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Herakles is wrongfully accused of murdering his family, he sets off to find the true killer.
The word is awkward and the reference to Greek mythological deities is confusing. ?Isn't Olympus the mountain home of the Greek gods rather than a deity?Also, the logline gives the famed general two objective goals, hence, two plots. ?1] Complete 10 labors. ?2] Find the true killer. ? This violatesRead more
The word is awkward and the reference to Greek mythological deities is confusing. ?Isn’t Olympus the mountain home of the Greek gods rather than a deity?
Also, the logline gives the famed general two objective goals, hence, two plots. ?1] Complete 10 labors. ?2] Find the true killer. ? This violates the rule laid down by the ancient Greek philosopher in “The Poetics”: ?one objective goal, one plot to a dramatic story, ?”unity of action”.
Likewise, a logline should describe a unity of action, one ?objective goal, one plot.
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torgodog: The logline has certainly morphed ?from the ?original posting, version 1.0. ?Obviously, you want to "chew on the bone" of homelessness. ?Why? ? What is the central issue about homelessness that you want to explore?
torgodog:
The logline has certainly morphed ?from the ?original posting, version 1.0. ?Obviously, you want to “chew on the bone” of homelessness. ?Why? ? What is the central issue about homelessness that you want to explore?
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Good questions, Dkpough. ?Shouting matches and flame wars have erupted over what defines and what distinguishes the Hero from a Protagonist from a Main Character. Ask three people and you'll get 3?different answers... or 4... or 5! For me, the terms are tools, not rules. And I take my cue from the pRead more
Good questions, Dkpough. ?Shouting matches and flame wars have erupted over what defines and what distinguishes the Hero from a Protagonist from a Main Character. Ask three people and you’ll get 3?different answers… or 4… or 5!
For me, the terms are tools, not rules. And I take my cue from the psychologist Abraham Maslow: ?when all you have to work with is a hammer, you have to treat everything as if it were a nail. ?In my experience, no single?term-tool works for “nailing down” all character roles. (Ditto for paradigm-tools for plotting.) ?So I grab the tool?that seems to works best for me in the particular story I’m working with.
As you observed, the three term-tools are often used interchangeably. ?My personal preference when working with loglines is the term-tool “protagonist” for the reasons I laid out earlier, ?Nir Shelter made valid points for applying the term-tool to someone else. Okay. If it works for him… it works.
As for Keating being the antagonist: ?it’s all relative. ?Keating is the antagonist from the pov of those enforcing the status quo, the academic administration and parents. ?But the story is not told from their pov. ?It’s told from the pov of the stakes’ characters.
“Stake characters” is ?term-tool I employ to ?describe the characters who have the most to gain or lose from the actions of the protagonist. ?And, who are also characters the audience can emotionally invest in — root for. ? Those are clearly the students. ?From their pov, Keating is ?a liberating mentor.
(Post a logline for “The Terminator”, and I’ll be happy to discuss that classic’s character roles.)
fwiw.
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