Where, When, Who and What?
Before writing any script it is important to first establish three elements, these are.

1 Location (Where and When)

2 Characters (Who)
Names
Ages
Relationship

3 What happens? (What)





Interior. College. Evening

Lucy is tired and sleepy. She looks around the place slowly.


Lucy
(Sleepy/Tired)

She’s sitting in reception. Looks to her left and sees Joe (janitor). Looks at him for a while then looks to her right and stares through the window.


Joe
(Calm)

He starts to walk. At the same time as he exits the reception area and starts to walk down the corridor he looks at Lucy. On the way he bumps into three people.

Narrator

This young and healthy looking person actually is a loner and he likes it. He likes eating alone at lunch times and don’t get it wrong. People didn’t cast him out; he’s the one who brought rejection on himself.

(Flashes of Derek in afight)

Joe

He walks and bumps into the second person. A girl.

Narrator

Looks like an angel right ? Well, the next time you hear people saying don’t judge a book by its cover, use the knowledge. This girl could beat any guy at (name of the game). At least in the college.
(Flashes of Tania playing a (name of the game))

Joe

He walks further as he bumps into the third person.

Narrator

This guy here is so punctual; he thinks his life depends on being in a right place, at the right time.

Joe

Joe carries on walking down the corridor and (turns/goes/takes the elevator) to his room.

Protagonist/Antagonist Profile

Fight Club

Antagonist

"All the ways you wish you could be, that's me. I look like you wanna look, I f*ck like you wanna f*ck, I am smart, capable, and most importantly, I am free in all the ways that you are not. "I am Jack's alter ego. I get bored, I kill Jack...Mayhem. Chaos. Soap. The title line sums it up what he leaves out about himself. He is upset with the world the way it is and will not be satisfied until the world is back in primative times... Without hitting rock bottom there can be no evolution, no resurrection. Role: this character is an imaginary friend of a very ordinary man. He’s got a very individual prospective to the world. The lame version of Tyler (narrator) he is always very impressed with Tyler because he’s free and not tied up with the thoughts of “what about tomorrow”.

Flaws: Tyler’s flawed in the same way as we all are. The proof in these words is the (narrator). If Tyler’s doing something wrong, that means the (narrator) wishes for it to happen deep down inside.

Relativity to the film: the whole film tells us that whenever you think there’s a barrier between you and you achieving something, that barrier comes out to be yourself. So this Tyler is just a metaphor for (narrator’s) madness and calling for help and attention.



Hitman

Protagonist

Role: 47’s role in the film is – a hired assassin. He works for the company only known as “The Organisation” and is raised to do what he knows best – to kill. But the twist comes when 47 realises he’s been set up and the witness he had to eliminate, might have some answers to 47’s questions. From an antagonist, to a protagonist.

Flaws: only that he has grown up in a wrong environment. He does not know how to follow his heart nor his feelings or intuition, he only knows how to follow the orders he’s been given.

Relativity to the film: the film takes us through 47’s line of decisions. Even when we think that 47 is taking initiative, he’s still basing on the knowledge and experience, not his feelings to find out that he’s been set up.






The Brave One

Protagonist

Role: A vigilante in search of revenge.

Flaws: Erica has lost belief in right or wrong. Because of the loss of her fiancé she feels angry on the whole world now.

Relativity to the film: the whole film tells us about how one thing/loss of something can change the way a person feels and acts. This is another story told by a woman who is tired of being scared of crossing a road, walking home at night and her actions to prevent that fear. By the time she realises that what she’s doing is right, Erica has most of the city agreeing with her judgment.

Fargo Script Analysis

Almost, there are couple mixed up words. They are said but just in a different order.
No, only as I said there are couple of words mixed places.
Not sure, because you see the protagonist or at least you think so (Jerry) and then you see those two definitely antagonist characters. Then at the line where Carl asks about wife being kidnapped, I do understand that all of them including Jerry are into something dirty.



The first one to start a dialog was Jerry. The man who said that Jerry’s late 1 hour is Carl and the person who leant over the table to say “or your fucking wife, you know” is Grimsgrud.
Jerry – he was using very neat word combinations like “it was a mix up I guess”. Also when he was attacked verbally about his lateness, Jerry apologises a lot. So to me he seems very shy, with good manners and generally a family man.

Carl – straight to point kind of guy, talking fast and uses logic phrases/comebacks. Seems passive in judging from gestures but aggressive with words. A straight up gangster.

Grimsgrud – a regular henchman who doesn’t talk but if he does its going to be short, straight to point. Very masculine and the only line he says is very short and aggressive in a sense.

I could easily talk about Carl and Grimsgrud as antagonists. But to say that Jerry could be one I would not say that. But when he starts to talk details about the kidnapping, I get the idea.
The lines in the script tell us exactly who is who. Even Jerry is to be an antagonist because to pay off some debt he wants his wife kidnapped. Instead of some other methods Jerry kicks off with the most drastic one.

Thriller

(Task 1)

It is difficult to have a thriller genre alone these days. Mainly thriller is made out of characters which look tough, mostly men. The surrounding is mostly a city, tropical island or sometimes sewer. The story includes a protagonist versus antagonist. In the process of the good guy getting the bad guy a family member, loved one or a close friend maybe involved and be held hostage or get killed. This way the story line makes sense. There are a lot of hybrids like horror thrillers, action thrillers, sci fi thrillers and so on. This happens because the main genre: the thriller is mixed with sub genre elements. For example the scene in Fight Club where the narrator’s (Tyler’s) boss finds a peace of paper with all the fight club’s rules on it. Seconds later you see narrator’s actions become sort of threatening. Or the scene at the end where the narrator finds out that Tyler is actually imaginary and that narrator’s thoughts and feelings can generate Tyler’s actions. These sequences thrill you and make you more interested in the film. It spices up the audience’s curiosity. Sometimes psychology works as a sub genre for the thriller to really grab you and boost the tension. Some of the secrecy and mystery can be created with some close ups.