The Audience Will Forget Your Plot But Not Your Characters - Jack Grapes

"Oh interesting" she said realizing he invades the privacy of all his friends 😂

Remind me never to let Jack into my kitchen.

There must be balance, Character Plot and Story are equally important. Fail at any of these and you get Rise of the Skywalker.

This is why internet fandoms love fanfiction so much. We have more of the characters by people who also mainly care about the characters. I'm at a point in my life where I don't want to read anything but fanfiction.

"Ask any writer on the street and ask them what's most important, they'll say character." Unless you work for Hollywood, Disney, mainstream comics, or Netflix.

It resonates with what he's saying because I remember the movie Captain America Civil War, where Tony Stark says, "Who's leaving seeds in the sink?" something like that... and he said, "I feel like I'm living with a biker gang." To paraphrase.. It was a small line of dialogue, but for me, I remember it and it always stood out. I thought it was powerful. Because it informed me that they're people. They live with each other. Their living arrangement is casual, and they get on each other's nerves. It made me feel like this is like a family. or roommates. It was powerful. It made me think of the Avengers in a different way. This is a lot like what Jack Grapes is talking about!

this is what fanfiction is all about!! fanfic authors and readers are those who stayed for the characters and wish to see more of them beyond what the canon showed

As a writer, being observative about thing around you is your greatest tool.

The eight deadliest words any storyteller can hear: "I don't care what happens to these people".

Characters with goals/motivation are what drives the story.

When he was talking about how everyone eats a particular way, I started thinking about how I eat my meals one thing at a time. I won't take a bite of peas, and then a bite of steak, I've gotta finish one before I get to the other, and I always seem to choose the vegetables first. There's no real reason or intention for it, I just do it.

This is absolutely fantastic instruction; incredibly clear. More and more, from these "lectures" from all these Professors, I get clarity about an almost mystical process of creating and generating STORY. Thank you so for making these talks available. It's like having a personal graduate seminar.

You could also argue that plot creates the character because it forces them to take a stand and reveal their true character. Isn't it usually an outside force that sets the movie in motion? The character is usually forced into circumstances that they need to battle and change. Even this century's most plotless movie Nomadland is set into motion by an outside force - the tiniest fraction of a plot that this movie has.

My dad was watching some movie when I was a kid. No idea what it was about, I was probably too busy playing my Gameboy. I just remember a few people walking around in the forest. But something that had stuck with me for my whole life was a scene where one guy was complaining that his back hurt. Another guy told him an old cure is find a round rock and spit on it, so off he goes. A third person in the scene was incredulous about the trick, and the guy replies something to the effect of "looking for the rock will distract him from his back pain, then by the time he leans over to spit on it, he'll have forgotten completely." This one scene might have even planted the seeds of my interest in human psychology today. Just goes to show how effective and memorable these little scenes of characterization are.

This channel has actually got me started writing after thinking about it for a few years. I'll be sure to mention you in my acceptance speech after my first book get turned into a billion dollar movie.

Does anyone remember flipping someone a quarter and saying go call somebody who gives a damn?! We can’t do that anymore.

I knew a person who had such a messy car that I would always think "If we get into and accident, I wonder what random object in the car would hit me first". Funny how their quirks quickly become a story in your own mind.

This is exactly why Tenet fell flat for me. Couldn't care about any one character presented

I love when my characters tell me what they want and who they are and write themselves.

I feel what he is talking about is true most of the time. I can think of a few media’s (gaming, film, books) where I remember the stories and love the stories more than the characters.