{"id":12139,"date":"2018-05-02T07:00:21","date_gmt":"2018-05-02T06:00:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/etbscreenwriting.com\/\/?p=12139"},"modified":"2021-12-28T00:13:00","modified_gmt":"2021-12-28T00:13:00","slug":"writingadvicewednesday-when-the-mask-slips","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/etbscreenwriting.com\/writingadvicewednesday-when-the-mask-slips\/","title":{"rendered":"When The Mask Slips"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3>When the Mask Slips<\/h3>\n<p>Michael Tucker at&nbsp;<em>Lessons From The Screenplay<\/em> has just released another brilliant video essay, this time discussing when a Character&#8217;s mask slips, they take a leap of faith and they embrace what they really need to do in order to become their best self.<\/p>\n<p>Jamie Foxx&#8217;s character in Michael Mann&#8217;s 2004 film&nbsp;<em>Collateral<\/em> goes on this kind of journey, brought&nbsp;out of his shell by force thanks to the film&#8217;s antagonist, played by Tom Cruise.<\/p>\n<p>No matter what structure you choose to follow when crafting your script, at some point there will be a moment after your setup and before your conclusion when something has to change. Tucker&#8217;s video essay provides a great example of a film that does this well:<\/p>\n<p><iframe title=\"Collateral \u2014\u00a0The Midpoint Collision\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" data-src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/S0QMxzEVuDI?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen src=\"data:image\/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAAAAACH5BAEKAAEALAAAAAABAAEAAAICTAEAOw==\" class=\"lazyload\" data-load-mode=\"1\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>#WritingAdviceWednesday &#8211; Conflict and Antagonists Force Characters To Change<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":13704,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"nf_dc_page":"","_uag_custom_page_level_css":"","_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[45,108,78],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12139","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-video-clips-television-movies-series","category-writing-advice-wednesday","category-writing-tips-tricks-advice-help-script-screenplay-screenwriting-blog"],"acf":[],"uagb_featured_image_src":{"full":["https:\/\/etbscreenwriting.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/images.jpeg",210,240,false],"thumbnail":["https:\/\/etbscreenwriting.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/images-150x150.jpeg",150,150,true],"medium":["https:\/\/etbscreenwriting.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/images.jpeg",210,240,false],"medium_large":["https:\/\/etbscreenwriting.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/images.jpeg",210,240,false],"large":["https:\/\/etbscreenwriting.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/images.jpeg",210,240,false],"ttshowcase_normal":["https:\/\/etbscreenwriting.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/images-109x125.jpeg",109,125,true],"ttshowcase_small":["https:\/\/etbscreenwriting.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/images-66x75.jpeg",66,75,true],"1536x1536":["https:\/\/etbscreenwriting.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/images.jpeg",210,240,false],"2048x2048":["https:\/\/etbscreenwriting.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/images.jpeg",210,240,false],"Image Size 500x500":["https:\/\/etbscreenwriting.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/images.jpeg",210,240,false],"woocommerce_thumbnail":["https:\/\/etbscreenwriting.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/images.jpeg",210,240,false],"woocommerce_single":["https:\/\/etbscreenwriting.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/images.jpeg",210,240,false],"woocommerce_gallery_thumbnail":["https:\/\/etbscreenwriting.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/images-100x100.jpeg",100,100,true]},"uagb_author_info":{"display_name":"Oscar Harding","author_link":"https:\/\/etbscreenwriting.com\/author\/oscarharding\/"},"uagb_comment_info":0,"uagb_excerpt":"#WritingAdviceWednesday - Conflict and Antagonists Force Characters To Change","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/etbscreenwriting.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12139"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/etbscreenwriting.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/etbscreenwriting.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/etbscreenwriting.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/etbscreenwriting.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12139"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/etbscreenwriting.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12139\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/etbscreenwriting.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/13704"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/etbscreenwriting.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12139"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/etbscreenwriting.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12139"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/etbscreenwriting.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12139"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}