Post by MenelaosGkikas on Apr 13, 2022 12:13:12 GMT
Republished from my Facebook Page Maker's Dust, February 21 2022
Hello creatives and all social networkers around the world! The title of this article has been inspired by the YouTube video of Samuel Jackson on how to create dramatic characters. So just let me start with this video and figure out in the process where this article leads. YouTube is an excellent database on figuring out concepts about writing, drama, etc. S. Jackson implies there is character background that justifies, why someone behaves this or the other way. Where does he come from? What does he do? Who are his parents?? Is he educated? How much educated he is? What’s his wealth? Does he have a military background? Did he go to the army? Who is he? How old is he? Sometimes we will never have to explain that to an audience or to cast members. But it’s important to know it us as persons, because those kind of things are important in terms of how we feel about people, how we look at them, how we interpret their actions, what are our prejudices towards them, if they’re smarter than us, etc.
Samuel Jackson though implies a logical rule in terms of explaining that kind of stuff. Creating plenty of backstory to understand what comes next is a practice being negatively judged in Hollywood as exposition. It’s not exposition though in literary terms but it’s the going forward instead of backwards process that now matters more than ever. Of course, in real life education sets us apart from others, but when it comes to drama there are a lot of people around us being educated and a lot of people are desensitized to the process. Unless this stuff plays a vital part in the development of a story. Unless, maybe, perhaps, otherwise, it’s kinda funny to play with words and try to predict the impossible. Mathematic logic will always predict one side of the truth, a specific worldview and you know why? Because now it’s clear that to figure out “why” someone says some things, why does he feel like that etc, a lot of times has been based on deeply established beliefs that may not prove that deep after all…
First rule of thumb, get rid of such beliefs! But how?! A lot of times the instinct of fear towards circumstances, or better said, situations that may favor us or not, the fear of judging or rejection always exist in our minds. The meanings we give to our events are not the events but it’s the value of what’s true and what’s made up. What do you know for sure in other words? The fact that it’s important to have great energy, but we can’t depend on mere logic anymore. What’s being stated as real that math has been the beginning of everything exists in the universe, but we can’t unify it that much when it comes to people, the environment, we just can’t explain it that deep. But I have figured out also that many people when they intent to have global attributes, they use the word universe, universal, as an excuse instead of describing it plainly. It’s simple and it’s plain, why should you complain?
Characters are our avatars in parallel universes. They’re pieces of us, the writers’ supposed to be accomplishments that were not achieved, or better say our idols. Figuring out why ‘we’ behave as such, we may indirectly portray (and that goes deep), what we put actors do. To inform actors about their actions, scripts must have clarity and precision. It’s true that gaming with words, makes us say from now on we can’t always express ourselves however we’d like. If such beliefs have done good to us, then yes, maybe. But there always will be realities of people doing the same things and the first one departs to heavens and the other one crumbles. The sky is the limit! One way to become productive, in the sense of fantastic with words, is to distort them. But again, assuming everyone else is distorted and this guy or this woman is right, is definitely a chimera. Writers must learn how to work with different environments, different expectations from their pieces or by knowing, that not all people respond to scripts the same way. The key to good work, sometimes it's patience, sometimes it’s knowing the rules and most of the times, it’s the natural laws of evolution that define us or they’re being defined by force majeure. Have a great time folks!
Interested to find out about the projects that started it all? Get to know my work through Amazon Author Page and my website at Independent Authors Network (IAN):
Amazon Author Page: amazon.com/author/makersdust
The Independent Authors Network: bit.ly/39chSSQ showcasing Amazon, Barnes & Noble, Kobo & Walmart as well as the diversity of some of my professional pages!
Hello creatives and all social networkers around the world! The title of this article has been inspired by the YouTube video of Samuel Jackson on how to create dramatic characters. So just let me start with this video and figure out in the process where this article leads. YouTube is an excellent database on figuring out concepts about writing, drama, etc. S. Jackson implies there is character background that justifies, why someone behaves this or the other way. Where does he come from? What does he do? Who are his parents?? Is he educated? How much educated he is? What’s his wealth? Does he have a military background? Did he go to the army? Who is he? How old is he? Sometimes we will never have to explain that to an audience or to cast members. But it’s important to know it us as persons, because those kind of things are important in terms of how we feel about people, how we look at them, how we interpret their actions, what are our prejudices towards them, if they’re smarter than us, etc.
Samuel Jackson though implies a logical rule in terms of explaining that kind of stuff. Creating plenty of backstory to understand what comes next is a practice being negatively judged in Hollywood as exposition. It’s not exposition though in literary terms but it’s the going forward instead of backwards process that now matters more than ever. Of course, in real life education sets us apart from others, but when it comes to drama there are a lot of people around us being educated and a lot of people are desensitized to the process. Unless this stuff plays a vital part in the development of a story. Unless, maybe, perhaps, otherwise, it’s kinda funny to play with words and try to predict the impossible. Mathematic logic will always predict one side of the truth, a specific worldview and you know why? Because now it’s clear that to figure out “why” someone says some things, why does he feel like that etc, a lot of times has been based on deeply established beliefs that may not prove that deep after all…
First rule of thumb, get rid of such beliefs! But how?! A lot of times the instinct of fear towards circumstances, or better said, situations that may favor us or not, the fear of judging or rejection always exist in our minds. The meanings we give to our events are not the events but it’s the value of what’s true and what’s made up. What do you know for sure in other words? The fact that it’s important to have great energy, but we can’t depend on mere logic anymore. What’s being stated as real that math has been the beginning of everything exists in the universe, but we can’t unify it that much when it comes to people, the environment, we just can’t explain it that deep. But I have figured out also that many people when they intent to have global attributes, they use the word universe, universal, as an excuse instead of describing it plainly. It’s simple and it’s plain, why should you complain?
Characters are our avatars in parallel universes. They’re pieces of us, the writers’ supposed to be accomplishments that were not achieved, or better say our idols. Figuring out why ‘we’ behave as such, we may indirectly portray (and that goes deep), what we put actors do. To inform actors about their actions, scripts must have clarity and precision. It’s true that gaming with words, makes us say from now on we can’t always express ourselves however we’d like. If such beliefs have done good to us, then yes, maybe. But there always will be realities of people doing the same things and the first one departs to heavens and the other one crumbles. The sky is the limit! One way to become productive, in the sense of fantastic with words, is to distort them. But again, assuming everyone else is distorted and this guy or this woman is right, is definitely a chimera. Writers must learn how to work with different environments, different expectations from their pieces or by knowing, that not all people respond to scripts the same way. The key to good work, sometimes it's patience, sometimes it’s knowing the rules and most of the times, it’s the natural laws of evolution that define us or they’re being defined by force majeure. Have a great time folks!
Interested to find out about the projects that started it all? Get to know my work through Amazon Author Page and my website at Independent Authors Network (IAN):
Amazon Author Page: amazon.com/author/makersdust
The Independent Authors Network: bit.ly/39chSSQ showcasing Amazon, Barnes & Noble, Kobo & Walmart as well as the diversity of some of my professional pages!