Film Courage: To delve more into “flaw,” flaw is the direct opposite of strength?
Jill Chamberlain, Script Consultant/Author/Writer: Yes, so on my Nutshell Technique form I pose as two opposites What is the character’s central flaw and then What is the strength? that in the end (in a comedy) they either learn the opposite of (or in a tragedy) Was the strength? that they failed to learn the opposite of.
People have multiple flaws. We don’t have just one flaw. But typically they only learn one thing. Sometimes when I am working with a writer and they are having a hard time identifying What is the flaw? Is it insecurity? Is it lack of self-worth? We might bat about a couple of things.
Sometimes I try not to pick one necessarily until I look at the third act (and if it’s a comedy) and see what is the message? What is the thing that they are changing to? Because all three of those flaws we mentioned may be the case but they will probably only discover one opposite strength because we typically (at least in a story) are only going to discover one thing…(Watch the video interview on Youtube here).
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Jill Chamberlain is the founder of a screenwriting school, a script consultant, a screenwriter, and the author of The Nutshell Technique: Crack the Secret to Successful Screenwriting.
The Nutshell Technique is considered the go-to manual many professionals swear by. It’s on the syllabus at film schools all over the world and has been published in Mandarin Chinese, Korean, and Italian, and in audiobook format.
As a script consultant, Jill has fixed and fine tuned scripts for Oscar-nominated screenwriters, top television showrunners, screenwriters whose movies have made over a billion dollars at the box office, award-winning independent filmmakers, and for many, many spec script writers.
In 2006, Jill founded The Screenplay Workshop with Jill Chamberlain (Screenplayworkshop.org) where she has personally taught thousands of screenwriters feature film and episodic television writing. Complete beginners to Emmy-winning screenwriters and award-winning producers enroll in her classes.
Find out more about her and her script consultancy at jillchamberlain.com.
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