Dirty Derrick Character Profiling

How was Dirty Derrick created? When coming up with the idea for 'Dirty Derrick' we were influenced by many other film and TV characters including Derrick Branning: Eastenders, Phil Mitchell: Eastenders, Jason Statham: Actor, Del Boy: Only fools and horses, "Don" Vito Corleone: Godfather and real life criminal Al Capone. We mixed these charcters into one person creating Dirty Derrick. He will have the deep voice of Jason Statham, the precence of the Don, Al Capones history and Del boys humour & greed.

Why did we name him Dirty Derrick? Firstly we came up with name Derrick after the character of Derrick Branning, we belive the name Derrick seems manly and strong, it can also be shortened to 'Dez' or 'Del' which is popular in gangs to do so.
We decided to reffer Derrick as 'Dirty' because this shows his violent past as he has got his hands 'dirty' many times before. If we had given Derrick a second name he would seem more friendly and the viewer would realise he has a family but without a last name and instead being called Dirty it shows that his life is completly oriented around crime and he has no emotions. The name Dirty Derrick also creates a bit of mystery as we do not know exactly how he got the name Dirty Derrick but can only guess.

Who is Dirty Derrick? Derrick is a violent and cocky man, his age is unknown which also creates mystery and fear- all we know is that he was voilent during the 1980's.
Dirty Derrick grew up in voilent London during times of gang warfare-  his father being one of the violent criminals. He is the leader of voilent and succesful gang 'The Ole Mob' who murder, steal and deal with drugs & diamonds. He owns houses across the UK and Spain- of course bought with 'dirty money'.

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