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Originally Posted by MT2008
You consider weapons for "parts"? Seems kind of superfluous to me. Personally, when I write screenplays (I've written a few), I tend to think about the story, the characters, and the way I convey the mood of a particular scene. I'm pretty sure most screenwriters do, since those kinds of things matter a lot more than the guns.
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I plan a story out on a scene-by-scene basis and write them largely in the order they happen. Of course, I have a basic end result that drives it, but I improve a lot of happenings between beginning and end.
As far as arming characters, I use a combination of what I personally like and what I think suits his/her personality. I try to make the guns
part of the character instead of just a
tool of the character.
The two characters from this scene as an example:
Church, the shotgun-wielding ex-Special Forces soldier, is more direct and to the point of things. He's concerned more with just getting the job done than
how he gets it done. If he wants to knock somebody out, he's gonna grab said person by the collar, throw him against the wall, and plant a fist in his face. So he uses a 1911 (currently a Desert Warrior, but I may change it) as his preferred carry.
His partner Alexis (the main protagonist that the plot centers around), by contrast, is more stylistic. A sort of Sam Fisher-like special agent previous to the story events (I left her past largely blank to emphasize how secret the agency she worked for is), she definitely has the skills to get the job done, but she puts extra effort into
looking cool while doing so. If she wants to knock someone out, she'll do it with some fancy Solid Snake-esque "CQC" move. Taking into account her "tactical personality" as well as her flare for the dramatic, I've chosen as her standard everyday carry a USP-45 CT, while her "combat carry" (pistol-wise) is two full size USP-45 Tacticals. In effect, she's more "tacticool" and mall ninja-esque, but still more than capable of backing up her words.
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Also, why the AA-12 and not the USAS-12?
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The USAS-12 is semi-auto only, isn't it? I want the AA-12 for its full-auto capability and the awesome amount of firepower it's capable of putting out at a moment's notice.