War Machine: The Jaw-Dropping True Story Behind the Most Controversial Military Film Yet
One of the more common concerns writers have when sending me a script for notes is, “Are my characters well developed?” “Did I do a good job creating characters with flaws that you care about?” These are good questions to ask. If we don’t like your characters, if we don’t want to root for them, the rest of the script doesn’t matter. It’s hard to get engaged in anything if we’re not swept up in the characters who are taking us on the journey.
However, every so often, someone writes a script that focuses TOO MUCH on character development, to the detriment of the story. This usually occurs in scripts like these – action scripts where the audience isn’t pressing play because they want to feel a giant swell of emotion. But because they want to have fun. And if you impede on that fun by turning your script into an indie character piece, the audience rebels against you.
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