Screenplays have many different elements to them. This could be from the suspense or the disbelief of the plot. The suspense can pull the audience’s attention and have the screenplay on its toes. The disbelief can leave the screenplay unfinished and can have the audience fill in the ending pieces. A strong structure throughout the screenplay that will bring in the overall feeling of it, also the setting of the screenplay in which opens up a travel experience to the viewer. There is one aspect of a screenplay that really supports the foundation of it. The characters in a story provides the emotions, allusions, conflict and resolution in which makes a great screenplay great and a horrible one horrific. Characters are the key ingredient because
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This can include Marlin in the Pixar film “(Finding Nemo, 2003)”. The story introduces a clownfish living in the fast ocean trying to find his son through it all. Building a “good character” is seen in this type of screenplay. The website (Film Script Writing, 2015) writes, “Having a detailed backstory helps bring the character(s) to life rather than being instruments of telling the story. A character’s past should influence how they act and react to things (pg. 1, para. 5).” In the film “Finding Nemo” this shows how a character’s backstory influences the whole screenplay. The film introduces a family that Marlin was going to have. Marlin and his wife Coral were going to be a family of clownfish. A barracuda then swoops down and kills Coral and most of the eggs die. Marlin wakes up from being unconscious because of the attack and later finds out that there was one egg left. This was the beginning of Nemo in the film. Marlin is affected when Nemo is lost at sea and it triggers him to go find him because Nemo is all that he has. One scene that is shown that explains this is when Nemo is captured again in gigantic net with a bunch of fish. Marlin tries to save Nemo and says “No, I’m not going to lose you again” (Finding Nemo 2003). Pixar does a great job at screenwriting their films by this element of backstory for their …show more content…
Edward Malus which is the character in the screenplay provides a hysterical figure that yes, it can relate because of how he is a father in which he loses his daughter. However, his over reaction to it makes the film slowly drag along and instead of putting the genre as a thriller but rather as a comedy. Stephen Hunter from the Washington Post explains “Rather, the scrawny Cage wanders about in a state of semi hysteria yelling at old women and having hallucinations about dead children. It’s quite unpleasant, when it isn’t completely goofy” (Washington Post, 2006). Nicholas Cage plays the actor of Edward but the screenwriting tells it all. On the website storymastery.com explained by (Michael Hauge, 2015) states, “The most common weakness of character descriptions I read or hear is that they are generalized. The details are broad, vague or not visual at all. They neither create a specific image, nor do they reveal anything important or emotionally involving about the character (pg.1, para. 3)”. In the screenplay the main character is just yelling at everybody and trying to find answers of his daughter’s disappearance. The audience feels overwhelmed making the story not as interesting and walking out of the theater saying “What was that?”
This can include Marlin in the Pixar film “(Finding Nemo, 2003)”. The story introduces a clownfish living in the fast ocean trying to find his son through it all. Building a “good character” is seen in this type of screenplay. The website (Film Script Writing, 2015) writes, “Having a detailed backstory helps bring the character(s) to life rather than being instruments of telling the story. A character’s past should influence how they act and react to things (pg. 1, para. 5).” In the film “Finding Nemo” this shows how a character’s backstory influences the whole screenplay. The film introduces a family that Marlin was going to have. Marlin and his wife Coral were going to be a family of clownfish. A barracuda then swoops down and kills Coral and most of the eggs die. Marlin wakes up from being unconscious because of the attack and later finds out that there was one egg left. This was the beginning of Nemo in the film. Marlin is affected when Nemo is lost at sea and it triggers him to go find him because Nemo is all that he has. One scene that is shown that explains this is when Nemo is captured again in gigantic net with a bunch of fish. Marlin tries to save Nemo and says “No, I’m not going to lose you again” (Finding Nemo 2003). Pixar does a great job at screenwriting their films by this element of backstory for their …show more content…
Edward Malus which is the character in the screenplay provides a hysterical figure that yes, it can relate because of how he is a father in which he loses his daughter. However, his over reaction to it makes the film slowly drag along and instead of putting the genre as a thriller but rather as a comedy. Stephen Hunter from the Washington Post explains “Rather, the scrawny Cage wanders about in a state of semi hysteria yelling at old women and having hallucinations about dead children. It’s quite unpleasant, when it isn’t completely goofy” (Washington Post, 2006). Nicholas Cage plays the actor of Edward but the screenwriting tells it all. On the website storymastery.com explained by (Michael Hauge, 2015) states, “The most common weakness of character descriptions I read or hear is that they are generalized. The details are broad, vague or not visual at all. They neither create a specific image, nor do they reveal anything important or emotionally involving about the character (pg.1, para. 3)”. In the screenplay the main character is just yelling at everybody and trying to find answers of his daughter’s disappearance. The audience feels overwhelmed making the story not as interesting and walking out of the theater saying “What was that?”