Hey guys! Sorry this post took so long to get up, I was having trouble with blogger this week. But now I am here with a post for you to help you. And today I am going to be talking about something that I was recently inspired by in a sort of twisted scary way. It is about how to drive your characters to do things they wouldn't usually do. This is usually a thing in some thrillers, or horror movies.
A good example would be the third episode of the YouTube Red show, Survive the Night, or the Doctor Who Season Four Episode, Midnight. In each situation there is a group of people trapped somewhere and there are some decisions that need to be made and people are so eager to make the decision that they don't even stop to think about what they are about to do.
But how do you get a character to that point?
You give them a choice. A terrible choice.
Scenario: You're trapped in a room with five other people. There is a voice on the intercom that tells you if you want to get out alive you need to kill one of the other people in the room.
Now of course, no one is automatically willing to kill anyone. But what if there was a catch. Like, the room is slowly filling with carbon monoxide and if no one kills anyone, they will all die in the room from carbon monoxide poisoning.
Now there is a sudden push to survive. Kill or be killed. Suddenly the characters are sacrificing their clear conscience to live. That is called survival. And anyone if pushed hard enough can do what they need to do. Their mind however, ends up being permanently changed. It's almost insanity.
You see this method work in movies like Hunger Games and other big titles.
It is an extremely scary thing to be forced into something like that. But sometimes, it is necessary for a character.
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