The “dangerous liason” between the protagonist and the antagonist. It is a classic topic in screenwriting handbooks and blogs. The same could be said of antagonist classifications, a classic exercise for screenwriting geeks. Since I…
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From spec to shooting script, from first draft to movie…a long journey. Metaphor aside, and in concrete terms of screenwriting, the distance consists of many drafts and many changes to the story. To improve it.…
A movie ending should never betray the expectations that have been set up and fed until that moment. That’s why the ending of Brooklyn is perfect, due to the changes Nick Hornby made on the…
Villains, bad guys, monsters, criminals, tyrants, psychopaths, greedy businessmen… I know, by instinct you would conclude: “Ok, I got it: antagonists”. And yet, you would be wrong: in contemporary storytelling, evil is no more an…
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Professor Fletcher from Whiplash has entered my personal hall of fame of the best antagonists in movies. Writer-director Damien Chazelle says that in creating the merciless, ultra-exacting master, he was influenced by the way the…
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