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Character DevelopmentCreate Identification With The CharacterThe audience - reader has to enter the character - hero - heroine - 
      lead, and feel what the character feels. This is how they live the story 
      and ride their empathy.

 
Seven Ways To Create Identification With 
      The Character

 1. Sympathy
Make the audience empathize with your screenplay's 
      character, feel sorry about some undeserved wrong or wound. Have 
      someone push him around, or have her wronged by a lover, that sort of thing. 
      Get it in early. An example might be Karate Kid.
2. Peril
Make the audience fear for the character's safety, worried 
      about them. Indiana Jones is a good example. Have the story open with some 
      dire scene that puts your heroine in immediate danger.
3. Likeability 
Make the character in your screenplay resemble a friend or 
      relative, someone familiar and cared for, worthy, or decent, or humorous, 
      or intensely good at just being themselves and whatever it is they are or 
      do. Being good at what they do can include a bad guy, while not 
      necessarily likeable, he might be the kind you like to hate: Tony Montana 
      in Scarface. By this method you meet the requirement of drawing the 
      audience into the story, as soon as possible. Only after this can you 
      introduce any negatives or failings of the character.
4. Immediate Introduction
The reader - audience is sitting there wondering who to 
      cheer for, who the heroine might be, so introduce the lead as soon as 
      possible. The quicker, the better, or the screenplay just won't work.
5. Demonstrate The Character's Power 
Most people want to feel more in control, powerful, and 
      will identify with someone who is more powerful or has power. This can 
      take the form of power over others (Michael Corleone), the power to act 
      immediately and do whatever it takes--no haziness (Marv' in Sin City), the 
      power to express inner emotions without fear of ramifications (Dirty 
      Harry). We gladly identify with such heroes and heroines from within the 
      restrictions imposed on us by society.
6. Familiar Locales
The era, location, residence, job, family, and general 
      circumstances of the character are important for identification and 
      empathy. It's just easier to identify with a cop, fireman, worker, office 
      person, mother, father, etc., than it is with a cave man, pygmy warrior, 
      or alien.
7. Common Failings And Shortcomings
Make the hero as fallible and nervous about certain 
      things as most people are. Make the lead just regular people. 
      We're more comfortable with people who are like ourselves.

 
Two Additional Ways To Create 
      Identification With A Character

 8. The Superhero
This is among the most interesting sort of character. If 
      the Heroine or Hero taps into ancient mythology, there is a 
      stronger chance of identification. This is because heroes and heroines of
      myth seem to be the same in all cultures and times and places, 
      almost as if they are hard-wired in the brain. 
Do NOT fuck with the 
      mythology, like they did in this last stupid-assed version of Superman 
      (Superman Returns, 2006.) The Chris Reeve version (Superman, 1978) will 
      still be joyfully playing a thousand years from now. 
Batman Begins (truer to the myth) kicked box office ass 
      over all the prior (idiotic) "versions," except the first one (Batman, 
      1989.) We prefer the true, 
      classic myths, or faery tales.
The superhero (Bond, Superman, Wonder Woman, Indiana 
      Jones, Arnold) taps into the hard-wired, mythic subconscious of humanity. 
      This includes, dreams, faery tales, legends, and Other. People identify 
      with these figures because they want to have control of their lives and 
      engage in super human activities and relative freedom.
9. Point Of View
This is effective when the audience has no idea what's 
      really going on and only finds out when the character finds out, like in a
      detective thriller (Maltese Falcon).
Another device is when a third party observes and reports 
      the action. This character becomes the eyes and ears of the screenplay, 
      and will be a character more easy to identify with than any of the others. 
      By this method the identification can be shifted to the other character.

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Character Development

Create Identification With The Character

Seven Ways To Create Identification With The Character

Two Additional Ways To Create Identification With A Character

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