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Originally Posted by knife_fight
but isn't that sort of a reason itself? as I mentioned in my post, it would allow the audience to breathe a sigh of relief of, "She's a kid and a kid's knowledge of right and wrong isn't developed, so she doesn't really know any better."
I'm not attacking your idea, it's a good one, I'm just asking a question. how could you possibly go about making it clear that the girl doesn't feel pain or remorse, without saying it outright Dr. Loomis style? it could definitely be an interesting concept to explore. to figure out a way to outline, for the audience, the killer's inner workings, without busting out some kind of doctor who, somehow, knows what's going on in the killer's mind.
even though you weren't talking to me, :D , I wanted my killer to know the difference between right and wrong, but he just plain doesn't care. perhaps make it even into some form of social commentary, a la Romero.
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Ahhhh... I hadn't really thought out my character in regards to actual representation on the screen...
Sticky exposition can get just cheesy (sorry, Dr. Loomis, though you have my heart, your lines are so delightfully silly).
That's always been a problem that I've had in screenwriting and observing movies as well.
While observing movies: "WHY do we need so much exposition? Shouldn't the audience just... GET it?"
It's something that I like so much about movies like Lost in Translation... It conveys a
feeling, and emotion of isolation and alienation withouth the characters saying, "MAN do I feel alienated and culture-shocked."
While writing screenplays: The biggest critique of my honor thesis (which was a screenplay) was that "motive" wasn't conveyed clearly and my professor was confused as to WHY the main character was acting a certain way... I believe that it takes a lot of talent to CONVEY what is unnatural states of being. That's why we have scenes like the last scene in Psycho in the police station... The compulsion to EXPLAIN every in and out of motive... When, really, this is the weakest scene in the movie.
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Anyway... HOW to convey that she has no fear, pain, or remorse (even in The Bad Seed, there is the stilted dialogue of what a "Bad Seed" is and questionable origins of the child)...
I think that the visual of a young girl torturing a crying animal with a placid complexion of curiosity, and when asked by her parents, "WHAT are you doing?" she can reply, "I just wanted to know what it looked like inside."
WOW that was a cheesy line. But, honestly, I would have feared Michael Myers even without his Ahab foil Dr. Loomis. Maybe we should give the audience more credit and assume that they could understand how sociopathic my killer is without them having to be TOLD?
I like the concept of knowing the difference of right and wrong and not caring... I am interested in the amoral nature of Man... Being beyond punishment and consequence... And I feel that the better medium is children.
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Rod - I think I heart you.
Reminds me of one of my favorite little rhymes:
Lizzie Borden took an axe
And gave her mother forty whacks.
And when she saw what she had done,
She gave her father forty-one.
I remember my parents telling me about Lizzy Borden when my grandparents used to live in Fall River... I should go visit her house.