and his genetic bomb.
11. TRANSFORMATION:
Week’s pass, and the Villain is so rattled and distracted, he does not notice that he is changing. Long suppressed elements from our genetic past are beginning to express themselves – subtle changes: hair, skin color….
12. BURNING THE EVIL:
Thoroughly programmed to believe that dark skin color is a curse from an angry God, his followers see the changes and assume the worst. And they haul him out into public display and burn him at the stake for the curse they assume he has.
The Hero convinces the mob to stop — that it is NOT a curse, it’s science, not religion, and promises to undo the damage to the cult security members darted, if they will give up their racial hatred and embrace the science of oneness and brotherhood of all mankind, once and for all.
B. How many ways can the Villain attack or destroy the hero?
1. He can try and convince the Hero he is wrong and get him to join The Cause, thus destroying any reputation he may have ever still had.
2. He can intimidate the Hero and get him to back down and “admit” he’s wrong, publicly.
3. He can intimidate the Hero and at least keep him quiet about his beliefs.
4. He can force the Hero into hiding while still trying to get to him physically to shut him up.
5. He can try and close all the Hero’s means of communication, even if he can’t get at him
6. He can maybe find a friend/former friend of the Hero, willing to betray him and expose him.
7. And if the Villain is forced to kill the Hero, he can claim it was an accident over which he had no control.
8. But then, of course, it may start all over with loyal Hero followers.
C. What advantage does the Villain have and how can they exploit that in this movie?
1. The Villain has a huge cult following, by now that are properly conditioned to BELIEVE the leader.
2. The Villain has virtually limitless funding at his disposal.
3. The Villain has a lot of media control at his disposal.
4. The Villain has the ear of much religion and those of all racists, wherever they exist.
D. What would be a “fitting end” for this Villain where they pay for what they’ve done?/former
1. Simply getting rid of the Villain will still leave hoards of True Believers who will vow to continue the fight.
2. Killing the Villain will only turn him into a martyr, which will still play against the Hero.
3. The Hero MUST show superior Morality and Ethics by using the Villain’s own claims and arguments against him in some undeniable way.
4. The ideal way to silence the Villain would be to use his own words to destroy him, backed up by physical evidence.
5. The Villain is a racist who attempts to hid behind his own villainy by attempting to villainize “other” groups of people and gain power and support.
6. So, what if the Hero has the power to cause the Villain to literally morph into the off-putting physical standards set by the Villain, and thus show his philosophy to be as fully bankrupt as his standards. What if the Hero can literally prove to the Villain’s followers what they to not want to believe but can no long deny? What would that say about the Villain?
Include Labels with each Step of their Plan:
[“Develop your own labels but make sure they clearly show: Decisions, Plans, and Actions the Villain takes”]
There are twelve LABELS created.
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<div>Nancy’s Villain Track</div>
What I learned: This is helping me think through pieces of an existing script that will help elevate it using the proper Action conventions.
How Do I Kill Thee?
A. What might be the Villain’s plan to accomplish an evil outcome or to annihilate the hero? The plan
is pre-existing to seek revenge for a hit the Beauvais family made on one
of the Head of the French mob’s men (brother).
Head of
French mob is extorting Isa to gain control of her land, get her out of
business – Isa must pay him or he’ll kill her and the family.
Ruin Isa’s
vines so her business fails and she’s no longer able to pay her debt,
leaving her in a weak, vulnerable position.B. How many ways can the Villain attack
or destroy the hero?
Psychological:
threaten her life, threaten Nonno & Meme’s lives, destroy her vines,
put her out of business, and when she is unable to meet her debts…
Physical: Try to
drive Nonno & Memo off the road, send thugs to kill everyone at the
house offers an opportunity for freedom by killing an innocent man, send
men to ambush Reina and Noah put a hit on Noah that she will have to
defend, kill the maid and kidnap Noah’s child, lure Reina and Isa to track
him to his home for a final standoff.C. What
advantage does the Villain have and how can they exploit that in this
movie?Plenty
of money at his disposal to pay people to kill, plenty of weaponsD. What
would be a “fitting end” for this Villain where they pay for what they’ve
done?Forced to drink the Beauvais poisonous
wine, the one that brings on a slow, painful death, as his house burns to
the ground.Labels:
Revenge: When Isa kills the Head of the French mob’s brother, he seeks revenge.
Psychological Control: Instead of killing Isa outright, he demands payments that she finds harder and harder to make due to her failing health (dried up contracts) and failing business.
Decision/Torture Her: He makes her suffer, wants her to surrender the land. When she is unable to make her debts and fear for her life, he vows to kill the ones she loves. He tries to drive Nonno, Meme, and Reina off the road. Then has men attack them at their home.
Plan/Alternate Tactic: He makes Isa an offer with mutual benefit – kill the one person who is a witness and all debts will be erased, or he will destroy her, the chateau, and the family.
Obstacle: Isa sends Reina in instead. When she refuses to kill the target, he puts a bounty on the target’s head, now Reina will have to protect him.
Attack: Multiple hitmen are now after the target. They try and drive Reina/Noah off the road, break into Noah’s home and kill the maid
Retaliation: He orders the daughter held hostage to lure Noah to his home to kill him.
Escape: After the daughter is rescued, he flees to his protected home on the coast, but one wrong turn and he drives off the road to a fiery death.
Revenge: And now his son is out for revenge.
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Bob DeCarli’s Villain Track!
What I learned: I found that this track differs from the plot points, such as they are, in the Hero’s Mission, but I worked at staying open to what came from this step, figuring that I would reconcile everything later.
1. VILLAIN TRACK QUESTIONS
A. The Villain’s Pre-Existing Plan to accomplish an evil outcome. To decimate the Earth’s population to create a sustainable future. Chosen people, selected from the elite, can live “in harmony with nature,” so the Earth’s resources are not depleted. He realizes that he could have already accomplished this by now (the Present of the movie), had he done certain things differently in the past. So when he discovers the existence of THE DEVICE, that enables travel back in time to the past, his plan is to obtain THE DEVICE to travel back in time.
The Villain had a partner, Steve Wozniak to Steve Jobs, who guided the company down the path it took. He plans to kill his partner in the past.
B. How many ways can the Villain attack or destroy the hero?
–Have him killed.
–Frame him for a crime
Frame the Hero for the terrorist attack! This seems like the obvious thing he would do. HOWEVER, how and why would a terrorist attack be part of the Villain’s plan? Maybe drop the idea?
Make it smaller – like the death of a single child. That fits with the Villain’s wound, and would still have the Mother character. Also, it keeps the story smaller.
C. What advantage does the Villain have and how can they exploit that in this movie?
He has every advantage over the Hero. He is the richest man in the world. He regularly pays money to control government, meaning he can have the Hero arrested. And when the power of government doesn’t work, he has unlimited resources to pay for non-government assets to attack, capture, and kill the Hero.
D. What would be a “fitting end” for this Villain where they pay for what they’ve done?
To keep with the conventions of the genre, it’s probably NOT a good idea to have the Villain rehabilitated, but have him killed in the past, and the Villain’s co-founder, rather than being pushed out of the company, stays on and leads it to a more positive Present/Future.
So rather than the Villain killing his co-founder, he gets himself killed in the past.
2. STEPS OF THE VILLAIN’S PLAN
1. DELIVERY: THE DEVICE is nearly in the Villain’s hands. His TRUSTED ASSISTANT has arrived in the country and need only pass through customs with a black object in the shape of a deck of cards.
2. BLOCKED: The Hero, working a customs checkpoint, obtains THE DEVICE after killing the TRUSTED ASSISTANT in self defense.
3. PROPOSAL/GENTLE APPROACH: No attack at first. The Villain sends his EMISSARY to request that the Hero return THE DEVICE to its rightful owner. The Hero claims to have no knowledge of THE DEVICE. The Emissary shows the Hero high resolution video showing him pocketing THE DEVICE. The Emissary points out that the Hero, as a member of law enforcement, had no lawful right to keep it, as he did, but the rightful owner has no wish to ruin his career. The rightful owner is willing to pay a handsome finder’s fee for the return of THE DEVICE.
4. SURVEILLANCE: Multi-tiered surveillance of the Hero by an unseen viewer who can see the Hero’s texts, internet browsing, audio and video of him within his home. Something indicates that the Hero might be considering running away. Orders attack.
5. ATTACK: The Villain sends a team of HENCHMAN to retrieve THE DEVICE from the Hero. But the Hero survives, while managing to avoid killing any of the Henchman.
6. MEETING: Out first view of the Villain, the Emissary explains how the Hero managed to defeat “our most dreaded assassins” without using lethal force, incapacitating all of them. “A cop who doesn’t kill people? That’s a new one.” Explain Incident in which he killed a child. We can exploit that. Introduce the Villain’s SECRETARY/ASSISTANT, and that she has a child (photo on her desk).
7. TRAP. Henchmen again sent to kill Hero and retrieve THE DEVICE. But they again fail – but this time end up killing a YOUNG BOY.
8. TRICK: Hero learns who the mother of the Young Boy is, who we know to be the Secretary/Assistant of the Villain
9. TRICK: The Secretary/Assistant approaches Hero, asking for his help. Explains to him how THE DEVICE works. A life must be taken to travel back in time, and you then go to the place and time most significant to the person who died.
10. TRICK/ATTACK. Not sure the specifics of this one, but the Villain’s people attack the Hero tricking the Hero into killing the Villain’s co-founder. The Hero is then killed.
11. HERO WINS: The Hero finds an Altered Present, where the Villain has completely achieved his sustainability goals.
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Madeleine’s Villain Track!
What I learned doing this assignment is that filling in the blanks, sleeping on my ideas, and then filling in the blanks again, reaps good results.
This is fun!
1. Answers to the Villain Track Questions.
· My villain’s plan is to overtake St. Peter’s Basilica and take everyone inside hostage until he secures the Sacred Chalice on loan from Valencia Cathedral worth millions.
· My villain can destroy my hero with arms, an armed drone, hand-to-hand combat, and by taking her son hostage.
· My villain, a former Swiss Guard, knows the Basilica and Vatican City inside and out, and he can use every tunnel and hidey hole to his advantage. He has worked out his plan in advance and has a crew of men who are willing to kill.
· A fitting end for my villain would be a downfall from the top of the cupola.
2. Include labels with each step of their plan.
TAKE OVER BASILICA: Mercenaries led by my villain enter the Basilica through an underground tunnel, dressed as Swiss Guard. One by one they take out the real Swiss Guards and then close down the Basilica. They shed their Swiss Guard uniforms and now look like soldiers
TAKE HOSTAGES: They take all people they can find still in the Basilica hostage, except my hero and her confessor.
PLAN: To nab the Sacred Chalice on loan from Valencia Cathedral, worth millions, and make their escape through one of the secret tunnels.
PLAN WEAPONS: Fully automatic weapons, armed drone, explosives.
CONTROLLING AUTHORITIES: Swiss Guard, Italian Police. The former Swiss Guard knows how each of these authorities will respond and how to deal with them.
SURPRISED: Using a drone to make sure all the occupants of the Basilica are corralled in one place, the villain is surprised to see an unarmed woman take out one of their number and acquire his gun and other paraphernalia, including his radio.
MEETING: The villain meets with his team and discusses the best way to handle the threat.
DECISION: Kill the now armed woman.
ITALIAN POLICE: The FBI Agent uses her mobile phone to call the U. S. Embassy and notify them of her situation. They, in turn, notify the Italian Police. The Italian Police show up. Villain threatens to blow up the Basilica and everyone inside. The Italian Police back off.
MISTAKE: When the mercenaries try to take possession of the Sacred Chalice. It descends down a shaft into an underground vault, and bullet proof doors close over it.
THE PRESS: The press identifies one of the hostages as the daughter of a San Francisco billionaire.
NEW PLAN: Take the billionaire’s daughter instead of the chalice.
RANSOM DEMANDS MADE: The mercenaries want $1 billion dollars for the return of the billionaire’s daughter.
ATTACK: The Italian Police try to enter the Basilica through a tunnel but are quickly discovered and forced back.
FINAL HOSTAGE: The villain figures out the little boy among his hostages is the son of the woman taking down his men.
FITTING ENDING: At the top of the copula, threatening to kill the hero’s little boy, the villain shoots hero. The wounded hero shoots and kills the villain. The villain falls off the copula.
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Denice’s Villain Track
What I learned doing this assignment is that taking these individual steps for the villain helps to see the story and simplify what usually becomes a convoluted plot for me.
Version 2 Plan: TRIPLE ONE
Villain: El Boud
Hero: Triple One
El Boud’s plan was conceived before the movie started—a plan of revenge against his family and the world. A test-tube experiment before Triple was born, he was given away to a poor family as a baby because of his deformed foot. An emotionless, deadly billionaire.
1. PLAN: El Boud destroys silver mines around the world to corner the market. Saves the
killing of his perceived family for last.
2. KIDNAP: He listens to his mom’s concert in Poland. Has his Assassin kidnap her.
3. SURPRISED: Triple shows up at the concert too late to see her mother. He meets Triple for
the first time. She doesn’t know about him.
4. DECISION: He sends his female Assassin to impersonate Mom and check her out of
her hotel. Triple intercepts Assassin, almost gets killed.
5. HIDING OUT: He sends a dozen men/women after Triple when Assassin fails to kill Triple
while he flies Mom to his headquarters in Yucatan.
6. DEMANDS: El Boud demands his father trade his life for his wife’s.
7. DECEPTION: He kills his mother. Will kill his father when he arrives.
8. SURPRISE/PLAN: Triple shows up at his headquarters. She’s left to die in a telekinetic test
she’s never passed. If she fails, her father will die, too. Assassin is left to
make sure.
9. FINAL PLAN: El Boud flies to Colorado to find the truth about his parents and to destroy the
silver conglomerate. Kills his real father who works there.
10. SURPRISE: Triple shows up in Colorado to stop El Boud. He’s set a bomb and has to get out
of the building.
11. FINAL HOSTAGE: El Boud captures Triple’s only friend. Puts him in a 5G rollercoaster and
sets it on high.
12. FITTING ENDING: Triple and El Boud fight on the roof. He has the detonator. She blows him
up with a special gun he thinks is a water gun.
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Margaret Valentine’s Villain Track
ATTACK: The invading people decalre war on the planet Arodoba, and issue an ultimatum – surrender of die.
MANIPULATION: This forces the epeople of Arodoba to invoke the ancient rite of ‘The Challenges of Honor’. This is exactly what the invading armies want. Each side has to choose a champion to defend their honor in the virtual reality world of the 12 challenges. They know their champion cannot be defeated.
PLAN: Rig the 12 challenges so that the Arodoba champion cannot win.
PLAN: As each challenge becomes significantly harder than the last, they have found a way to make certain that any wound or injury in the virtual world becomes a reality and weakens the Arodoba champion.
TREASON: While everyone concentrates on watching the Challenge of Honor, they move their ships and armies into attack positions. They also infiltrate the Arodoba government with the help of a traitor.
SURPRISE: The Arodoba champion, an exceptional thief an con artist, wins a challenge. She can cheat too!
INCREASE THE STAKES: They instruct their champion to kill the Arodoba champion in the remaining challenges. Now it is no longer a fight for honor and freedom, but a fight for life.
TAKE OVER: As the challenge comes to an end, the enemy take over strategic defense positiions of the Arodoba people.
TRAITOR DISCOVERED: The Arodova champion discovers the traitor in their government and he is killed.
ALL OUT WAR: Fighting in the cities and streets.
FITTING ENDING: The Arodoba champion cons the leader of the invading force. Perhaps he has been in a virtual reality the whole time (not sure about this)
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Renee’s Villain Track
What I learned doing this assignment is
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 plan is created on the spot when the hero shows up at one of their “human” auctions.
B. How many ways can the Villain attack or destroy the hero?
Sends a different “slave” to the room. Sends a 20 man hit team. Kidnaps the hero. Brings the corrupt police into the mix. Kills another “slave” that helps him. Hides the kid he’s trying to save. Engages him in a fight and tries to kill him.
C. What advantage does the Villain have and how can they exploit that in this movie?
As the leader of an international human trafficking ring he has thousands of people at his disposal. He has bribed the local police, and the Thai government tends to turn a blind eye to the problem because they’ve been paid off/blackmailed into silence.
D. What would be a “fitting end” for this Villain where they pay for what they’ve done?
The leader is killed, and the ring is disbanded.
2. Include labels with each step of their plan.
Villain: the head of an international human trafficking ring.
Hero: former special forces operative and retired FBI agent.
In the moment plan: The villain’s plan is conceived the moment the Hero shows up at one of their auction events. From that point on he takes action to protect his investments and eliminate the threat.
Suspicion: the villain recognizes the hero from somewhere, but can’t place him.
Switch: villain sends a different “product” to the hero’s motel room to see how the hero reacts.
Decision: realizes who the hero is and sends a group of men to kidnap him.
Plan: hides the “product” away in a secure location guarded by dozens of heavily armed men.
Capture: captures the hero and tortures him. The hero kills everyone and grabs the “product”
Retaliation: kills the woman who has been helping the hero.
Escape: flees the country in a high-speed boat.
Fitting end: dies at sea (not sure how yet.)
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