This ending is a part of TV history now. (Spoilers ahead.) Walter White, mortally wounded, alone. His hand on the machinery he’d been using to demonstrate his immense talent for cooking meth. The Felina episode…
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Antihero
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…
Read the PostThe importance of the “dark side” for good drama
Do you think it’s cool when a villain is the protagonist? Of course it is. Yet it is also a difficult screenwriting task. Here are some excerpts from Nightcrawler script: And later on: And near…
Read the PostANTIHEROES WHO CONNECT: THE CASE OF ‘NIGHTCRAWLER’
They say that screenwriting is like problem solving. A good scene is the result of a series of problems solved by the writer. An example? Here is how Beau Willimon explains the genesis of the…