Lonely Monsters

Lonely Monsters is a full-length feature screenplay that explores the ways in which a classic damsel narrative may be reconsidered. It offers ideas on how death and girlhood may find symmetry. The characters within Lonely Monsters deal with loss, identity of the self versus the world's ideas on self-identity, place, gender, and class. Utilizing the elements of a fairy tale, the narrative seeks to complicate the roles of gender in a cautionary tale. Set in the fictional Florida town of Puerto Palmera, an economic divide between the Estates and the Glades makes for a ripe, troublesome environment for a foul modern-day aristocrat who masquerades as a grandiose and romantic prince. The story's protagonist, Fisher Franklin, loses two key relationships—as well as her sound mind—in the wake of the false prince's folly. Utilizing her experiences as a child within the lavish lives of the Estates—at the desire of a wealthy and secretive benefactor with motives of her own—Fisher creates a persona who becomes entangled in a lustful and dangerous liaison with Wyatt Sharpe, the villainous playboy. By assuming this persona, Fisher recasts herself as the damsel, the monster, and the heroine.

Author dc:creator

• Davis, Patricia

Contributors dc:contributor

• Rushin, Pat

• Screenplay
• women of color
• biracial
• women
• gender
• class
• fairy tales
• fiction
• screenwriting
• black women
• african american
• race
• art
• florida
• hispanic
• mental illness
• grief
• loss
• sisterhood
• sisters
• friendship
• girlhood
• Creative Writing

Language dc:language

English

Identifier

CFE0005600

OAI identifier oai:identifier

oai:stars.library.ucf.edu:etd-2334