Carry you back great.
I hope he did the title and I hope it's a great one.
I hope you're happy with it.
OK what next in sculpting a cinematic story.
Well you need a lead character.
You need your protagonist hey who's going to carry this movie.
Movie stars.
Why would a movie star be attracted to your story.
What is it about that character.
Well the best movies the characters are flawed.
OK there's something about that character that haunts them.
They're not perfect.
My mentor Richard Walter at UCLA used to always say nobody wants to see the village of the happy people.
And he's right.
Nobody does.
So in your story you need to come up with a protagonist this multi-dimensional OK someone that is real
and rich and has depth and has hurt and has angered has a ghost that haunts them.
Not literally well maybe literally but figuratively what haunts them what from their past is carried
in to their present and will affect their future.
OK that's what we want to see when we go to the movies.
Think about your favorite movie.
Think about your favorite characters.
What is it about those characters that resonate with you.
All right in an officer and a gentleman there Richard Gere character Zach Mayo.
OK he comes from an environment where his mother committed suicide.
His father is an alcohol and alcoholic and a womanizer and he grew up above a whorehouse in the Philippines.
So he doesn't trust women because his mother killed herself he doesn't trust men because his father
was of no resource to him.
And he feels like he's on his own and in going through life as as an isolated person.
They can't trust anybody.
So it makes sense the choices he makes in that movie OK and he's an interesting character because how
does this seemingly unsavory character with a lot of baggage go from being this a guy with long hair
and tattoos to an officer and a gentleman which is the title of the movie and also the goal of the movie.
OK.
So think about your protagonist What is it about that he or she that special.
Look at a character like Erin Brockovich OK or Michael Corleone in The Godfather.
I mean these are rich well sculpted characters that have many dimensions.
What does yours have.
So take the time settle in and breathe.
And this is what you're going to do.
You're going to do a character rant.
OK.
I want to hear the voice of your character talking in the first person.
I want to know what they're all about.
I want you to just on leash on a full page.
I want you to just leave them talking.
And they could be pissed off about something they could be elated about something.
But I want to hear that character's voice and I want to understand who this character is from your character.
OK.
And again this is the rule.
Don't micromanage macro movement motivate creative confetti just let it go.
All right.
I'm going to stammer and stutter and trip over my words.
I don't care.
I want you to get this information.
OK.
So just unleash your character.
And if you're dangerous inappropriate offensive great if that's who the character is then I am happy
with it.
OK.
Three two one.
All right.
Your character Ron.