Anakin McFly's Character Notes
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| Henry Torne – Henry's Crime (2010) |
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| Henry starts off as this quiet, unassuming, unconfrontational guy kind of drifting through life. He's an extremely passive person: he doesn't do things, he just lets things happen to him, joys and tragedies never seeming to fully register. He's closed off to all of that and goes through each day resigned to whatever the world throws at him, going with the flow, never standing up for himself but not being an active doormat either. He's barely living, numb to everything, watching other people's lives go by, and it takes something big to shake all that up. | Johnny Utah – Point Break (1991) |
| Johnny is brimming with self-confidence bordering on arrogance; spirited, crazy and carefree and wild. | Kip – Life Under Water (1989) |
| Kip is a dazed fellow, an introvert and a bit of a socially-inept weirdo who's not too aware of his surroundings. Yet he's also someone who can hurt people, mostly out of avoidance, because he's someone who tries not to get too involved in things and prefers to keep his distance. | Matt – River's Edge (1986) |
| Like most teenagers out there, Matt's frustrated with life and feels misunderstood and neglected. Sometimes he feels like the only sane one around whom no one else understands. Injustice in his own life makes him want to put things right where he can and not cause more problems. He's disillusioned with the world and rebels against it; yet his rebellion is more borne out of a dissatisfaction with life and its stupidities rather than out of a desire to look cool.
He feels responsible for his siblings, seeing as how their mother isn't doing that good of a job. He cares especially for his younger sister, and doesn't like the idea of her having to grow up in the present society; even while he knows that it is that society that has made him and is what gives him his identity and security in knowing his place in life. | Perry Lyman, Dr. – Thumbsucker (2005) |
| Perry is this philosophical dentist who can't quite decide what he thinks about life. That secretly frustrates him, and sometimes comes out in bursts of private controlled anger that the public only glimpses, tempered with a paternal, almost motherly gentleness. | Ron Petrie – One Step Away (1985) |
| Ron is a rebellious smart aleck who's defiant of authority; but it's mostly just an act, for when it gets down to it he still has his own internal sense of right and wrong that he feels pressured to follow. | Scott Favor – My Own Private Idaho (1991) |
| Scott's a recalcitrant rich kid, rebellious for the sake of rebelling, quietly manipulating others for his own selfish ends, betraying their trust and then leaving. | Ted 'Theodore' Logan – Bill & Ted's Excellent Adventure (1989), Bill & Ted's Bogus Journey (1991) |
| Ted's not exactly the brightest teenager out there, but what he lacks in IQ he makes up for with EQ, an interesting vocabulary and a creative mind. He's a nice guy: friendly, helpful, generous, honest except in mischief, selfless, and expects no personal gain from any of that. He holds no grudges.
Ted is easily awed and impressed by things. He goes through life with a sense of childlike wonder at stuff that the average person wouldn't find particularly interesting or significant. He has a sense of innocence about him that would probably persist even if he were engaging in various crimes and vices such as serial killing, because there would probably be some kind of justification for those acts that would make sense in Ted-logic and turn out to have ulterior motives of the mostly-good kind. Like his best friend Bill, he is free of prejudices; he always sees the good in others, and almost everyone is a potential friend (with the possible exception of royal ugly dudes and suchlike). He has a strong sense of right and wrong, and holds a faint puzzlement towards why anyone would choose the latter. Most of the time - especially in school - his mind is elsewhere, leading him to be cheerfully oblivious of what's going on around him. He's also kind of gullible; he trusts others too easily, and misplaced trust could have the potential to hurt him most. Yet somehow he survives. Ted will prevail. \o/ He can't play guitar, but that doesn't stop him from trying anyway. Which is good for him but not so good for those that have to listen. | Thomas 'Neo' Anderson – The Matrix trilogy (1999, 2003, 2003) |
| Neo is a highly private person. He prefers solitude and isn't too comfortable in social situations. They make him feel self-conscious - he can be easily embarrassed - and besides, he'd rather be on his computer engaged in illegal activities. He usually keeps his thoughts to himself, and in the exceptions when he doesn't, he withdraws even more after his outbursts of emotion. He keeps his grief private. He doesn't want to burden others with his own problems.
Neo is a quiet rebel against things he deems unimportant. His day job is just something he does either for a steady salary, out of habit, or as a cover. That life is otherwise ignored; the only life he really cares about is the one where he goes by the name of Neo, because that life and that identity is his own creation and thus fully under his control. He likes that. He is a reluctant leader and unwilling saviour, but at the same time he knows his duty and will carry it out if he believes in it. He is determined and not easily swayed by others once he has made up his mind. He plans ahead. Neo dislikes change or any kind of shock to his perceived notion of how the universe works. Most of his life was spent with the feeling that things were not quite right. He didn't know why, and he didn't like it. When he asks questions, the purpose isn't so much to learn more, but more for the ability to re-sort the very confusing universe back into convenient and predictable little boxes that make sense. He is human. He has his doubts, he doesn't have all the answers, and what he wants more than anything else is for people to tell him what's going on. He has so many people expecting him to be something special, but he himself doesn't think he is special and has to deal with all these expectations he doesn't think himself capable of fulfilling. He is afraid that he might let them all down. The best leaders are those who think themselves unsuited for the job, and that is Neo. He needed time before he could come to accept the part he was meant to play. There needed to be no epiphany. It was a gradual learning process that had carried on throughout the film as Neo grew to better understand himself and his place in the greater story, and only in the end did he come to finally believe in himself and be the hero that everyone saw him as. |
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