I was talking with my good friend Alejandro Molla, a psychologist and partner of the school year, students of cinema with creative concerns, the writers and creators of stories for the big and small screen should not, when visiting bookstores , start with the section on the film, but by psychology. This is what at least I do when I visit, as I find extremely useful in the face of my work.
That's where the characters are then govern the plots of the stories. Section of psychopathology, such as Melvin Udall is the Best ... impossible , or Dr. Hannibal Lecter in The Silence of the Lambs . But also find an extensive tour of marital problems, family and community, how they arise, why they occur and how they are solved, an explanation for phobias, depression, and different personality types. Fears, deficiencies, excesses, a catalog enormously useful when you sit down to write.
Many times, a story deflates not have good characters, or because they are not well defined. Sometimes developers rely too much on the beauty of the ordinary, if that is what is fed up of people, who go to the theater run, precisely normal. Introduce a differentiator, endow your character a different profile, a distorted personality, relationships marked by trauma; regalémosle a tic, a hobby, some fears. That will be the difference that, when the film ends, whether or not remembered.
So, again, Psychology section, do not forget, and if you have not done so, I invite you to do. I am convinced that it will be helpful. Even if you dedicate to the movies.
-Roque.
