My
Other Half shows us the familiarity and camaraderie between Michael and
Ashton Kutcher. Michael is born with
cerebral palsy and has had other health complications that have made life
difficult to navigate—it’s hard to know which way to go when you don’t know
where the cliff’s edge is. Michael’s
health problems are the true antagonist of our story. Much like Hurricane Katrina in Josh Neufeld’s
After the Deluge, Michael’s health
problems control the underlying tension of the story.
In this circumstance, Ashton
reacts somewhat similarly to his brother’s health crisis as Marjane Satrapi
does in her excerpt The Veil. Satrapi is forced to wear a veil to cover her
head as is common in some Muslim sects.
At first, her and her classmates do all sorts of nonsense with the veil
before they settle into the routine wearing of such.
Ashton bounds to an extreme
solution when he contemplates the news that his brother needs a heart transplant
and soon: Ashton offers his own heart.
Ashton also reacts rather excessively when Topher Grace makes a comment
about handicapped. Another antagonist in
My Other Half, Topher Grace, is based
loosely in rumor. An inciting incident
was necessary for the story, so the rumor that Grace was a bit cold to his
fellow cast members was useful. This provided
us with an opportunity to use our creative liberty and spruce up the contention
a bit.
This leads us to a
semi-antagonist—The Producer. This
character is not based on any sources. My Other Half needed a devil’s advocate
as far as the conflict between Ashton and his acting career goes. An unrealistically sympathetic human may have
let Ashton have the day off to tone things down. But our current Producer exemplifies the
idiom ‘Time is Money’ and Ashton was not on his own time. Earlier versions focused more on events and
their minute description, but the story is better told through the dialogue and
nudges in for mis en scene.
Works Cited
Associated Press. "Michael Kutcher talks about twin brother
Ashton, life with cerebral palsy
February 2, 2012 at 11:01 pm | UPDATED: February 7, 2016 at 12:42 pm." 7 February 2016 Web. <http://www.twincities.com/2012/02/02/michael-kutcher-talks-about-twin-brother-ashton-life-with-cerebral-palsy/>.
February 2, 2012 at 11:01 pm | UPDATED: February 7, 2016 at 12:42 pm." 7 February 2016 Web. <http://www.twincities.com/2012/02/02/michael-kutcher-talks-about-twin-brother-ashton-life-with-cerebral-palsy/>.
Faherty, Allanah. "Ashton Kutcher Contemplated Suicide to
Save His Twin Brother." Sept. 2016. Web. <https://moviepilot.com/p/ashton-kutcher-suicide-twin-brother/4107780>.
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