I FOUND IT!!
Sorry, I’m very excited. You see, when I started cobbling
together this blog one of the ideas I had was to feature videos essays I’d
found that, even though on the surface they’re about movies or screenwriting,
were illuminating when I was working through the first draft of my manuscript.
And the most illuminating of them, the one that felt like a beam of sunshine
coming down on my from the heavens, the one where I could hear the Reverend
James Brown asking “DO YOU SEE THE LIGHT?” and I responded with “YES! YES!
JESUS H. TAP-DANCING CHRIST, I HAVE SEEN THE LIGHT!” before doing back-flips?
And I couldn’t find it. At all.
Time goes by, I’m listening to video essays while washing
dishes and it gets referenced. Happy days. So we’re going to have ourselves a
good ol’ two-parter about character arcs,
and we’ll be addressing all the hard questions: What are they? What makes them
so arc-y? What do they want from us?
Today we have Michael from Lessons from the Screenplay examining
two absolute gems of movies.
If you’re like me, you’re thinking, “But what do Logan and
Children of Men have in comm—oh, they’re virtually the same story, never mind.”
More to the point, this video covers what I believe to be the secret behind a
good character arc, starting at 1:41. Seriously, it will take literally 20
seconds of your life.
I have to admit that I was always a bit confounded by
character arcs, because my head would immediately go to dozens of examples
where the protagonist does not have an arc. What’s the deal with that?
Find out next week in the second-half of this Character Arc
Video Essay Double-Header.
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