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Week 3 Day 4 – What did you learn?
Post the answer to the question, “What I learned rewriting my scene/character…?”
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An ambivalent character is what Cypher represents, though he is a cold hard sociopath killing others, and for what? A life as as a fashion plate eating great food! I think Skunk, one of the characters in my script, and his ilk, are always so strange to me, because it is always so important how they appear, not who they actually are. His insistence on eating in fancy restaurants, food so rich it can make you sick.
My scene where Christina can not eat, when she is pregnant and nauseous and throws up is similar. She then overhears what the two men are plotting to do with her baby, They have the same kind of character elements as the matrix scene, though the outcome is about something so different.
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I learned that a character’s climax will track with or mirror that of the story structure … in the final act. Cypher is willing to kill everyone who he believes betrayed him… and he ultimately dies too while claiming to prefer the Matrix to reality.
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A climax can often be a choice between two belief systems as well as a fight between people. Star Wars has that too and in two of my scripts, the climax is a battle between competing world views or belief systems, not just a victory of one person over another.
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