That's okay.  It can be used as scene material, represents the characters' decisions, and has enough conflict to make it interesting.  But it's still not good enough for the screenplay.  Now, how do we turn this illustration into a real scene?  How do we infuse life force in this paragraph to turn our intangible characters into living, breathing, fictional beings?

Here's how: To give life to our characters we have to insert them into our story.

A character cannot stand alone.  He can't breathe and live without a story that puts him in action.  Just as he needs the opposition of another character to reveal his nature, he needs a story to put it to a test.  The audience needs the story to know how the character reacts to the plot events, theme issues and genre environment to fully appreciate him, to recognize him as a complete fictional person and to identify with him.

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