When your response to the question of "what makes the character interesting?" is "they're [progressive stack placement]", you admit openly that there is NOTHING interesting about the character. It is a coarse physical description, on par with "well, what's interesting about them is they have two arms!".
Every single invention, innovation, character design, character redesign, and character critique done by these CalArts dropouts starts, line one, with "they're [progressive stack placement]". They have no ambitions, no personalities, no quirks, no dreams, no fantasies, no desires, no fears (or if they do, they're much less important traits). All they are, is "black", "gay", "woman", etc. Single word descriptors of coarse physical characteristics. Of course they can't write an interesting character.
Because if you think that's a character summary, you're the most racist, sexist, homophobic person on Earth. "Oh, they SAID 'they're black', that means these three hundred character traits, which are all endemic to all black people forever everywhere!". And those CalArts rejects ARE that racist, that sexist, and that homophobic. They DO think "he's gay" is an entire dissertation of fixed, immutable characteristics.
When your response to the question of "what makes the character interesting?" is "they're [progressive stack placement]", you admit openly that there is NOTHING interesting about the character. It is a coarse physical description, on par with "well, what's interesting about them is they have two arms!".
Every single invention, innovation, character design, character redesign, and character critique done by these CalArts dropouts starts, line one, with "they're [progressive stack placement]". They have no ambitions, no personalities, no quirks, no dreams, no fantasies, no desires, no fears (or if they do, they're much less important traits). All they are, is "black", "gay", "woman", etc. Single word descriptors of coarse physical characteristics. Of course they can't write an interesting character.
Because if you think that's a character summary, you're the most racist, sexist, homophobic person on Earth. "Oh, they SAID 'they're black', that means these three hundred character traits, which are all endemic to all black people forever everywhere!". And those CalArts rejects ARE that racist, that sexist, and that homophobic. They DO think "he's gay" is an entire dissertation of fixed, immutable characteristics.