Unveiling Dark Secrets: A Riveting Dive into the Twisted World of American Midnight
The one final thing I liked about this script was the evolution of the Lydia character. Throughout the first half of the script, she’s this helpless character who Hud is out there doing terrible things to save. In the second half of the script, she becomes more active. She starts making choices on her own. Killing people she shouldn’t kill. And now there’s a new problem beyond the original scope of the problem – Lydia.
That’s exactly what you want to do as a feature screenwriter. You want to evolve the story. If this stayed as a traditional serial killer plot, I’m not saying that it wouldn’t have worked. But it might’ve gotten stale as we moved towards the ending because we would’ve felt the familiar beats and been ahead of the writer and that’s never good.