Mr Mercedes: The villain (Brody)

A character’s wound affects their present. As a result of their wound, what did they lose?

Looking at various aspects of his life:

Childhood trauma (wound): physically and sexually abusive household, bullied, laughed at by kids and teachers and humiliated; little brother’s death.

This leads him into an adult as someone who is not respected and therefore a nobody, but he doesn’t want to be a nobody, he wants others to feel pain. He has deep-rooted anger and now a twisted personality.

Present actions: Brody’s boss was bullying him and his co-worker and so he fried his computer causing nerve damage

Present actions: Hacked the computer of the guy who was bullying his work colleague for being gay and called him a little dick (or something) and kills him by controlling the traffic lights.

Lady with the Mercedes: Rude to him and has a nice car. But surely there’s more? This doesn’t seem enough to justify stealing her car. Notably, bullying is part of his wound and is resurfacing later in life. I think the difference now is he can do something about it e.g. revenge against the boss who is a jerk.

Want: Remembered

Need: Love

Mask: Ice cream driver

Flaw: Alone, anger, revenge, hate

Goal: Kill the detective

Motivation: Be remembered / power

Dominant impression: He’s a bit weird and a bit strange, however normal. Undetected. Creepy. Smart. Dangerous. Deadly. Psychopathic. Secret nutjob; disturbed.

Character introduction: It’s revealed before we know the identity he is in a normal job and then after we realise his normality we discover his mum has issues and then we realise that probably because of all these issues this is the reason as to why he did what he did. I think showing the normality of his situation first (e.g. in a normal job is quite important)

Dramatic question: Why kill all those people? It has something to do with the mummy and father issues. Avoiding father issue talks. Problematic blood sugar? Diabetic? Why the retired cop? He has seen his mum having sex with a stranger? Boyfriend? Husband? Cheating? After his father left? After his father died? I think most likely an abusive dad and him having sex with his mum makes him angry.

Other character points: He masturbates after his mum touches him; His mum wants to have sex with him. Clearly does not like being intimidated and therefore punishes the store manager. Notice how the protagonist, the detective, is being toyed with by the villain; The villain is getting pleasure from it. Punishing others for his childhood. Signals and clues to the past event, leaving him traumatised; He gets off from other people’s pain

Job: ice cream and electronics store.

Secret work: Thing B relates to driving and electronics Mr Mercedes

Guilt: Shifting the responsibility of what he does wrong onto other people (remorse/guilt?) (or playing with emotions for manipulation satisfaction)

Dialogue: I know I don’t even know what I’m going to do half the time (says to himself to a picture of a cop)

Leading to: Art Gala