Friday 21 November 2014

Strong Characters Profiles

Big movies are often successful because of the characters in them, it is important that an actor fits the image of the character you are trying to portray. Below I have profiled three characters of professionally made films from different genres ; Thriller/Adventure (Taken), Teen Film (Mean Girls) and Fantasy/Thriller.

Bryan Mills (Liam Neeson, Plays in Taken)


Name: Bryan Mills

Age: Middle aged, in his 50's

Background: Former CIA agent

Location: Southern California

Ethnicity: White, American

Personality: Mills is a determined, loving and caring man that will do anything and everything to protect his family, such as going to Paris and shooting every man involved in his daughters kid-knap dead. Aside from the nice and calm character, as soon as one of his loved ones comes into harms way, his body switches to 'warrior mode' where nothing and no one will stop him from restoring them to happiness and safety. Bryan is a calm, efficient, determined and tactful man, even when he comes into direct contact with the man who kidknaps his daughter he remains calm and instead of frantically shouting, he asks the kid-knapper (Marco) "you don't remember me? We spoke on the phone...I told you I would find you" before killing everyone trying to attack him and taking Marco to a separate room to interrogate and torture. His way with people makes them take him seriously, and rather than them making him feel threatened, it is the opposite. He has a deep and calming voice and due to the loving actions he carried out for his endangered daughter, the audience fall in love with him.

Physicality: Bryan is 6’4 and weighs 230IBS, he is more towards skinny than fat, however not scrawny. He wears casual, dark clothes that do not hinder his movement. He looks serious and is therefore taken seriously. He has brown eyes and hair, and stubble that makes him appear more 'rugged' and unafraid to get messy e.g. with blood and bruises, rather than a clean cut business man who would not have appeared to suit the role and character producers were trying to portray.

Relationships: Bryan is a divorced man to Lenore and a father to Kim Mills. He appears 'put out' when he see's Kim's step father bought her a birthday present he could not afford and possibly guilty that he cant give his daughter everything.

Skills: Mills has a particular set of skills that he learnt from his job which allows him to track down and kill criminals (Marco). He is athletic and is able to hold his own when in a physical fight, he is also very smart and tactful and because of this is efficient in the way he tackles and handles other (quite threatening) people.

Quotes:
"I don't know who you are. I don't know what you want. If you're looking for ransom, I can tell you I don't have money but what I do have are a very particular set of skills. Skills I have acquired over a very long career. Skills that make me a nightmare for people like you. If you let my daughter go now, that will be the end of it. I will not look for you, I will not pursue you. But if you don't, I will look for you, I will find you and I will kill you"

"That's what happens when you sit behind a desk for to long. You forget things! Like having a gun that's loaded and one that's not"

"I have a daughter who wants to be a singer. I was wondering if you have any tips for her"

Regina George (Rachel McAdams, Plays in Mean Girls)



Name: Regina George

Age: Teenager in High School

Background: Most popular girl of the school her entire life, her parents are 'filthy rich'.

Location: America

Ethnicity: White, American.

Personality: Regina is the self-appointed queen of her school, she is nasty, malicious, self obsessed and wishes to destruct anyone and anything that comes in between her and what she wants, for example when she told her friend Cady she would set her up with her ex boyfriend and ended up telling him rumours about her so that he would no longer like her. She is spoiled and acts catty among her peers, an example of this is her 'Burn Book' where both her and her friends would stick photos in of people from their school and write nasty comments or rumours about them. She is a judgmental mean girl that intimidates many people.

Physicality: Regina is the 'beautiful' tall and skinny blonde. Every girl wants to be and look like her, and every male wants to be with her. She is popular due to her looks and expensive taste in clothing and people look up to her because of this beauty and style.

Relationships: Kyle, Aaron Samuels and Shane Omen were are all past boyfriends of regina that she 'dumped'...the first time. Her 3 'best friends' whom she treats like dirt are Karen Smith, Gretchen Wieners and Cady. All of whom she thought was 'beautiful' and possibly felt threatened by; 'If you can't beat them, join them'

Skills: Spreading rumours, gossiping, backbiting and looking beautiful.

Quotes:
"Get in loser, we're going shopping"

"Gretchen, stop trying to make fetch happen! It's not going to happen!"

Cady: "So, are you gonna send any candy canes?"
Regina: "No. I don't send them, I just get them. So you better send me one, byotch"


Hermione Granger (Emma Watson, Plays in Harry Potter)


Name: Hermione Granger

Age: Teenager born in September 19, 1979

Background: A posh, English and Muggle (non magic) family. At her parents surprise she realized she was a witch and during her first visit to hogwarts she was put into the 'Gryyfindor' house that triumphed.

Location: England

Ethnicity: White, British.

Personality: Hermione is a loving, caring, intelligent, determined and feisty character. She is certainly not afraid when it comes to protecting and being loyal to her friends, Harry and Ron, showing them her support every single step of the way and not letting fear conquer. Hermione is very brave and doesn't let people see her she may be afraid, calling Voldemort his name rather than 'He who shall not be named'. Hermione is also very studios and helps her friends not only through physical actions such as fighting Voldemort, but through her knowledge and understanding of magic, for example when she is the only one of the three who knows the spell to open the door in order to pass to the location of the Philosophers Stone. Aside from the fact she can come across as 'tom boyish', Hermione also shows she can scrub up well and be girly at times, for example at the Hogwarts Ball in the Goblet of Fire.

Physicality: Hermione has frizzy brown hair with big brown eyes. She is of an average height and weight and doesn't care about looking 'perfect' all she is concerned with it practicality, with looks not entirely mattering too much. This makes people take her as a serious witch rather than an overly girly character who cant handle battle.

Relationships: Her best friends are Harry Potter and Ron Weasley, she initially had a love interest in someone named Victor Crumb, however this was brief and almost irrelevant. In the end we see that Ron and Hermione are in a relationship together and eventually marry and have a child.

Skills: learning spells and rules of magic quickly, intelligence and acting reasonably and cautiously around a situation. She is also good at comforting and being a good friend, as well as student.

Quotes:
"Is that really what my hair looks like from the back?"

"If you're going to kill Harry you'll have to kill us too!"

"No one blames you, Harry. The Dementors aren't meant to come on the grounds. Dumbledore was furious. After he saved you, he sent them straight off."

"Its wingardium leviOsa not levioSA"

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