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February 10, 2018 Published by: Paolo Braga Posted in: Antihero

How much tragedy in Walter White’s ending?

This ending is a part of TV history now. (Spoilers ahead.) Walter White, mortally wounded, alone. His hand on the machinery he’d been using to demonstrate his immense talent for cooking meth. The Felina episode…

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April 28, 2016 Published by: Paolo Braga Posted in: Antagonist

The importance of the “dark side” for good drama

Villains, bad guys, monsters, criminals, tyrants, psychopaths, greedy businessmen… I know, by instinct you would conclude: “Ok, I got it: antagonists”. And yet, you would be wrong: in contemporary storytelling, evil is no more an…

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January 7, 2016 Published by: Paolo Braga Posted in: Antihero

ANTIHEROES WHO CONNECT: THE CASE OF ‘NIGHTCRAWLER’

Do you think it’s cool when a villain is the protagonist? Of course it is. Yet it is also a difficult screenwriting task. Here are some excerpts from Nightcrawler script: And later on: And near…

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October 28, 2015 Published by: Paolo Braga Posted in: Antihero

Beau Willimon on the movie star entrance

They say that screenwriting is like problem solving. A good scene is the result of a series of problems solved by the writer. An example? Here is how Beau Willimon explains the genesis of the…

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