Ogres & Their Reasons

merlin:

1.

The awful thing about life is this: Everyone has his reasons.

– Octave, La règle du jeu (1939)

2.

So, Tim Kazurinsky does an improv scene in a workshop led by Del Close. Del tells him to do the scene as an ogre. Kazurinsky’s stuck:

[Kazurinsky] said, “Damnit, Del, I just don’t have it in me to be an ogre.”

And Del said, “Damnit, do you think ogres are born? Ogres think they’ve been hurt worse than anybody else. So you don’t play the hatred. You play the hurt.”

And I just sat there and thought, “Oh, my God, I think I’ve just learned something about life.”

So great on so many levels.

3.

Never hurts to remember that, at least in his own mind, every ogre has his reasons.

At the very least, it damned sure helps you write a more interesting bad guy.

I was thinking about this the other day when walking by some particularly nasty crack heads.  I realized that crack made them happy.  In a somewhat twisted and ultimately counterproductive way.  But the thing is, all crimes and all injustices and all cruelties are based on a desire to have a little bit more of that happy feeling deep in our souls. Weird.

Source: merlin

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    Improv is important.
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    I was thinking about this the other day when walking by some particularly nasty crack heads. I realized that crack made...
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    I’d forgotten how horrifying ogres can be, possibly due to the success of the fractured fairytales franchise.
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    ARB for wisdom, and JoCo
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