i do *kinda* get into someone's head, but not quite that far. but it does take a while sometimes to "find" someone emotionally.
ok, el-cheapo shot story reference coming....
i'm doing a batman one (of course) where the mask is pulled off. I had one chance last fall (of 2004) to write the exact part where it comes off "officially", not the time when the paramedics remove it (they thought they had a fake). very emotional, confusing, angry scene, and for some dumb moronic reason I didn't write it then. now i've lost it. oh, I know i'll have to write it, and I will, but I won't capture it with the emotional clarity that I would have if I had written it when it was "hot". stuff goes stale, and usually it's emotions or dialogue, for me. I'll be laying in bed waiting to fall asleep and the movie will be playing crystal clear in my head, and I'll try to remember the dialogue for tomorrow. so the next day I get up, turn on the work computer, and work my job until 4:30 pm and rush over to my personal one, boot up, word perfect, right file, scroll to where that scene belongs, and....
only bits of the conversation is remembered. So I have to reconstruct it or re-imagine it, but it comes out about as well as a copy of the mona lisa reproduced by using a 2X4 dipped in highway striping paint. grrrr.....
also hate it mightily when characters steal the script. that's actually what's taking so long on the rewrite of the epilogue scene for steel knights. lois is *exceedingly* professional at filming stuff, and with her influence, clark usually behaves quite well, but I musta run to the bathroom at one point, and I come back and they're both flipping through the script and talking, and i'm going oh, nooooooooo.......
thing is, they both had excellent suggetions, and it's difficult to say no to them, but I don't want a 3/4 page scene turned into a 3-page overboiled cabbage, good though it is. And then they leave ME to FINISH the thing! they don't make suggestions for closing it off. thanks a lot, guys! *sarcasm* Lois is usually a dream to work with, but i'm still pissed at clark and bruce for stealing the script from another one (what happened with The Car after the lakes were sent to prison in Don't Tug on S's duds) and turning it into a frigging comedy. bruce wayne, a COMEDY! grrrrrrr! what a couple of idiots. I finally had to threaten to have clark slag bruce's Other Car, The Black One, and turn it into a coral reef. they both shut up at that point, but I'm still not on speaking terms with those two on that story.
now this is turning into a rant.....I'll shuddup.