Flat Characters Versus Three Dimensional Characters - Travis Seppala

What movie is he talking about?

I like his voice

This is what Jack Grapes was talking about though right? Writing wise when writing from the heart, that “hmph” feel or “phew”.

What a great guy you can see his heart on his sleeve. Fck the moron who hurt my man like that. Great advice.

DCAMU Raven and MCU Thor arw good example of 3 dimensional and well developed characters

Can’t say how many times writing has been my therapy. There’s a piece of me in every single protagonist I’ve ever written. Usually a broken piece. Writing it all down in story form immensely helps heal those broken bits.

It’s also a good way I find to write 3D characters.

Travis exhibits a profound energy of vulnerability and creative insight on transforming your experience into a cathartic expression through any given outlet. Especially writing!

How about discussing personality? This is what people relate to to a great degree. Are they just people who speak in cliches, have no distinguishing characteristics, quirks or takes on things? Characterization has to be more than just advancing the plot by the numbers, or just advancing the plot by good idea or bad ideas, but in the unique way that only THAT character would do. (I suggest watching a lot of older British films and check out even the peripheral characters. It seems the Brits take time to make sure that there are even "non-plot" but interesting people around the main characters. It makes movie watching all the more fun....though, today, the style of acting seems to dictate that stories should be full of characters who mumble about in a semi-catatonic state, afraid to show anything much beyond what generic genre plot-slot they were written/chosen to fill.)

to me flat characters never change grow progress or really even challenges or surprised the audience as to how they will react to any given situation...in this way many characters are not flat or static but still 3 dimensional and nuanced

Jonathon Demme and PTA only write 3d characters even if some should be 1D and i love that

This was poorly explained. He doesnt articulate what it is or isnt

What is the name of the script that he wrote, which he's referring to?

From an English teacher perspective, flat (or stock) characters & round characters are conceived of differently. Flat character is a sort of one-dimensional character. They don’t change or grow as a character. These types of characters are common in satire, esp. in a comedic farce. They’re usually very stereotyped and have (usually negative) traits amplified. This amplifies the social commentary that is inherent in that form. They’re also usually the butt of the joke. A round character is not only fully fleshed out, they go on a journey & change is some way at the end.

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Name one one-dimensional unforgettable character: Javier Bardem's character Anton Chiguhr in No Country for Old Men. A character with no arc at all. Scary as hell from start to finish. No redeeming values. Just a purely evil character. Was the character effective?? Hell, yeah! His presence made me nervous every time!

According to Brandon Sanderson, novelist: Round / Three-Dimensional Characters (clear character arc; changes over time) vs. Flat Characters (no character arc).

Anyone else feel this fella's pain? What a guy for sharing 🏆

Thanks!

His idea of career & experience driving a character's actions is a 2D character.

3D characters have motives, emotions, inner conflict, backgrounds and experiences that may appear contradictory from their actions on a surface level, may also have quarks.

3D characters are a unit of soldiers with the same training and similar dispositions that drew them to the military, yet have distinctions. (Not just 5 man band or Magnificent 7 tropes)

It's the character you expect to be canon fodder who proves to be clever and have a stronger moral compass in helping others even though the odds of survival are against him.

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Great stuff, the third dimension both in his character and life opened up right before us, real stuff, man's got heart...

Anything you can add on creating three-dimensional characters?

Can't wait until 4 dimensional characters (? Lol!

This was a weird explanation of dimensions in a character. He didn't touch on irony or combating traits. You can have a 1 dimensional character make decisions about the story, and multi dimensional characters not affect the plot.

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