I really try to make my characters less angels.
At least my main character used to carry a brightly shining halo, blinding everybody and making the paper of the script white as angel wings.
Not good.
There is nothing to change if the character is perfect from the start. And aren’t saints very boring in their goodness?
I think I have succeeded this time. To give them flaws, I mean.
And the dialog, yes I do feel I have made great improvements.
Usually I live in a bubble when I write. But this time I feel much less of this. Why and if this is good or bad is hard to tell for sure.
But I do know that the bubble tended to make the script shine like a halo, blinding me. I hope to see things with more realistic eyes this time.
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On the script I'm writing now no one is an angel. Everyone in the script breaks the law. I wonder if I go to far the other way and then I remember the real world:)
My characters turned to angels because I wanted people to attach to them and like them, but it doesn't work that way. We relate to people we are alike in some way.
Then I had a problem with being rude. So everybody talked nicely to each other.
In a movie script you overdo a lot, so if you want to show a rough world, you show it rougher than real life.
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