Who is she

Hello there again! Nice to see you, how have you been? Have you explored any french coffee shops lately? maybe you've received a secret photographic code from a masked young woman? No? That's unfortunate. Do you know what isn't unfortunate? The french film Amelie, directed by Jean-Pierre Jeunet.




Daniel had told me about this film and urged me to watch it as soon as possible because he had gained ideas and inspiration from this film for our own character in our film. And after spewing ideas back and forth by text which lead to an hour long phone call conversation with one another (regarding our film) on Saturday, I watched finally watched the film today. The film creates a unique character which stands out from the crowd with such ease. Something I found interesting was that Amelie is a quiet woman- yet she still stands out, and is incredibly interesting and layered. Many films that go the route of attempting to make a quiet character interesting do not achieve their goal, at least in my view when watching it. The attempt that these films make to create a character unique usually end up telling the same story over and over again, which a character who seems rather manufactured- but this is the  exact opposite of what occurs in Amelie, and I'm excited to start to delve into the creation of my character.

In that almost two hour conversation with Daniel, we discussed not only who we want our character to be, but what path the story could take with our character (more to come with that in the fourth posting). 

We officially decided that our character will be a queer Latina. We talked about our character being witty, very smart, comfortable in her own skin but at the same time she is a bit shy. She isn't super vocal (especially about her queerness) - she is rather quiet. her quietness does not mean that she won't stand up for herself- she will hurt you if you mess with her or her friends... but she'll do it in a way where no one knows it was her. She is very contentious, but doesn't act on it directly (this is one of her character flaws). In this way she is similar to Amelie. Amelie is quiet, but mischievous, and very good at hiding it.

Until next post!

Signing off,
Nicole Abuid

Jean-Pierre, J. (Director). (2001). Amélie [Motion Picture]. France: UGC-Fox Distribution. Retrieved March 8th, 2017, from http://www.miramax.com/movie/amelie/