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Warp wrote:
> Captain Jack <Cap### [at] comcast net> wrote:
>> In acting classes that I have attended as well as taught, we talk about "two
>> dimensional characters", "cardboard cutouts", and "characters with no
>> depth", all referring to the same thing.
>
> Btw, was the original expression "two-dimensional character" (meaning a
> character with no depth), after which some people started using an
> exaggerated version of the expression, "one-dimensional character" in
> their desire to say "a really, really flat character", and after years
> of using that, it has basically replaced the original expression and thus
> everybody nowadays says "one-dimensional character" when they really mean
> what "two-dimensional character" meant originally?
>
That is probably it, yeah. Though extending the metaphor in that way
does yield some useful ideas.
That the character lacks all dimensionality except as a single thrust,
or file. Hints at the
possibility of a no-dimensional character, a single point, useful as a
reference, a position, and that is all.
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