War Machine: The Jaw-Dropping True Story Behind the Most Controversial Military Film Yet
Obviously, they were trying to make a modern-day Predator. In doing so, they should’ve studied that movie more closely. Because one of the many brilliant things about that movie is that they knew they didn’t have time to set up all these characters. So they leaned into archetypes and stereotypes.
Those are often seen as bad words in screenwriting but when you’re writing action, adventure, or horror movies, the extended cast should be archetypes and stereotypes because that’s all you have time to set up. Lean into one guy being a big oaf who thinks that guns solve everything. Lean into the guy who breaks down psychologically because his mind can’t handle what’s happening. Lean into “the mystic.” The 80s were the greatest decade of mastering the two-dimensional character. And I know that sounds like a back-handed compliment but there’s a time and a place for two-dimensional characters. Even if you don’t like the sound of that, I promise you it’s better than what War Machine did, which was give us a group of zero-dimensional characters.
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