Draft Zero: a screenwriting podcast

DZ-19: Car-Crash Characters

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How do you make unlikeable characters compelling to watch... in drama?

Stu and Chas revisit a topic from a year ago: how do screenwriters make unlikeable characters compelling? This time, we turn our focus to dramas and analyse how AMERICAN HISTORY X, YOUNG ADULT, NIGHTCRAWLER all make their a**hole protagonists compelling to watch. We expand our original list of five writer's tools to include a few more for your tool belt.

In response to our audience survey, we also introduce our first episode of backmatter.

EPISODE LINKS

  • Draft Zero: DZ-03: Making Unlikable Protagonists Compelling
  • AMERICAN HISTORY X by David McKenna
    • YouTube: American History X - First Scene
    • YouTube: American History X - Basketball Game
    • YOUNG ADULT by Diablo Cody (Final Draft) - First 20 pages. For educational purposes only.
      • YOUNG ADULT by Diablo Cody - First 20 pages. For educational purposes only.
      • YouTube: Young Adult - Trailer
      • NIGHTCRAWLER  by Dan Gilroy
        • YouTube: Nightcrawler Best Scenes
        • New York Times: 'Nightcrawler' Anatomy of a Scene with Dan Gilroy
        • YouTube: The Killer Inside Me - Trailer
        • Every Frame a Painting: Snowpiercer - Left or Right

          • BACKMATTER LINKS

          • Cinephilla & Beyond: Alien 3 Archive
          • The Contrarians: Episode 2 - Alien 3
          • Temple of the Seven Golden Camels: Staging and How It Affects Mood & Drama
          • Temple of the Seven Golden Camels: (Just a Little Bit) More Flat and Deep
          • Every Frame a Painting: Drive (2011) - the Quadrant System
          • Every Frame a Painting: The Bad Sleep Well (1960) - the Geometry of a Scene
          • Day One: A Simple and Elegant Journal for iPhone, iPad and Mac 
          • Shawn Blanc: Day One review
          • IMDB: David Caesar

            • Please send feedback to ask at draft-zero.com, via our web form or twitter @draft_zero  We are @chasffisher and @stuwillis on twitter.

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