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Week 2 Day 4: Character Reveal – SPIDER-MAN
1. Please watch the scene and provide your insights into what makes this scene great from a writing perspective.
2. Read the other writers insights and make notes of how you will will reveal character in interesting ways.
3. Rethink or create your own Character Reveal scene using your new insights and rewrite the scene.
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Who is Peter Parker? He’s a loner who sits by himself in the high school cafeteria. He avoids conflict as he realizes that he will have to pay for the lunch tray incident—his fault but actually not because he’s not himself. His new found powers are revealed as he becomes aware of them—finger webbing with the stuck lunch tray, sharpened senses as he sees and hears things normally too insignificant to notice and defensive abilities as he fends off attacks by the high school bullies. The witnesses to this evolution—his peers—of course there’s not an adult in sight to tap down the violent situation—change from laughing at this dork to amazement. Peter is at once impressed by his new found abilities but his smile quickly dissolves into worry as he ponders what all this will mean to his life as reflected in his mercurial facial expressions.
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I love that we are collectively being shocked by the reveal – both the audience and the character. His reaction mimics our reaction, along with the witnesses in the scene. And using something as mundane as a food tray to reveal it is also great irony, only increased when the bully comes after him. It’s also a ‘root for the underdog’ type of moment that we all love. The intensity level raises as we see the bully coming at him, but secretly know we are about to likely see more powers come to fruition and we do get that payoff big time.
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