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Leporello Character Designby ~squonkhunter

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Leporello character sheet for the Don Giovanni animation project with the conductor

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My love for this character knows no bounds. Servant to our main rascal, both protagonist and antagonist, the great Don Giovanni, Leporello provides a way for the Don to bounce ideas off of somebody and give the audience an idea of what's going on in his head. Leporello is also an interesting psychological study and his role can be interpreted in many different ways, as either serious, comical, or a pleasing mixture of both. He is abused and extorted by the Don and almost killed several times ON STAGE, always because of the Don, but he sticks by him and has an odd sort of friendship and loyalty towards him, like a beaten puppy.

Leporello also tends to gloat in what the Don has done, like he's living out his sick passions through such a tall, good-looking master, in a way he could never do on his own. He's more than happy to show off the little book he's made cataloging all of the Don's conquests in his most famous aria "Madamina, il catalogo è questo," sung here by the magnificent Ferruccio Furlanetto: [link]
The lyrics are also in the description, se vi piace.

Leporello serves as a bookend in a lot of productions, being that he's the first and last character we see on stage, and he often makes remarks to the audience which are somewhat like remarks to himself, but a lot of times it seems that the audience feels most connected with him, out of all the characters, and I hope to keep that alive in the film

and I are planning. He is wonderfully human, sarcastic, funny, sympathetic, and easily my favorite operatic character ever.

Character belongs to Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart and Lorenzo Da Ponte.

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~Shadowhunter625 Apr 12, 2012 Hobbyist Traditional Artist

Lol...Leporello has a sort of a blank expression with him in color

~squonkhunter Apr 12, 2012 Student General Artist

Hehe whatever he's reacting to is up to interpretation. Probably something to do with the Don.

~Shadowhunter625 Apr 12, 2012 Hobbyist Traditional Artist

It looks like he's saying. "Wait....What?" or something like that...a clueless expression

~squonkhunter Apr 12, 2012 Student General Artist

Haha oh good, I'm glad I got that across.

~Shadowhunter625 May 24, 2012 Hobbyist Traditional Artist

What is Lerporello's personality like?

~squonkhunter May 24, 2012 Student General Artist

He's a rather complex character who can be played many different ways. As far as what's written in the music and the lyrics, he tends to be rather sarcastic. Now, whether he's a sprightly young trickster or a tired elderly servant is up for the actor and the director to decide, but in all cases he's usually the comedic relief, especially in his interactions with his master, the Don. The way my partner and I wish to portray him is with heightened sarcasm and with the sort of sense that he wishes he was the Don, so that when he sings his Catalog Aria, it's almost as though he's bragging about his own conquests. In the writing and the music, he's a coward (which I find funny because he's a bass) and somewhat superstitious. He has learned well from his master and picked up a few traits, which he exercises when he's forced to disguise as the Don. In my opinion, he plays the Don better than the Don can play Leporello (since they're disguised as each other).
Hmm...I know I'm leaving a lot out, because he's rather complicated, and he molds himself to whatever the situation calls for, much like the Don in that manner. He seems to have very little self-respect, because even at the end of the opera when he's a free man, his goal isn't something like "I'm going to go build a house by the sea" or "I'm going to go find a beautiful wife and raise a free family," it's "I'm going to go find a better master." It's funny, but it's also really sad.
Leporello also seems to talk to the audience a lot more than the other characters, and he opens the opera. The first words we hear are from him, and he makes it all the way to the end and my partner and I are going to have him be the last person you see on screen, so he serves as a bit of a bookend. This makes him a bit more personable and allows the audience to connect with him more than any of the other characters, who seem untouchable because of their existence in the opera. Leporello provides the bridge over the gap.
Sorry, maybe this isn't helpful. Did it help?

~Shadowhunter625 May 24, 2012 Hobbyist Traditional Artist

O-O.....that was awesome!

~squonkhunter May 24, 2012 Student General Artist

Haha thank you. He displays himself best in his interactions with others.

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~Gralenfae Apr 9, 2012 Student General Artist

Well, I'm not sure I exactly know what to call it. You do get to see some of the thoughts of the characters, but some of it is just actions and dialogue.
I also like that style, because 1st person gives a more personal and characterized experience in reading, but it often leaves something to be desired because you only see into one character. Showing multiple viewpoints gives you the personality of 1st person, but also some of the omniscience of 3rd person.

After looking through some writers' resources, I'm relieved to hear the conception process that they go through. I felt bad that I was constantly revising the concept and often changing it completely. I was telling my friends about my story, too, so every time I revised the concept I had to tell them again.

Like many fantasy stories, my story goes on a large scale of events, and the characters go on an adventure of an epic scale rather than living a quieter life. Right now, I'm making several plots in the book that overlap each other. Right now it's (Great evil and a catastrophe + Political strife + Racism + Opposing faction conflict.)

At this point, I'm having 3 viewpoints so that the story isn't too confusing. To make it more interesting for me and the reader, I want to have the viewpoints with a differing voice for each one. I'm trying to write the voices with varying levels of intelligence.

At the moment, the three viewpoints are this: An adventurous princess who travels to save her ill mother and best friend, a mage's disciple whose teacher is accused of illegal magics, and the third one, which I haven't decided about yet, but I want this one to be of an opposing faction. (All of these are subject to plot changes.) All of them are trying to live through beastly invasions, world disasters, and otherworldly horrors.

Alright, I'll ask you if anything comes to mind.
By the way, have you written stories before? I know that you have your webcomic, but seeing some regular fiction from you would be quite interesting. You can prove to all of us that storytelling really is your forte.

~squonkhunter Apr 9, 2012 Student General Artist

Hehe I'm not too keen on posting my written fiction on the web, especially since a lot of it gets pretty dark. I might post the one I did about a man in a coffee shop who meets a Russian time traveler. That's not too dark, though it doesn't particularly have the happiest ending.

Alright, I'll do it for YOU. I'll post some of my fiction and we'll see if I'm worth listening to or not.

What I do mostly is I read a lot of books and can discuss why it's good fiction and such. Most of what I actually write are little snippets of larger things, and I'll admit, I'm not very good at endings, if you'll see from my comics. A lot of times they just realize they're characters and then bad things happen upon that realization. HMS is an experiment: Can I write a happy ending?

Be careful with writing a large story. Is this the first story you've ever written? If you try to tackle something as large as an epic, it'll get kind of crazy. Then again, you were working on world-building, so that should be fine. It's always fun to try writing in different voices. I wish you luck!

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