Lucy: Lucy’s character will be fixing the intrinsic flaws in the character Lisa. Lisa’s flaws include, an unrealistic perception of her own gender, a lack of trauma from abuse, and a lack of strong reason for cheating on Johnny. These flaws all mainly stem from a lack of character development in relation to the character’s bonds, goals and flaws.

Bonds: Why does Lucy love Michael? Or, more pertinently, why did Lisa love Mark? It was never really explained why Lisa stopped loving Johnny, he was depicted as rich and loving in the movie and there was no obvious reason for her to betray him, save his feigned abusiveness. A way to fix this would be to reveal these problems earlier in the movie. But this doesn’t mean it would fix this movie with making Johnny a complete antagonist. The trick would be balancing the moral high ground of both Michael and Johnny to make the conflict believable. So, to fix the movie all characters must have equal flaws to make all interactions and story threads believable

Trauma from abuse: clearly in the original movie it is depicted that Johnny was never physically abusive. This is very clearly depicted in the famous line ‘I did not hit her, it’s bullshit, I did not hit her, I did not’. But the abuse of Johnny isn’t necessarily physical as it is emotional, in that Lisa had no power. Johnny was everything in the movie, the perfect man, rich, powerful, attractive (or so he thought) and one that everyone loved. What was not addressed in the movie was how crushing this must have been for Lisa. She was always home, she had no agency, she was the princess in Johnny’s castle. This was the abuse, an unknowing sickness. Perhaps Johnny knew this, but it was likely that the betrayal of Lisa was only meant to represent how women are evil and don’t know what they want. This leads us on to our next point which is the character’s goal.

Goal: Lisa want’s agency, power recognition. That’s why she cheats on Johnny, she’s sick of being his prize. Marks submissiveness is a welcome change in the relationship dynamic for Lisa this needs to be accentuated.  Furthermore, the dynamic must be addressed in an ironic shift of emotional abuse from Lisa to Johnny. This will create both a sympathetic and antagonistic perspective in relation to Mark and will allow the audience to have a choice on which character they sympathise with in the story. 

In the new script the new and improved character of Lisa, portrayed as Lauren will show these changes.