
If a creative team weren’t careful, a film about a tech CEO's steamy affair with a younger man could easily risk sliding into trite erotic...
If a creative team weren’t careful, a film about a tech CEO's steamy affair with a younger man could easily risk sliding into trite erotic...
Is your latest screenplay being held back by a protagonist who’s too perfect? That was the case for Bob Gale, writer of the Back To...
If the protagonist of your latest screenplay is feeling a little one-dimensional, here’s a trick that might lend them some more intrigue: give them a...
When it comes to character development, you can often feel overwhelmed by the many rules, directives, and guidelines offered to you by books, lessons, classes,...
While watching movies and television shows of different genres, you’ll quickly notice that certain character archetypes in comedies work best for particular stories. Unless the...
Killing a character off in your feature script or episodic series is an easy way to create empathy and inject some much-needed catharsis into your...
The femme fatale is a character archetype you can’t simply take your eyes off of. Think Sharon Stone’s Catherine Trammell in Basic Instinct. Like her...
The central character in the TV adaptation of the post-apocalyptic sci-fi video game The Last of Us is Joel Miller. He is a multi-layered antihero...
Need some inspirational help in finding a new and exciting way to develop characters? Thankfully, character arcs aren't as difficult to develop as you might...
What are the best examples of feature screenplays and movies that showcase character traits without relying on character description and dialogue exposition? In the visual...