Leanne Lucas
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What I learned: I’m not sure I learned anything – this one was incredibly difficult for me.
Leanne Delivers Irony (?)
1. There is one particularly nasty sailor who constantly ridicules the passengers. When Bess hears some of her friends speaking of him in similar terms, she tells them they must be kind to him whether or not he is kind to them. The captain overhears her, and when the sailor becomes ill, Bess is asked to take care of him as he is dying. She wants to refuse, but knows she can’t.
2. When a Native American comes striding into the village, the colonists are prepared to capture and question him, convinced he is going to do them harm. Then he begins to speak – in English – and all their preconceived notions go out the window.
3. When Bess and Constance argue about John Howland and his qualifications to do a certain job, Bess wins the argument, only to realize she has just ignited Constance’s interest in John. Now she is jealous.
4. At the beginning of the movie, Bess believes the Native Americans are uneducated savages who will be interesting to know, but have nothing to teach her. Then, in different scenes, her Native American friend teaches her how to catch eel, make bread from maize, and play a complicated game, and she realizes they are ‘equal, but different.’
5. Even though Bess has learned to shoot, the men are still condescending. When leaders from a local tribe visit and see that a woman is carrying a gun, they ask her to shoot. The leaders of the colony are reluctant but finally agree, and Bess surprises them all by shooting a turkey that they use for a common meal.
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Leanne Delivers Insight Through Conflict
1. Bess has butted heads with Constance Hopkins since the beginning of the voyage, and she tells her father about their confrontations. She questions whether their little congregation will get along with the ‘Strangers’ that have joined them on the Mayflower. Her father advises patience. Then Bess listens to the argument between William Brewster and Stephen Hopkins as they debate whether to stay together as a group once they reach the New World. She recognizes that despite their differences, both parties were willing to compromise to get along, and she decides she should try to do the same with Constance.
2. Bess and John Howland argue about whether Bess should stay in Plymouth or return to England on the Mayflower. Bess says there is nothing for her in the New World now that her parents are dead. John echoes what her father asked her – “Don’t you believe God has a purpose for you here?” Hearing her father’s words from another man gives Bess pause, and she realizes that she may not know her purpose, but returning home would feel like a failure, and she wants to stay in the New World.
3. When John Howland is asked to be the ‘scribe’ for the peace treaty between the Native Americans and the colonists, Constance Hopkins questions his qualifications for the job. Bess comes to his defense and the confrontation between the two young girls is intense. When Constance is convinced, she does an about face and begins to see John in a new light. Bess is jealous, and she realizes she has feelings for John.
4. When Bess convinces Governor Bradford to teach her to shoot, Constance Hopkins joins the group. She doesn’t appreciate the seriousness of what they are doing, seeing it almost as a game they’re playing. Bess chastises her in the strongest way, and Bradford is impressed, recognizing that Bess is indeed strong and capable, despite her youth and gender.
5. As the drought progresses, John Howland confronts Bess about her lack of faith. She argues that faith has gotten them nowhere – their crops are failing. John questions her understanding of faith, and Bess finally understands trusting God means submitting to His will, not demanding her own.
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Leanne’s Insights and New Ways
1. Insight/New Ways – Groups with opposing views can work together despite their differences. Action/When the Mayflower lands at Plymouth, there is dissension among the passengers. The ‘Strangers’ want to separate from the ‘Saints’ because they don’t share similar views. When Elder Brewster is told by Stephen Hopkins “we don’t believe in your bible or your god,” Brewster pulls a knife from Hopkins’ belt and puts it to the throat of William Bradford. Then he asks, “Do you know the person who forged this knife?” “No.” “What will happen if I thrust it through Master Bradford’s throat?” “He will die.” “So you trust the creation even though you don’t know the creator.” “I know from experience what it can do.” “And I know from experience what the principles in the Bible can do. They work every time they are used – whether you know the creator of them or not.” The Mayflower Compact is the end result.
2. Insight/New Ways – Separatists learned to see Native Americans as “equal but different.” Action/When Bess goes with other colonists to visit a Wampanoag village, she watches mothers in both groups compare their babies, children in both groups teach each other to play with different toys, and she meets a girl her own age who has similar interests
3. Insight/New Ways – Separatist women were capable of taking care of themselves. Action/Bess ‘forces’ the men of the colony to teach the women how to shoot. She later successfully shoots and kills a turkey for their meal.
4. Insight/New Ways – The Separatists were servants, willing to put the needs of others before their own. Action/After suffering verbal abuse at the hands of one particularly nasty sailor, Bess willingly cares for him as he lays dying. Much later in the story, one of the Separatists cares for the Wampanoag chief and many of his people when they are struck down by a repulsive infection.
5. Insight/New Ways – Human efforts are only effective when submitted to the will of God. Acceptance of the idea that God’s will might not be the same as your will. Action/Bess does everything in her power to make her crops grow, but the drought eventually brings her, literally, to her knees.
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Leanne’s Living Metaphors
What I learned doing this assignment is the different challenges can do double duty.
SHOULD WORK, BUT DOESN’T
Bess tries to keep herself and her family safe by relying on the old ways (men stay home and protect you) but when that doesn’t work, she takes on the responsibility of keeping herself safe by learning how to shoot. She is challenging the old ways in this situation, but she is still basing the safety of those she loves on something other than trust in God, which is the real challenge to her old ways of thinking.
LIVING METPHOR
When the Native Americans come to discuss a peace treaty, Squanto becomes a Living Metaphor by challenging the colonists beliefs of Native Americans being heathen savages. He shows them he is peaceful and willing to negotiate with them, and he has a deep faith in the same God they believe in. The metaphor goes even deeper for Bess, because she sees someone who has experienced the same (actually, even greater) losses she has experienced, and he has found a way to reconcile his faith with his grief.
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Leanne’s Counterexamples
WHAT I LEARNED: I came to believe that, while “question’ and ‘dialogue’ challenges can be effective, I believe the ‘character’ and ‘experience’ counterexample challenges are more interesting. Just another way of saying “Show, don’t tell” I guess!
QUESTION CHALLENGES TO AN OLD WAY
1. When Bess’s father insists she behave within the male/female roles that are established in their community, she QUESTIONS him, saying “Why can’t I do the same things the boys do? I’m just as strong as they are.”
2. When Bess’s parents die, and Governor Carver says it is the custom to divide their possessions among the other colonists, Bess QUESTIONS him, saying “Those are the only keepsakes I have from my family – why can’t I keep them?”
3. When the Carver’s die, and the leaders in the colony want Bess (and two other girls) to go live with the Winslow family, Bess QUESTIONS the new governor, saying “Is it better to observe propriety in a new home with people we don’t know than it is to keep the security and stability we have found in this home?”
4. When Governor Bradford tries to stop Bess from learning to shoot, she QUESTIONS him, saying “Why can’t a woman learn to defend herself the same as a man?”
5. The colonists plan to go to meet the Native Americans for the first time, and many of them are reluctant to go to the village unarmed. But after Bess meets the Native Americans, she questions John Howland, saying “What were we afraid of? They’re just like us.”
COUNTEREXAMPLE CHALLENGES TO AN OLD WAY
1. DIALOGUE – Bess’s reluctance to continue her parents’ vision, or to trust/rely on anyone after her parents’ deaths is challenged by John Howland, who tells her “Yes, it’s still worth it, and no, you are not alone.”
2. CHARACTER – Bess is somewhat frightened and reluctant to interact with any Native Americans until the children of the Native American village offer her a toy and try to get her to play with them.
3. CHARACTER – Bess is consumed by her grief at the loss of her parents until she meets Squanto, who not only lost his family, but his whole tribe, after he was sold into slavery.
4. EXPERIENCE – John Howland is appalled to find out Bess has handled a gun, until he learns she is the one who killed the turkey he is eating.
5. EXPERIENCE – Bess believes she can take care of herself better than God, until her crops fail and prayer for rain is the only option left to her.
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Leanne’s Old Ways Challenge Chart
The OLD WAY has Bess under her parent’s authority, but she CHALLENGES this authority when she tries to defy her father’s wishes and when she states that going on the voyage was not her choice.
The OLD WAY has Bess caring for her parents when they get sick, and when they die, she goes to live with the Carvers. When the Carvers die, she must CHALLENGE the old ways by living in an unusual blended family situation, although she is still under the care of a man (John Howland).
The OLD WAY has Bess believing the Native Americans are savages, but that way is CHALLENGED when she meets them for the first time and realizes they are very similar to her.
The OLD WAY has Bess accepting John’s authority in the house, but when he has to leave (against her wishes) she CHALLENGES the old way by learning how to shoot a gun to protect herself.
The OLD WAY has some of the colonists track down and kill the leaders of a local tribe when they are threatened by them, but Bess CHALLENGES that way when she states her opposition to their actions.
The OLD WAY has the colonists living under a socialist economy, but that way is CHALLENGED when the leadership decides to move to a system of individual enterprise, and Bess is the first to embrace the system.
Although Bess appears to have challenged the old ways by taking on responsibility for her safety and her provision, her new OLD WAY is CHALLENGED when all her efforts fail.
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Leanne’s 12 Angry Men analysis
Assumption of guilt – “Look at his record” (But his father beat him since he was 5 years old). “Slums are breeding grounds for these kind of kids” (I grew up in a slum).
Just want this over – Game doesn’t start until 8
Not caring
Prejudice – “They’re all liars” (Female witness was same ethnicity as boy accused of murder, so why believe her and not him?) “Common ignorant slob – don’t speak good English” (Doesn’t speak good English); After the old man rants, Henry Fonda says, prejudice always obscures the truth.
Not looking beneath the surface – Why would old man say something was true if it wasn’t – did he have other motives?
Assuming the evidence is not questionable – Knife was not as unusual as they thought. Burden of proof is on the prosecution.
Assuming the witnesses were accurate – Could the old man really make it to the door in 15 seconds? Did the woman wear glasses?
Assuming the defense attorney did his job – Public defender assigned to a case he doesn’t want. Did he ask enough questions, or did he ask all the questions he could have?
Assuming the case is completely logical – Would a boy shout “I’m going to kill you” when he knew neighbors could hear? Would he really kill his father over a couple of slaps?
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A. PROFOUND TRUTH – When you make the faith you were raised with your own and give your spiritual journey to God, you are able to recognize His miraculous hand in your life. Bess came to understand that the Lord had gone ahead of her through the parents who lived their faith in front of her. She recognized that the efforts she had made to protect herself (friendship with the Native Americans, learning to shoot a gun, planting her own crops) might or might not be successful. When she came to the understanding that she could trust God with everything that happened, no matter the outcome, she finally found peace.
B. THE CHANGE – Bess went from a young girl (unwillingly) dependent on her parents’ wisdom and guidance to survive, to a young woman dependent only on the God she had come to love and trust. The change is internal, but we see it in her external actions when she accepts the apparent outcome of the drought and the loss of her crops.
C. PAYOFFS – Will the drought end? Will Bess (and the other colonists) survive? Will her friendship with the Native American Sokanon endure? Will John Howland reject her for her lack of faith, or will they marry?
D. SURPRISING – The colonists end the day of prayer for the drought with mended relationships and new trust in God to deliver them despite the lack of rain. Then, rain comes in the night, and their crops are saved.
E. PARTING IMAGE – The colonists gather for a Day of Thanksgiving, and John Howland sings the Lord’s Prayer. The words of the prayer reinforce Bess’s newfound belief that all is well when God’s will is done.
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1. I will intentionally create connections with Bess Tilley, the transformational character, and John Howland, the Change Agent.
2. Transformational character – We all relate to Bess Tilley as a teenager, forced to do what her parents require, even if she has no interest in it. We relate to her father as a caring man, but one Bess must obey, no matter what. We relate to her love for her parents (especially her father), even as we understand her desire to be seen as her own person by them. We are intrigued by her father’s challenge to her faith and wonder how that will play out. She is very likeable when she comforts her friend after her friend’s parents die, and when she takes care of John Howland in his ‘illness.’ When Bess’s own parents die, we empathize greatly with her grief and her fear of the future.
Change Agent – We first relate to and empathize with John Howland when we see him suffering from seasickness. When we hear his cringeworthy attempts at playing the lute, we can relate to and empathize with his embarrassment. When he is carried to the lower deck, soaking wet and unconscious, we are intrigued – what happened to him? He becomes very likeable when he offers Bess compassion and support after the deaths of her parents.
3. I learned when you have discovered as much as you can about your characters, it is easier to connect with them, and connect them to the audience.
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1) Bess Tilley is the transformational character we will go on the journey with.
2) A Pilgrim girl, orphaned in the New World, relies on her own strength to surmount personal loss and physical hardship before she comes to understand and believe it is the Lord who must sustain her through it all.
MM#1 – Status Quo and Call to Adventure
Bess Tilley is a Pilgrim girl who must accompany her parents on their journey to the New World. She is resentful of their calling and being required to leave her family and friends. She makes it clear to her father this calling was not her choice. When land is sighted and the men of the group choose a location for their colony, Bess is forced to get involved with the development of the new community and face potential problems with the native “savages.”
Old ways – Bess does what she is told, only because she has never challenged her parents before and is reluctant to do so now.
MM#2 – Locked Into Conflict
Sickness hits to the community and colonists begin to die. When her parents (and her aunt and uncle) die, Bess is devastated. She must make the decision to stay with the colony or go back to her home in Leiden.
Emotional gradient – Denial
John Howland, another colonists, encourages her to stay, and she decides she will stay to honor her parents.
Old ways – Bess is still looking to others to make her decisions.
MM#3 – Hero Tries to Solve Problem – and Fails
Bess must finish a letter telling her family her parents are gone.
Emotional Gradient – Anger
She and her cousins who were orphaned go to live with the governor (John Carver), his wife, and John Howland, Carver’s indentured servant. When a treaty is signed with the native Americans, Bess meets a young native girl and begins a friendship with her. She starts to adjust, but when both the governor and his wife die, her life is once again thrown into turmoil.
New ways – Bess gets her first glimpse of the natives and realizes they are much like her.
MM#4 – Hero Forms a New Plan
Bess and her cousins continue to live with John Howland, and they form an unusual, blended family. John implies marriage might be in order, but Bess is young and reluctant to make such a commitment just yet. She does look to John for guidance and protection, but when he must leave to go on various trips to find food and meet with the natives, Bess takes her protection (and that of her cousins) into her own hands. She learns how to shoot a gun and takes an active role in the raising of crops.
Emotional gradient – Bargaining
New ways – By refusing John’s offer of marriage, and learning how to shoot a gun and plant crops, Bess is beginning to make her own decisions.
MM#5 – Hero Retreats & the Antagonism Prevails
The colonists celebrate the first harvest together, and there appears to be enough food to see them through the winter. Then another ship arrives, with 35 passengers who have NO provisions. With 35 extra mouths to feed, their celebration is short-lived. Everyone goes to half-rations and they barely survive the winter. When spring comes, only a few are willing to do the hard work to provide for the community. The result is a very poor harvest, and they suffer through another bad winter. Bess knows that changes must be made.
MM#6 – Hero’s Bigger, Better Plan
The leadership decides to change from a communal society to one of individual enterprise. They give each family group their own plot of land, and the family will keep whatever they can grow. Bess is thrilled to have her own land, knowing she can work hard and provide for their family group.
Emotional gradient – Still Bargaining
John offers marriage once again, and Bess considers it, but she is still reluctant. Bess and John plant their ground and the crops thrive, until…
MM#7 – Crisis and Climax
A drought hits, and the crops begin to fail. The drought continues and Bess pushes everyone in her family (and even her friends) to carry water to the fields in an effort to save her crops. When it becomes apparent that the crops will fail, the elders call for a Day of Humiliation and Prayer. Bess is skeptical, John questions her faith, and their relationships seems on the verge of breaking.
Emotional gradient – Depression
Challenge – When the crops begin to fail, Weakness/Bess takes her self-sufficiency too far and refuses to trust God (or anyone else).
MM#8 – New Status Quo
As the community meets to pray, strained relationships are reconciled and prayers are offered. Bess realizes her self-sufficiency has replaced her trust in God, and she recognizes her need to believe God is trustworthy and He wants the best for her, even when she can’t see exactly what it is. She leaves the meeting, more secure in her trust in God, even though the crops are still failing and there is no rain in sight.
Emotional gradient – Acceptance
That night, miraculously, a steady, gentle rain comes. It continues for almost three weeks, and the crops are saved. Bess agrees to marry John, and the whole community meets for the first real day of Thanksgiving.
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1. I am using the “Forced Change” emotional gradient.
2. DENIAL: Bess is unhappy that she has to comply with her parents desire to go to the New World, and when they become sick, she cannot believe she has to face their illness (and subsequent deaths) alone. Challenge/When her parents die, Weakness/she has no skills to cope with their death. ANGER: She is enraged when she must finish a letter her father wrote to her siblings, with news of their death. Challenge/How does she honor her parents’ belief in their calling to the New World when Weakness/she doesn’t believe in it or want to fulfill it? BARGAINING: Bess decides she must protect and save herself and the only people she has left, so she learns how to shoot a gun, and she plants her own crops. Challenge/She is trying to perform tasks typically not relegated to women and Weakness/she tries to do things herself without asking for help. DEPRESSION: When a drought occurs, her crops fail, despite her desperate attempts to take care of herself and the people around her. Challenge/She does everything she can to get her crops to grow (carry water to the fields, force others to help her) showing Weakness/ her willingness to manipulate others for her personal benefit. ACCEPTANCE: When the elders call for a day of Humiliation and Prayer to ask God for rain, Bess recognizes her self-sufficiency is really a reflection of her lack of trust in God, and she asks those around her for forgiveness. Challenge/Rain does not come right away and Weakness/Bess struggles to believe God’s ways are best.
3. I struggled to learn how to show emotional changes through action.
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Day 4A assignment:
1) A Pilgrim girl, orphaned in the New World, relies on her own strength to surmount personal loss and physical hardships before she comes to understand and believe it is the Lord who must sustain her through it all.
2) John Howland is the Change Agent. Howland is a young Pilgrim and the manservant of John Carver, who is the first governor of Plymouth and a devout Separatist. John Howland is only 21-22, so he has little experience of his own, but he has learned much from the governor and shares his desire to establish a colony in the New World that will implement the governmental structure they have learned from Scripture. He believes God has led them to the New World, and he wants to serve Him. He is passionate in his beliefs, and he is attracted to Bess Tilley (the transformable character) so he would be the natural person to help redirect her self-sufficient, mistrustful attitude to one of dependence on and trust in God.
3) Bess Tilley is the Transformable Character. Bess is a young girl, orphaned in the first three months after arriving in the New World. It was not her choice to leave Leiden, the only home she knew, and we know she questioned her parents’ decision. When they, and her aunt and uncle all die, she considers returning to Leiden, but she knows it would be a miserable homecoming and feel like a failure. She decides to honor her parents’ vision, but she’s going to do it her way. She takes steps to provide for and protect those she feels are in her care, and if God wants to bless her efforts, fine. If not, fine. She’ll do it without Him.
4) The Oppression is a combination of the harsh physical conditions which plague the colonists and the tension that exists between the colonists and the Native Americans.
5) Desire Minter is another Pilgrim girl who is part of the family group Bess eventually joins. Desire had no family when she came on the Mayflower, and the physical hardships she has had to endure are more than she ever anticipated. Although she admires Bess’s determination to overcome their circumstances, she does not believe it can be done, and frequently points out where Bess is failing in her efforts.
6) I learned this was an incredibly helpful way to focus on and define the main characters.
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I learned that it is very difficult to show emotional/spiritual changes from old to new ways in a concrete, physical manner.
A Pilgrim girl, orphaned in the New World, struggles to survive the harsh conditions on her own strength until she comes to understand and truly believes the Lord will sustain her through anything.
OLD WAYS
· Questions God’s plan
· Makes her own plan
· Learns to shoot a gun
· Plants and waters crop despite drought
NEW WAYS
· Acknowledges God is in control, even when she doesn’t see answers to her prayers
· Accepts her elders guidance
· Recognizes violence is not the best way to survive
· Helps others with their crops
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Leanne Lucas’s first three decision
Day 2 Assignment
What I learned: The effort to go deeper and find the profound truth told me as much about myself as it did about the screenplay I’m writing!
Profound truth – When you make the faith you were raised with your own and give your spiritual journey to God, you are able to recognize His miraculous hand in your life.
Profound change in viewers – The ability to recognize God’s hand in events around them and in their own life.
Entertainment vehicle – Embellished true story
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1) CHANGE – Phil Connors is a self-centered, pompous, sarcastic man with a sharp wit at the beginning of the movie. He tolerates the people around him (just barely) and uses them without compunction. We learn much later that he is also (of course) insecure, but he covers it well at the beginning. His ‘journey’ is disingenuous through the first half of the movie. He takes advantage of his situation to work his way into women’s lives, especially Rita’s, but when she calls him out (right at the middle of the movie) he begins his true journey. He learns depression and suicide do no good, and he eventually begins to get to know the people around him and help them when he can. He transforms into a kind, humble man who no longer has to bully people and manipulate his circumstances to his advantage. His transformation is complete (and the day ends) when he can sincerely say, “no matter what happens tomorrow, or for the rest of my life, I’m happy now.”
2) LEAD CHARACTERS – Change Agent: Rita is the one person that Phil can’t bully or dominate, and her relentless good will towards him (and everyone else) helps Phil recognize what a selfless, kind person is. Transformable Character: Phil is the character in dire need of change. If he can change, anyone can. Oppression: Groundhog Day itself is the relentless force that never stops.
3) CONNECTION WITH AUDIENCE – Phil’s goofy take on the weather makes him oddly likeable in the very first scene. When he mistreats his colleagues with his sarcastic wit, we laugh, probably because he is only saying out loud the things most of us would think about these not-too-likeable characters, but would keep to ourselves. We also wonder why the others tolerate him the way they do. It can’t be just because he is the ‘talent.’ Willard Scott aside, weathermen aren’t generally well-known celebrities, so we’re intrigued as to how these relationships work. We think Phil will get his come-uppance, we’re just waiting to see how..
4) OLD WAYS VERSUS NEW WAY – Old way: Phil bolsters his insecurity with his constant disparagement of his colleagues and anyone else with whom he comes in contact, and he manipulates his circumstances to his advantage. New way: Phil recognizes other people’s worth, and decides to accept and be happy in whatever circumstance he is in.
5) GRADIENT OF CHANGE
a. “People are morons…they’re hicks.”
b. Ridicules old man; ridicules Ned Ryerson
c. “What if there were no tomorrow? We could do anything we want.”
d. Kidnaps Punxsutawney Phil.
e. Learns details about Nancy Taylor to seduce her.
f. Learns details about Rita for same reason, but fails.
g. Recognizes hopelessness of situation and tries suicide.
h. Begins real change – helps old man, buys insurance from Ned, changes tire, saves man’s life, takes piano lessons.
i. When he can finally say, “No matter what happens tomorrow, or for the rest of my life, I’m happy now,” the day ends.
6) BELIEFS CHALLENGED – In the first half of the movie, Phil is true to character, only pretending to change to worm his way into women’s lives. When Rita finally calls him out, he seems to understand his depravity, but feels helpless to do anything about it since he lives the same day over and over. When depression and suicide don’t work, he finally understands he can do things to improve himself and improve his relationships with other people.
7) PROFOUND MOMENTS –
a. In the bar with the drunks, he asks “What would you do if you were stuck in the same place, and everyday was the same, and nothing you do matters?” One responds “Bout sums it up for me,” and you realize Phil just (briefly) understood what his whole life had been like, not just the days he’d repeated.
b. After Phil begins his real change, I felt every scene with the old man was profound, but especially the last one, where he realized he couldn’t save the man’s life.
c. After he makes the ice sculpture for Rita, he comes to the realization that gets him out of the cycle. “No matter what happens tomorrow, or for the rest of my life, I’m happy now.”
8) PROFOUND LINES – I’m not sure I know the difference between a profound line, and a line with profound subtext. Is there one?
a. “Someday somebody’s gonna see me interviewing a groundhog and think I don’t have a future.”
b. “What would you do if you were stuck in the same place and everyday was the same, and nothing you do matters?”
c. “Maybe the real God uses tricks, or maybe He’s not omnipotent, He’s just been around so long, He knows everything.”
d. “No matter what happens tomorrow, or for the rest of my life, I’m happy now.”
9) PROFOUND ENDING – Rita has willingly spent the night, the banter on the radio is different and the snow is still on the ground – all payoffs from earlier scenes. When he says “Let’s live here – we’ll rent to start.” you know he’s really changed.
10) PROFOUND TRUTH – Selfless love is the only thing that really works, and it allows you to take each day as it comes.
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Hi everyone, my name is Leanne Lucas and I’m writing from a very small town in Illinois. I worked as a writer for the University of Illinois for almost 20 years.
I am currently working on my first screenplay. My first love is writing children’s fiction, but a very good friend had an idea for a screenplay that he brought to me. He and his wife, and my husband and I have been meeting, researching and discussing this topic for over two years. I’ve read at least a dozen books on writing screenplays, but when I came across Hal’s Free-Class-Fridays, I felt I learned more from his discussions than I was reading in the craft books. So I signed up for this class, and I hope to learn how to truly impact the audience we want to reach.
Something unique about me? My very first assignment as a writer in the Dept. of Ag and Bio Engineering at U of I required me to go out in the field and watch a grad student test his computer program on variable rate application of fertilizer. The program worked great, but the manure spreader exploded, and I had to go home and change clothes and buy new shoes!
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Leanne Lucas
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