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Also, one of the tougher choices you run into as a writer of the serial killer genre is whether to humanize your villain or not. On the plus side, it makes them more interesting as a character. But, on the flip side, you don’t really want the bad guy who’s chopping up a bunch of innocent people to be human. You want to root against them.
Yet here, the bad guy’s plight is organically sympathetic. I hated Hud but, at the same time, I understood why he was doing what he was doing. Imagine that the person you love more than anything is going to die but you can save them if you do terrible things. I’d imagine that lots of people would do terrible things. I actually think that’s one of the best ways to create a captivating character – put someone in an un-winnable position – a position that we, ourselves, don’t know what we would do – and watch them make choices. Hud: “Nobody knows what they’ll do until it comes knocking. Then everything changes. Everything. Forever and always.”
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