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Occasionally, they can be so significant that they become a
character
in a movie.
These very same stories and experiences already have grit,
character
and resilience in them.
Now, on TV, those dynamic changes can make for some rough transitions, particularly when a
character
is played by one person yesterday and played by someone new today.
Each new face triggered a change in the
character'
s life and personality.
Now, there was always an essential nugget of Carly in there, but the
character
and the story adapted to whomever was playing her.
So again, today it's Halloween and when we talk about genetic modification, there's one Halloween-associated
character
that is talked about or invoked more than anything else, and that is Frankenstein.
And let's face it, you all know you can learn a lot about
character
by watching how someone treats their restaurant server or their Uber driver.
Gladly, they do re-establish communication with the character, astronaut Watney, at some point so that he's not as alone on Mars until he can be rescued.
HAL was also a flawed character, for in the end he chose to value the mission over human life.
Now, HAL was a fictional character, but nonetheless he speaks to our fears, our fears of being subjugated by some unfeeling, artificial intelligence who is indifferent to our humanity.
What we do is we look at every speaking or named
character
on-screen.
Now, to count in one of my investigations, all a
character
has to do is say one word.
Thus far, we've looked at 800 movies, from 2007 to 2015, cataloguing every speaking
character
on-screen for gender, race, ethnicity, LGBT and characters with a disability.
Across the top 100 films of just last year, 48 films didn't feature one black or African-American speaking character, not one.
Eighty-four films didn't feature one female
character
that had a disability.
Our own economic analyses show that gender of the lead
character
doesn't play a role in economic success in the United States.
It's not the gender of the lead
character.
And about halfway through this project, I defined "sonder," the idea that we all think of ourselves as the main
character
and everyone else is just extras.
But in reality, we're all the main character, and you yourself are an extra in someone else's story.
In fact, almost everybody in the movie is based on a real character, a real person.
So, the Jodie Foster
character
here is actually this woman, Jill Tarter, and Jill has dedicated her life to this.
And also I think you have to keep in mind that because he's such a unique character, what was the bar that we were expecting last night?
But as I try my best to go an hour showing respect for him, my thyroid is surging, because I think the oddities of his
character
really are condemnatory and are going to doom him.
And so I have to think
character
comes first, and a man who doesn't pass the
character
threshold cannot be a good president.
How do psychologists try to understand such transformations of human character, if you believe that they were good soldiers before they went down to that dungeon?
So the Lucifer effect involves understanding human
character
transformations with these three factors.
But where are the discussions on ethical decision-making, or building character, or discerning right from wrong?
It's about character, and that's another set of lessons.
But remember this: Power plus
character
equals a great citizen, and you have the power to be one.
It may absorb light, but it certainly does not reflect
character.
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