The 5 Types Of Fuck Yeah Moments That Make You Buy Into A Character
It’s a simple enough idea: a F*@% Yeah moment is something in a work of art that stuns you with its total coolness and wrenches the phrase “F*@% Yeah!”
1) The awesome inspirational speech.
This is maybe the most basic, and yet the most vital. Anybody can kick you in the head. (Unless you're tall, and they're short, or just out of shape.) But giving an awesome speech that gets your blood pounding — that requires some mojo.2) Outnumbered or totally pwned, but the hero still won't give up.
There's a reason Kirk's shirt gets shredded in almost every original Trek episode — and it's not just to show off the results of Shatner's bench-pressing. His final speech (see #1) is that much more impressive when it comes on the heels of Kirk getting put through the ringer.
3) The surprise turnaround, when you realize someone was one jump ahead all along.
Otherwise known as the "Batman" category. You think Batman's about to be whupped by Prometheus, the guy with every known martial artist on a CD-Rom in his head — but Batman has reverse-engineered Prometheus' helmet and swapped it out so that the only person whose physical skills he now possesses is... drum roll... Professor Stephen Hawking. (AKA Cunning Bastard Trick)
4) The moment of amazing altruism or saving others.
Six words: "Get away from her, you bitch!"
5) Someone takes the plunge into the unknown.
Any time someone's faced with an impossible or bewildering situation, and takes a leap into the dark, it's hard not to buy into that character a little more.
Some Links
http://daveslongbox.blogspot.com/2006/01/f-yeah-files-movie-version-1.html
http://daveslongbox.blogspot.com/2005/10/f-yeah-files-1-flashs-mid-air-rescue.html
