Character Plan (Protagonist)

Costume
- Dressed smartly but slightly shabby - suggestion of previous action that has led to onscreen events
- Long coat
- Dark clothing, ominous but not necessarily indicative of the antagonist
- Potential places to draw on for costume inspiration are Misha Collins in 'Supernatural', Taylor Kitsch in 'X Men Origins: Wolverine', and David Tennant in 'Doctor Who'.

  

This is the Costume mood board that I put together for my pre production proposal, although I still like the look that I had here I feel like it ought to be a little more disheveled in order to preserve the 'everyman' image and suggest some previous hardship:



Character

- The character is an 'everyman' who has been driven to dark things, this means he should appear dangerous and ominous, but not as a 'bad guy'. The voiceover ought to prevent him appearing as a villain or the antagonist of the film.
- Inspiration for the character comes from characters such as John McClane from 'Die Hard', Roger Thornhill from 'North by Northwest', and the Batman character Two-Face, specifically in 'The Dark Knight'.
- The McClane and Thornhill influences give the character the sort of everyday person feel, his ordinary, usually mild mannered appearance that has gone dark.
- This character has an air of serenity and level headedness around them, as though he's accepted his 'fate' or his role in life, thus he moves with deliberate purpose. He has nothing left, and thus nothing to lose. He is solely driven by his quest for revenge. These aspects come mostly from the Two-Face influence
- The character simultaneously abhors and empathises with criminals at every level. His psychological issue is that he has stooped to the level of the very people he is trying to exterminate (or at least exact revenge on). He struggles with this issue in order to find some sort of ironic justice in his murdering action.
- Evidently he has been driven insane, or at least to some deep seated psychological issues, by grief felt at the murder of his family.

Casting

- Ideally, an actor for this character will not necessarily be physically huge, or look particularly dangerous on the face of things, but have a sort of gravitas and aura of darkness/danger that signifies him as a good person gone bad. The phrase 'demons run when a good man goes to war' springs to mind.
- This may require an actor who is more talented than is required for the other two characters, as he is needed to have a darker side that is not necessarily overt.

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