Question about presenting dual character?

Joe Calabrese · Mar 4, 2005

Okay, I got a question.

Let's say DONNA is a character who when she dreams, becomes RACHEL, a totally different person (actor). Different appearance, different voice-- everything.

How would you present her in CHARACTER NAME? Example...

Donna looks in the mirror. She is a different person now. She is RACHEL, 20, beautiful, thin and charming, quite unlike Donna.

DONNA
This is cool.

or

DONNA/RACHEL
This is cool.

or

RACHEL
This is cool.

Joe Calabrese · Mar 4, 2005

and this happens several times throughout the script.

maestrowork · Mar 4, 2005

I think once you've established (in narrative) that Rachel is the dream version of Donna, you can simply use their character names separately (and since they're TWO different actors).

Donna falls asleep.

In her dream, she looks into the mirror and notices that she looks very different. She's now RACHEL, 20....

RACHEL
This is cool.

vig · Mar 4, 2005

i just read a script that did this. how they did it is they prefaced it in the narrative. rachel is now donna, the charge magnified by the sexuality of donna.

explain it in the narrative.

vig

Joe Calabrese · Mar 4, 2005

What script?

This is actually a friend of mine's script, called Persona (he just put it up on zoetrope). I read it and get confused with the character shift and I'm trying to think what the best way of handling it would be.

vig · Mar 4, 2005

i've read so many in the last couple months...

what they did to handle this is in the last paragraph of narrative the put.Donna walks into the room taking off her coat, she looks in the mirror and becomes RACHEL.

rachel
why do i become this person...
feels to much like movie gimmick.

she takes a pen out from her bra and makes a fake mole. a blast of air comes from the floor pushing her skirt up know donna, who became rachel, is now MARILYN

vig

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