Sunday, February 19, 2023

Establishing Our Protagonist

There comes a time in every man's life when he must play God.  The creation of a new character, born from the chaotic flames of three teenage girls' imaginations, parallels the birth of Adam in my opinion.  However, rather than being born from soil (or from clay, depending on which mythology you ask), our "first man" was born from Virginia and I's frankly perverse desire for scandal.

Our protagonist, whom we've established is an incel who can't keep a romantic relationship with a woman, will also be a college student who lives out most of his days in his room.  He's a 2nd generation Puerto Rican, but ignores his Hispanic background.  Instead, he might even be a little hateful towards this part of his culture.  We're thinking about naming him Diego.

Diego is conventionally attractive, but doesn't care for his looks.  This leads him to be unhygienic and unkempt, an important aspect of his personality that I wish to explore more during costuming.  I want to give him greasy and unstyled hair, old clothes that are too small, sweatpants with stains on them, etc.  We want to emphasize the fact that he blames his failed love life on the fact that he's unattractive, but frankly is good-looking, just doesn't take care of himself.  In reality, the reason for his romantic failings is that he is unable to understand women.

Growing up, he never had a strong parental influence, and never had any female friends, cousins, or siblings.  He doesn't hate women, but is so far removed from them that he sees them as objects and is unable to relate or sympathize with them.  He also never had a strong male presence in his life, which has caused him to not only be insecure in his masculinity, but also insecure in general.  He has a lot of misguided sexual energy, which, if you remember, will be pretty important to the plot.  However, we all agree that we don't want this to be the main idea of our film.  Yes, he will say that he wants to f*** a monkey, but that's also secondary to the real plot, which is his eventual self-realization.

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