Trosky Long
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Trosky’s Lead Characters
“What I learned doing this assignment is…?” Each character whether the lead or supporting character plays a pivotal role in the creating depth aspect of a truly profound screenplay.
1. Job goes from an insecure teenager, not understanding who he is as a person, to becoming someone who is truly confident with himself as a person.
2. Trina is unaware she is changing Job because of their new relationship together because she is making it a point to get to know who Job is and discover himself as a person.
3. Trina – use to having and getting her way but with Job it’s a challenge and eventually, she discovers her flaws as a person.
Job – Confused and scared about his sexuality Job was willing to live a lie as long as it made his life comfortable. Within that “comfort” Job was never happy with himself and in the process, his lies were manipulating and hurting others.
4. Job is a gay high school senior whose father is one of the most prominent Pastors in his community. At a time when “being gay” was unpopular and taboo Job is willing live countless lies to keep his sexuality a secret.
5. Trent is the betraying character because he hates Job simply because he sees the life that Job has(2 parent household, Nice home, Family atmosphere, etc) and thinks he has it made. Trent comes from a broken home where he was never shown or experienced true love in his life.
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Trosky’s Transformational Journey
“What I learned doing this assignment is…?” From beginning to end the best characters will/should evolve as people.
1. Logline: Job during his senior year of high school realizes he’s gay and while trying to hide his secret, through assorted friends sees that you can only be happy when you are happy with yourself.
2. Old ways – Job will do whatever it takes to hide his secret about his sexuality.
3. New ways – Comes to a realization that as long as he continues to live a lie he will never be truly happy.
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Trosky Long’s First Three Decisions
“What I learned doing this assignment is…?” You can never have enough depth when it comes to writing a thought-provoking profound screenplay.
1. What is your profound truth? As we live our lives we discover that true happiness comes when you are free to be yourself.
2. What is the change your movie will cause with an audience? Everyone is shaped by their own situations and circumstances in life. However, in the end, we are all the same.
3. What is your Entertainment Vehicle that you will tell this story through? The cause is the background – Senior year of High school
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Trosky Long’s Analysis of Groundhog Day
1. What is the CHANGE this movie is about? What is the Transformational Journey of this movie? The change was in Phil as a person. He went from a self-absorbing, selfish, arrogant person to become a person who was selfless, generous, kind person and all about helping others.
Transformational journey – The beginning of arriving in the small town(not wanting to be there). In the end, when he decided with Rita he wanted to live there permanently.
2. Lead characters: Who is the Change Agent (the one causing the change) and what makes this the right character to cause the change? Who is the Transformable Character (the one who makes the change) and what makes them the right character to deliver this profound journey? What is the Oppression? Rita is the change agent, but she is unaware of it. Because of her zest for life and how she treats people.
* Phil is a transformable character because his overall look at life changed dramatically from beginning to the end.
* Phil realized his life was a continuous cycle at first and he abused that power at first, but in the process, he realized no matter what he tried he could never get what he wanted.
3. How are we lured into the profound journey? What causes us to connect with this story? Wondering if Phil would ever move on to another day, thinking he was forever trapped to that exact day.
* Phil’s transformation as a person.
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: Phil
* old ways – selfish, arrogant, manipulative, thoughtless, careless, greedy
* new ways – Kind, generous, fun-loving, selfless, thoughtful, aware, more into helping others
5. What is the gradient the change? What steps did the Transformational Character go through as they were changing? The gradient change went through 3 phases for me….
1st- When Phil realized what was happening he abused the situation by each day doing what was exactly best for him in order to get exactly what he wanted from each day.
2nd- Phil became destructive with the numerous attempts to kill himself and was extremely careless on each given day.
3rd- Phil decided to make the best out of each day and made it a point to better himself as a person while in the process of getting to know and helping others. I felt like he found his sense of purpose in life.
6. How is the “old way” challenged? What beliefs are challenged that cause the main character to shift their perspective…and make the change? The old way was challenged that no matter what Phil did differently each day he had to live with himself.
* The belief that Phil could make Rita fall in love with him by manipulating her thoughts, which never succeeded and never got him the true love he wanted from her.
7. What are the most profound moments of the movie? When Phil made it a point to help people each day, truly better himself as a person and make the best out of each situation.
8. What are the most profound lines of the movie? When Phil asked, “What would you do if you were stuck in one place and every day was exactly the same and nothing else mattered?”
* Phil said, “What if there were no tomorrow, we could do exactly what we wanted.”
9. How does the ending pay off the setups of this movie? Rita explained to Phil what the perfect guy was to her. Phil tried to artificially become that guy and through manipulation but it never worked. Once chose to better himself as a person that’s when Rita took notice and he truly gained her heart and love.
10. What is the Profound Truth of this movie? No matter what life throws at us, if we take time to appreciate each day for what it’s worth and choosing to help others we will experience the true gratification of life.
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Trosky Long
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Hello everyone My name is Trosky Long. Technically I haven’t written any screenplays yet but I have around 3 that are unfinished LOL. What I hope to gain out of this class is more of a determined, strong, and super creative writing style. I want my writing to stand out amongst the greatest and I’m here to learn all I can. I’m a sport, music, and movie fanatic.
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Great analysis, you hit some points dead on the head!!