Damn gurl, that's a lot of characters. If our whole things is about the mulptiplicity of baba and her journey or whatever, we want her to be the focus, yeah?
I think that we should figure out what we're saying about her, then decide what characters we need based on that. My personal preference would be to err on the side of less, but I'd like to what everyone thinks.
I guess I'm just thinking that each Baba is shaped by who she's interacting with, so knowing who she's helping/hurting will effect her
they're her support in a way. Each one doesn't need to have their whole life explained to the audience. and there is over lap between them.
so its like
a boy, the daughters and their BY
and
Ivan and his BY
and so on
I think what's really good about audrey's list is that all of those characters say different things about Baba Yaga, and I think that that a great list to have I think I would be a good idea to simplify and expand upon it to make it sort of cause and effect (example: little boy- daughters in oven). I think that from there we can choose aspects that fit together, separate episodes, combine existing stories, etc.
We started to talk about this in another discussion, but I think that along with a lot of these pretty established relationships, one of the big relationships we can totally work out for ourselves is the one between BY and her house. Like her private and her public self. Revealing both of these will, I think, help to make her really complex, interesting, and central. bam
house baba relationship could perhaps be established during transitions?
On more reflection, it's not so much the amount of characters that I object to, just the amount of other people's stories. Ivan's story is super involved, where as vaslilililitkaksalisa (whatever, I've given up trying to spell that shit) the beautiful takes place mainly in the yaga world. Except for her marrying the king, and all that bullshit about the silk shirts but who really cares about that anyway?
I wasnt suggesting we try to tell Ivan's entire story to the audience, or anyone elses, just trying to give him some background for you guys.
ReplyDeleteand I was thinking about a having a balance of likability in the side characters. I feel like the little boy is kind of a little bitch and having a more likable dude around might be nice.
People love fairy tale stereotypes. Its part of what makes this stuff so universal and culture bridging and all that, so we need to find a balance between all that crazy cartoonish good stuff and having relateable rounded people populating our crazy abstracted russia