Thank you for the invitation! Lovely to be here!
Hey, Sandy, thanks for connecting. All the best, Spike.
Thanks for the invite, Sandy!!! Good to connect with another Texan.
Thanks LeAnn, yes it is!!
Advice when defining your story "bad guy" - I have read numerous scripts over the past year where, although the villain epitomized evil, their actions were not justified. They appeared to be evil for the sole reason of having a bad guy in the story. Just something to consider, but the best "bad guys...
Expand postAdvice when defining your story "bad guy" - I have read numerous scripts over the past year where, although the villain epitomized evil, their actions were not justified. They appeared to be evil for the sole reason of having a bad guy in the story. Just something to consider, but the best "bad guys" ever were usually doing something they personally believed very strongly about and did not set out to be intentionally evil. This gave them depth and more interest to the story. Here is a comical, yet "mostly" true link to help illustrate this point. **SOME EXAMPLES HERE ARE MUCH BETTER THAN OTHERS http://www.ebaumsworld.com/pictures/view/84319228/ Just something to consider.
love this conversation...I've always loved villains and believe they Make the story. We are all half-villain aren't we? It is the situation that makes us heroes or villains............................. and the situation is in our hands as writers!
It is definitely a tricky issue. If you explain too much about the villains, you might elicit too much sympathy for them! But it is good to see some sort of motivation. I was recently having a discuss...
Expand commentIt is definitely a tricky issue. If you explain too much about the villains, you might elicit too much sympathy for them! But it is good to see some sort of motivation. I was recently having a discussion with friends about the White Witch in "The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe", and how evil she is without any clear motivation. She's constantly exerting cruelty right and left, but never seems to enjoy a moment of it. Now that was (sort of) a children's book, so maybe evil just needed to be straight-up evil, but it did strike me, as an adult, that I would like to know at least a LITTLE bit of the motivation. But not too much! You need to find the balance--explain without eliciting sympathy. If they are really the villains in the story, the audience should be rooting against them. If you write a complex character with good and bad qualities, then that is a fully believable character, but I would not call that character a villain.
I did see in one movie a scene where a child asked an adult, "Am I a bad person?" The adult said, "there are no bad people--only bad actions." This is great advice for the real world, and for scripts...
Expand commentI did see in one movie a scene where a child asked an adult, "Am I a bad person?" The adult said, "there are no bad people--only bad actions." This is great advice for the real world, and for scripts with realistic people, but if you really want somebody for the audience to root against, make them bad!
I'm here because my daughter, Kara Rainer (Actor, Director, Producer) mentioned it to me, and I'm loving it!! I'm basically a woman with a lot of stories inside; a lot of Good stories! So, I've begun to put some of those stories down hoping that someone will find them interesting and enduring! My st...
Expand postI'm here because my daughter, Kara Rainer (Actor, Director, Producer) mentioned it to me, and I'm loving it!! I'm basically a woman with a lot of stories inside; a lot of Good stories! So, I've begun to put some of those stories down hoping that someone will find them interesting and enduring! My stories are wide-ranging from my life in Occupied Germany (as an American Army brat) in 1946, which Kara is writing; to my life working in nursing homes and hospice! They are full of drama, passion and humor. May I be able to record them accordingly. So, I'm here to learn even at my age. Good luck to all of you following your own stories, Sandy
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Sandy I would love to have you as one of our producers. If you like our film please pledge. It is a documentary called Earth Medicine, Here is the link to trailer if you have a few minutes. http://kck...
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