ENFP 7w6 Characters

Ed has a “million ideas” for movies, and he wants to see all of them through; when a producer doesn’t like his latest script, he comes up with four or five concepts on the spot for different films, and goes with abstract themes on some of them (“Bride of the Atom!”). He’s idealistic, always choosing to see the bright side, and irrational at times about his own potential, whether his ideas are marketable, etc. When things break down or become not available, Ed just changes direction or rewrites the script. He is emotional, but also wants his first movie to be ‘his’ story – so he unabashedly films a movie about being a cross-dresser, and then is unaffected when it doesn’t resonate with audiences, gets banned in several states, and earns him national scorn. At least he told his own story, in his own way. Ed can alter himself to raise money for his projects, but it’s out of necessity rather than any genuine love for moneymaking; he just wants to be an artist. And he really has no sense of how to do his craft properly, often ‘printing’ based on the first take rather than even looking at the film, and splicing weird stuff in at random to pad the running time. He draws a lot of what he wants to say from his own personal experiences (Fi) and is not at all good with details; he is beside himself when his friends forgot to ‘borrow’ (steal) the mechanism that makes the octopus move and just goes on without it, encouraging Bela Lugosi to ‘fake it’ with the arms instead.

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Ed has what other characters in his story might call ‘toxic positivity,’ in that he re-frames every bad thing that happens to him into some kind of “win” to keep himself motivated; he doesn’t take criticism, but instead chooses to focus on the happy and good things (bad reviews? It’s nice that they got one at all! This person said the set was good!). He simply doesn’t see anything negative and refuses to deal with it. This lets him sail from one tragic film disaster to the next, celebrating his great ideas and his vision without being crippled by the terrible reviews and booing crowds. Ed doesn’t have to have anyone agree with him, but he does prefer it when his friends have his back and are on board with his “genius” ideas.