I have a villain who in the opening scene, performs a kidnapping, and wears a mask. He speaks to his accomplice during the scene so you hear his voice.
A few scenes later, he is in another scene, out of disguise, just his regular self. He is in the scene, but does not speak. He is just in the background as one of the men in the story of that scene. The audience would not suspect him to be the villain at this point.
Half way into the script about, he comes back and we hear him speak, and this is the point where the audience is suppose to know he is the villain by the sound of his voice.
However, is it necessary to write this into the script? Actually write that the viewer hears that it's him from his voice? Also do I absolutely have to write a flashback so the viewers knows it's him, as if they were watching the movie?
In Taken (2008), it was kind of cool, that they show a quick flashback when Liam Neeson recognizes a villain's voice, who's face we haven't seen from before. But that's because it was being revealed to that character.
In my script, when the villain is revealed to be the same guy as before, he is talking to another villain who already knows that, so if I show a flashback, without a character to connect it, it could come off as corny, and drawing attention to itself, kind of like how old TV shows did that back in the day, and it comes off corny now.
So do I have to write a flashback to explain this, or will the reader, as if he/she is watching a movie, will get it just by describing it's the same voice, and that's it?
I also have to write that it's the same character, so do I just introduce the villain by name right away, and then when he comes back for his second scene, do I write, that the audience does not know that it's him, or will the reader get that, even though they are not watching a movie?
Thanks.
A few scenes later, he is in another scene, out of disguise, just his regular self. He is in the scene, but does not speak. He is just in the background as one of the men in the story of that scene. The audience would not suspect him to be the villain at this point.
Half way into the script about, he comes back and we hear him speak, and this is the point where the audience is suppose to know he is the villain by the sound of his voice.
However, is it necessary to write this into the script? Actually write that the viewer hears that it's him from his voice? Also do I absolutely have to write a flashback so the viewers knows it's him, as if they were watching the movie?
In Taken (2008), it was kind of cool, that they show a quick flashback when Liam Neeson recognizes a villain's voice, who's face we haven't seen from before. But that's because it was being revealed to that character.
In my script, when the villain is revealed to be the same guy as before, he is talking to another villain who already knows that, so if I show a flashback, without a character to connect it, it could come off as corny, and drawing attention to itself, kind of like how old TV shows did that back in the day, and it comes off corny now.
So do I have to write a flashback to explain this, or will the reader, as if he/she is watching a movie, will get it just by describing it's the same voice, and that's it?
I also have to write that it's the same character, so do I just introduce the villain by name right away, and then when he comes back for his second scene, do I write, that the audience does not know that it's him, or will the reader get that, even though they are not watching a movie?
Thanks.
