Have the character trip over an exposed root and get a cut on her cheek from a branch.
As an example, having a character trip and fall on their face adds an imperfect touch that adds humor and makes them seem like they aren't as perfect as their hero position makes them seem.
The 26-year-old actor told USA Today he wanted to deliver a realistic rendering of a scene in which his character trips on LSD for Fredrik Bond's film.
On last year's most charming début drama, the CW's "Jane the Virgin," characters make trips to Target, carry Target bags, and prominently display the logo.
As part of his plan to whip his new charges into road-ready shape, he shipped them off to France, on a character-building trip beset by disasters.
Once, the guy running her D&D game "deliberately kept forcing my character to trip, fall, or be pushed down by monsters the entire game with a not-so-subtle rape context.
(Imagine a Robert Stone character who trips over his own shoelaces every 15 pages or so, and you've got the idea).
Over and again, he describes someone quietly living their life, until some random fait divers – a road accident, a heart attack, an inheritance – brings out a fatal element in their character that trips them up.
In "Fuddy Meers," Mr. Lindsay-Abaire swept you into his characters' surreal road trip; this one provides only the map, however colorfully drawn.
While shooting in a single location (a castle outside Paris) helped capture the plight of the characters — a midfilm trip to the country, a plein air painting come to life, only emphasizes the women's confinement — it also posed a challenge to the filmmakers.
