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Week 2 Day 5: Protag/Antag Relationship Scene — THE DARK KNIGHT
1. Please watch the scene and provide your insights into what makes this scene great from a writing perspective.
2. Read the other writers comments and make notes of how you will improve the relationship between your protagonist and antagonist.
3. Rethink or create a scene showing the relationship between your protagonist and antagonist using your new insights and rewrite the scene.
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WATCH 1ST TIME FOR:·
BASIC SCENE COMPONENTS — SCENE ARC, SITUATION, CONFLICT, ENTERTAINMENT VALUE, MOVING THE STORY FORWARD, AND SETUP/PAYOFFS.
– Batman is bashing the Joker in the interrogation room (his super-strength, not allowed, police brutality??) to the Joker holding out about the whereabouts of Dent and Rachel (beginning to get the upper hand by evil smarts) to he gives the far apart locations — seems to cave, but Batman can only save one, so the evil joke will be on Batman because one will die (as if Batman killed that one, when it was the Joker who did, but Batman will blame himself, or at least regret).
WATCH 2ND TIME FOR:
WHAT MAKES THIS SCENE GREAT?
– Joker’s theme that the Batman completes him (? They are 2 sides of the same coin ?), thus he really doesn’t want to kill Batman
HOW THESE TWO ENEMIES ARE SIMILAR AND HOW THEY ARE DIFFERENT.
– They are both “freaks” as the Joker points out (one a super-hero, one a super-villain). They are both vigilantes, working outside the law. They’re both smart and active against the crime world, but for different reasons. Batman is more straight and together; the Joker has serious psycho problems & is not only against the bad guys, but the good guys whom he thinks are also evil or prone to evil. The Joker is downright arrogant, Batman is self-assured and more human-vulnerable. Joker has no rules, Batman has one??
WHAT ARE THEIR MOTIVATIONS FOR BEING IN THIS RELATIONSHIP?
– They seem to be after the same bad guys, the mafia, but the Joker uses ruthless methods and gets regular and semi-bad people to become worse and/or get killed. So Batman is not only out to control regular crime but also to stop the Joker. But the Joker is out to outwit Batman and best him, like the evil stepmother wanting to be the fairest of them all — total arrogance and need to be number one.
INTERESTING ACTION AND DIALOGUE.
– Batman getting rough with the Joker (who just takes it, taunting Batman), and discussion of their similar and different roles and ethics/philosophies/worldviews, and them compared to regular people.
WHAT MAKES THIS SCENE GREAT FROM A WRITING PERSPECTIVE
– not only does Batman need to get the info on the whereabouts of Dent and Rachel, but the interesting banter between them.
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