Deviation Actions
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"Okay," the director said, "in this next scene the evil villain's odious henchman bursts into the room, seizes the helpless princess and then brutally ravishes her."
I looked at him blankly. "Ummm... what?"
He sighed. "The henchman, that's the part you're playing, the henchman bursts into the room and seizes the helpless princess, that's Pandora here, and you ravish her."
"Brutally," interjected Pandora, "it says in the script that he does it brutally."
"Fine," the director said, "you ravish the princess brutally. Think you can do that?"
I stammered. "But what about my dialogue? What about my motivation and my backstory? What are we going to do about exposition and character development? I don't understand."
The director fixed me with a steely frown. "You haven't worked on this kind of movie before, have you son?" he said grimly.