Finn Scott is very active. He likes to bounce, among a lot of other things. (His first drum isn't too far in the future.)
Fitzgerald wrote that "action is character." He meant that what we do speaks louder than what we say... "actions speak louder than words," or so we all heard in school, on the playground, wherever.
When you write a play, screenplay, novel, short story, your characters need to do things. Even if that thing is talking, or sitting, or staring into space, it's still an action of some sort. When you think about a movie, you remember some lines, but you likely recall the action most of all. You think about Butch and Sundance jumping into the river. You think about the little boy running on the beach in Truffaut's THE 400 BLOWS. You think about the look on Jimmy Stewart's (George Bailey's) face when he realizes his family and life are in jeopardy in IT'S A WONDERFUL LIFE. They all reveal character.
In fiction, too, characters need to be part of movement, of moving through time and space. Language does that, too, but not in a vacuum.
When you write a play, screenplay, novel, short story, your characters need to do things. Even if that thing is talking, or sitting, or staring into space, it's still an action of some sort. When you think about a movie, you remember some lines, but you likely recall the action most of all. You think about Butch and Sundance jumping into the river. You think about the little boy running on the beach in Truffaut's THE 400 BLOWS. You think about the look on Jimmy Stewart's (George Bailey's) face when he realizes his family and life are in jeopardy in IT'S A WONDERFUL LIFE. They all reveal character.
In fiction, too, characters need to be part of movement, of moving through time and space. Language does that, too, but not in a vacuum.