{"id":3999,"date":"2018-02-24T18:00:00","date_gmt":"2018-02-24T23:00:00","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2020-09-12T14:59:33","modified_gmt":"2020-09-12T18:59:33","slug":"writing-lessons-from-movies-greatest","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/victoriagracehowell.com\/staging\/6258\/writing-lessons-from-movies-greatest\/","title":{"rendered":"Writing Lessons from Movies: The Greatest Showman"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;\"><br \/><\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;\"><br \/><\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"separator\" style=\"clear: both; text-align: center;\">\n<span style=\"font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" border=\"0\" data-original-height=\"977\" data-original-width=\"652\" height=\"640\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/victoriagracehowell.com\/staging\/6258\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/Writing2BLessons2Bfrom2BMovies2BThe2BGreatest2BShowman.png?resize=425%2C640\" width=\"425\" \/><\/span><\/div>\n<div class=\"separator\" style=\"clear: both; text-align: center;\">\n<span style=\"font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;\"><br \/><\/span><\/div>\n<div class=\"separator\" style=\"clear: both; text-align: center;\">\n<span style=\"font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;\"><br \/><\/span><\/div>\n<div class=\"separator\" style=\"clear: both; text-align: left;\">\n<span style=\"font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;\">On Christmas Day I saw <i>the Greatest Showman <\/i>and it was instant love for me. I was swept away by the story and the music and was relieved to watch a film that was great clean family entertainment. I have fond memories of attending the Ringling Bros. &amp; Barnum and Bailey Circus as a kid, so it was a joy to see the origins of this infamous show. Ladies and gentleman, let the fangirling and lessons begin!<\/span><\/div>\n<div class=\"separator\" style=\"clear: both; text-align: left;\">\n<span style=\"color: red; font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;\"><br \/><\/span><\/div>\n<div class=\"separator\" style=\"clear: both; text-align: left;\">\n<span style=\"color: red; font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;\">Warning: Spoilers<\/span><\/div>\n<div class=\"separator\" style=\"clear: both; text-align: left;\">\n<\/div>\n<p><!-- more --><span style=\"font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;\"><br \/><\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"separator\" style=\"clear: both; text-align: left;\">\n<span style=\"font-family: Georgia, &quot;Times New Roman&quot;, serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: large;\">1.) Getting A Character Out of His Comfort Zone &#8211; <\/span>Carlyle is very comfortable where he is. He&#8217;s a rich boy with everything he could ever want&#8211;and he&#8217;s miserable. It takes nearly the entire of the song &#8220;The Other Side&#8221; for Barnum to convince him to take a risk and invest in Barnum&#8217;s circus. And even still he&#8217;s not very comfortable to be among the lower class of society, but if he didn&#8217;t get out of his comfort zone then he would have never met Anne and discovered a better life and his story would have never begun.<\/span><\/div>\n<div class=\"separator\" style=\"clear: both; text-align: left;\">\n<span style=\"font-family: Georgia, &quot;Times New Roman&quot;, serif;\"><br \/><\/span><\/div>\n<div class=\"separator\" style=\"clear: both; text-align: center;\">\n<img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" border=\"0\" data-original-height=\"466\" data-original-width=\"699\" height=\"426\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/victoriagracehowell.com\/staging\/6258\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/the-greatest-showman-film-circo-699x466-1.jpg?resize=640%2C426\" width=\"640\" \/><\/div>\n<div class=\"separator\" style=\"clear: both; text-align: left;\">\n<span style=\"font-family: Georgia, &quot;Times New Roman&quot;, serif;\"><br \/><\/span><\/div>\n<blockquote class=\"tr_bq\" style=\"clear: both;\"><p>\n<span style=\"font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;\">&#8220;Don&#8217;t you know that I&#8217;m okay with this uptown part I get to play<\/span><span style=\"font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;\">&#8216;Cause I got what I need and I don&#8217;t want to take the ride<\/span><span style=\"font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;\">I don&#8217;t need to see the other side<\/span><span style=\"font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;\">So go and do like you do<\/span><span style=\"font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;\">I&#8217;m good to do like me<\/span><span style=\"font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;\">Ain&#8217;t in a cage, so I don&#8217;t need to take the key<\/span><span style=\"font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;\">Oh, damn! Can&#8217;t you see I&#8217;m doing fine<\/span><span style=\"font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;\">I don&#8217;t need to see the other side&#8221;<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<div class=\"separator\" style=\"clear: both;\">\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"separator\" style=\"clear: both; text-align: left;\">\n<span style=\"font-family: Georgia, &quot;Times New Roman&quot;, serif;\"><b>How this applies to writing: <\/b>To get a character&#8217;s story going you have to get them out of their comfort zone. Give them a choice like Carlyle or Katniss Everdeen or give them no choice like characters such as Eren Jaegar&nbsp;or Frodo Baggins.<\/span><\/div>\n<div class=\"separator\" style=\"clear: both; text-align: left;\">\n<span style=\"font-family: Georgia, &quot;Times New Roman&quot;, serif;\"><br \/><\/span><\/div>\n<div class=\"separator\" style=\"clear: both; text-align: center;\">\n<img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" border=\"0\" data-original-height=\"640\" data-original-width=\"960\" height=\"426\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/victoriagracehowell.com\/staging\/6258\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/the-greatest-showman-zendaya-zac-efron-air.jpg?resize=640%2C426\" width=\"640\" \/><\/div>\n<div class=\"separator\" style=\"clear: both; text-align: left;\">\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"separator\" style=\"clear: both; text-align: left;\">\n<span style=\"font-family: Georgia, &quot;Times New Roman&quot;, serif; font-size: large;\">2.) A Character Arc About Learning to Have Confidence in Herself- <\/span><span style=\"font-family: Georgia, &quot;Times New Roman&quot;, serif;\">Lettie Lutz in the beginning of the movie hated herself. She thought she was ugly and no one even wanted to look at her. But throughout the movie, she learns to embrace herself for who she is. She likes how she is and she&#8217;s proud of what makes her unique. She embarks on a journey in learning how to love herself and she&nbsp;proclaims this in &#8220;This is Me.&#8221;<\/span><\/div>\n<blockquote class=\"tr_bq\" style=\"clear: both;\"><p>\n<span style=\"font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;\">&#8220;When the sharpest words wanna cut me down<\/span><span style=\"font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;\">I&#8217;m gonna send a flood, gonna drown them out<\/span><span style=\"font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;\">I am brave, I am bruised<\/span><span style=\"font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;\">I am who I&#8217;m meant to be, this is me<\/span><span style=\"font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;\">Look out &#8217;cause here I come<\/span><span style=\"font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;\">And I&#8217;m marching on to the beat I drum<\/span><span style=\"font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;\">I&#8217;m not scared to be seen<\/span><span style=\"font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;\">I make no apologies, this is me&#8221;<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<div class=\"separator\" style=\"clear: both;\">\n<span style=\"font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;\"><\/span><\/div>\n<div class=\"separator\" style=\"clear: both; text-align: left;\">\n<span style=\"font-family: Georgia, &quot;Times New Roman&quot;, serif;\"><b>How this applies to writing:<\/b> Have you thought of having a character arc be someone accepting themselves for who they are?<\/span><\/div>\n<div class=\"separator\" style=\"clear: both; text-align: left;\">\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"separator\" style=\"clear: both; text-align: center;\">\n<img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" border=\"0\" data-original-height=\"675\" data-original-width=\"1200\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/victoriagracehowell.com\/staging\/6258\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/DFl-C3PVoAA2tux.jpg?resize=640%2C360\" width=\"640\" \/><\/div>\n<div class=\"separator\" style=\"clear: both; text-align: left;\">\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"separator\" style=\"clear: both; text-align: left;\">\n<span style=\"font-family: Georgia, &quot;Times New Roman&quot;, serif; font-size: large;\">3.) An Innocent Goal Turning Selfish &#8211;<\/span><span style=\"font-family: Georgia, &quot;Times New Roman&quot;, serif;\"> P.T. Barnum begins the movie with the innocent goal of dreaming for a better life for himself in his family. He takes a risk and builds a show that awes and disturbs audiences and ends up bringing together misfits into a family. But he gets so consumed by the money and the fame that he forgets that he was doing this for his family and ends up doing it for himself.&nbsp; He leaves his family to endorse Jenny Lind&#8217;s performances, taking him away from the people he was doing this for in the first place.<\/span><\/div>\n<div class=\"separator\" style=\"clear: both; text-align: left;\">\n<span style=\"font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;\"><br \/><\/span><\/div>\n<blockquote class=\"tr_bq\" style=\"clear: both;\"><p>\n<span style=\"font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;\">&#8220;I drank champagne with kings and queens<\/span><span style=\"font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;\">The politicians praised my name<\/span><span style=\"font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;\">But those are someone else&#8217;s dreams<\/span><span style=\"font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;\">The pitfalls of the man I became<\/span><span style=\"font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;\">For years and years<\/span><span style=\"font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;\">I chased their cheers<\/span><span style=\"font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;\">The crazy speed of always needing more<\/span><span style=\"font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;\">But when I stop<\/span><span style=\"font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;\">And see you here<\/span><span style=\"font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;\">I remember who all this was for&#8221;<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<div class=\"separator\" style=\"clear: both; text-align: left;\">\n<span style=\"font-family: Georgia, &quot;Times New Roman&quot;, serif;\"><b>How this applies to writing:<\/b> Have you thought of having a character who has an innocent goal but then it turns into a selfish or even malicious one? This is a good arc for heroes and even villains.<\/span><\/div>\n<div class=\"separator\" style=\"clear: both; text-align: left;\">\n<span style=\"font-family: Georgia, &quot;Times New Roman&quot;, serif;\"><br \/><\/span><\/div>\n<div class=\"separator\" style=\"clear: both; text-align: center;\">\n<img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" border=\"0\" data-original-height=\"1067\" data-original-width=\"1600\" height=\"426\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/victoriagracehowell.com\/staging\/6258\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/the-greatest-showman-movie-stills-7.jpg?resize=640%2C426\" width=\"640\" \/><\/div>\n<div class=\"separator\" style=\"clear: both; text-align: left;\">\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"separator\" style=\"clear: both; text-align: left;\">\n<span style=\"font-family: Georgia, &quot;Times New Roman&quot;, serif; font-size: large;\">4.) The &#8220;What am I doing?&#8221; Moment &#8211;<\/span><span style=\"font-family: Georgia, &quot;Times New Roman&quot;, serif;\"> In the middle of the tour with Jenny Lind, P.T. is sitting and going over the next performance with her when she starts to come <\/span>onto<span style=\"font-family: Georgia, &quot;Times New Roman&quot;, serif;\"> him. In that moment, P.T. stops and you can see on his face that he&#8217;s thinking, &#8220;What am I doing?&#8221; Jenny Lind&#8217;s action jolted him into thinking that what he&#8217;s been doing the last few months is wrong and he needs to stop and stop now.&nbsp;<\/span><\/div>\n<div class=\"separator\" style=\"clear: both; text-align: left;\">\n<span style=\"font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;\"><br \/><\/span><\/div>\n<div class=\"separator\" style=\"clear: both; text-align: left;\">\n<span style=\"font-family: Georgia, &quot;Times New Roman&quot;, serif;\"><b>How this applies to writing:<\/b> Have your characters had a &#8220;What am I doing?&#8221; moment? Has something jolted them out of a streak of wrongdoing? Boromir had this happen in <i>the Fellowship of the Ring<\/i> when he was yelling at Frodo for not giving him the ring which he&#8217;s been trying to convince him to do since before he joined the fellowship then he slips and falls. When he recovers, he realizes he was harsh and selfish and he begs for Frodo&#8217;s forgiveness.<\/span><\/div>\n<div class=\"separator\" style=\"clear: both; text-align: left;\">\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"separator\" style=\"clear: both; text-align: center;\">\n<img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" border=\"0\" data-original-height=\"1000\" data-original-width=\"1500\" height=\"426\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/victoriagracehowell.com\/staging\/6258\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/The-Greatest-Showman-image.jpg?resize=640%2C426\" width=\"640\" \/><\/div>\n<div class=\"separator\" style=\"clear: both; text-align: left;\">\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"separator\" style=\"clear: both; text-align: left;\">\n<span style=\"font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: large;\">5.) Diversity Beyond Race and Mental Illness &#8211; <\/span>Diversity is a big buzz word in media nowadays. Most of this covers race and mental illness, but I like that <i>the Greatest Showman<\/i> features people with hormonal imbalance, albinism, conjoined twins, giantism, and dwarfism\/achondroplasia<\/span><span style=\"font-family: Georgia, &quot;Times New Roman&quot;, serif;\">. One of my favorite parts of the movie was near the end when a critic mentioned that Barnum&#8217;s circus was a &#8220;celebration of humanity.&#8221; It was neat seeing actors with this phenomena shine and be shown in a positive light in a film.<\/span><\/div>\n<div class=\"separator\" style=\"clear: both; text-align: left;\">\n<span style=\"font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;\"><br \/><\/span><\/div>\n<div class=\"separator\" style=\"clear: both; text-align: left;\">\n<span style=\"font-family: Georgia, &quot;Times New Roman&quot;, serif;\"><b>How this applies to writing: <\/b>Have you thought of having characters with these rare phenomena in your stories?<\/span><\/div>\n<div class=\"separator\" style=\"background-color: white; clear: both; font-family: Georgia, Utopia, &quot;Palatino Linotype&quot;, Palatino, serif;\">\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"separator\" style=\"clear: both; text-align: center;\">\n<img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" border=\"0\" data-original-height=\"900\" data-original-width=\"1600\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/victoriagracehowell.com\/staging\/6258\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/the-greatest-showman-2017.jpg?resize=640%2C360\" width=\"640\" \/><\/div>\n<div class=\"separator\" style=\"background-color: white; clear: both; font-family: Georgia, Utopia, &quot;Palatino Linotype&quot;, Palatino, serif;\">\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"separator\" style=\"background-color: white; clear: both; font-family: Georgia, Utopia, &quot;Palatino Linotype&quot;, Palatino, serif; line-height: 18.2px; text-align: center;\">\n<b style=\"line-height: 20.79px;\"><span style=\"font-family: Georgia, &quot;Times New Roman&quot;, serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: large;\">Have you seen&nbsp;<i>The Greatest Showman<\/i>? Have you noticed these writing aspects? What movies have you noticed have good writing? 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