Comments on: Secrets of the Silver Screen: Distinctive Characters http://writerunboxed.com/2007/01/29/secrets-of-the-silver-screen-distinctive-characters/ About the craft and business of genre fiction Sat, 30 Aug 2008 01:00:05 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.0.4 by: Therese Walsh http://writerunboxed.com/2007/01/29/secrets-of-the-silver-screen-distinctive-characters/#comment-3668 Tue, 30 Jan 2007 19:41:14 +0000 http://writerunboxed.com/2007/01/29/secrets-of-the-silver-screen-distinctive-characters/#comment-3668 You'll love Amadeus, Thea. See it! I'll have to put Immortal Beloved in my NetFlix queue. Thanks for the tip, Kath. You’ll love Amadeus, Thea. See it!

I’ll have to put Immortal Beloved in my NetFlix queue. Thanks for the tip, Kath.

]]> by: Kathleen Bolton http://writerunboxed.com/2007/01/29/secrets-of-the-silver-screen-distinctive-characters/#comment-3614 Mon, 29 Jan 2007 18:38:50 +0000 http://writerunboxed.com/2007/01/29/secrets-of-the-silver-screen-distinctive-characters/#comment-3614 Lookee, my gravatar is working! I always try to give a character a tag against type. I think that's a way to make even the stalest characters seem fresh. In the movie, Mozart is an infantalized pig. It's not what we were expecting of the Greatest Composer That Ever Lived. And look at Salieri in the photo. Ascetic. Black. Unpowdered. We know what kind of person he is without him even opening his mouth. Of course, doing this is fiendishly hard. Another great movie is Immortal Beloved, the Beethoven biopic starring Gary Oldman. Certainly blew the lid off what we knew about Beethoven. Lookee, my gravatar is working!

I always try to give a character a tag against type. I think that’s a way to make even the stalest characters seem fresh. In the movie, Mozart is an infantalized pig. It’s not what we were expecting of the Greatest Composer That Ever Lived. And look at Salieri in the photo. Ascetic. Black. Unpowdered. We know what kind of person he is without him even opening his mouth.

Of course, doing this is fiendishly hard.

Another great movie is Immortal Beloved, the Beethoven biopic starring Gary Oldman. Certainly blew the lid off what we knew about Beethoven.

]]> by: thea mcginnis http://writerunboxed.com/2007/01/29/secrets-of-the-silver-screen-distinctive-characters/#comment-3613 Mon, 29 Jan 2007 18:21:24 +0000 http://writerunboxed.com/2007/01/29/secrets-of-the-silver-screen-distinctive-characters/#comment-3613 somehow i never got to see this movie, but i really want to so i shall have to rent it. but you point out good points on characters, esp in my wip which has numerous eccentric secondary characters. thanks! somehow i never got to see this movie, but i really want to so i shall have to rent it. but you point out good points on characters, esp in my wip which has numerous eccentric secondary characters. thanks!

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