[AMIE WILLIAMS]

Amie’s Lead Characters

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Amie’s Transformational Journey

What I learned doing this assignment is: loglines are really f-ing difficult! I have written this one over and over and it is still not right (sigh). Perhaps this exercise is to teach you patience and self-forgiveness, something my main character is also trying to learn!

1. Logline:

A once-brilliant research scientist, haunted by the death of her 7-year-old son in a tragic accident, travels to a Greek island desperate to disappear, but instead meets a refugee girl, who pulls her into an underworld of even deeper despair, where nothing is as it seems, and the only way out is to forge unlikely alliances with those who understand your pain.

2. What I see as the Old Ways:
Antigone (Tig) the main character is a brilliant physicist. She relies on logic and empirical data to determine outcomes. She is obsessive, a bit ‘on the spectrum,’ hard on herself, methodical, afraid of emotions, attachment. As a mother, she was awkward, a perfectionist. Buried in her research, she barely had time for her child, and after his death she is consumed with guilt and unable to forgive herself. Estranged from her husband, she has also lost any interest in work and has started drinking and taking pills to numb her pain. She sees Greece as a place to disappear or even kill herself.

3. What I see as the New Ways:
Everything changes for Tig when she finds the injured refugee girl, Fati, hidden in a cave and on a whim (totally out of character but based on wanting to disappear) she decides to adopt the identity of her drowned mother. But Fati is not honest with her and as the story unfolds, Tig keeps having to compromise her usual cautious, fastidious self as she is drawn to Fati’s resilience and free spirit. She learns to let go of her control-freak ways and lets herself be led into strange, mystical experiences and encounters that make no sense to her former science-trained persona.
Their initial relationship is sparked by friction and distrust, but as it becomes clear Fati is in serious trouble, Tig keeps getting drawn into her drama, perhaps to mask her own.

The unlikely mother/daughter pair mirror each other’s pain, but also provide moments of spontaneous, insane joy, against the backdrop of a modern dystopia and a racist asylum system that lures with promises of freedom but then threatens violence and deportation.

[AMIE WILLIAMS]

Amie’s First Three Decisions

1. What’s the profound truth?
–we are all tied together by our shared trauma, it’s what makes us human

2. What is the change I want to see in the audience?
–you can overcome the worst pain in your life by helping someone else
–to forgive yourself you have to GIVE yourself

PICK A WORLD
Politics (refugee rights), road trip

ENTERTAINMENT VEHICLE: Metaphor? Greek Mythology

What I learned doing this assignment is I don’t really know what my entertainment vehicle is yet, and the change I want to see in the audience is far more personal than I originally thought.

[AMIE WILLIAMS]

Amie’s analysis of Ground Hog Day
What I learned about this movie is – how watching it with the parameters of ‘the profound screenplay’ prompts I actually grew to like it more than when I first watched it years ago.
1. What is the CHANGE this movie is about? What is the Transformational Journey of this movie? The change is about an egotistical, self-aggrandizing man not realizing how shallow and empty his life is until he meets a woman who is a naturally caring and giving person.
2. Lead characters:
o Who is the Change Agent (the one causing the change) and what makes this the right character to cause the change? RITA
o Who is the Transformable Character (the one who makes the change) and what makes them the right character to deliver this profound journey?
PHIL
o What is the Oppression?
3. How are we lured into the profound journey? What causes us to connect with this story? Through entertainment, and the gimmick of the day being the same over and over…
4. Looking at the character(s) who are changed the most, what is the profound journey? From “old ways” to “new way of being.” Identify their old way: Identify their new way at the conclusion:
Old way-Phil is full of himself, illusions of grandeur, judges others, looks down on others, acerbic wit, doesn’t seem to care about anything but himself
New way Phil takes risks, begins changing behaviours, etc.
5. What is the gradient the change? What steps did the Transformational Character go through as they were changing?
o Each day he gets a little more polite and less sure of himself
o He starts to care …the scene with the drunk guys at the bowling alley
o He starts to treat Rita better and his cameraman
o He learns poetry and piano
o Repeated small things like the diner and the homeless guy
6. How is the “old way” challenged? What beliefs are challenged that cause a main character to shift their perspective…and make the change? He becomes more interested in the people around him and because he has th superpower of knowing what happened the day before, he inversely gives up his power of control.
7. What are the most profound moments of the movie?
o Gets hit over the head with a shovel when he says “Im a celebrity with an emergency’
o When he falls from the hotel, tryng to stop whats happening to him
o Talking to Rita as she sleeps…telling her how when he first met her he wanted to hold her
o Giving CPR to the homeless guy
o Ice sculpting Rita (a bit corny)
8. What are the most profound lines of the movie?

o What would you do if you were stuck on in one place and every day was exactly the same? And nothing you did mattered
o Watch out for the first step, it’s a doozey
o What if there were no tomorrow
o I’m just amazed—how you can start a day with one kind of expectation and end up with something completely different
o No matter what happens tomorrow or for the rest of my life, I’m happy now
9. How does the ending payoff the ?setups of this movie?
Phil transforms
10. What is the Profound Truth of this movie?
When you actually take the first step outside yourself into a world you no longer control (or think you do), you can really let go and let love in.

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