| A creative skills character arc as a screenwriter to shape the character, has been well received by the Hollywood welcome. In fact, those who have the character arc movies often will not disappoint. Character arc is development of personality or change whether it is getting better or worse. It has the characteristics of concealment, dynamic, adversarial and progressive. Dynamics including change, development and growth, which is the differences of character arc and character liquidity, character growth, that the dimensions of the character arc is wider.Before the birth of the movies, theater and literature took on the task of shaping the character. So traceable character arc, we must look back to figure flashed in the theatrical stage and in the literary world.On the theater stage, already relatively complex character figures in ancient Greece, but really let some personality mobility is Elizabethan.18th century Bildungsroman characters have obvious character arc.Development today, character arc is prevalent in a number of film and television drama. The character arc of value not only to the the plays needs, the needs of the audience, the real needs, more the screenwriter level of inspection. So how do you create character arc? In this paper, the point of view of the domestic and international playwrights and scholars, while analysis of specific cases, try to summarize some empirical methods--Should first figure set a precondition is that the characters must have willpower; Second, to give the story enough conflict to make the characters enough reaction and choice. Of course, the most important,is accompanied by the character arc structure gradually generate. This will combine movies (such as Schindler’s List) case, to see how the characters in the beginning, development, climax, end to complete the character arc... |
