In the first version of the screenplay for First Blood, Rambo was pretty much just a sociopathic killer. However, when Sylvester Stallone came on board, he requested a substantial change to the script: that his…
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Captain Miller (Tom Hanks) in Saving Private Ryan, Dr Green (Anthony Edwards) in ER, Erin Brockovich (Julia Roberts) in the eponymous film, Tony Lip (Viggo Mortensen) in Green Book, Randy “The Ram” Robinson (Mickey Rourke)…
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Drive, Raiders of the Lost Ark, The Dark Night, The Matrix, Jurassic Park, Toy Story 4: What do these movies have in common? Right! They all start with a prologue. Simply put, a prologue is,…
My favorite moment in The Big Short is when Mark Baum (Steve Carell) forces Georgia, a Standard & Poor’s analyst, to admit that the agency has been assigning its clients false positive ratings, fearing that…
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