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Nick Schenk
Writer
Films Discussed 1
- · Gran Torino (2008) (w)
Draft Zero Episodes 1

DZ-3: Making Unlikeable Protagonists Compelling
How do you keep an audience watching a character everyone in the film hates?
Stu and Chas tackle the first 20 pages of HOT FUZZ, AS GOOD AS IT GETS and GROUNDHOG DAY and try to work out what stops these a-holes from pushing the audience out of the move… →
Listen if you want to understand how you can make audiences care about deeply flawed protagonists
