07DeweyInterpretiveSample on Nope (2022)
Character Depth MRI
Example analysis of Nope (2022), screenplay by Jordan Peele. Shown for demonstration and commentary. It reads a finished film to show the format, so anything it flags may well be deliberate; on your own draft, treat each flag as a question.
Also on: Parasite (2019)
One of five characters completes the circuit; one more comes close
Ricky "Jupe" Park and Antlers Holst act without taking in what happens to them and Emerald acts without reflecting. For Angel Torres the break is narrow: the script still shows the phase where it falls.
How to read this
Each strip is Dewey's experience circuit in order: habit, the shock that disrupts it, weighing what to do, acting, undergoing what follows, and reflecting on it. Three blocks lit is strong, two moderate, one weak.
A dashed ochre outline marks the phase where the diagnosis says the circuit breaks. When that phase still has two or three blocks lit, the script shows it and the break is narrow. A weak habit is not a break: it means the character is not stuck in a routine.
Select a name to follow the character through the other instruments in a full report.
- CompleteDepthStrong
- Habit: moderate
- Disruption: strong
- Deliberation: strong
- Doing: strong
- Undergoing: moderate
- Reflection: moderate
Passive at first, stalled by grief and a failing business. Deliberate action and working with his sister carry him past avoidance and round the whole circuit.
- ImpulsiveDepthModerate
- Habit: moderate
- Disruption: strong
- Deliberation: moderate
- Doing: strong
- Undergoing: strong
- Reflection: weak, where the circuit breaks
Impulsive and self-promoting, she avoids deeper emotional work but eventually commits to family and legacy.
- AnaestheticDepthModerate
- Habit: strong
- Disruption: strong
- Deliberation: weak
- Doing: strong
- Undergoing: weak, where the circuit breaks
- Reflection: weak
All doing, no undergoing. He represses his trauma and sells the alien as a spectacle, which destroys him.
- PassiveDepthModerate
- Habit: moderate
- Disruption: strong
- Deliberation: moderate
- Doing: strong, where the diagnosis puts the break
- Undergoing: moderate
- Reflection: moderate
Initially passive after a breakup, he finds purpose through action but remains somewhat reactive.
- AnaestheticDepthModerate
- Habit: strong
- Disruption: moderate
- Deliberation: moderate
- Doing: strong
- Undergoing: weak, where the circuit breaks
- Reflection: moderate
He chases the impossible shot, cut off from the emotional cost, and in the end gives his life for the image.
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