ENTP 7w8 Characters

Bruno is the type of man who spends all of his time thinking about scenarios—as he says to the senator, he wants to talk to him about some of his ideas, which would make the things they care about now seem insignificant. He also intends to “book a seat” on the first rocket to the moon. And he has schemed considerably about how to pull off the perfect murder—or so he tells Guy. It’s possible he thought it up on the spot, inspired by a man in as desperate a need as he is for someone in his life to disappear. Bruno wants to kill his father. Guy needs his wife dead so he can marry someone else… why not trade murders, so nobody gets caught since nobody has a motive and both men have an alibi? He catches on to things quickly, mentioning that he reads the society columns, but accurately guessing that Guy’s marriage is on the rocks and he needs the way clear to make room for the senator’s daughter. Bruno also steals Guy’s lighter as proof, and for blackmail, to use against him, should he not keep his part of the bargain. He shows little sensory awareness, other than that he attends to certain details of the crime scene, and his role in it, and assumes he can implicate Guy by planting the lighter on the island where his wife got murdered. He gets triggered into remembering her death whenever he sees Anne’s sister, who bears a strong resemblance to her. Bruno is brilliant but also a sociopath; he uses his charm, intelligence, and scheming mind for nefarious ends. And, like a lot of ENTPs, he thinks he can talk his way in and out of anything, and likes to taunt Guy by showing up wherever he goes and making light of serious situations. To Bruno, a discussion about how to murder someone and get away with it is parlor talk, not a moral issue, and he easily persuades two women who sternly oppose it at first to get on board with the conversation and debate ways to off their husbands. Bruno does this both for something to “do” and to bother Guy, since he shows up unannounced and harasses him almost constantly after he senses Guy isn’t about to keep his side of the bargain. He was smart enough to collect evidence to use against him, to figure out that he intended to warn Bruno’s father, and to implicate him in the crime (“If you tell the police, they’ll wonder how you convinced me to do it!”). Bruno can be flattering and seductive, but doesn’t know when to quit (it’s obvious to the viewer at the start of the film that Guy wants nothing to do with him, but Bruno fails to pick up on or read the signals of his discomfort).

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Bruno is playful and funny, making light of serious topics, but with a dark undertone. His father disapproves of him and his reckless ways, and his mother says he can be quite impulsive and possesses very little follow-through. But he is also a schemer and a planner, anticipating and blocking Guy’s attempts to out him at every turn, making meticulous plans to kill his father, purchasing a gun that can’t be traced in advance, etc. And when Guy doesn’t want to keep his side of the bargain, Bruno becomes pushy and violent, threatening to expose him, attempting to blackmail him, and being willing to go to prison but take Guy down with him in the process.