Mentors / Discovering Characters

 Yoda. Q. Nanny McPhee. Spock. Gandalf. JARVIS. Dumbledore. Mary Poppins. Merlins.

All mentors.

A mentor is a wise elder who teaches, provide gifts, motivates and plants seeds. They are wise, mysterious, a little deranged, and incredibly awe-inspiring. They can be much-loved … or dark and dangerous. They can provides gifts willingly … or present challenges difficult to overcome.

Mentors can act for or against the protagonist, wish him/her well or curse to oblivion, and know the answer yet give wrong directions. Whatever their goal and motivations, mentors have four functions in story even as they improve our plots OR DESTROY THEM.

TIMINGS

• 0:39 Intro
• 3:25 Beginnings
• 6:30 4 Functions of the Mentor
• 9:51 Good & Bad
• 13:42 Mentors and Plots
• 15:00 Closing

Total Run Time = 16:39

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