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To write a movie that turns an unknown character into someone that feels like a real hero, you need to write a character that people are going to connect to on a primal, visceral, personal level. Rather than driving the story, they end up being driven by it. Rather than shaping their own stories through their flawed and painful choices, they become victims of circumstances, just like we often feel ourselves to be, puppeted around by the external maneuverings of our plot rather than the visceral emotional needs that drive them. Oftentimes this is because we see a bit of ourselves in our main characters, and rather than looking deeply at ourselves, and our problems, as people who need to change, we instead inadvertently turn our characters into the infallible heroes we wish we could be. We turn them into superheroes, and then can’t figure out why it’s so hard to construct a powerful structure for their change. We allow them to find themselves so quickly that we have no room to develop the structure of their story. So often, we fall so deeply in love with our own characters that we’re not willing to look at their weaknesses. And it also means a real personal exploration of the beliefs in you that those superheroes represent: the way you, as a writer look at the world.Īnd of course, the same concept applies to character driven dramas, indie films, biopics, and true-life story adaptations as well. That begins with not only looking at the character’s superpowers, but also at their weaknesses. In the last installment of this podcast, we discussed the engine that drives a superhero movie, and the challenges for writers of action and superhero spec scripts, of juggling the need to build that kind of engine, with the goal of organically introducing a new superhero into the world in a way that allows the audience to fall in love with them.
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