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DZ-98: Ensembles 3 - Character Function & Theme

Draft Zero: a screenwriting podcast

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Ricky's Storyline in the Monster

Stephen Yun's storyline is the most frequently during the movie that makes me go, why am I watching this? Because it kind of so takes you out of the movie. Ricky could have been the thankless money guy as a source of antagonism, but he's not. There's a deliberate, his callousness towards the horses is important. He's feeding the horses to the monster to try and tame the monster,. Tame or satiate? Well, he wants it to be part of a spectacle. Yep. So that's the monkey. And even the Michael Westcott character, Atlas, is the cinematographer on a film set that OJ is working on when we kind

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