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A Man Called Otto: Character Building

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The Power of Emotional Need

You can ask yourself, is there need the same as mine? So one option is you can actually place your need in your character. And then you can send them anywhere, right? And you'll see this in a man called Otto, right? You send Otto to the busy beaver hardware store and he's going to try to get his need for justice,. Matt, and his need for respect, Matt. At the end of the piece, Otto gets justice,right? And this is actually what we're building. We can build theme around emotional need.We can build want to around emotional need - it starts to connect to theme.

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