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Our final presentation with our last character: The Fisherman. It is pretty straight forward as he is exactly what his description says, a fisherman. What does he do here? Well, Sophia going to the ocean right? Well, once she gets there, she meets this man who will give her what she needs: a way to see life with hope.

The fisherman had only one love in his life, the ocean. Sure he fell in love with a woman, married her and had kids but the ocean called him back always, that is where he belongs. That’s in the infinity of the horizon that the fisherman finds his own answers. The ocean fills his heart as nothing or no one else can.

He is the end of Sophia’s character arc, she starts with doubts, anger and loss of herself. Throughout her journey, she will meet with odds, unexpectations and hope within deeply hurt characters. The ocean represents infinity, possibilities but also a huge nothingness. She will smile and think about her past and finally she’ll get to understand that the everyday life is just as important as long term goals, if one or the other is neglected, one falls apart. At the beginning, thet one is her.

I am emphasizing on the characters here because I believe that characters are almighty, I write stories for them just as much as for the audience. They must be treated with love and looked upon like parents would on their children. Screenwriting is about love and a story itself is not enough to give love to, characters are. I strongly believe that if a screenwriter can shed a tear on his characters, then nothing can stop him from bringing his characters to an audience which will, in turn, shed tears and feel for the characters. This is what my screenwriting is about, the expression of emotion through characters built out of love.

Screenwriting is a wonderful thing…