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Week 2 Day 3 – What did you learn?
Post the answer to the question, “What I learned rewriting my scene/character…?”
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Breakthrough: the coach immediately addresses the problem by re-establishing the family dynamic … who’s Gary’s mother, his brothers (teammates) & who’s his daddy? Coach has him say it’s daddy’s team … the family.
What I learned:
So, this great writing utilizes a primal metaphor to reinforce character boundaries.
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Race conflict happens between or among human beings, not stereotyped black or white. This creates the possibility of some resolution, of understanding between races, which is beautiful to watch emerge. I have a black/ white conflict in a script that could take this path.
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Week 2 Day 3: Power Struggle – REMEMBER THE TITANS
What I learned rewriting my scene/character? This aspect of my characters has been in my writing from day one. It is my motivation for writing. I see how people misjudge each other and disrespect each other, assuming they know the different side’s values in every situation. Then by jumping right to emotional conclusions without taking the time or the inclination to understand all the issues each side is forced to deal with, they expose their ignorance and show the world how uninformed they are. That is sad on a number of levels.
I just need to continue to learn how to jack up this aspect of my characters.
What makes these characters great from a writing perspective is that it portrays how passion, emotions, and old information that does not apply anymore can blur the best intentions.
Coach is wounded but trying hard to make the transition with his team while trying to maintain order and a winning way forward.
The white players are understandably influenced by their family’s point of view, which is outdated and painfully trying to hold on.
The Black players have the same problem with little hope that things will change even though it is being forced to happen.
A fantastic portrayal of the pain of this transition our country had to experience and encouragement that it has happened and continues to happen as long as we work together in new ways despite the naysayers that try to design all the process that has been made despite all the missteps that come about whenever people move forward in the unknown territory of themselves.
How is this power struggle created?
From IMDB
“Suburban Virginia schools have been segregated for generations. One Black and one White high school are closed and the students sent to T.C. Williams High School under federal mandate to integrate. The year is seen through the eyes of the football team where the man hired to coach the Black school is made head coach over the highly successful white coach. Based on the actual events of 1971, the team becomes the unifying symbol for the community as the boys and the adults learn to depend on and trust each other.”
—LMN13 IMDB
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What I learned: Create the tension of a power struggle obvious and immediate.
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