Tips from TV: Additional Lessons from Film Serials’ Heroes and Heroines

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As I mentioned in yesterday’s post, our lives aren’t Republic Pictures serial, however, I think there are a few truths we can gather from the heroes and heroines in those stories and apply them to our journey to our dreams.

In yesterday’s post, I pointed out three attributes of the hero or heroine:

~resourceful;

~persistent;

~unswerving belief in himself or herself and in his/her goal.

 

Here are a few others that are also relevant to us and our journey:

~Offer peace and goodwill to everyone he/she meets, including difficult scientists/leaders/tribal chiefs, with the attitude of collaboration and trading resources and, after working out misunderstanding on the others’ part, ending up as allies and friends;

~The mayor/boss/commissioner may give the hero an important job to do and the hero immediately completes it but he/she never loses focus on the overall goal of stopping the bad guy;

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~As the hero forged ahead, he/she trusted that help in the form of information or assistance from others would come in unexpected ways and times;

~Giving people the benefit of the doubt, even the bad guys who he may have just fought;

~Always hopeful and always looking for and taking the next step.  Even when he/she wasn’t sure what to do, he/she did what seemed to be the best thing to do at the time;

~Doing what was right and protecting/helping those who were vulnerable, even though it was inconvenient, took up valuable time, and exposed the hero to harm;

~The hero never at any time had any shred of doubt that he/she would succeed in stopping and capturing the bad guy and his gang.

 

Let me know what you think of this list.  Thanks!

Your Friend and Pep Pal,

Lauren

 

PS:  In light of yesterday’s post, I did a little research on film serials and discovered the earliest to be a German film from 1910, although it’s unclear if any of the films have survived, with the last serial being made in 1956.  A much longer history than I’d thought!

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