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Mentors in screenplays don't have to be wise old men or women. They can be any age. If you're main character is a 39-year-old guy who's courting a 35-year-old woman with a child from a previous marriage who hates the guy, he needs to get through to the kid if he plans on getting the love of the woman.
So he'll need more than an ally to help him. He'll need a mentor. And while he can talk to older, grandfather types or middle-aged men with young children, what he may find as his best "mentor: is another kid.
Let's say this 39-year-old guy works with another guy who has a 10-year-old son. There's absolutely no reason why he can't go to this kid and seek his advice and counsel on how to reach the child of the woman he's pursueing.
This kid will give him all the information he needs to know to reach the other kid. He is his mentor. Mentors can be any age.
Any age. |
