Re: Seeking Character Arc advice
may help to look at the character's environment. where they start, where they may end. the story thread. in JAWS, brody starts on land where things are neat and tidy like he likes things to be until a girl is eaten by a shark and...at the end of the story he ends up in the ocean living his worst nightmare. and certainly didn't want to be on that boat at all (only did it after his kid almost got eaten), and then, when things got deadly just before credits roll, trying to stay above the waterline in his greatest fear and where he was sinking while trying to slay a monster...
at the very end as he and hooper kicked to make it to shore, you knew brody had slayed more than his fear of drowning in the story, or even the killer shark.
he had left his job as a nyc cop to move to amity, where he said a cop could make a difference...in a town where there was no crime.
under the radar in that story, brody went from being a coward to a cop.
may help to look at the character's environment. where they start, where they may end. the story thread. in JAWS, brody starts on land where things are neat and tidy like he likes things to be until a girl is eaten by a shark and...at the end of the story he ends up in the ocean living his worst nightmare. and certainly didn't want to be on that boat at all (only did it after his kid almost got eaten), and then, when things got deadly just before credits roll, trying to stay above the waterline in his greatest fear and where he was sinking while trying to slay a monster...
at the very end as he and hooper kicked to make it to shore, you knew brody had slayed more than his fear of drowning in the story, or even the killer shark.
he had left his job as a nyc cop to move to amity, where he said a cop could make a difference...in a town where there was no crime.
under the radar in that story, brody went from being a coward to a cop.
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