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Day 87: 17 Minutes to Your Dream: Rookie Script: 3 New Insights

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Channel: Darren LaCroix · 2013 · Howto & Style

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Today I finished reading The Rookie script on the plane from Chennai, India to London.  I noticed again the "contrasting parallel" between the AA locker room with a couple of hooks and a piece of tape and the spacious major league locker room.  This reminds me of the contrast between when the USA Hockey team plays the  Russians each time in the Miracle script.   I'm seeing now, the examples of what I learned early on about movies being a visual medium.

The idea this gives me for my script is showing the contrast between my early days of comedy in the back of a Chinese Restaurant with a spotlight hanging from a drop ceiling and basically a Mr. Microphone sound system, 6 people (some drunk) all cynical contrasted to WCPS.

Second insight from this reading was the "perspective changing" incident.  Lorri, Jim Morris's wife, does not want to see Jim hurt again and go back to baseball.  This be came clear after a heated discussion.  She sits in their son's room with him as she he's sleeping and she looks up and sees the posters on the wall with the shrine to his father and his father's favorite sport, baseball.  She realizes Jim has a second chance and "what are they teaching their son" if Jim doesn't give it a shot.  She then tells Jim he must follow though with this opportunity.

Third insight from this reading, it also became clear about the common "structure" piece a script.  In the hero's journey is when the goal seems lost and it's over.  When Jim realizes he must take care of his family.  Thinking back to advice from his non-supportive father.  It's OK to do what you want, but there is a time to do what you were meant to do. (Paraphrase.)

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