Cobalt blue bringing darkness in the wind. Sparks crumbling into menace.
I step and I dance like on ice, A newling on blades. Except the hard earth is not just the trauma of my rear, It’s the wet I’ll get. And the drag the sheep, delighted will be to admin.
Hay personas en este mundo a las que les gusta todo preciso y ajustado, y las hay que aceptan alguna desviación marginal. Él es ambos tipos de persona. No permitiría, por ejemplo, una ambigüedad despreocupada en un arriendo, pero el instinto le indica que a veces un contrato no tiene por qué redactarse con demasiado rigor. Arriendos, autos judiciales, cláusulas, se escriben para que se lean, y cada cual los lee en función de su propio interés.
Thomas Cromwell, personaje. En la corte del lobo. Hilary Mantel.
Not to confuse with Despicable me, though it is today’s case to speak the villain.
Have you ever found yourself romping over the villain’s evilness? Maybe marveled in awe to their psychological depth, quite contrary to the cartoon drew hero, whose face is unchangeable. The hero who is an upstart karate’s tournament participant; against antagonists with training and training years of experience under their black belt…
Telly, novel, comic or theatre play; without the despicable one, we have no interest. The antagonistic force is not obligated to be the big booty cheerleader @_&46:#4 the main character’s life. Such vanilla cream[1] cliché is too simple to speak of the force helping heroine [don’t confuse with the drug] from reaching her dreams — for not to say ambitions or undercover wishes (since it is more strawberry to say it like that within my super positive outburst of cutesy and I’m going to cringe myself).
See, this thing of antagonistic forces pushed to the limit, raises tension. It’s the corn starch to give body to the plot gravy—bechamel ( no idea if bechamel needs corn starch but you get the idea, too expensive a recipe and lactose intolerant me uses corn starch for aubergine). Robert McKee [yes, that guy who teaches how to write movie scripts in Story] mentions to face main character against his opposing antonym. The double negative of her situation… Breaking the laws of grammar but not the laws of narrative… And that’s a bad joke, I know.
And not, this ain’t any funny drawing in which two circles are side aside a stick. This is a Mexican idiom to express «to explain thoroughly with graphic examples if needed».
So, we have the classical boy meets girl. Both pair of parents hate the other… A family feud of death and bigotry. Yes, THAT PLOT. Ronald B. Tobias explains [20 master plots] how this is old and no longer possible… Times have changed and parents barely pay attention if you woe a goat, so long you woe something. Unless we talk Indian-Muslim characters, J—dorama [ドラマ] or K-durama [aha the Romanization should be ‘do’ but 드라마…] An Ukrainian girl and a Russian guy?[3].
Hence, how do we have our characters to be apart and different?
TO BE CONTINUED
[1] In the original entry time, I was unable to cook the simplest rice whilst talking of cooking terms. Now I can. Yupi!
[2] In the day I learnt such an expression is not used in South America. My Argentinean Korean learner colleague couldn’t misunderstand me more about Mozart and his sexuality when I said Mozart for me needed to be explained through sticks and circles —due to my ignorance. Or to say it better, Mozart for me, needs getting into the weeds of explanation before I even dare to start liking his craft.
[3] No, I’m not using my poor taste here. I’m showing you how this antagonistic kind of force lies very far away from most of us… My country didn’t even go to the Korean war, officially.
Una alternativa, sostenida sobre todo por los más religiosos, era que A’Tuin se arrastraba desde Lugar de Nacimiento hacia el Momento de la Cópula, al igual que todas las estrellas del cielo que, evidentemente, también viajaban a lomos de tortugas gigantes. Cuando llegaran, copularían breve y apasionadamente por primera y única vez, y de tan ardiente unión nacerían nuevas tortugas que transportarían nuevos mundos. Se conocía esta hipótesis como Teoría del Big Bang.
Yeah… I’m going to assume you remember the fairy tale. I’m going to assume too, that you’ve got a pair of entomology twizers and a magnifying glass. I won’t, though, assume you also own a Sherlock Holmes like cap. Alright. Clear the table or the desk. We wouldn’t like food or coffee corrupted by fairytale’s legs or antennae. We don’t want, either, the examined pieces polluted by strange bacteria such as … «organic», «carbon print» or » fair trade»…. Not when brands such as Banana, that, exist. What’s the fair trade when certain countries are still mocked with such a monicker?
Ok. Ok. Writers never discuss politics. So I’ll stop adding nettle legs to the potion. Then… In the the first part of the fairytale; we stablish the nature of temptation and how the child succumbs. I mean: curiosity + child + closed door = disobedience.
Nonetheless, our child struggles. She tries to distract herself with willpower. Rationalizes, denies, cheats herself and finally does what she is told not to. The outcome is predictable. A decaffeinated coffee … (I guess since I don’t drink coffee).
The second part is when the main character experiences the aftereffects; the consequences of her own decisions take root and cause a flower to bloom and THIS IS WHEN THE WARLOCK OR THE WITCH IS REQUIRED TO DO THEIR CRAFT. THE CONSEQUENCES OF SUCH ACTIONS MUST BRING ENOUGH ANXIETY TO US, TO UNDERSTAND WHY TO WISH TO GO BACK OR WISH FOR A CHANGE.
Our princess’ kids are kidnapped in heaven. The man who loves her, is not idiotic enough to surge against an angry mob… Which claims for her life for eating the uneatable. Trying to free herself from the punishment, the issue becomes… Hot. So hot being proud is not an option.
A temptation plot isn’t running after the ghost evil syndicate or pursuing the end of any oil plumbing along the gorgeous geologist(e).
A PLOT TEMPTATION IS A FORDA. We might see the effects in the actions… Or in the lack of action yet, the character struggles INSIDE. THE SWIRLING OF NEEDS, IMPULSES AND MOTIVATIONS ARE THE PLOT.
In Parallel, the movie I mentioned, the enemy is inside. Are we to stop ourselves from fame, money and stealing someone else’s life?
In Fatal attraction and Eden garden (haven’t watched any), the antagonist is external. In our side (of the big puddle, what other side can that be?), the greatest temptor is the goat legs. Being Fausto the most famous tempted (besides Adam, but at least Fausto has agency and doesn’t blame anyone else). Ronald B. Tobias (the one of the book of the 20 master plots) mentions a novel, a play and three operas! The other famous plot is Dorian Gray. Not as religious (sure?) and almost contemporaneous. Had the money, wouldn’t you go to the plastic surgeon for Botox, a lifting or more jaw/breasts? Even I have succumbed to the idea of Bigan yoga.
There’s an important difference in plot in Fausto. Fausto doesn’t take the offer until the pot is almost over and not in selfishness. He wishes to go on being useful for humanity. Consequently (John Constantine would say there’s always a technicality), he isn’t in sin… technically and the god can reclaim his soul as impoluted.
The plot temptation requires to answer the question: what’s the crime? What’s the price to be paid? What’s the deal? (What’s obtained in exchange?). This way we can focus in the way the character looses and if they’re feeling guilty or not. We can shape the punishment and we can model a redemption scene or scenes.
REMEMBER:
The character is to suffer in accordance to their own needs, motives and impulses. The morality of the plot is set by the character. A true entrepreneur will never regret cutting trees to become rich unless there’s something he values more than money. The protagonist’s debts (his «bad actions») have to accumulate to the point of no return. The reader can see the way this is going to become a mess but not the character. The character has taken «the best decision». The punishment is equal to the sin.
I recommend you not to be tempted and write a comment. Any comments. Specially if they’re to contain apples. Pasto kalo and enjoy sining.
