War Machine: The Jaw-Dropping True Story Behind the Most Controversial Military Film Yet
That mistake alone put War Machine behind the 8 ball. So it sucked that that wasn’t even its biggest character development issue. The giant mistake the writer of War Machine made was he whiffed on the character arc. In order to explain what went wrong, we should discuss the beginner, intermediate, and advanced tiers of character development.
For beginner screenwriting character development, the writer doesn’t even care about development. So they won’t give the character anything going on. In the rare case where they do, they give the character something simplistic, like “they do drugs.” These characters feel empty because there’s no real depth in that.
