I've been getting a few questions about the homework...so I did it myself and put up an example!
Doc Holiday from the movie, Tombstone, is one of the greatest characters ever! Although he is not exactly the protagonist (that role belongs to Wyatt Earp) he is given so much indirect characterization, that he almost steals the show. Throughout the movie, Doc Holiday loves to poke fun at the bad-guys, always provoking them into a fight, which he always wins. He is obviously the best gunslinger in Arizona. Although he is suffering from tuberculosis, which he knows will eventually kill him, he doesn't let that stop him from having too much fun and causing too much trouble. His character also has some really great direct characterization in the way he looks in the movie. He is deathly skinny and pale (from his sickness) but always impeccably dressed and playing with a lucky coin that he's constantly rolling between his knuckles (when he's not shooting people). If he were to be categorized as a dynamic/round, or static/flat character, he'd actually be a combination of the terms. He's definitely static, because his personality never really changes; he's the loyal-to-the-end friend of Earp, and a selfish jerk to everyone else from the beginning to the end of the movie. However, he's not exactly flat, because there is so much description of him...although we never fully know what makes him tick. Because of these qualities, he is a very memorable and awesome character!
Okay, so I'm an over-achiever...I did 11 sentences, and included 5 terms, but there you have it!
Wow...look at the above example...I even put a topic sentence at the beginning of the paragraph, and a conclusion sentence...classy!
ReplyDeleteWow...static/flat characters can be cool...you betcha! Darth Vader...he's static/flat...but still cool. It's almost like their unchanging and mysterious personality make them...cool!
ReplyDeleteWas this the movie that Dennis Quaid was in??
ReplyDeleteKurt Russell
ReplyDeleteVal Kilmer
Sam Elliott
Bill Paxton
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tombstone_(film)
clip from the movie...
ReplyDeletehttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cjs9ZPQnNJM