Each character has to have something he/she desires.
This desire is connected to something which has an emotional meaning to them.
This desire is called the B Storyline and it is what creates the actions the
character chooses to take - the A Story Action line.
This desire is the one thing you must figure out for each character,
the other stuff (usually called the character's backstory - what happened
to him in his life before the moment we meet him in the movie) is basically
irrelevant! Many people talk about how you need to know everything about your
character - his entire life story, when in reality what you basically need to
know is the main emotional thing that happened to them that is affecting their
present decisions - I call this the character's "defining moment" something that made him
capable of taking the actions he does in the movie.
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