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Order The Power of Excitement eBook today!
A Complete Character Analysis
Dozens of Examples from
Film and Television
$29.95
A character driven by the Power of Excitement is the adventurer, bad boy, party girl or charming, amusing but irresponsible adult who never quite grew up. These characters are the life of the party in any story. They are the ones who find ways to make things fun. They are often risk-takers or innovators who seek out the next diversion, the new thrill or the most daring escapade.
These characters love variety and are willing to try anything — at least once. Although most often developed as a male character, this Character Type can also be an intriguing female role as, for example, Holly Golightly in Breakfast at Tiffany’s. Hugh Grant has played many of these charming unreliable boy/men in Four Weddings and a Funeral; About A Boy; Bridget Jones’s Diary and Notting Hill.
The title characters in the early James Bond movies and the Indiana Jones movies are examples of this protagonist as an adventurer or escape artist. The title character in the Austin Powers movies is the comedic version of the same devil-may-care swashbuckler. Earl Hickey in My Name is Earl; Dr. Christian Troy in Nip/Tuck; and Edina (Eddie) Monsoon in Absolutely Fabulous are great television examples.
The Power of Excitement eBook explains how all these characters are alike and how each character is made individually distinct.
ETB Power of Excitement eBook
Order The Power of Excitement eBook today!
A Complete Character Analysis
Dozens of Examples from
Film and Television
$29.95
The Power of Excitement 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 Excitement
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 Excitement
character to do or provide in the story?
3. Values in Conflict (competing values that push the
character to extremes) What opposing choices establish the Power of Excitement 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 Excitement 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 Excitement character’s story struggle?
6. Life Lessons (how to complete the
emotional journey) What must a Power of Excitement 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 Excitement 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 Excitement
character convince others to follow? How does this character take
charge and command?
9. Film Examples
(the Power of Excitement character as a protagonist)
10. Television Examples (the Power of Excitement character as central to an ensemble)
11. Real Life Examples
(historical Power of Excitement figures on the world stage)
You can immediately apply this information. This eBook contains a full
analysis of the Power of Excitement 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 Excitement 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.
ETB Power of Excitement eBook
Order The Power of Excitement eBook today!
A Complete Character Analysis
Dozens of Examples from
Film and Television
$29.95
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 Excitement 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 Excitement 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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Dozens of Examples from
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This month’s Notes from the Writers Room discusses how to
transition a long-standing and much loved character. I’m using James
Bond as an example. I will look at how screenwriters Neal Purvis &
Robert Wade and Paul Haggis moved James Bond into the next phase of
007’s life in the excellent film, Casino Royale.
