posted June 02, 2004 02:04 AM
Haven't you heard the expression before? Characters who are believable, who evolve during the series, and give you the impression they are of flesh and bone, not just flat images on a TV screen who lack any development and for whom you don't really care?
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posted June 02, 2004 05:16 AM
Well, that's the diference between one-dimensional and multi-dimensional characters. I was just wondering why they should have three dimensions, specifically.
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posted June 02, 2004 05:55 AM
Not to get dragged into a Nixpicking argument, but doesn't "3-dimensional" mean, in this context, that the characters are "life-like"? Because people in real life have 3 dimensions, and so on...
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posted June 02, 2004 06:25 AM
1 dimension: height 2 dimension: width 3 dimension: depth...
It is kind of a play on words... "3-dimensional" characters have DEPTH. Strange but true.
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posted June 02, 2004 10:12 AM
the aliens fron "The Loss" for example, lacked the depth of performance we sought in their acting roles, thus they were two-dimensional.
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posted June 02, 2004 11:26 AM
Well, I just don't think I've ever heard a multi-dimensional character's number of dimensions specified before. I was under the impression that a one-dimensional character was one that only had a single element to his/her/its character. For example, your typical bad guy whose one dimension is "he's evil". A more fleshed-out character would have more dimensions, but not an exact number.
I never thought it was used in terms of "flat" and "not flat" characters, since that would make the flat characters "two-dimensional", and I've never heard that used.
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posted June 02, 2004 12:14 PM
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posted June 02, 2004 12:17 PM
I've heard of two-dimensional characters, I think they're ones that aren't exactly one-dimensional but are still fairly simple.
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