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A character driven by the Power of Ambition can be a hardworking, eager, charming optimist with a “can-do” spirit—or a lying, manipulative, backstabbing striver who will do anything to get ahead in life.
They can be aspirational characters who want to rise from a lowly station to a more exalted one. Or they can be prostitutes, frauds, fakers or con artists, always on the hustle. In either case, their status, popularity and social importance is key to these characters.
Christopher, Uncle Junior and Carmela in The Sopranos; Miranda in Sex and the City; David Brent in the UK version and Michael Scott in the US version of The Office, are all great television examples of this character.
Film examples include: Vivian Ward in Pretty Woman; Bud Fox in Wall Street; Vicomte de Valmont in Dangerous Liaisons; and Suzanne Stone in To Die For. Tom Cruise has played many Power of Ambition characters over his career including: Charlie Babbitt in Rain Man, Jerry Maguire in Jerry Maguire, Vincent in The Color of Money, Mitch McDeere in The Firm, Jasper Irving in Lions for Lambs, and Frank TJ Mackey in Magnolia.
The Power of Ambition eBook explains how all these characters are alike and how each character is made individually distinct.
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The Power of Ambition eBook illustrates exactly how to create and differentiate this character based on his or her:
1. World View (beliefs about how the world works) What
are the essential core beliefs that motivate a Power of Ambition
character’s actions?
2. Role or Function (position in the story or role in the
ensemble) What do the other players look to a Power of Ambition
character to do or provide in the story?
3. Values in Conflict (competing values that push the
character to extremes) What the opposing choices establish the Power of Ambition character’s moral code? What is this character willing to
fight, sacrifice or die for? And why?
4. Story Questions (emotional journey in the story)
What personal issues, dilemmas and internal conflicts does a Power of Ambition character wrestle with over the course of the story? What
does this character ask of him or her self? What is this character's
Leap of Faith in an emotionally satisfying story.
5. Story Paradox (emotional dilemma) What is the duality or the contradiction at the heart of a Power of Ambition character’s story struggle?
6. Life Lessons (how to complete the
emotional journey) What must a Power of Ambition character learn
over the course of the story to make a clear, satisfying personal
transformation?
7. Dark Side (this character as a predator or antagonist)
What happens when a Power of Ambition character’s actions are driven
entirely by fear? How might or how does the story end in tragedy?
8. Leadership Style (what defines and
qualifies this character as a leader) How does a Power of Ambition
character convince others to follow? How does this character take
charge and command?
9. Film Examples
(the Power of Ambition character as a protagonist)
10. Television Examples (the Power of Ambition character as central to an ensemble)
11. Real Life Examples
(historical Power of Ambition figures on the world stage)
You can immediately apply this information. This eBook contains a full
analysis of the Power of Ambition character in his or her many
different guises and roles.
It provides an in-depth discussion of this
character's action and dialogue in several films and/or television
shows and scores of other examples and scenes and dialogue from a
variety of classic and recent films and television programs.
There is
a chart of the character's core motivations and characteristics to use
as quick reference. This handy tool sums the character up succinctly
and serves as a guide as you write.
After reading this eBook you will
have a thorough understanding of the Power of Ambition character's
motivations, psychological dynamics and internal conflict. You see how the variety
of characters in the Type are the same and how they are made
individual, distinct and unique.
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A Complete Character Analysis
Dozens of Examples from
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Learn how to create authentic character
responses and reactions that are recognizably “true” at every step of
the story and during every moment of screen time.
Discover a Power of Ambition character's specific goals, unique
emotional obstacles and very distinct responses and reactions to any
opportunity, challenge or threat that might come up in the story.
This eBook will help you develop unique,
original, evocative and authentic Power of Ambition characters that
fully explore all the contradictions, reversals and surprises of this
character as a fully formed three-dimensional human being.
Using this
approach, you can deliver on and EXCEED audience expectations. The
audience will instantaneously recognize and relate to your character
because your character “feels real.”
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