It would be easy, delightful in fact, to spend an evening with this character alone.
"The trick is to hold this kind of style in a movie that also has Lola's character, alone, in college — things that feel more realistic".
A character walking alone, or going about some mundane task like packing a bag, might not have anyone watching.
It explored the idea that putting happiness onscreen — showing a character dancing, alone and for no good reason, or portraying a loving relationship between a grown child and her parents — is a worthy one, and can require some artistic courage.
Avoid any scenes in which a character is alone.
Avoid the following short film cliches: A character is alone, staring into a mirror talking, then commits suicide.
WASHINGTON ― There's a John Cusack movie from the mid-1980s, "Better Off Dead," that features a crazed paperboy who will not leave Cusack's character alone until he pays the $2 his family owes for newspaper deliveries.
On the basis of this character alone, the movie, whimsical yet profound, with a stirringly idealistic vision of a liberal culture that honors the primal drives of human nature, would be immortal.
There's a magical sequence in Martin Scorsese's much maligned "New York, New York" where the Liza Minnelli character, alone and miserable, listens to Django and Stéphane and just sinks deeper and deeper into sadness.
Work focused on the female character alone.
