Monday, 17 October 2011

Hana's character arc

Drawing by Jim di Bartolo

Is this Joel? Does Hana's friend need to be a man, Joel the manservant?


Hana will have a huge tidy studio. This is the one part of her life she can control and order.


Hana's character arc.

OH BLISS and JOY! Thank you Jurgen, I now have a new ending for the film. You've done it again.
Another new breakthrough.
Hana will have to find her inner hero !
What a fab way to end.
Never ever thought of this. Makes so much sense.
Hana has to come though her quest for peace (which actually turns out to be a quest for atonement), a new person.



So is this believable? A ten year old child walks out of Auschwitz with her grandmothers sketchbook sewn in inside of her little blue coat. She does not recover from the fear of losing her family, and as a result, becomes insomniac, has an obsession for locking doors, is incapable of sexual intimacy, doesn't know how to give love to her daughter, loses self respect, and desperately seeks approval through her art. Hana at the end of the film will find her own inner heroine.







We need to know about Hana's life before we interrupt it with the crisis.
Point three of the story is a good place to start.
The ideal ending is surprising.

Coincidences are fine to get the character into trouble , but not out of it.

The moral or the theme of the story should be ever present n your thoughts as a writer.

So, Hana will a have crisis on the death of Susanita, and by chance finds the shaman who tells her she must find Samira and Shifra and make amends, otherwise she will die a terrible death of osteoarthritis.

Hana will return from finding Shaifra in the slums of Bolivia to Paris to start a musical school with Samira, for street kids.



Sub plots: Smaira's desire to find her parents. Birth mark. Longing, yearning for wholeness.
Shifra's brokenheartedness and atonement work with slum kids. Guilt, and disappointment in her parents. sub theme.. parents are not what we would have wanted...

Hana's lack of confidence in her art and her longing to sing.

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