Hi all,
Re: CINEMA AND THE WORLD NEEDS A DIFFERENT KIND OF CHARACTER ARC...
Why would you want a “positive character arc” in your screenplay? Forget about it.
The world is changing and majority cinema goers want a “negative character arc”.
In the following example -- I would say the world would want to see ENDING # 2.
Do you agree?
ENDING #1
Upcoming model, Pari Hart, waits for her long career-making catwalk. Minutes from show time, she gets a message from an assistant disclosing that her best friend, Lisa May, an ex-model, died of a heroin overdose after she escaped rehab. Pari Hart decides not to go on stage and causes turmoil backstage. She dashes out, an emotional wreck. Three months later, we find out she gave up her lucrative modeling career and opened a flower shop at South Beach, Miami.
ENDING #2
Pari Hart receives the tragic news. She rushes to the washroom and takes some painkillers.
Waiting to go on, the coordinator tells her that it’s show time but she freezes. After 10 seconds of soul-searching, she wipes two drops of tears and executes the best show of her life. Pari becomes famous and struggles with more drugs, rehabs, loneliness and three divorces and a son and daughter. At age of 50 she dies in a beach house from an overdose of painkillers. The camera close in on a note she left behind –
“To my only friend, Lisa May, thank you.
Forever,
Pari Hart, model…"
Which ending does the world want to see?
Or do you have an ending that will send shockwaves in the theatres around the world and re-invent the wheel of screenwriting?
Cheers
Benjamin Ray
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www.hollywoodtoronto.com
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