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March 19, 2021 at 4:58 pm in reply to: Lesson 3

Jeff’s Character Profile Part 2


”What I learned doing this assignment is…?” and put it at the top of your work.

It is fun fleshing out your characters and seeing what contradictory attributes you can make them have!

Colonel Kilher:

What draws us to this character? We are impressed by his gumption, effectively using force not for violence but for positive change. 

Traits: Inspiring, visionary, strong, decisive

Subtext: He doesn’t like mambie-pambie actions or talk

Flaw: believes in himself and philosophy a little too much, expects others to go along always!

Values: Loyalty, integrity,

Irony: He’s a softy for tears (office worker cries, he stops being loud or acting angry), children (being a good father; but was he a good father to his son that died in the Gulf War?)

What makes this the right character for this role? Who else will take decisive action against those with low morales and takes advantage of the freedom America gives to people to make a living?! 

Telemarketing Company/Caller/president (maybe Russian immigrant):

What draws us to this character? The company takes advantage of Americans who are gullable because American society has become so soft and easy to live/exist. When others who struggle for income or survival come up against this ease they can only take advantage of it. Because it other parts of society/world if you don’t have good survival skills you won’t last long so there isn’t much sympathy for those who are weak.

Traits: Ruthess, exploitive, clever, greedy

Subtext: They are working to raise their children in USA even though they are immoral in how they go about it; they take their home-country survival experience and continue to apply them in USA when they could ease on their harshness.

Flaw: see subtext statement – they are undermining the very reason they came to America.

Values: do anything for family, if you aren’t strong you are nothing, work hard to survive,

Irony: They don’t connect that exploiting fellow citizens will alienate them from their children.

What makes Colonel Kilher the right character for this role? Who else will take decisive action against those with low morals and takes advantage of the freedom America gives to people to make a living?!

What makes Telemarketer president the right character for this role? He embodies what we don’t like about immigrants in USA – taking advantage of the ease of life and exploiting our trust. 

 3. Make any improvements you think of to your Part 1 profile and bring the two parts together. 

Is this a dramady, a serious subject (American’s being exploited) with a preposterous response? Does the exposition of immoral immigrants stir anger or indifference with the audience?

4. Answer the question “What I learned doing this assignment is…?” and put it at the top of your work.

It is fun fleshing out your characters and seeing what contradictory attributes you can make them have!
JEFF KECK

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March 17, 2021 at 9:55 pm in reply to: Post Your Lesson 2 Assignment Here

Jeff’s Character Profiles

2. Pick the type of role your Protagonist will play and give us a few sentences on how they will fulfill that role.

Fighter 

3. Pick the type of role your Antagonist will play and give us a few sentences on how they will fulfill that role.

Predator 

4. What other characters might be necessary? 

Supporting characters: his team for the assault

Minor roles: office workers

Background characters: waitress, congressman

5. Pick your genre.

Action 

6. Fill in whatever answers come to you about your lead character profiles:

Role in the story: Fighter / Victim. Retired colonel who misses leading people to victory; is taken advantage of by modern technology

Age range and Description: late 50s male, still in good shape due to strong work ethic and discipline.

Internal Journey: From retired and feeling not useful to finding new purpose that is appreciated by all Americans.

External Journey: From being a military leader to being a civilian one; assaulting an office versus a military target. 

Motivation: needs to help a friend who is scammed and loses his life savings; wants to know he is still capable soldier/leader

Wound: retirement, also possible discharge before he was ready to retire

Mission/Agenda: to take out office building of cold calling telemarketing company.

Secret: that he wants to continue to use his leadership skills and discovers that he can do it in the civilian world too.

What makes them special? That he really cares about people and the American Way.
JEFF KECK

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March 17, 2021 at 9:27 pm in reply to: Post Your Day 1 Assignment Here

Jeff’s Transformational Journey


2. Who is your Hero and what is their Character Arc that represents a transformation? 

Internal Journey: That the waning of American values can be corrected and that his belief and support of them validates his life.

External Journey: When government doesn’t protect the citizens the military/gun is still a validate way to right the wrong, just like the 2nd amendment provided! 

3. What are the Old Ways and New Ways? Letting others right the wrong, after coming out of “retirement”, and being effective like always, the NEW WAY he realizes that he is needed and decides to run his own cold calling telemarketing company! 

4. Answer the question “What I learned doing this assignment is…?” and put it at the top of your work. That my initial idea did not have a transformation in it. It was an action film.

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